Except they just cited the fact that the two storage devices do hold about exactly the same energy, but the ultracap at under 1/3 the weight. Which means it has more than 3x the density.
Mark Felt disclosed to Woodward and Bernstein what he thought would hurt Nixon, because Nixon had passed over Felt (#2 at FBI when Hoover finally died) in favor of a Nixon crony, an "outsider", to run the FBI instead of promoting Felt.
I'm glad he did. But I don't admire or respect Felt for it. Because Felt could have disclosed any of that stuff (or more that he surely knew) to Woodward and Bernstein, or many other journalists, well before he had reasons of personal revenge. Which might have prevented Nixon from being reelected in 1972, instead of a landslide followed by an aborted impeachment that has left this country in Constitutional crisis through today, worse every time around the cycle.
I'm not glad he's dead, either. I wish he had spilled more, about other Nixon cronies (like Rumsfeld and Cheney), and he might have done so once the Bush era was finally safely over, and those other criminals were as "retired" as he was. But evidently there wasn't enough personal gain in that kind of disclosure, so Felt never gave it. And now he never will.
Of course you were. Clinton was investigated to the hilt, for many years and at great expense, and all you Republicans turned up was a blowjob. For which you fools impeached him. But he's the only Arkansas governor you can think of when you say "predecessor", even though Huckabee's immediate predecessor was proven corrupt.
You Republicans have never demonstrated anything but your savage partisan hatred of the truth.
What are you correcting? I didn't say he was governor past January 2007. I said he "ran for 2008", which every exhausted American in the electorate knows used up all of 2007 campaigning, too, like all the candidates did. He did evidently leave enough staff buried in the government that they're still busy doctoring his Wikipedia article.
BTW, since most of you Arkansans know Huckabee is a joke, how do you explain those who don't get it?
I just linked to just a few demonstrations of Huckabee's corruption, and there's plenty more. Like how he got the "gifts to the governor" laws revised while in office so he could keep all the "gifts" given him while governor, rather than leaving them to the next governor as had been the case for all his predecessors. That's bribery. Then there's the rapist/murderer he freed who then raped and killed again, evidently because the rapist was jailed for killing a cousin of Bill Clinton's. And on and on.
Sure, Huckabee's predecessor Turner was corrupt. That doesn't excuse Huckabee from being corrupt. There's corruption all over Huckabee's career, including the covert Wikipedia propagandizing we're discussing in this Slashdot story.
Yeah, you're "just saying". Just saying stuff you're making up, and not even bothering to back up - because you can't. Whereas I'm just linking to evidence and connecting the dots with simple logic. Maybe "just saying" passes for political reasoning in Arkansas, but not with me.
#1: Obama is not a "grass roots person", he was the Democratic candidate, which is the largest political organization in the world. Nice try at making Huckabee look like Obama, when they're totally different. Especially since Huckabee isn't at all grass roots in any way.
#2: Just because a snaky Rapture peddler says something rational doesn't mean the snake oil inside the sensible bottle is going to save you.
#3: Huckabee didn't "let" McCain have the nomination. McCain ripped the nomination away from Huckabee. Or, more accurately, Republicans ignored Huckabee in favor of McCain. And not over the "fair tax"
FWIW, I myself prefer a national sales tax (with all bare necessities exempted for everyone) replacing the income taxes. But I prefer Huckabee spend more time playing bass than playing president.
Click the links I provided to see exactly what batshit crazy faithy government Huckabee has actually been working on his whole career. That is, if you prefer facts to faithy propaganda.
When Reverend Huckabee runs for president again in 2012, just remember then that you can't see how much of his Wikipedia entry was cooked by his staffers still buried in the Arkansas government he controlled up until he ran for 2008.
Consider how Reverend Huckabee destroyed evidence on many state computers to cover probable crimes (hard to prove when he's destroyed the evidence) when he left office in Arkansas to start campaigning for president.
Reverend Huckabee stands for faith based government. Why shouldn't he rely on a "mysterious hand" to improve his image?
And keep in mind just how much power he'd have with a covert government built on the foundation installed by Bush/Cheney.
In fact, the productivity difference between unionized workers at American car corps and nonunionized ones at foreign car corps, all working at American factories, is negligible. In 2008, Chrysler tied with Toyota for #1, and the American/foreign corps alternated for position the rest of the way down.
The American corps, despite their productivity, did lose money on each car. Which is not because of the unions, but rather mismanagement.
Bankrupt carmakers will not sell as many cars (as surveys this year have shown the large majority of consumers agree), because consumers depend on them to honor warranties and service contracts which will be dropped. Airlines don't sell those ongoing obligations, so that comparison is a load of crap. But bankruptcy will let carmakers drop their pension obligations, meaning those workers will have worked for less up front, getting robbed of the labor they sold just to get screwed once they can't take that labor back or threaten to withhold more of it.
The government should loan the UAW enough money to buy each of Ford, Chrysler and GM, on the condition that they break up their autoworker union monopoly along the lines of the manufacturers. Or let Chrysler go out of business (it's not publicly traded, so its failure won't shock the stock market), then loan GM and Ford money to buy its assets, including its labor contracts, and compete without the redundancy that isn't providing useful competition at that third competitor. But practically all the top execs at those three corps have to go, because they've proven that they can't run a car corp, just rip them off for huge salaries running them into the ground.
The AMA, bar associations and other "guilds" have their own serious problems. Mainly they restrict the supply of the professionals to the market, to keep prices propped up. Their certifications are designed to screen out numbers of people, and screen in the greediest. The process of getting certified is also marked by lots of hazing that breeds contempt for people outside, and callousness towards exploiting people inside, all for profit, and not for quality.
Besides, AMA doesn't certify "MD", bar associations don't certify lawyers, though they do act as gatekeepers on those certs by lobbying the orgs that do, and by running the orgs that train for the certs.
The certs must be issued by a government agency, as they are now for those truly professional certs. But the training for them must be open to anyone who wants to compete, so long as they meet educational standards, and produce a percentage (say 66% of each class) that gets certified.
There's a role for each of these orgs. Multiple kinds of orgs that compete to meet specs, but cooperate under an industrial policy to meet economic and workplace goals, are the way to produce the most productive and worthwhile workforce, especially a skilled one.
Unions worked pretty well for America's car corps. What worked badly was the owners, who fought government health insurance that their foreign competitors get until those costs broke their backs.
Who got government tax rebates for SUVs, and government funding for loans for those SUVs, and government deregulation to lend to subprime borrowers to buy SUVs, cannibalizing their future sales in favor of people who didn't pay back their loans, until high gas prices (and realization of climate change) killed the SUV market. Leaving the car corps with two whole industries, manufacturing and finance, with no customers.
Meanwhile, the unionized American workers are the most productive in the world. So when the Republican senators, who have no US carmaker factories in their states, but do have Japanese and German ones, killed the "Detroit Bridgeout" bill last week, they knew their foreign bribers could now hire productive US labor at rockbottom prices.
Through all that, the carmaker owners took home hundreds of times their workers' pay - dozens of $millions each year for the people at the top who ran the companies into the ground.
The owners didn't have a union, and they got paid large for a terrible job. All the unions did was set their workers up to work for less up front, and see their pensions disappear when bankruptcy breaks their contracts. So maybe you're right: unions are no good. Not compared to $billionaire car corp owners and the Republican government that loved them.
Of course the owners of the corporations are against their labor organizing. The purpose of a union is to spend more of the corporation's profits on labor, leaving less for the owners.
What's interesting is how often the union's improved terms for labor increases labor's productivity. Which means a larger total profit, so even a smaller share of it to the owners can be a larger total amount than before the union, when worse working conditions produced less profit for everyone.
Which shows that sometimes, the owners are not maximizing profit, but just maximizing their power.
I don't think so. And even if it did, the high intensity RF from a nuke blast would travel those routes, whatever they were, and fry you. If not you, then all the equipment you were counting on to survive. Like the datacenter in there.
I used to work in a converted "nuke-proof" bunker right outside Toronto that Northern Telecom operated as a datacenter. Buried underground and under thousands of tons of concrete. Through a series of Get Smart type security/airlocks. Down the hatch, among the servers, I used to feel more secure than anywhere else I'd ever been.
Until my pager went off.
There's no way that bunker was "nuke proof", if puny radio signals for a pager could get through. And no, they didn't have a repeater or anything - in fact, when I asked if my pager would work down there, they laughed, and told me no, but I'd have to leave mine topside if I had one (or a cell phone, though those weren't common yet) because there wasn't supposed to be any equipment operating in that range down there (even just receiving), as part of the "shielding protocol".
Clearly, the prohibition of them was just a way to hide the fact that they'd work, showing the bunker was "leaky". And then, to prove it, I brought my cellphone down there to use whenever I wanted, despite their protocols.
You insensitive clod. By "insensitive", I mean your sensory nerves don't work. Why else would you insult Brooklyn, which still has 2.5 million residents in what would be the 4th largest US city. Which anyone could know from watching _Welcome Back, Kotter. Then you'd also know that failing to consider Brooklyn gets you "up your nose with a rubber hose", a private application of tubes as "neural interface".
Novell is "pushing" for more openness? Why does it take "pushing"? Novell owns SuSE - it can just open it as much as it wants. Finally opening the project governance to the community that's been contributing for years isn't even "pushing", or at least not harder than inertia.
Novell does seem to be gradually getting around to opening SuSE. Which is good. But since SuSE could be doing even better if Novell just opened it more, and more quickly, bottlenecked by only it's community's maturity and not by corporate hesitance, I'm not believing this happy talk about "pushing".
That total fiasco in Bush's Republican paradise reminds me of Rudolph Giuliani's Republican rule of NYC. In 1993, terrorists tried to blow up the World Trade Center with a truckbomb in the basement (it almost toppled the building). The cops, firemen and ambulances that arrived were plagued by radio chaos that made it much harder to rescue the people from the buildings (about 110,000 people used to fill the towers on a typical busy day). That fiasco was just the worst example of the radio conflicts that those first responders had been reporting for years. But the 1993 WTC bombings were supposed to be a wake up call. Rudy Giuliani was the mayor. And for the next 8 years, Giuliani's office claimed it was working out all the problems, making a unified radio system that would avoid such a problem in the future. Giuliani spent years and many millions of dollars on outside contractors to make it work.
Then on September 11, 2001, it happened again. The World Trade Center was bombed (by planes this time), the first responders showed up, their radios didnt' work together. Hundreds of those first responders were killed in the collapsing buildings, 3000 civilians were killed. Who knows how many of them, especially the first responders, might have survived if Giuliani had actually done his job as he said he was doing.
I note that Michael Chertoff has been running "Homeland Security" the past 4 years, picked by Giuliani for the post from Giuliani's cronies in NYC. Bringing his NYC expertise to New Orleans and the entire nation.
Giuliani had tried to install Bernard Kerik, but Keriks mob connections and mistress at a Ground Zero "HQ" apartment smokescreened Kerik's previous couple years as Iraq's first Interior Minister: responsible for the national police, border patrol and oil operations which he got set up as the worst travesties in that catastrophic state. I bet their radios don't work either.
Rudy 9ui11ani is already running for 2012. Maybe he'll promise to bring telecom reform this time.
The large majority disagreed with you, Anonymous Republican Coward. And since you get your news from only Rush Limbo, you evidently missed the part where Obama demonstrated his integrity by refusing Blagojevich's interest in bribes for assigning the seat - even though Obama's loaded with cash, and is the most powerful person in the world.
You Republicans are really stupid. No matter what happens, you just repeat whatever comes over your AM talkradio. Good thing next month you'll have the minimum power to keep destroying the country anymore. Because that's how the democracy you hate actually works.
Since you're a Republican who wants to destroy millions of Americans because they live in California, of course you're lying about everything else so your Republican Congressional minority can destroy the economy along with Detroit.
The bill that your Republicans just filibustered to death with their Senate minority required that the $25B in fuel efficiency retooling be spent instead on just basic operations. But since you're a Republican, why not lie about that?
The "bloated human resource liability" that makes Detroit less competitive is #1: wasteful private healthcare that doesn't even protect workers' health and productivity. But you Republicans hate national healthcare like our competitor countries all have, because you're sick and evil - earthquakes aren't your only preferred method of killing American workers. The #2 bloated human resource liability is carmaker executives, like the Ford CEO who collected $50 million over the last two years for running his company into the ground. But you Republicans lose your minds shrieking when those rich people are asked to pay taxes on the system that protects their ripoffs - even when they die and it's no use to them any more.
The reason Clinton era giveaways for increasing vehicle fuel efficiency disappeared was because you Republicans had total control after Clinton was gone, which you used to subsidize gas guzzling trucks like SUVs (and the Republican Rolls Royce, the Hummer) with tax subsidies and deregulation. You people threw out the small gains made towards efficiency, which ruined the economics that stimulated consumers buying more efficient cars elsewhere, like in the foreign countries whose carmakers aren't about to croak.
The Republicans voted for another $TRILLION AND A HALF giveaway to bankers who robbed us blind. But this bill, which had all kinds of strings attached to force Detroit to find fuel efficiency and other marketable features now that the fake Republican economy has finally collapsed through all possible extra ropes, wasn't as important to you Republicans as a chance to smash the unions that protect workers from this kind of failure happening every day.
You Republicans can't do math. Just today the stock market lost more $BILLIONS in value than the amount of the blocked loans. Because your Republican senators refused to spend money that will be paid back at solid interest rates while saving jobs that when lost (now your fault) will cost hundreds of $BILLIONS, $TRILLIONS, or maybe even all we've got.
You can't do math. And you'd love an earthquake. Behold the awesome power of a fully dysfunctional Republican.
Obama's transition team isn't asking NASA programmes only about cutting their budgets to zero. The review is also asking them about accelerating those programmes, increasing their budgets so their benefits are delivered sooner.
Griffin, the Star Wars scientist / CIA "entrepreneur", is stonewalling any change by the new Chief Executive (Obama). Which is of course threatening those projects even worse, because there's going to be less time to evaluate and save the worthwhile ones, as the economic meltdown accelerates and Obama's busy leading the nation fulltime. And of course the stonewalling shows an agency that will need an even more radical makeover by the new administration.
But why should NASA be any different from the rest of the government Bush built? Hey, over in Congress, a minority of the minority Republicans in the Senate (next month their numbers shrink to a nearly insignificant count) are stonewalling even a bridge loan from money already allocated to Detroit. They destroyed New Orleans and New York. Maybe if a Christmas Earthquake hits California they can have laid waste on every coast except Alaska's - which they maybe managed with drilling in ANWR.
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Except they just cited the fact that the two storage devices do hold about exactly the same energy, but the ultracap at under 1/3 the weight. Which means it has more than 3x the density.
I notice that Robert Mueller is supposed to keep his job running the FBI, despite its many critical failures under his administration.
I also notice that Congress often fails to act in its own interest opposing the Executive Branch that the FBI works for.
He didn't lie about it under oath, which is why he was acquitted.
Because the fool Republican prosecutor wrote a definition of sex that required mutual genital contact, which didn't happen.
You Republicans are really stupid, which is sometimes a blessing. But not really.
Mark Felt disclosed to Woodward and Bernstein what he thought would hurt Nixon, because Nixon had passed over Felt (#2 at FBI when Hoover finally died) in favor of a Nixon crony, an "outsider", to run the FBI instead of promoting Felt.
I'm glad he did. But I don't admire or respect Felt for it. Because Felt could have disclosed any of that stuff (or more that he surely knew) to Woodward and Bernstein, or many other journalists, well before he had reasons of personal revenge. Which might have prevented Nixon from being reelected in 1972, instead of a landslide followed by an aborted impeachment that has left this country in Constitutional crisis through today, worse every time around the cycle.
I'm not glad he's dead, either. I wish he had spilled more, about other Nixon cronies (like Rumsfeld and Cheney), and he might have done so once the Bush era was finally safely over, and those other criminals were as "retired" as he was. But evidently there wasn't enough personal gain in that kind of disclosure, so Felt never gave it. And now he never will.
Of course you were. Clinton was investigated to the hilt, for many years and at great expense, and all you Republicans turned up was a blowjob. For which you fools impeached him. But he's the only Arkansas governor you can think of when you say "predecessor", even though Huckabee's immediate predecessor was proven corrupt.
You Republicans have never demonstrated anything but your savage partisan hatred of the truth.
What are you correcting? I didn't say he was governor past January 2007. I said he "ran for 2008", which every exhausted American in the electorate knows used up all of 2007 campaigning, too, like all the candidates did. He did evidently leave enough staff buried in the government that they're still busy doctoring his Wikipedia article.
BTW, since most of you Arkansans know Huckabee is a joke, how do you explain those who don't get it?
I just linked to just a few demonstrations of Huckabee's corruption, and there's plenty more. Like how he got the "gifts to the governor" laws revised while in office so he could keep all the "gifts" given him while governor, rather than leaving them to the next governor as had been the case for all his predecessors. That's bribery. Then there's the rapist/murderer he freed who then raped and killed again, evidently because the rapist was jailed for killing a cousin of Bill Clinton's. And on and on.
Sure, Huckabee's predecessor Turner was corrupt. That doesn't excuse Huckabee from being corrupt. There's corruption all over Huckabee's career, including the covert Wikipedia propagandizing we're discussing in this Slashdot story.
Yeah, you're "just saying". Just saying stuff you're making up, and not even bothering to back up - because you can't. Whereas I'm just linking to evidence and connecting the dots with simple logic. Maybe "just saying" passes for political reasoning in Arkansas, but not with me.
#1: Obama is not a "grass roots person", he was the Democratic candidate, which is the largest political organization in the world. Nice try at making Huckabee look like Obama, when they're totally different. Especially since Huckabee isn't at all grass roots in any way.
#2: Just because a snaky Rapture peddler says something rational doesn't mean the snake oil inside the sensible bottle is going to save you.
#3: Huckabee didn't "let" McCain have the nomination. McCain ripped the nomination away from Huckabee. Or, more accurately, Republicans ignored Huckabee in favor of McCain. And not over the "fair tax"
FWIW, I myself prefer a national sales tax (with all bare necessities exempted for everyone) replacing the income taxes. But I prefer Huckabee spend more time playing bass than playing president.
Click the links I provided to see exactly what batshit crazy faithy government Huckabee has actually been working on his whole career. That is, if you prefer facts to faithy propaganda.
When Reverend Huckabee runs for president again in 2012, just remember then that you can't see how much of his Wikipedia entry was cooked by his staffers still buried in the Arkansas government he controlled up until he ran for 2008.
Consider how Reverend Huckabee destroyed evidence on many state computers to cover probable crimes (hard to prove when he's destroyed the evidence) when he left office in Arkansas to start campaigning for president.
Reverend Huckabee stands for faith based government. Why shouldn't he rely on a "mysterious hand" to improve his image?
And keep in mind just how much power he'd have with a covert government built on the foundation installed by Bush/Cheney.
In fact, the productivity difference between unionized workers at American car corps and nonunionized ones at foreign car corps, all working at American factories, is negligible. In 2008, Chrysler tied with Toyota for #1, and the American/foreign corps alternated for position the rest of the way down.
The American corps, despite their productivity, did lose money on each car. Which is not because of the unions, but rather mismanagement.
Bankrupt carmakers will not sell as many cars (as surveys this year have shown the large majority of consumers agree), because consumers depend on them to honor warranties and service contracts which will be dropped. Airlines don't sell those ongoing obligations, so that comparison is a load of crap. But bankruptcy will let carmakers drop their pension obligations, meaning those workers will have worked for less up front, getting robbed of the labor they sold just to get screwed once they can't take that labor back or threaten to withhold more of it.
The government should loan the UAW enough money to buy each of Ford, Chrysler and GM, on the condition that they break up their autoworker union monopoly along the lines of the manufacturers. Or let Chrysler go out of business (it's not publicly traded, so its failure won't shock the stock market), then loan GM and Ford money to buy its assets, including its labor contracts, and compete without the redundancy that isn't providing useful competition at that third competitor. But practically all the top execs at those three corps have to go, because they've proven that they can't run a car corp, just rip them off for huge salaries running them into the ground.
The AMA, bar associations and other "guilds" have their own serious problems. Mainly they restrict the supply of the professionals to the market, to keep prices propped up. Their certifications are designed to screen out numbers of people, and screen in the greediest. The process of getting certified is also marked by lots of hazing that breeds contempt for people outside, and callousness towards exploiting people inside, all for profit, and not for quality.
Besides, AMA doesn't certify "MD", bar associations don't certify lawyers, though they do act as gatekeepers on those certs by lobbying the orgs that do, and by running the orgs that train for the certs.
The certs must be issued by a government agency, as they are now for those truly professional certs. But the training for them must be open to anyone who wants to compete, so long as they meet educational standards, and produce a percentage (say 66% of each class) that gets certified.
There's a role for each of these orgs. Multiple kinds of orgs that compete to meet specs, but cooperate under an industrial policy to meet economic and workplace goals, are the way to produce the most productive and worthwhile workforce, especially a skilled one.
Unions worked pretty well for America's car corps. What worked badly was the owners, who fought government health insurance that their foreign competitors get until those costs broke their backs.
Who got government tax rebates for SUVs, and government funding for loans for those SUVs, and government deregulation to lend to subprime borrowers to buy SUVs, cannibalizing their future sales in favor of people who didn't pay back their loans, until high gas prices (and realization of climate change) killed the SUV market. Leaving the car corps with two whole industries, manufacturing and finance, with no customers.
Meanwhile, the unionized American workers are the most productive in the world. So when the Republican senators, who have no US carmaker factories in their states, but do have Japanese and German ones, killed the "Detroit Bridgeout" bill last week, they knew their foreign bribers could now hire productive US labor at rockbottom prices.
Through all that, the carmaker owners took home hundreds of times their workers' pay - dozens of $millions each year for the people at the top who ran the companies into the ground.
The owners didn't have a union, and they got paid large for a terrible job. All the unions did was set their workers up to work for less up front, and see their pensions disappear when bankruptcy breaks their contracts. So maybe you're right: unions are no good. Not compared to $billionaire car corp owners and the Republican government that loved them.
Of course the owners of the corporations are against their labor organizing. The purpose of a union is to spend more of the corporation's profits on labor, leaving less for the owners.
What's interesting is how often the union's improved terms for labor increases labor's productivity. Which means a larger total profit, so even a smaller share of it to the owners can be a larger total amount than before the union, when worse working conditions produced less profit for everyone.
Which shows that sometimes, the owners are not maximizing profit, but just maximizing their power.
It was a nuke bunker for telecom equipment since it was originally built by NorTel, and was supposed to have remained such. But I think it never was.
Who was going to ask for their money back under the warranty if they found out the hard way that they were sold a lemon?
I don't think so. And even if it did, the high intensity RF from a nuke blast would travel those routes, whatever they were, and fry you. If not you, then all the equipment you were counting on to survive. Like the datacenter in there.
I used to work in a converted "nuke-proof" bunker right outside Toronto that Northern Telecom operated as a datacenter. Buried underground and under thousands of tons of concrete. Through a series of Get Smart type security/airlocks. Down the hatch, among the servers, I used to feel more secure than anywhere else I'd ever been.
Until my pager went off.
There's no way that bunker was "nuke proof", if puny radio signals for a pager could get through. And no, they didn't have a repeater or anything - in fact, when I asked if my pager would work down there, they laughed, and told me no, but I'd have to leave mine topside if I had one (or a cell phone, though those weren't common yet) because there wasn't supposed to be any equipment operating in that range down there (even just receiving), as part of the "shielding protocol".
Clearly, the prohibition of them was just a way to hide the fact that they'd work, showing the bunker was "leaky". And then, to prove it, I brought my cellphone down there to use whenever I wanted, despite their protocols.
You insensitive clod. By "insensitive", I mean your sensory nerves don't work. Why else would you insult Brooklyn, which still has 2.5 million residents in what would be the 4th largest US city. Which anyone could know from watching _Welcome Back, Kotter. Then you'd also know that failing to consider Brooklyn gets you "up your nose with a rubber hose", a private application of tubes as "neural interface".
If you read my post, you'd see the word I had a problem with was "pushing", not "opening".
Novell is "pushing" for more openness? Why does it take "pushing"? Novell owns SuSE - it can just open it as much as it wants. Finally opening the project governance to the community that's been contributing for years isn't even "pushing", or at least not harder than inertia.
Novell does seem to be gradually getting around to opening SuSE. Which is good. But since SuSE could be doing even better if Novell just opened it more, and more quickly, bottlenecked by only it's community's maturity and not by corporate hesitance, I'm not believing this happy talk about "pushing".
That total fiasco in Bush's Republican paradise reminds me of Rudolph Giuliani's Republican rule of NYC. In 1993, terrorists tried to blow up the World Trade Center with a truckbomb in the basement (it almost toppled the building). The cops, firemen and ambulances that arrived were plagued by radio chaos that made it much harder to rescue the people from the buildings (about 110,000 people used to fill the towers on a typical busy day). That fiasco was just the worst example of the radio conflicts that those first responders had been reporting for years. But the 1993 WTC bombings were supposed to be a wake up call. Rudy Giuliani was the mayor. And for the next 8 years, Giuliani's office claimed it was working out all the problems, making a unified radio system that would avoid such a problem in the future. Giuliani spent years and many millions of dollars on outside contractors to make it work.
Then on September 11, 2001, it happened again. The World Trade Center was bombed (by planes this time), the first responders showed up, their radios didnt' work together. Hundreds of those first responders were killed in the collapsing buildings, 3000 civilians were killed. Who knows how many of them, especially the first responders, might have survived if Giuliani had actually done his job as he said he was doing.
