On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:24:04 UTC, Jim Higgins
wrote:

About all you're going to commander from Radio Shack is cell phones.
I smell a hoax...

That's close...

though it wouldn't surprise me to find an absolutely
clueless consulting firm sucking up Homeland Security money and
Homeland Security tossing money around to every clueless Tom, Dick and
Harry like it was water.


I bet that's it. I'm in WAAA-shington and it is incredible how
absolutely clueless the folks who staff the consulting firms are.

They'll seize upon a buzzword or a weird concept and, bing, the word
processors and powerpoint presentations are running full time,
filling the air with blather.

Handwaving, spewing the jive.

Let's be clear. The concept makes no sense at all. Others have
detailed the technical and practical issues.

What does work is standard military comm gear, ruggedized, charged
up and ready to use.

This is America. The guard or whoever already has comm gear, likely
as good as stuff used by 14 year old mall-kids.

If they don't, then it's a simple matter to deliver it to them from
a depot.

In the absense of a problem, a consulting firm will imagineer one
and, let the spew-games begin.

This is WAAA-shington. Blather and cluelessness abound.
They might be filing for a proof-of-concept, stage one,
small-business-innovative-research contract, twenty-five or fifty
grand of your money pays for a lot of USENET trollin' and wacky
verbage.

Even scarier, if they make the first cut, the next level is a
quarter million to a half million dollars of YOUR money.

-c

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