erudite_luddite t1_ix4a6k2 wrote on November 20, 2022 at 5:22 PM

Reply to comment by derKestrel in TIFU by shutting down an entire airline in 1997, costing them six figures. by BikerJedi

Haha, this is the answer! A casino in AZ decided to co-opt the back-up systems rather than fix the mains and when a "Flood Of A Century!!!"(1) flooded the basement, they were offline for months. They had fired their services provider the year prior and decided to manage in-house, to cut costs.

(1) It was a typical monsoon storm, happens > 100 times a century.

erudite_luddite t1_it730xi wrote on October 21, 2022 at 12:29 PM

Reply to comment by hirmuolio in TIL that the Film Score for Star Wars was Heavily Inspired By "Gustav Holst - The Planets" from 1918 by HanSolo71

And he was right! The Lucas(mostly) & Spielberg(less so) blockbusters without those scores may well have been panned for mediocre scripts & poor direction.