Just buy some broken outdoor video cameras, or just the housings...they don't need to work, just look like they do. Make them obvious. Criminals go for the low hanging fruit.
Yep, I went to the ER and then to the eye doc, he had some kind of lens shaver thing that got rid of the splinter and the rust. Vision returned to normal after about a week. Needless to say I was very relieved.
I have 20/20 vision but I am considering getting glasses just for the the protection offered. I recently was installing a dish for satellite tv at home, (dish network) and somehow got a metal splinter embedded in the center of my eyes lens. That was needless to say extremely painful and walking around for a few days blind in one eye brings home just how important not only sight is but peripheral vision as well.
The FCC requiring outage reports for cell towers would almost certainly lead to outage reporting from internet service providers considering the fact that voip providers are now also providing E911 services.
You do understand that he was in Florida, correct? And the events unfolding were in New York and Washington DC.
Ever think of the difficulty in piloting a commercial airliner into a moving limo? Even finding the right street at 300+ knots would be a feat.
The president leaving makes the school no less or more of a target. You are thinking "mission impossible" style attack.
Somebody in place in Florida able to somehow guide a commercial airliner into a moving limo is probably the most ridiculus thing I have ever heard of in my life.
Please won't you go join Osama as a mission planner? We as a nation would enjoy so many benefits from such a partnership!
I see so much criticism about those few minutes of inaction and yet no one seems to go so far as to actually come up with something that the president could have done that would have made any difference at all.
When he was informed of the event did it go something like "Mr. President a 2nd plane just crashed into the other tower...what do we do?"
or was it more like "Mr. President a second plane just crashed into the other tower..as soon as we have word on what is going on I will let you know."
People who bitch about a decision but have no alternative (that would make a difference in the outcome), even when looking back in time with perfect hindsite, must be mindlessly following a political agenda (or simply mindless).
As for sitting reading a childrens book after learning of the second plane...he wasn't reading, at least what I saw..he was obviously thinking about what he just learned.
Now step up to the plate here...tell me exactly what your perfect model president would have done...and then tell me what it would have accomplished.
As for Moore critisizing anything that Bush could have done, it wasn't a comment on the veracity of any of his critisisms merely a comment on the intellectual dishonesty Moore displays. He doesn't analyze the situation and come up with a course of action that would have made a difference (even with 20/20 hindsight) he merely critisises and belittles. As a thinking, rational being you have to come to the conclusion that Moore is just trying to make money off of a terrible tragedy.
In any situation when people jump on the bandwagon to critisize a persons actions but can think of nothing better that could have been done, they are being intellectually lazy. My friend has a term for these people...he calls them sheeple. People who are blindly herded down a path but haven't a clue that there are other paths.
Err, numb nuts, think about it...if he left then the target is still the elementary school... without the president...hehe do you think anything through? LOL
This is hilarious! Because the president didn't jump up and run out of the schoolhouse he made an entire elementary school of kids targets? LOL! Are you assuming that the terrorists had real time data on the presidents exact location?
Oh and whenever an airplane crashes somewhere the president of the united states should cancel all appointments to wait for more info? Geez, he would never get anything done if all he did was "wait for more info" whenever something bad happens.
Your demand that the president personally do something to stop those planes is laughable. He has an entire military to do those things. And to do anything other than ground all air traffic would be irresponsible, without clear knowledge of who what where and when.
You should really step back and take a long hard look at yourself and the way you think, try to be honest with yourself and admit that there is nothing more he could have done that day. If you think there is, then come up with a detailed explanation of what he should have done and how. Take into to account not only the specific data he had knowledge of that proved to be relevant after all the facts are in but all the threat knowledge he had that ~could~ have been relevant based on only the info he had at the time. And that is that a plane had crashed into the world trade center.
Name the action the president could have taken that Michael Moore could not present in a critical light. Sadly there is no act that the america hater would not criticize.
I for one will never critisize a person in charge of the largest military in the world for waiting until he knows the whole story before acting.
Of course if it happened while Clinton was in the White House we could have just launched a couple of tomahawks into the desert in Afghanistan and called it even...lol
I sell and install radio equipment that is installed on towers that range in height from 40 to 1400 feet. The taller ones are guarenteed to get direct hits from lightning ~every~ thunderstorm. The key to preventing damage is grounding. It doesn't matter what kind of lightning protection you have if your site grounding is not up to par. In a commercial building situation, the power entrance to the building must have adequate grounding. Isolation transformers are a great help as well. Lightning can also enter buildings via phone and network cables so make sure the telco demarc is properly grounded.
