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a point of order, and info
It having been a few years since the last round I and prehaps other
could a use a reminder. Doesn't the FCC have to take some action beyond this to put there new rules in effect |
"an_old_friend" wrote in message oups.com... It having been a few years since the last round I and prehaps other could a use a reminder. Doesn't the FCC have to take some action beyond this to put there new rules in effect Usually, this is the next to last stop. This was a notice of proposed rulemaking. That means that they intend to make this a reality, unless Bush says that they should not change the rules due to dangers of weapons of mass destruction. Code red, code red! Battle stations, everyone. Danger, Will Robinson. Man the photon torpedos. Engage trans-warp engins. Unless there is a threat of weapons of mass destruction, the FCC will follow through with the new rules. Of course, it might happen. Bush is always working on things, even when on vaction. There are cell phones and they are working on ... um, things. There are fax machines and his is always busy working on things. Even satellite communications and he is um ... working ... on .... things ... Did you see Farenheit 911? Always working on .... things. Golly, he seemed so indecisive in Florida with the schoolchildren when the first tower was hit. Eyes kept going back and fourth ... then the secret service guy whispered in his ear (the second tower was hit). Still he sat there with his eyeballs clicking back and fourth. He must have been working .... working on things ... My guess is that the changes will occur as Bush is too busy with ..... things :))) I see they are laying off another 10,000 worldwide at Kodak with 7,000 of those local jobs. Glad Bush is working .... um, on things. 73 from Rochester, NY Jim AA2QA |
The kodak layoffs should be no surprise what-so-ever...
They have invented the digital cam yanno, and even ancient dinosaurs (after a few years of practice) are able to push the button on one correctly these days... LOL! John "Jim Hampton" wrote in message ... "an_old_friend" wrote in message oups.com... It having been a few years since the last round I and prehaps other could a use a reminder. Doesn't the FCC have to take some action beyond this to put there new rules in effect Usually, this is the next to last stop. This was a notice of proposed rulemaking. That means that they intend to make this a reality, unless Bush says that they should not change the rules due to dangers of weapons of mass destruction. Code red, code red! Battle stations, everyone. Danger, Will Robinson. Man the photon torpedos. Engage trans-warp engins. Unless there is a threat of weapons of mass destruction, the FCC will follow through with the new rules. Of course, it might happen. Bush is always working on things, even when on vaction. There are cell phones and they are working on ... um, things. There are fax machines and his is always busy working on things. Even satellite communications and he is um ... working .. on .... things ... Did you see Farenheit 911? Always working on .... things. Golly, he seemed so indecisive in Florida with the schoolchildren when the first tower was hit. Eyes kept going back and fourth ... then the secret service guy whispered in his ear (the second tower was hit). Still he sat there with his eyeballs clicking back and fourth. He must have been working .... working on things ... My guess is that the changes will occur as Bush is too busy with ..... things :))) I see they are laying off another 10,000 worldwide at Kodak with 7,000 of those local jobs. Glad Bush is working .... um, on things. 73 from Rochester, NY Jim AA2QA |
Wow, Jim, a democrat in New Jersey. Imagine that. You sound like one of those guys that lives off entitlements and bitches about the pay. Bet you look like Michael Moore, too. Win |
From: Jim Hampton on Jul 21, 3:44 pm
"an_old_friend" wrote in message It having been a few years since the last round I and prehaps other could a use a reminder. Doesn't the FCC have to take some action beyond this to put there new rules in effect Usually, this is the next to last stop. This was a notice of proposed rulemaking. That means that they intend to make this a reality, unless Bush says that they should not change the rules due to dangers of weapons of mass destruction. The NOTICE of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) is (nearly always) first. Then follows the Comment period...itself followed by a long wait while the lawyers at the FCC draft the Report and Order (R&O). Once the R&O is published in the Federal Register it is LAW. Code red, code red! Battle stations, everyone. Danger, Will Robinson. Man the photon torpedos. Engage trans-warp engins. Unless there is a threat of weapons of mass destruction, the FCC will follow through with the new rules. Of course, it might happen. Bush is always working on things, even when on vaction. There are cell phones and they are working on ... um, things. There are fax machines and his is always busy