| Steve & Susan 2005-05-28, 10:54 pm |
| On Sat, 21 May 2005 19:31:19 -0400, Carey Gregory
<tiredofspam123@comcast.net> wrote:
>Are you serious? My, what a quaint idea.
<snippity doo-dah...>
>Spending public money on watch towers and the personnel to man them would be
>a ridiculous waste...
Yeah, but if you had UA$1 money, you could build all of the
watchtowers and call them anti-t*rr0r snyper platforms. Have a
consultant come out and install laser beams on them and link them with
2.4 GHz 802.11(g) access points on parabolic antennas (see anything
wrong with that??? Oh, yeah, and for using COTS equipment, they
justify the $2,000,000 price tag by the value added from their
consulting services). Then you could spend 5 times more on specialty
vehicles that don't presently roll enough, but can justify it because
they're painted red and have diamond plate - i.e.: $140,000 Winnebago
communications/ command platform that goes to ribbon cuttings and
grand openings of SuperCuts and W@lmarts, but never gets called to
major incidents upstaged by $680,000 Pierce Dreadnought commando truck
(if there's not enough work for the $140,000 truck that's two years
old, when the f*** is the $680,000 truck going to roll? Oh, yeah - we
need three of them. We "need" them because the guys who run the
Winnebago wear a different uniform.).
Good gawd! You should see some of the absolutely silly-assed shit
being binge-bought! It's just like it is Saturday night, the geeky kid
has the car AND, HE HAS BEER! You gotta see all of the people piling
into the car for the road trip/ party (of course, these guys will pile
out of the car just as fast when the beer, um, grant money, runs out).
The G.A.0. will have to increase staffing just to manage the audits.
It is absolutely disgraceful to see adult children wanting to buy - or
in some cases, buying - zeppelins, robots, rocket ships (I heard this
in a meeting once - "Our response time would be seconds if we could
get a rocket ship just like Thunderbirds or Team Am*rica had"),
Captain Kirk command chairs and other nifty items through some of
these capability enhancement programs when they can't even meet their
basic core operational goals. All that and more with impunity.
>...that would be better spent ensuring that the public voice
>network (whatever form it takes) is always capable of reaching emergency
>resources. To allow that requirement to slip into history would be a huge
>public policy mistake.
Well, aside from provision of 9-1-1 services, the lesser visable
critical infrastructure needs that have an immediate benefit for both
quiescent operation and "the big one" always take a back seat to sexy
responder initiatives that will dry rot before they ever see service.
Steve
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