When I say properly grounded I mean #2 wire or better not a piece of cat 5 with all the wires stripped back and twisted together. The telco ground, the power ground and any other grounds must be tied together to prevent ground loops.
Get a master electrician that knows what he is doing to advise you.
On the rf gear I work on I like tripp-lite and polyphasor for protection.
I have seen the tripp-lite IB4 or isotel take such a huge hit that the rocker switch was blown completely across the room and the components inside were reduced to crumbly black bits that fell out the switch hole. I replaced it with another of the same unit and the equipment came right up. Then I gave it back to my salesman for a refund since they have a lifetime warranty!
Anyway spend the money protecting the entrance points from lightning damage. If you are protecting commercial buildings rather than individual computers then get high quality protection systems that give an indication when the protection fails.
It is important to remember that ground rods corrode away and have to be replaced. That lightning protection devices are only good for a couple of light hits or one big one. Then they must be replaced since they don't offer any protection anymore, though they still happily let power through. Lightning protection is a consumable not a one time purchase.
Grounding is primary, protection devices follow.
If you have serious problems, Motorola produces a manual called "R56". Do a site to R56 standards and you will be good to go though you won't have much money left:)
This whole deal is a bunch of crap. Nextel built out a system that interferes with its neighbors. They should fix the problem and keep the spectrum they are licensed for. The company I work for lost several productive, profitable, non-interfering SMR's to Nextel when the FCC decided to take away the licenses and auction them off in regions where the little guy has no chance of competing. What does Nextel do? come in and turn the systems off and *not* install anything to replace them, or they take a service that was filling the customers needs and costing $14 per unit to something that has 1/4 the coverage and costs $50 per unit. Now that they have deployed sub-standard equipment they want new spectrum from the goverment to fix the problem. What a load of crap
From what I have read elsewhere they could solve the problem by abandoning the use of hybrid combiners on their transmitter sites. Their equipment is spewing emmisions outside of their licensed bandwidth and it is somehow up to the government to fix...utter crap. Anyone else would be fined into bankruptcy for disrupting public safety comms, but with Nextel the public safety systems have to be shut down...what a load of crap...
I really disliked this book as well, and set it down several times in disgust. Having the main characters to be not only uber smart but as beautiful as greek gods really irritates me. That strikes me as laziness in an author.
I put this author on my "never again" list with that read. Sounds like The Da Vinci Code might be better but I think I will go to the library for it if I do decide to read it, it would piss me off too much to waste money twice:)
Then compare it to wireless if you can get it. If not then look into setting up your own wireless ISP setup. If you write a story about the experience isn't it a business expense?
The problems you cite are universal for portable communications systems. Batteries going dead, bad headsets etc. The key is planning and maintenance. If it is critical to the show then make darn sure the batteries are charged before the show starts and if one doesn't last the entire show then dispose of it. (Nicads and nickel-metal hydride need to be disposed of properly, Radio Shack does this for free) Keep a couple of spare radios ready to go and charge some extra batteries as well.
The better route to go is to get a license for your own radio channel and use higher end radios like police and firemen do. Schools often have a business band license for buses or maintenance that you could use on the off hours, this keeps other people off your frequency. The radios cost more but you are paying for reliability.
Don't whine that you don't have the money, get a system designed by your local radio (Motorola) dealer and then start getting the money through grants and donations. I get solicited all the time for free stuff and sometimes the dealers can hook you up with a corporation that is changing systems out and looking for a place to donate the old (but good) equipment too.
The main thing is plan ahead, and plan for things not going perfectly.
I have had good luck with NEMA 4 fiberglass enclosures (no window), I generally purchase the optional backplate and under that I put some 1/2" closed cell foam insulation. Mount the AP or whatever inside on the plate and put the box on the North (shady) side of whatever you attach it to. For cold weather try using a small light bulb inside the enclosure for heat (may be thermostatically controlled)
Enclosure source here
I doubt the RIAA will have a problem with this..
