A proper language comparison...

[Walter Bright]

On 7/26/2013 4:28 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> Also nothing that is powered from the same power source can't be considered
> fail-safe. ;)

Yup!

I had to laugh at the New Orleans practice of putting emergency generators in 
the basements.

Q. When do you need the emergency generators?
A. When the power grid goes down.

Q. What does the power grid power?
A. The pumps that keep the basements from flooding.

Q. When is the power grid most likely to fail?
A. When there's a storm that's likely to flood the basements.

Ya gotta just cry at the logic.

The basement of my house is designed so gravity will drain water out of it 
rather than requiring a sump pump. A sump pump was cheaper than the trenching 
required for a gravity drain, but losing everything in the basement would be far 
more expensive than trenching.