Word: iso
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Well, the lights finally went out in the Golden State. Wednesday afternoon, the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO for short, unofficial slogan "We keep the lights on") ordered rolling blackouts that began in northern and central California and could even extend to the southern part of the state - Please! Spare Hollywood! - before long...
...late '90s that was going largely unfilled. Before Napster, downloading music was so cumbersome it was mostly relegated to college students with access to fast pipes and techno geeks sufficiently driven to search the Net for the latest Phish bootlegs. The digital-music standard MP3, short for ISO-MPEG Audio Layer-3, was developed by German engineering firm Fraunhofer IIS back in 1987 as a way of compressing CD-quality sound files. The technology made it possible to take songs from a CD and "rip," or convert them into MP3 files, usually in violation of copyright. But even...
...speculate that after George Washington left office, perhaps John Adams became the new Sheraton Commander. iSo now,i I reason, iBill Clinton must be the Sheraton Commander. May I speak with...
...Jerry says that Sandip can give us an application, if weire interested in filling the position of Commander. iSo then there isnit a commander now?i I probe. iSo, how do you feel about anarchy...
...Sandip hands me a page of history on the Sheraton Commander. I find out that the rooms have cable television, and more importantly, the hotel opened in 1927. iSo George Washington was already dead!?!i I exclaim...