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since you have to pay $15 to buy the CD, everyone gets their cut and goes home happy. The recording process may "suffer" but I suspect the recorded music will be of a much higher quality than that recorded on the floor with a (choose your fav recording instrument)
I manage a small communcations business and I ship and receive high value items every day. I seldom put insurance on an item unless it is over $10K in value and unusually heavy.
I recently shipped a large piece of test equipment to calibration via UPS overnight (Red) and put $16k insurance on it, the cal facility put the same amount on it for the return trip and UPS actually called me to verify receipt. They track high value items very closely. My UPS guy usually questions me very closely about the contents of insured items. Note: Insurance is very expensive, often costing more than the shipping.
As far as shipping computer sized items, you have to plan and pack with the consideration that the items will either be shipped on planes, trains, or trucks, and your item will likely be on the bottom of a stack at some point and that the box will be transferred between containers multiple times in transit in the journey with the probability that it will be dropped. Use a pack and ship place to pack for you or double box: ie pack your item in a box (padded well) then place that box inside another box and pad on all 6 sides. Use the thick packing foam or styrofoam when possible or large amounts of bubble wrap. Static bag and bubble wrap electronic components (last years video card) Don't skimp on materials and then cry when untaped corners on cheap cardboard break.
I may be wrong but I doubt Amazon would jack the price above retail. What they are probably doing is checking what discount level will be the most profitable for the company. I watch the salesmen at our company do this all the time. They will sell at retail if they can get away with it but will give a good discount if there is competition. A guy walks in off the street and says I need 40 units tomorrow morning for a rush job, he pays list plus Fedex. A guy says I've been looking around for the last month for forty units I need in 2 months for a job, he gets good discount even though the sale is virtually the same.
By the way the mailorder salesperson probably doesn't jack with the prices but try placing a big enough order that gets you transfered to your account manager and he most definantly will jack with the price, most of the time in your favor but never say "your the only place that I can find this big a quanity in this short of a time" to him or you may be financing his new boat.
How many times have you called a mailorder place to check the price of an item only to be asked what your account number is? The salesperson references your account to find out what your percent discount is and then quotes you a price, otherwise they quote you list price. Amazon is just doing the same thing that any good saleman does and that is make the most sales with the least money left on the table.
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I don't think a 1.3 degree worldwide drop in temperature is miniscule. Check out http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of97-262/of97-262.html
Just buy some broken outdoor video cameras, or just the housings...they don't need to work, just look like they do. Make them obvious. Criminals go for the low hanging fruit.
Yep, I went to the ER and then to the eye doc, he had some kind of lens shaver thing that got rid of the splinter and the rust. Vision returned to normal after about a week. Needless to say I was very relieved.
I have 20/20 vision but I am considering getting glasses just for the the protection offered. I recently was installing a dish for satellite tv at home, (dish network) and somehow got a metal splinter embedded in the center of my eyes lens. That was needless to say extremely painful and walking around for a few days blind in one eye brings home just how important not only sight is but peripheral vision as well.
Wear glasses and be happy with it.
The FCC requiring outage reports for cell towers would almost certainly lead to outage reporting from internet service providers considering the fact that voip providers are now also providing E911 services.
It's that slippery slope thing again
You do understand that he was in Florida, correct? And the events unfolding were in New York and Washington DC.
Ever think of the difficulty in piloting a commercial airliner into a moving limo? Even finding the right street at 300+ knots would be a feat.
The president leaving makes the school no less or more of a target. You are thinking "mission impossible" style attack.
Somebody in place in Florida able to somehow guide a commercial airliner into a moving limo is probably the most ridiculus thing I have ever heard of in my life.
Please won't you go join Osama as a mission planner? We as a nation would enjoy so many benefits from such a partnership!
I see so much criticism about those few minutes of inaction and yet no one seems to go so far as to actually come up with something that the president could have done that would have made any difference at all.
When he was informed of the event did it go something like "Mr. President a 2nd plane just crashed into the other tower...what do we do?"
or was it more like "Mr. President a second plane just crashed into the other tower..as soon as we have word on what is going on I will let you know."
People who bitch about a decision but have no alternative (that would make a difference in the outcome), even when looking back in time with perfect hindsite, must be mindlessly following a political agenda (or simply mindless).
As for sitting reading a childrens book after learning of the second plane...he wasn't reading, at least what I saw..he was obviously thinking about what he just learned.
Now step up to the plate here...tell me exactly what your perfect model president would have done...and then tell me what it would have accomplished.