working on things. Even satellite communications and he is um ... working .. on .... things ... In one way you are right...WT Docket 05-235 is a WMD. A Weapon of MORSE Destruction! :-) Do the Mighty Macho Morsemen want "Iraq III" on that WMD? My guess is that the changes will occur as Bush is too busy with ..... things :))) Which "Bush?" The elimination of the morse code test has been worked on by various groups for over two decades. It is NOT relative to any political politics or any particular administration. I see they are laying off another 10,000 worldwide at Kodak with 7,000 of those local jobs. Glad Bush is working .... um, on things. Irrelevant topic in here. Eastman Kodak has been a big name for years. That doesn't mean they get to claim fief and title for anything. Face it (with or without portrait lens), the future of silver halide photography media is NOT advancing. Eastman Kodak started up in the photo biz with a little box camera pre-loaded with film. One took the box camera to a developer (usually a drug store), had the film developed and the camera re-loaded, all for one price. A few years ago they "pioneered" the already-loaded "one-shot" camera one brought into the dealer for developing. Some "pioneering!" BTW, Eastman sells (or maybe re-sells) digital cameras, too (see Ritz Camera chain for details). Would you say Xerox is a big company? Yes? Okay, their PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) INVENTED both the mouse and the GUI (Graphical User Interface). Xerox head honchos decided neither had a "future" and allowed PARC to sell their invention and didn't bother pursuing any more R&D on them. Guess what all personal computers of today have in common? [a mouse and a GUI operating system!] Where was radio 110 years ago? The first "radios" used on- off keying (by "morse" code) because that was they ONLY way to use them for communications in this new "low-tech." Radiotelegraphy reached a high art around 1940 (give or take) and then slowly slid into less and less use by all but radio amateurs. Now it isn't used for communications anywhere else in radio but the "ham bands." Even then, its use is slowly dropping. You can't Hold Back The Dawn. The best you can do is put up some curtains or tent to shield your old skills from damage of direct sunlight in this new era. |
"an_old_friend" wrote in message oups.com... It having been a few years since the last round I and prehaps other could a use a reminder. Doesn't the FCC have to take some action beyond this to put there new rules in effect Yes. First they will allow a comment and comment reply period. After the close of that period, they will "digest" the comments. Then finally they will issue a Report and Order with an implementation date specified. It's my guess that this will be done around the first of the year. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
From: Jim Hampton on Jul 21, 9:21 pm
wrote in message From: Jim Hampton on Jul 21, 3:44 pm "an_old_friend" wrote in message Hello, Len Weapon of Morse destruction .... :))) That's what the PCTA extras think... :-) BTW, I've referred to myself as a "WMD" back when Shrub put the USA into Iraq for a "dry-fire Vietnam." LOL I can't help but respond. At least someone has a sense of humor around here. I might not always agree with you, but don't change. It would kill me :) Wouldn't think of it. My wife is the musician here. I say "no violins!" Good grief, as many times as I've explained. I have sent and received Morse faster than many folks can type. Perfect copy in the Navy at 40 words per minute (the fastest tape they had). Good on that. I have no objection to someone USING morsemanship. I have lots and lots of objections to federal law MAKING me demonstrate morsemanship...when that same law doesn't require me to USE that morsemanship (in the amateur bands). I've NEVER had to use morsemanship to effect radio communications in the last half century in any OTHER radio service...including government radio AFTER I was discharged from the Army. No big deal, but I get concerned when someone someone says "we don't type anymore; we use word processors". I had that at an interview once some years back. Next time, I'll ask them to bring on the fastest, meanest "word processing person" they've got. I might not win, but they will be up for a considerable fight. Everyone takes everything out of context. When I say I can type 65 words per minute plus on a bad day into a head wind, I am not saying "cut and paste". I mean how the heck do folks get the info into the dang thing in the first place? I learned in middle school typing class around 1946/1947 (we called it "junior high school" then before the feel-good PC crowd wanted to remove the nasty "junior" label). NO KEY TOP MARKINGS on those mechanical typewriters! :-) I used to run the old Model 15/19s to their limit of 60 WPM in the Army. No problem. I can still cruise at 60 WPM, burst at 100 WPM. On a Model 60 Selectric or this PC with WP 8 installed. As to the GUI, Apple "stole" that from Xerox (which didn't believe there was a future) and