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Cutting power? Hmmm, not so much. Batteries, generators and wi-fi, coupled with low-power operation modes for modern equipment, are going to be a quick answer

by T0T0R0 10y ago

Cutting power? Hmmm, not so much. Batteries, generators and wi-fi, coupled with low-power operation modes for modern equipment, are going to be a quick answer to that strategy. Cutting power will buy less than a week of opportunity, and piss off LOTS of other ordinarily unmotivated, apolitical people.

goodcanadian 10y ago
Cutting power will buy less than a week of opportunity, and piss off LOTS of other ordinarily unmotivated, apolitical people. You don't need a week; if you don't have any serious opposition under control within a few hours, you've lost.
- T0T0R0 10y ago
  Right, but cutting power completely might take weeks to reconcile, exposing your faction to painful, expensive, irrecoverable levels of sabotage, even if you do clip a serious opponent's wings doing so. It might be a move interpreted in ways so politically costly, that you'd only trade a serious opponent in the short term, for an inertia of lasting public resentment that creates larger enemies down the road. But, break some eggs and make an omelet. What do I know?
codecamper 10y ago
solar power?
chippy 10y ago
>wi-fi How does the wifi work? How does the internet work? By electricity, and buildings that run using electricity. My router can run from a battery, but if my ISP isn't working, or if the fibre cabinet is out of power....
j0rd 10y ago
I was in TH for latest coup, took under a couple hours to happen, less than a day to be enforced across country en mass. And I live in the oppositions main stronghold when it happened. Couple hours of lack of information is all you need, and is easiest way to cut all with a single switch. If your power cut out right now, how long till you have net? Your neighbors? Your block? Weeks.
- j0rd 10y ago
  YouTube video of start of TH 2014 coup. Was rather brilliant to be honest. https://youtu.be/BWoKTEPF5nk https://youtu.be/BWoKTEPF5nk
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by T0T0R0 10y ago

goodcanadian 10y ago

Cutting power will buy less than a week of opportunity, and piss off LOTS of other ordinarily unmotivated, apolitical people. You don't need a week; if you don't have any serious opposition under control within a few hours, you've lost.

T0T0R0 10y ago
Right, but cutting power completely might take weeks to reconcile, exposing your faction to painful, expensive, irrecoverable levels of sabotage, even if you do clip a serious opponent's wings doing so. It might be a move interpreted in ways so politically costly, that you'd only trade a serious opponent in the short term, for an inertia of lasting public resentment that creates larger enemies down the road. But, break some eggs and make an omelet. What do I know?

codecamper 10y ago

solar power?

chippy 10y ago

>wi-fi How does the wifi work? How does the internet work? By electricity, and buildings that run using electricity. My router can run from a battery, but if my ISP isn't working, or if the fibre cabinet is out of power....

j0rd 10y ago

I was in TH for latest coup, took under a couple hours to happen, less than a day to be enforced across country en mass. And I live in the oppositions main stronghold when it happened. Couple hours of lack of information is all you need, and is easiest way to cut all with a single switch. If your power cut out right now, how long till you have net? Your neighbors? Your block? Weeks.

j0rd 10y ago
YouTube video of start of TH 2014 coup. Was rather brilliant to be honest. https://youtu.be/BWoKTEPF5nk https://youtu.be/BWoKTEPF5nk
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