Sonic 'Lasers' to be Deployed in Hurricane Region

MacDork writes "Wired News is running an article about high powered acoustic technology to be deployed in the hurricane Katrina disaster recovery. Apparently, the technology will allow authorities to communicate with others up to a mile away along with providing a non-lethal means of crowd control. No word on additional busses and shelters..."

Comments

Oh that sounds good.

[Anonymous Coward]

No shelters for these people, supplies are too late, the beginnings of what might turn out to be an all-out class/race war in place...but hey, now we can zap those dirty black people from space!

Nice to see that the Bush administration has its priorities straight.

typical conversation transmitted on sonic lase

[Cryofan]

Bubba: How, Joe Bob, what's happening?

Joe Bob: Aw, there's a buncha Niggers trapped down in the city. We trying keep in penned, and shit, well, you know...

Bubba: Hey, you coming over for beers at the icehouse after house?

Joe Bob: You betcha!

But seriously, folks, that was just a joke. Bubba and Joe Bob aint to blame for the Lake New Orleans tragedy. The people to blame for that are those in power in Washington DC. By failing to tax the wealth and income of the rich in order to rebuild our national infrastructure and emergency services, the political elite in DC murdered them.

In my opinion, Bush, his cabinet, and all the GOP congresspeople and Democratic congresspeople collectively (hereinafter, the "Political Elite") are responsible for the deaths in New Orleans because they failed to properly tax the rich and use that money to protect New Orleans. That was murder.

Therefore, I hereby petition the US Justice Dept to indict all of above aforesaid Political Elite for those New Orleans murders, and try them on capital murder charges in a court of law, in accordance with custom and due process.

Re:Longitudinal wave lasers?

[Solder Fumes]

Ask your mom to buy your underwear a couple sizes larger next time.

Reference to Cuba interesting for another reason

[Mostly a lurker]

How many people here remember this report from July:

Cuba was hit hard by Hurricane Dennis, the most ferocious storm to lash the Caribbean island nation in four decades. It caused the deaths of 16 Cubans and left a swathe of wreckage in its wake. The death toll would have been far higher had it not been for the timely evacuation of more than 1.5 million people.

The quality of the disaster preparedness of the impoverished Cubans compared to that of the US is striking.

Re:What a horrible mess...

[eyeye]

Arent you right wing guys worried about how you will be able to cope with those terrurists when they attack, what colour is the alert level these days? When they detonate their dirty bomb it will be 5 days before homeland security things of taking some action. You better hope to fuck that they dont bomb any levees (or are all those in non bush voting states?) as you have no idea what to do and all your troops are too busy killing people thousands of miles away to save people at home.

Of course all the money that was put into homeland security is in the pockets of a bunch of rich men and their companies so when the shit hit the fans you will just have to sit there and blame it on the "left".