then sued Microsoft over the GUI! I disagree on both points. PARC got paid. The later civil suit Microsoft v. Apple Computer wasn't about GUI per se... it was on the "look and feel"...BTASE, not relevant to this newsgroup. The PCTA extras in here don't like "digital" because it "isn't RADIO"! :-) I've heard too much of this "ancient technology" stuff and I see to many "hunt and peck" alleged typists - excuse me, word processors..... or is that word processing folks? I think that's a reference to using MECHANICAL typewriters versus computer-plus-inkjet/laserjet-printer mechanics with software that can handle proportional-type-pitch fonts. I may be the only person in here who has operated a proportional-type-pitch mechanical typewriter used in ready-for-offset manuscript preparation. Again, irrelevant to this newsgroup. This newsgroup now seems to be about mortgages and real estate! :-) Our two houses don't have any mortgages, nor any "covenants" so I guess I can't get a ham license! :-) Anyone can forward a joke received in an e-mail. I'm not impressed. Sorry. I never sent you any jokes, forwarded or not, in e-mail...nor used one in here. ? Nan desuka? 73 from Rochester, NY Jim AA2QA ps - but I did enjoy the comment on Weapon of Morse Destruction. pps - now go wind up some core memory!!!! :))) Not on yer life! I've repaired a core plane once, long long ago. That was a "huge" core thing (30 mm cores). Can't for the life of me see doing that core stringing 8 hours a day! Worse than my wife's cross-stitching nit-pickyness! ppps - (gawd, do I *ever* shut up?) now you might understand how some feel about the code. We enjoy it but don't care to be kidded about it. Okay, YOU i won't kid. Others, well, that's a different story. Others in here can get downright arrogant and totally obnoxious about it. They deserve commentary on their arrogance and obnoxious behavior. Capice? Don't forget that I was doing HF communications at least 8 hours a day for three years in the Army...on a 24/7 basis for the station. All TTY or voice with a twist of facsimile now and then. I KNOW the comparative speeds and the massive amounts of traffic go through an Area Headquarters comm facility. TTY at the old standard of 60 WPM always outclassed the manual morse handlers for a whole day's worth of messaging. It works, it is simple, and it is quite effective compared to most folks typing abilities. "CW gets through when everything else will..." - Brian Burke You lay off the code, I'll quit about the core memory ;) Not a chance. Although I am curious about the "core memory" mention. I'm familiar with magnetic core memory and its read-modify-write sequencing. I'm also familiar with solid- state CMOS RAM of low standby power, terrific fast access, and terrific fast write. I'm using a 512K by 8 RAM package right now (in the workshop) in a three-package computer-on- board thingy. Up until about a decade ago, mag core memory was de rigeur for spaceflight due to Alpha radiation messing about with ordinary solid-state RAM. No longer. Solid-state memory techniques keep improving and outer space radiation ain't a problem it once was to RAM. Was there anything else, then? :-) |
wrote in message oups.com... From: Jim Hampton on Jul 21, 9:21 pm wrote in message From: Jim Hampton on Jul 21, 3:44 pm "an_old_friend" wrote in message Hello, Len Weapon of Morse destruction .... :))) That's what the PCTA extras think... :-) BTW, I've referred to myself as a "WMD" back when Shrub put the USA into Iraq for a "dry-fire Vietnam." LOL I can't help but respond. At least someone has a sense of humor around here. I might not always agree with you, but don't change. It would kill me :) Wouldn't think of it. My wife is the musician here. I say "no violins!" Good grief, as many times as I've explained. I have sent and received Morse faster than many folks can type. Perfect copy in the Navy at 40 words per minute (the fastest tape they had). Good on that. I have no objection to someone USING morsemanship. I have lots and lots of objections to federal law MAKING me demonstrate morsemanship...when that same law doesn't require me to USE that morsemanship (in the amateur bands). I've NEVER had to use morsemanship to effect radio communications in the last half century in any OTHER radio service...including government radio AFTER I was discharged from the Army. No big deal, but I get concerned when someone someone says "we don't type anymore; we use word processors". I had that at an interview once some years back. Next time, I'll ask them to bring on the fastest, meanest "word processing person" they've got. I might not win, but they will be up for a considerable fight. Everyone takes everything out of context. When I say I can type 65 words per minute plus on a bad day into a head wind, I am not saying "cut and paste". I mean how the heck do folks get the info into the dang thing in the first place? I learned in middle school typing class around 1946/1947 (we called it "junior high school" then before the feel-good PC crowd wanted to remove the nasty "junior" label). NO