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Presence Systems Number One On Federal Wish List
coondoggie writes to tell us that top among feature requests for any next-gen communications system among federal network managers is the ability to identify and notify employees in real time. "Federal interest in presence technologies 'may come from the fact that agencies want to know where their workforce is to be able to look at the effectiveness and the efficiency of what they're able to do,' says Aaron Heffron, vice president of Market Connections. 'They want to be in contact with them at all times.'"
As if, in a system as corrupt, overgrown, and unchecked such as the Federal Government of the United States, there is ever a viable candidate who doesn't.
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
You've made a very careful logical error in your assessment. The motive of the initial investment, contrary to the assertions of TFA, has little or nothing to do with janitors sleeping in closets or employees who might legitimately need such documentation of mobility.
The point of these expenditures is pork barrel corporate welfare. Everything after that is a product of the question,"How do we pitch this to the taxpayers such that there will be no significant backlash over the expenditure amount?"
The same system of reasoning can be appropriately applied to the military endeavors in Afghanistan and Iraq. They were not conceived initially as military endeavors. First was conceived the need to ensure that the American taxpaying population would remain in perpetual debt--giving the Federal Reserve guaranteed profit for as many years as they feel like regulating the interest rates on that debt--for the financial advancement of the ranking politicians and private interests. The concept of using military action to justify said extra-large expenditures, and the excuse of both 9/11 and some vaporous ailing cleric (who may or may not still be alive and who may or may not have actually been at the core of the 9/11 tragedy) is a product of that insidious motive to sell the American nation into perpetual indentured servitude.
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
Yes. It is a threat to privacy. That's not the point. The point is that it's a corporate welfare handout at unchecked and non-negotiable expense to the taxpayers.
I'm sure that any firemen or military personnel you feel like bringing to the debate understand the concept of fraud. Nice of you to try a variation on the "think of the children!" scheme.
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
Just because you have a utopian view of big government as a benevolent big brother or, at worst, a bumbling conglomerate of incompetent old men, doesn't make it so. The outcomes of the vast majority of actions taken by the federal government over the last 150 years indicate that you have a enormous pair of blinders attached to your head.
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac