Before you start throwing out inanities like "just auction it off" try thinking about who is going to do the cable removal. The military? No. We barely have enough people to man our ships and squadrons. Contractors do all of the work and people like your parents and I pay for it. You want a nice college education, fine...I want my retirement unmolested.
We (my sailors and I) are here to make sure that our families, friends and fellow Americans have the FREEDOM to choose however they want to live. The NSA is no different. We try to buy the very best in order to do our jobs to the utmost. We recycle what we can, but if the cost of recycling is higher than any kind of benefit, we leave it or get rid of it. For your information, all copper cable that has been ripped out of the ships that I've been on has been recycled.
We try, but we still have to work within our budget.
It is very easy to sit there and throw out comdemnation. Try thinking the whole thing through.
What people don't see is that it probably would have cost more than the fiber cable is worth to have the contractors come into the place, remove the cable (carefully, if it will be reused or resold, which takes more manhours which takes more money...), wrapped, packed, warehoused, shipped, tested, etc, etc, etc...
If something can be reused, the government reuses it. But only if it is economically feasible.
Yes, I work for the government. No, I am not lying to you. I like beer and have been to 31 Grateful Dead concerts.
No one in the story said how much the fiber optic cable cost. Even if you are talking about
$20,000 worth of cable, it still would cost more to remove it and get it to another user.
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Before you start throwing out inanities like "just auction it off" try thinking about who is going to do the cable removal. The military? No. We barely have enough people to man our ships and squadrons. Contractors do all of the work and people like your parents and I pay for it. You want a nice college education, fine...I want my retirement unmolested.
We (my sailors and I) are here to make sure that our families, friends and fellow Americans have the FREEDOM to choose however they want to live. The NSA is no different. We try to buy the very best in order to do our jobs to the utmost. We recycle what we can, but if the cost of recycling is higher than any kind of benefit, we leave it or get rid of it. For your information, all copper cable that has been ripped out of the ships that I've been on has been recycled.
We try, but we still have to work within our budget.
It is very easy to sit there and throw out comdemnation. Try thinking the whole thing through.
What people don't see is that it probably would have cost more than the fiber cable is worth to have the contractors come into the place, remove the cable (carefully, if it will be reused or resold, which takes more manhours which takes more money...), wrapped, packed, warehoused, shipped, tested, etc, etc, etc...
If something can be reused, the government reuses it. But only if it is economically feasible.
Yes, I work for the government. No, I am not lying to you. I like beer and have been to 31 Grateful Dead concerts.
No one in the story said how much the fiber optic cable cost. Even if you are talking about
$20,000 worth of cable, it still would cost more to remove it and get it to another user.
Think!