KEY TOP MARKINGS on those mechanical typewriters! :-) I used to run the old Model 15/19s to their limit of 60 WPM in the Army. No problem. I can still cruise at 60 WPM, burst at 100 WPM. On a Model 60 Selectric or this PC with WP 8 installed. As to the GUI, Apple "stole" that from Xerox (which didn't believe there was a future) and then sued Microsoft over the GUI! I disagree on both points. PARC got paid. The later civil suit Microsoft v. Apple Computer wasn't about GUI per se... it was on the "look and feel"...BTASE, not relevant to this newsgroup. The PCTA extras in here don't like "digital" because it "isn't RADIO"! :-) I've heard too much of this "ancient technology" stuff and I see to many "hunt and peck" alleged typists - excuse me, word processors..... or is that word processing folks? I think that's a reference to using MECHANICAL typewriters versus computer-plus-inkjet/laserjet-printer mechanics with software that can handle proportional-type-pitch fonts. I may be the only person in here who has operated a proportional-type-pitch mechanical typewriter used in ready-for-offset manuscript preparation. Again, irrelevant to this newsgroup. This newsgroup now seems to be about mortgages and real estate! :-) Our two houses don't have any mortgages, nor any "covenants" so I guess I can't get a ham license! :-) Anyone can forward a joke received in an e-mail. I'm not impressed. Sorry. I never sent you any jokes, forwarded or not, in e-mail...nor used one in here. ? Nan desuka? 73 from Rochester, NY Jim AA2QA ps - but I did enjoy the comment on Weapon of Morse Destruction. pps - now go wind up some core memory!!!! :))) Not on yer life! I've repaired a core plane once, long long ago. That was a "huge" core thing (30 mm cores). Can't for the life of me see doing that core stringing 8 hours a day! Worse than my wife's cross-stitching nit-pickyness! ppps - (gawd, do I *ever* shut up?) now you might understand how some feel about the code. We enjoy it but don't care to be kidded about it. Okay, YOU i won't kid. Others, well, that's a different story. Others in here can get downright arrogant and totally obnoxious about it. They deserve commentary on their arrogance and obnoxious behavior. Capice? Don't forget that I was doing HF communications at least 8 hours a day for three years in the Army...on a 24/7 basis for the station. All TTY or voice with a twist of facsimile now and then. I KNOW the comparative speeds and the massive amounts of traffic go through an Area Headquarters comm facility. TTY at the old standard of 60 WPM always outclassed the manual morse handlers for a whole day's worth of messaging. It works, it is simple, and it is quite effective compared to most folks typing abilities. "CW gets through when everything else will..." - Brian Burke You lay off the code, I'll quit about the core memory ;) Not a chance. Although I am curious about the "core memory" mention. I'm familiar with magnetic core memory and its read-modify-write sequencing. I'm also familiar with solid- state CMOS RAM of low standby power, terrific fast access, and terrific fast write. I'm using a 512K by 8 RAM package right now (in the workshop) in a three-package computer-on- board thingy. Up until about a decade ago, mag core memory was de rigeur for spaceflight due to Alpha radiation messing about with ordinary solid-state RAM. No longer. Solid-state memory techniques keep improving and outer space radiation ain't a problem it once was to RAM. Was there anything else, then? :-) Hello, Len They don't call it "random" for nothing :))) Put a micro$oft operating system with it and you have a perfect random machine. What ever happened to bubble memory? With my beer intake, I have a reasonable fascimile of bubble memory. Best regards, Jim AA2QA |
Did you see Farenheit 911? Always working on .... things. Golly, he seemed so indecisive in Florida with the schoolchildren when the first tower was hit. Eyes kept going back and fourth ... then the secret service guy whispered in his ear (the second tower was hit). Still he sat there with his eyeballs clicking back and fourth. If I was president, I would have just terminated the classroom photo op. "Sorry kids, something's come up, I gotta go." Even if I didn't have a clue as to what to do about it, I'd still split. Maybe go to the principal's office and borrow the phone and call various people at the Pentagon and such. Back on topic, the FCC released it as a proposed rule making. But unless someone can come up with a really good reason to keep code, it will be history. But I doubt that there is anything about code that the FCC hasn't already seen. |
Robert:
