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U.S. Makes Plans for GPS Shutdown
sailforsingapore writes "Apparently, President Bush is drawing up plans to disable sections of the GPS network in the event of a terrorist attack. The rationale seems to be that it would prevent said terrorists from using the GPS system to direct some sort of attack. The plan would shut down access not only to the GPS satellite network, but projects like the EU's Galileo. Ironically, this comes alongside the President's plan to strengthen the GPS network against deliberate jamming."
Demand for compases and maps have gone up 80%.
The road between democracy and tyranny is paved with secrecy in the name of security.
Off topic, perhaps, but am I the only one that starts seeing parallels betwen USA/Bush vs Star Wars/The Emperor? It might be just my imaginations and/or one of my mood-swings, but things are getting scary "over there". . . .
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And we're supposed to believe the President has a plan to harden security for the entire system?
The man can barely tie his own shoes!
that a truck bomb needs GPS to find its target.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hard copy maps and, in extreme emergencies, stop and ask for directions?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
No driving speed restrictions on teenagers during GPS shutdown! YEEHAH!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
> When disaster strikes, it would be nice if Superman decides to swoop down and
> rescue you, but you don't bet your life on it.
Are you saying that George Bush saving us is an better bet than Superman? Because I happen to have Bush! #1-5 in front of me AND the origin issues (#15-17) and it's pretty clear to me that Superman would be a lot better.
Consider in Bush! #2 when George is on vacation at the ranch and that tree falls. It almost killed his pet marmoset. George just ran out of the way, and barely missed being crushed.
In Bush! issue #16, it's clear that Bush's silver spoon "Kluojir" proved useful in fending off those drunk Kappa boys, but dusting a Yalie with a kitchen utensil is one thing, and fighting technologically sophisticated global terrorist bogeymen is another. I'd be interested in seeing the spoon's power against an enemy with ranged GPS-guided weapons, such as Cobra Commander.
If Cobra Commander launched such missiles from his new TerrorDrome in Tora Bora, a hero like Superman would use his super speed to intercept them, and then use heat vision to incinerate them. George Bush would have to finish watching Hello, Kitty; PLUS, he can't even fly. It's too bad DC and Marvel are different universes. We need Superman NOW. Or powdered toast man, who also has experience as a hero, a chief executive, and a cool youth deacon.
If it were found that Canada's roads were being used as an entry point to the US, we should destroy the roads. But only after asking nicely. The same goes for foreign radio towers, power plants, the cell phone network, gas pumps, goat milk supplies, highway diners, cotton pullovers, hay bales and suspiciously comfortable-looking rocks. After all, if it's clear that the terrorists are using these things to support an attack, then by golly, we must remove that possibility. It simply HAS to be done.
--- Ban humanity.
Don't you mean a military funded system that we CITIZENS have been given access to because we paid for it?
Hey! I paid for F-15s but they dont let me fly those! Buttheads...
Are you intolerant of intolerant people?
Tonight at 11, Bush; on the heal of passing legislation that is threatening to turnoff GPS, he plans to also disable dead reckoning by.... Stopping time, anyone with a working watch will be considered an enemy combatant..... More at 11.....
Julius Caesar - Act I, Scene i: "What mean'st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow!"
And either way you've killed a bunch of angry drunk guys who didn't see it coming.
No kidding. It's not like rain on your wedding day, or anything.