As for Moore critisizing anything that Bush could have done, it wasn't a comment on the veracity of any of his critisisms merely a comment on the intellectual dishonesty Moore displays. He doesn't analyze the situation and come up with a course of action that would have made a difference (even with 20/20 hindsight) he merely critisises and belittles. As a thinking, rational being you have to come to the conclusion that Moore is just trying to make money off of a terrible tragedy.
In any situation when people jump on the bandwagon to critisize a persons actions but can think of nothing better that could have been done, they are being intellectually lazy. My friend has a term for these people...he calls them sheeple. People who are blindly herded down a path but haven't a clue that there are other paths.
Err, numb nuts, think about it...if he left then the target is still the elementary school... without the president...hehe do you think anything through? LOL
This is hilarious! Because the president didn't jump up and run out of the schoolhouse he made an entire elementary school of kids targets? LOL! Are you assuming that the terrorists had real time data on the presidents exact location?
Oh and whenever an airplane crashes somewhere the president of the united states should cancel all appointments to wait for more info? Geez, he would never get anything done if all he did was "wait for more info" whenever something bad happens.
Your demand that the president personally do something to stop those planes is laughable. He has an entire military to do those things. And to do anything other than ground all air traffic would be irresponsible, without clear knowledge of who what where and when.
You should really step back and take a long hard look at yourself and the way you think, try to be honest with yourself and admit that there is nothing more he could have done that day. If you think there is, then come up with a detailed explanation of what he should have done and how. Take into to account not only the specific data he had knowledge of that proved to be relevant after all the facts are in but all the threat knowledge he had that ~could~ have been relevant based on only the info he had at the time. And that is that a plane had crashed into the world trade center.
Name the action the president could have taken that Michael Moore could not present in a critical light. Sadly there is no act that the america hater would not criticize.
I for one will never critisize a person in charge of the largest military in the world for waiting until he knows the whole story before acting.
Of course if it happened while Clinton was in the White House we could have just launched a couple of tomahawks into the desert in Afghanistan and called it even...lol
I sell and install radio equipment that is installed on towers that range in height from 40 to 1400 feet. The taller ones are guarenteed to get direct hits from lightning ~every~ thunderstorm. The key to preventing damage is grounding. It doesn't matter what kind of lightning protection you have if your site grounding is not up to par. In a commercial building situation, the power entrance to the building must have adequate grounding. Isolation transformers are a great help as well. Lightning can also enter buildings via phone and network cables so make sure the telco demarc is properly grounded.
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When I say properly grounded I mean #2 wire or better not a piece of cat 5 with all the wires stripped back and twisted together. The telco ground, the power ground and any other grounds must be tied together to prevent ground loops.
Get a master electrician that knows what he is doing to advise you.
On the rf gear I work on I like tripp-lite and polyphasor for protection.
I have seen the tripp-lite IB4 or isotel take such a huge hit that the rocker switch was blown completely across the room and the components inside were reduced to crumbly black bits that fell out the switch hole. I replaced it with another of the same unit and the equipment came right up. Then I gave it back to my salesman for a refund since they have a lifetime warranty!
Anyway spend the money protecting the entrance points from lightning damage. If you are protecting commercial buildings rather than individual computers then get high quality protection systems that give an indication when the protection fails.
It is important to remember that ground rods corrode away and have to be replaced. That lightning protection devices are only good for a couple of light hits or one big one. Then they must be replaced since they don't offer any protection anymore, though they still happily let power through. Lightning protection is a consumable not a one time purchase.
Grounding is primary, protection devices follow.
If you have serious problems, Motorola produces a manual called "R56". Do a site to R56 standards and you will be good to go though you won't have much money left
This whole deal is a bunch of crap. Nextel built out a system that interferes with its neighbors. They should fix the problem and keep the spectrum they are licensed for. The company I work for lost several productive, profitable, non-interfering SMR's to Nextel when the FCC decided to take away the licenses and auction them off in regions where the little guy has no chance of competing. What does Nextel do? come in and turn the systems off and *not* install anything to replace them, or they take a service that was filling the customers needs and costing $14 per unit to something that has 1/4 the coverage and costs $50 per unit.