I note that Michael Chertoff has been running "Homeland Security" the past 4 years, picked by Giuliani for the post from Giuliani's cronies in NYC. Bringing his NYC expertise to New Orleans and the entire nation.
Giuliani had tried to install Bernard Kerik, but Keriks mob connections and mistress at a Ground Zero "HQ" apartment smokescreened Kerik's previous couple years as Iraq's first Interior Minister: responsible for the national police, border patrol and oil operations which he got set up as the worst travesties in that catastrophic state. I bet their radios don't work either.
Rudy 9ui11ani is already running for 2012. Maybe he'll promise to bring telecom reform this time.
The large majority disagreed with you, Anonymous Republican Coward. And since you get your news from only Rush Limbo, you evidently missed the part where Obama demonstrated his integrity by refusing Blagojevich's interest in bribes for assigning the seat - even though Obama's loaded with cash, and is the most powerful person in the world.
You Republicans are really stupid. No matter what happens, you just repeat whatever comes over your AM talkradio. Good thing next month you'll have the minimum power to keep destroying the country anymore. Because that's how the democracy you hate actually works.
Since you're a Republican who wants to destroy millions of Americans because they live in California, of course you're lying about everything else so your Republican Congressional minority can destroy the economy along with Detroit.
The bill that your Republicans just filibustered to death with their Senate minority required that the $25B in fuel efficiency retooling be spent instead on just basic operations. But since you're a Republican, why not lie about that?
The "bloated human resource liability" that makes Detroit less competitive is #1: wasteful private healthcare that doesn't even protect workers' health and productivity. But you Republicans hate national healthcare like our competitor countries all have, because you're sick and evil - earthquakes aren't your only preferred method of killing American workers. The #2 bloated human resource liability is carmaker executives, like the Ford CEO who collected $50 million over the last two years for running his company into the ground. But you Republicans lose your minds shrieking when those rich people are asked to pay taxes on the system that protects their ripoffs - even when they die and it's no use to them any more.
The reason Clinton era giveaways for increasing vehicle fuel efficiency disappeared was because you Republicans had total control after Clinton was gone, which you used to subsidize gas guzzling trucks like SUVs (and the Republican Rolls Royce, the Hummer) with tax subsidies and deregulation. You people threw out the small gains made towards efficiency, which ruined the economics that stimulated consumers buying more efficient cars elsewhere, like in the foreign countries whose carmakers aren't about to croak.
The Republicans voted for another $TRILLION AND A HALF giveaway to bankers who robbed us blind. But this bill, which had all kinds of strings attached to force Detroit to find fuel efficiency and other marketable features now that the fake Republican economy has finally collapsed through all possible extra ropes, wasn't as important to you Republicans as a chance to smash the unions that protect workers from this kind of failure happening every day.
You Republicans can't do math. Just today the stock market lost more $BILLIONS in value than the amount of the blocked loans. Because your Republican senators refused to spend money that will be paid back at solid interest rates while saving jobs that when lost (now your fault) will cost hundreds of $BILLIONS, $TRILLIONS, or maybe even all we've got.
You can't do math. And you'd love an earthquake. Behold the awesome power of a fully dysfunctional Republican.
Obama's transition team isn't asking NASA programmes only about cutting their budgets to zero. The review is also asking them about accelerating those programmes, increasing their budgets so their benefits are delivered sooner.
Griffin, the Star Wars scientist / CIA "entrepreneur", is stonewalling any change by the new Chief Executive (Obama). Which is of course threatening those projects even worse, because there's going to be less time to evaluate and save the worthwhile ones, as the economic meltdown accelerates and Obama's busy leading the nation fulltime. And of course the stonewalling shows an agency that will need an even more radical makeover by the new administration.
But why should NASA be any different from the rest of the government Bush built? Hey, over in Congress, a minority of the minority Republicans in the Senate (next month their numbers shrink to a nearly insignificant count) are stonewalling even a bridge loan from money already allocated to Detroit. They destroyed New Orleans and New York. Maybe if a Christmas Earthquake hits California they can have laid waste on every coast except Alaska's - which they maybe managed with drilling in ANWR.
Phased arrays of antennas can direct energy to a variable point rather than broadcast it, without the receiver needing a similarly complex antenna.
As TFA cleary states, far fields decrease in power linearly, not by the inverse square, to the distance. Wires also lose power linearly.
But why should you bother considering the actual problem and solution? You already know everything that can be known about electric transmission.