You're still wrong.
Frankly, I am incenced that this debate regarding rebuilding New Orleans even exists. If this were Miami, New York, Boston, Washington D.C. or San Francisco, there would be no debate. New Orleans has more locations on the National Historic Registry than any other city in the US. -- more than Boston, Philadelphia, New York or Washington. And the loss of South Louisiana's ports and oil resources would obviously be devastating to the entire country.
Here is an important truth: Katrina did NOT flood New Orleans. The flood walls, which were purportedly designed by our federal government (US Army Corps of Engineers) to stand up to a storm the size of Katrina, failed. When I walk around my 100 year old flooded home, I know it was flooded for the first time in its history by the failures of men and not the effects of nature. That's right. my home is 100 years old and it's young for New Orleans. It's never flooded. Like most New Orleanians, I was born here. ALL of my family is from here here as well. This is typical. The wetlands loss and subsidence in South LA is a well known problem. It is also a problem of the last 50 years that has been entirely created by people. (Canals were dug to support oil and gas exploration creating massive erosion. Missippi River flood controls stopped the depositing of sediment which keeps the marshes growing and not sinking)
The fact is, the wetlands and adequate flood control are both fixable issues. Louisiana residents have known about it for years and we've spoken as loudly as we could to a largely unsympathetic audience. We need committed funding and action now. There's even a model for doing it right in the Netherlands. Portions of that nation are far far lower than New Orleans. Yet the Dutch have learned through experience, ingenuity, and committment how to work with nature and save their country. As one Dutch engineer pointed out in the local Times Picayune, if our nation has the ability to move vehicles on Mars, surely we can solve this problem too. Unfortunately for California residents, we probably don't have the technology to mitigate the impacts of an eventual earthquake there any time soon. Maybe those folks should move to someplace safer; they must be nuts to live in such an obviously dangerous place.
If Congress can't commit to a Category 5 flood control system for South LA, then they should stop funding all flood control efforts and cut off aid for repopulating New Orleans now. Instead pay off all of our mortgages, give us all one way tickets and some moving money and call it a day. Why would any business or individual rebuild here permanently without that committment?
And if Congress doesn't fix this then shame on them all. We rebuilt Europe and Japan after WWII. We spend billions year after year on aid to other nations. Yet we can't commit to rebuilding a city of our own? A city filled with hardworking taxpayers who have apparently committed the mortal sin of loving their home.
I'll third nagios (www.nagios.org) as I've used it and its previous incarnation (netsaint) in production environments. It has a very extensible setup. It has a very active development community as well. You could probably set up a limited test of its functionality on a spare box in a weekend.
Whoopee. So Rogers is going to sell Tiered services with varying Bandwidth caps. How is this news?
They imply that their going to measure usage but whne this actually rolls out, you'll see that it's merely flat rate pricing across several bandwidth caps. Lots of cable modem providers already do this as do DSL providers. Nice ploy to get press attention, though.
They're not going to track actual usage. They're going to sell tiered Services with different caps at different price levels. they make it sound like they're going to track individual utilization but they won't.
Charter in the US does this in several markets right now.
Cable companies _HAD_ to continue operating as normal including doing new installs. Their contracts with @home required this. @home could have sued for breach of contract if they had stopped selling the service.
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You're still wrong. Frankly, I am incenced that this debate regarding rebuilding New Orleans even exists. If this were Miami, New York, Boston, Washington D.C. or San Francisco, there would be no debate. New Orleans has more locations on the National Historic Registry than any other city in the US. -- more than Boston, Philadelphia, New York or Washington. And the loss of South Louisiana's ports and oil resources would obviously be devastating to the entire country. Here is an important truth: Katrina did NOT flood New Orleans. The flood walls, which were purportedly designed by our federal government (US Army Corps of Engineers) to stand up to a storm the size of Katrina, failed. When I walk around my 100 year old flooded home, I know it was flooded for the first time in its history by the failures of men and not the effects of nature. That's right. my home is 100 years old and it's young for New Orleans. It's never flooded. Like most New Orleanians, I was born here. ALL of my family is from here here as well. This is typical. The wetlands loss and subsidence in South LA is a well known problem. It is also a problem of the last 50 years that has been entirely created by people. (Canals were dug to support oil and gas exploration creating massive erosion. Missippi River flood controls stopped the depositing of sediment which keeps the marshes growing and not sinking) The fact is, the wetlands and adequate flood control are both fixable issues. Louisiana residents have known about it for years and we've spoken as loudly as we could to a largely unsympathetic audience. We need committed funding and action now. There's even a model for doing it right in the Netherlands. Portions of that nation are far far lower than New Orleans. Yet the Dutch have learned through experience, ingenuity, and committment how to work with nature and save their country. As one Dutch engineer pointed out in the local Times Picayune, if our nation has the ability to move vehicles on Mars, surely we can solve this problem too. Unfortunately for California residents, we probably don't have the technology to mitigate the impacts of an eventual earthquake there any time soon. Maybe those folks should move to someplace safer; they must be nuts to live in such an obviously dangerous place. If Congress can't commit to a Category 5 flood control system for South LA, then they should stop funding all flood control efforts and cut off aid for repopulating New Orleans now. Instead pay off all of our mortgages, give us all one way tickets and some moving money and call it a day. Why would any business or individual rebuild here permanently without that committment? And if Congress doesn't fix this then shame on them all. We rebuilt Europe and Japan after WWII. We spend billions year after year on aid to other nations. Yet we can't commit to rebuilding a city of our own? A city filled with hardworking taxpayers who have apparently committed the mortal sin of loving their home.
Consider running thttpd instead of apache for the static downloadable contact. It supports this type of throttling http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd
I'll third nagios (www.nagios.org) as I've used it and its previous incarnation (netsaint) in production environments. It has a very extensible setup. It has a very active development community as well. You could probably set up a limited test of its functionality on a spare box in a weekend.
They imply that their going to measure usage but whne this actually rolls out, you'll see that it's merely flat rate pricing across several bandwidth caps. Lots of cable modem providers already do this as do DSL providers. Nice ploy to get press attention, though.
They're not going to track actual usage. They're going to sell tiered Services with different caps at different price levels. they make it sound like they're going to track individual utilization but they won't. Charter in the US does this in several markets right now.
Cable companies _HAD_ to continue operating as normal including doing new installs. Their contracts with @home required this. @home could have sued for breach of contract if they had stopped selling the service.