Now that they have deployed sub-standard equipment they want new spectrum from the goverment to fix the problem. What a load of crap
From what I have read elsewhere they could solve the problem by abandoning the use of hybrid combiners on their transmitter sites. Their equipment is spewing emmisions outside of their licensed bandwidth and it is somehow up to the government to fix...utter crap. Anyone else would be fined into bankruptcy for disrupting public safety comms, but with Nextel the public safety systems have to be shut down...what a load of crap...
I really disliked this book as well, and set it down several times in disgust. Having the main characters to be not only uber smart but as beautiful as greek gods really irritates me. That strikes me as laziness in an author. :)
I put this author on my "never again" list with that read. Sounds like The Da Vinci Code might be better but I think I will go to the library for it if I do decide to read it, it would piss me off too much to waste money twice
Then compare it to wireless if you can get it. If not then look into setting up your own wireless ISP setup. If you write a story about the experience isn't it a business expense?
The problems you cite are universal for portable communications systems. Batteries going dead, bad headsets etc. The key is planning and maintenance. If it is critical to the show then make darn sure the batteries are charged before the show starts and if one doesn't last the entire show then dispose of it. (Nicads and nickel-metal hydride need to be disposed of properly, Radio Shack does this for free) Keep a couple of spare radios ready to go and charge some extra batteries as well.
The better route to go is to get a license for your own radio channel and use higher end radios like police and firemen do. Schools often have a business band license for buses or maintenance that you could use on the off hours, this keeps other people off your frequency. The radios cost more but you are paying for reliability.
Don't whine that you don't have the money, get a system designed by your local radio (Motorola) dealer and then start getting the money through grants and donations. I get solicited all the time for free stuff and sometimes the dealers can hook you up with a corporation that is changing systems out and looking for a place to donate the old (but good) equipment too.
The main thing is plan ahead, and plan for things not going perfectly.
I have had good luck with NEMA 4 fiberglass enclosures (no window), I generally purchase the optional backplate and under that I put some 1/2" closed cell foam insulation. Mount the AP or whatever inside on the plate and put the box on the North (shady) side of whatever you attach it to. For cold weather try using a small light bulb inside the enclosure for heat (may be thermostatically controlled) Enclosure source here
since you have to pay $15 to buy the CD, everyone gets their cut and goes home happy. The recording process may "suffer" but I suspect the recorded music will be of a much higher quality than that recorded on the floor with a (choose your fav recording instrument)
I manage a small communcations business and I ship and receive high value items every day. I seldom put insurance on an item unless it is over $10K in value and unusually heavy.
I recently shipped a large piece of test equipment to calibration via UPS overnight (Red) and put $16k insurance on it, the cal facility put the same amount on it for the return trip and UPS actually called me to verify receipt. They track high value items very closely. My UPS guy usually questions me very closely about the contents of insured items. Note: Insurance is very expensive, often costing more than the shipping.
As far as shipping computer sized items, you have to plan and pack with the consideration that the items will either be shipped on planes, trains, or trucks, and your item will likely be on the bottom of a stack at some point and that the box will be transferred between containers multiple times in transit in the journey with the probability that it will be dropped. Use a pack and ship place to pack for you or double box: ie pack your item in a box (padded well) then place that box inside another box and pad on all 6 sides. Use the thick packing foam or styrofoam when possible or large amounts of bubble wrap. Static bag and bubble wrap electronic components (last years video card) Don't skimp on materials and then cry when untaped corners on cheap cardboard break.
Just my $.02
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I may be wrong but I doubt Amazon would jack the price above retail. What they are probably doing is checking what discount level will be the most profitable for the company. I watch the salesmen at our company do this all the time. They will sell at retail if they can get away with it but will give a good discount if there is competition. A guy walks in off the street and says I need 40 units tomorrow morning for a rush job, he pays list plus Fedex. A guy says I've been looking around for the last month for forty units I need in 2 months for a job, he gets good discount even though the sale is virtually the same.
By the way the mailorder salesperson probably doesn't jack with the prices but try placing a big enough order that gets you transfered to your account manager and he most definantly will jack with the price, most of the time in your favor but never say "your the only place that I can find this big a quanity in this short of a time" to him or you may be financing his new boat.
How many times have you called a mailorder place to check the price of an item only to be asked what your account number is? The salesperson references your account to find out what your percent discount is and then quotes you a price, otherwise they quote you list price. Amazon is just doing the same thing that any good saleman does and that is make the most sales with the least money left on the table.