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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..."
This is what you get when you "drown the government in the bathtub".
Government is good at only a few things. Disaster recovery is not one of them. It would be MUCH, MUCH better if the government got out of the way and let the free market take care of this problem, thankyouverymuch.
This disaster has been caused by excessive reliance on government. Don't blame FEMA. Blame yourself.
-russ
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
Speaking of Sharks... it appears the Bush Whitehouse has just jumped one.
Umm.. If I'd had no water for 3 days and another day would likely kill half my family I'm damned sure I *would* murder, hijack an ambulance, etc. Probably shoot at a few helicopters too to see if I could hijack one of those.
It's easy to say you'd stay civilised from your nice comfy chair.
It seems to me that it only takes a few people who the joke is either new to them and thus funny, or one of those old jokes where it still makes you chuckle whenever you see it.
If they have mod points, then you should be able to see why this happens.
You can always change the point value of a "funny" mod in your prefs...
There: Something at a specific location.
Their: Owned by someone.
Please make sure your english compiles.
And I'm sure the pictures of police and soldiers dragging poor people from their homes and throwing them on buses in the forced evacuation would have gone over so well, especially if the hurricane had missed.
I don't think a forced evacuation would be nessecary. A lot of people say that they had no place to go, and no way to get there. So give them a place to go (a real place, not like the Superdome turned out), and run the buses to pick up anyone who wants to go there. If they did that, I don't think many people would be feeling very sorry for the few that would stay behind anyway.
The point is, the current administration can do nothing right, and will always be painted with evil motives, no matter what. Most Americans are sick of hearing it, but until the ClintonII administration takes office, that's all we will hear. That's why I've turned the news off.
What ever happened to "The buck stops here"? The current administration does nothing but point fingers and shifts blame. Katrina was a huge fuck up - both in preperation and dealing with the aftermath. So is the war in Iraq. And the economy. And the war on terror. All that the Bush administration does is either pretend the problem doesn't exist ("Stay the course") or simply point fingers at others. Where's the accountability? The American people are sick of it, and Bush's popularity is plummeting because of it.
Why is your post moderated insightful?
A lot of people really do have nowhere else to go when a Hurricane strikes. Not everybody has a car or transport. They didn't all just stay behind to spite you and Bush, you know.
Yeah, there's a lot of scumbags, murderers and rapists running aorund loose. But most of those who were left behind were just ordinary people with no means of escape.
And those tourists left stranded, damn those foreign hippies -- always trying to make teh George W look bad!!!!