A friend sent me the link below. At first I thought it had to be an April Fool
joke, but apparently The Shrub really IS that stupid!

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...58c48975 9881

K=D8HB wrote:
A friend sent me the link below. At first I thought it had to be an
April Fool
joke, but apparently The Shrub really IS that stupid!


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...lites.html?ex=
=3D1104168601&ei=3D1&en=3D4e6b58c489759881

Asinine beyond belief. I'm thinking maybe I should trash my 300 page
National Georgraphic world atlas before Kerik catches me with it. But
QRX a minnit, there's some new incoming stuff about Kerick . .

Subject: Problem for boaters and APRS?
From: "KØHB"
Date: 12/15/2004 10:23 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id: t

A friend sent me the link below. At first I thought it had to be an April
Fool
joke, but apparently The Shrub really IS that stupid!


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...ellites.html?e
x=1104168601&ei=1&en=4e6b58c489759881

I'd ask you where you've been, Hans, but I know the question's rhetorical.

Slick Willy specifically stated that he was authorizing the deactivation
of accuracy inhibitors for non-military users based upon the pemise that
American military commanders could re-activate it, or the President could order
it's complete isolation from non-authorized users. That was in 1993 or 1994, I
believe.

WHY, Hans, would the United States NOT act to either "desensitize" the GPS
net, or completely remove it from use for the criteria set forth in the
article...?!?!

Is it your contention that, given a set of "extreme criteria" (attack on
the United States, overt acts of war, etc), that we should leave the net "open"
regardless...???

What was stated in the article is NOTHING NEW!

Steve, K4YZ

K=D8HB wrote:
A friend sent me the link below. At first I thought it had to be an
April Fool
joke, but apparently The Shrub really IS that stupid!


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...lites.html?ex=
=3D1104168601&ei=3D1&en=3D4e6b58c489759881

Check this one:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6728968/

"Military weapons system"? Myabe in 1985. This is not 1985. Heh.=20

w3rv

"""Military weapons system"? Myabe in 1985. This is not 1985. Heh.
w3rv"""

Wonder when the B-52 was built?

bb wrote:
"""Military weapons system"? Myabe in 1985. This is not 1985. Heh.
w3rv"""

Wonder when the B-52 was built?

Burke I just gotta give you an A+ for all the effort you put into
tossing out the most irrelevant posts in this NG and making sure all we
all know that you're the Commander of the Village Idiots.

Sir.

w3rv

K=D8HB wrote:
A friend sent me the link below. At first I thought it had to be an
April Fool
joke, but apparently The Shrub really IS that stupid!


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...lites.html?ex=
=3D1104168601&ei=3D1&en=3D4e6b58c489759881


Like I been saying . . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4115761.stm


w3rv

wrote

Like I been saying . . .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4115761.stm

"By the end of the decade, a global independent
satellite navigation system, under civil control, will
be available to all."

but..... but..... Brain said it's supposed to be a "weapons system"!?!?

Not to worry, the Shrub will send up some B58's to bomb them out of the sky.

dit dit

de Hans, K0HB

K=D8HB wrote:
wrote

Like I been saying . . .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4115761.stm

"By the end of the decade, a global independent
satellite navigation system, under civil control, will
be available to all."

but..... but..... Brain said it's supposed to be a "weapons
system"!?!?

He specializes in cluelessness and being bass ackward. Along with a few
others around here. Fact is that GPS has grown far beyond it's original
design purpose and into another example of the old "swords into
plowshares" phenomenon Micollis likes to cite. Back when integrated
circuit chips were developed as part of the 1960s race for the moon
there were nitwits who wanted them kept secret for "national security
purposes". Flat Earth Society mindsets.

Not to worry, the Shrub will send up some B58's to bomb them out of
the sky.

The Russsians and the Chinese would would "get up in arms" if anything
like that went down. literally. Since they'll own big pieces of our
beloved "GPS weapons system".
dit dit

Right on.=20
=20
de Hans, K0HB

w3rv

K=D8HB wrote:
wrote

Like I been saying . . .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4115761.stm

"By the end of the decade, a global independent
satellite navigation system, under civil control, will
be available to all."

but..... but..... Brain said it's supposed to be a "weapons
system"!?!?

Not to worry, the Shrub will send up some B58's to bomb them out of
the sky.

dit dit

de Hans, K0HB

Here's another piece of it: It has taken *bloody forever* for the FAA
to finally even alow GPS to be used for navigation in the skies. I was
using it before before my hangermate who had a nice old Cessna 140 was
allowed to have a GPS xvcr anywhere in the 140 during flight ops never
mind in his panel. I was legal because my ultralight was not a
certificated A/C, his 140 is certificated. Somebody had to be on the
leading edge. Heh. Thus it was in the early 1990s.

It's all changed now. Commercial GPS airliner navigation has enormous
implications as they relate to a reduction in fuel consumption and
flight durations. Has to do with the airliners FINALLY being able to
get off the twisted 1930s Victor airways system and it's archaic and
expensive-to-maintain FAA ground-mounted electronic waypoints, omnis,
VORs, etc. and instead fly point-to-point via GPS. I'm rattling on too
much here.

It's happening, precision GPS is coming to the airline biz, bye-bye
omnis, FAA jobs, whatever. It's all about money.

Let's say that at some given moment a few years out after GPS has
become the nav aid of choice and that there are 20 airliners jammed
with citizens on final in cruddy WX and some intellectual giant like
Rumsfeld shuts off the pieces of GPS the pilots are using to find the
runway . .

w3rv