Phil Cook wrote:
> And lo on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:02:40 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did 
> spake, saying:
> 
>> The thing is:
>>
>> 1. The guys at CAT have a contractual obligation to arrive within X 
>> minutes of being called. If they fail to do this, they must pay us 
>> absurd amounts of money.
> 
> Yeah, but that's little compensation if as a result businesses stop 
> using you and you fold

I don't think you understand what I mean by "absurd amounts of money". ;-)

[As in, like, if companies *did* stop using us, we'd *still* have so 
much money it wouldn't even matter...]

>> 2. The freezers don't instantly heat up when the power is turned off. 
>> They have this thing called... thermal insulation. ;-) Not to mention 
>> the specific melting heat of water. (Do you have any idea how much ice 

> 
> I'm just wondering as to the overall cost of a CAT UPS over the cost of 
> the contract to bring in a CAT generator, which would also run all your 
> electrical equipment.

Well, I'm sure somebody will have looked at that and decided it's not 
worth it. (I would think that for more than 3 seconds of cover, you'd 
need a battery larger than our entire office...)

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