[10:03] <daftykins> good morning campers!
[13:00] <zxmpi> o/
[13:01] <daftykins> my my, island wide power dip a moment ago - every client UPS reported in
[13:03] <zxmpi> this winter has seen 2 powercuts so far. most ever in time i've been in dublin barring the strike of leccy workers
[13:04] <daftykins> :O
[13:08] <daftykins> had a few a year when i was a lad!
[13:11] <zxmpi> to be expected on an island i supose. house i grew up in was 2min walk from a hospital and on same circut so when power went out for rest of town we still had it
[13:11] <daftykins> ooh nice
[13:12] <daftykins> yeah we used to be run from the local oil/petrol/diesel maybe power station only, but there's the undersea link cable to France nowadays
[13:18] <zxmpi> yeah, ireland is looking to link up with france as uk power is less reliable these days
[13:19] <zxmpi> ireland is still of course anti nuke power 
[13:26] <daftykins> not sure on my thoughts on that one, only seems to go wrong when greediness weighs in / regulatory fails
[13:29] <zxmpi> i remember the protests when ireland considered nuke power plant in 70s-80s. we just didn't trust government enough to put real lead in radiation shielding. still don't :-)
[13:32] <zxmpi> we have a tonne of untapped wind, solar, water, wave i'd like to see before we dabble with nuke. nuke has come on a long way but still bad when accidents happen
[13:32] <daftykins> wow that good eh? is it even that expensive o0
[13:32] <zxmpi> you know what the scrap value of lead is? it'd be gone in a month :-P
[13:35] <daftykins> not a clue!
[13:54] <zxmpi> that and our government likes going with lowest bidder on such things. it's why we're having power cuts right now.
[13:58] <daftykins> mmm that figures
[14:07] <zxmpi> i swear if russia were offering a free chernobyl style reactor to anyone who picked it up we'd find government wanting it
[14:09] <daftykins> can't think of a better documented design ;D
[14:12] <zxmpi> as long as you don't run safety tests on it, sure what could go wrong?
[14:22] <daftykins> we'll call 'em "unsafety" tests!
[14:23] <zxmpi> brilliant! that's the type of management we expect
[14:28] <daftykins> i've been known to drink Guinness, what more do i need to get a job in Irish gov? ;)
[14:30] <zxmpi> a dad in irish governemnt
[14:30] <zxmpi> really helps
[14:32] <daftykins> hmm, well my cat is my child!
[14:32] <daftykins> oh right that way around
[14:32] <daftykins> derp
[15:59] <zxmpi> yeah but cats are communists, well known that :-P