I would think a real president would have surrounded himself with highly capable people. In the event of ANY threat, accident or other occurrence, a contingency plan would already be in place which would cover the emergency in question--indeed, if it were I which were president, there would even be a plan in place which would ensure America is quite safe and well protected and life could go on as usual with EVERYTHING being taken in step, even upon my death, or even the death of myself and a great number of my people. If you are president there is no reason to expect the American people to settle for anything less! Indeed, even if I were blocked from communication and interaction, for some period of time, my people would have been instructed what to do until such time as I could take my place beside them. Now, it is fine for someone to think themself "GOD" and that the whole universe spins about them, but as you seen with bush, this hardly is the case when an adept person is in charge. Indeed, if bush was visiting our most important resource (the children of this country, as indeed what was happening) and an emergency took place--I would go on handling the problems knowing full well that he would need sometime to make a safe and sane exit from whatever situations he was in, and that he was counting on me to perform in his immediate absence--with a professional performance which would do him justice and this nation full justice. And, in looking back upon the whole affair, now that it has passed, that is exactly what happened... no great surprise is it? Indeed, now that he has had "real life" practice in just such a situation, I would even expect it to smoother next time, and there would even be less of a need for his quick departure... John "robert casey" wrote in message nk.net... Did you see Farenheit 911? Always working on .... things. Golly, he seemed so indecisive in Florida with the schoolchildren when the first tower was hit. Eyes kept going back and fourth ... then the secret service guy whispered in his ear (the second tower was hit). Still he sat there with his eyeballs clicking back and fourth. If I was president, I would have just terminated the classroom photo op. "Sorry kids, something's come up, I gotta go." Even if I didn't have a clue as to what to do about it, I'd still split. Maybe go to the principal's office and borrow the phone and call various people at the Pentagon and such. Back on topic, the FCC released it as a proposed rule making. But unless someone can come up with a really good reason to keep code, it will be history. But I doubt that there is anything about code that the FCC hasn't already seen. |
Did you see Farenheit 911?
Are you laboring under the naive misimpression that Moore's flicks are anything but *fictional* works _loosely_ based on history? Kodak was canceling traditional photographic products and laying off staff during the Clinton administration. The fact that film has been rightly replaced by digital capture has essentially nothing to do with politics or the President. Cheers, Dana K6JQ |
From: "Jim Hampton" on Fri 22 Jul 2005 04:00
wrote in message roups.com... From: Jim Hampton on Jul 21, 9:21 pm wrote in message From: Jim Hampton on Jul 21, 3:44 pm "an_old_friend" wrote in message Hello, Len [ on memory in digital stuff ] They don't call it "random" for nothing :))) RANDOM access memory is a term that came from the prehistory days of computing such as the magnetic drum memory, a sort of electromechanical version of a shift register. The F-106 interceptor fire control system [by Hughes] had a vacuum tube digital computer with a magnetic drum memory, circa 1957. I was in on environmental testing of that fire control system at Hughes, primarily the radar and missle launch control parts. The first mass memory things were magnetic tape transports, then "hard" magneitc disks in addition to somewhat large solid-state shift registers. All of those had to go through an ordered sequence of data storage to reach the desired data. RANDOM access memory took a while to develop manufacturing processes for large memory storage on a chip. RAM is like the old "crossbar" telephone switching that enables control of the exact "position" of data storage at will. No sequencing through other data to get to what you want. Put a micro$oft operating system with it and you have a perfect random machine. The only thing "wrong" with Microsoft is that Bill Gates and Paul Allen got into the monopoly business FIRST. :-) Everyone else bitches and moans about MS because they didn't get all the megabucks. shrug I'm just getting started on actual Windows programming and have come to appreciate the enormous flexibility/programmability of the Windows32 system. There's a lot more to it than just some flashy GUI and it has enormous potential beyond the booring PR squibs in the newsstand magazines on "computing." What ever happened to bubble memory? With my beer intake, I have a reasonable fascimile of bubble memory. Magnetic bubble memory, splashy though it was in countless little PR squibs, just never got into reliable nanosecond read/write times nor did the manufacturing process result in high yields of really MASS memory. Bubble memory went flat when the FLASH and extraordinary- low keep-alive power CMOS memory technologies were developed. Had it been brewed in Milwaukee it might have had a chance. FLASH memory technology packages have been built by the MILLIONS and now used all over the world in everything from TV sets to lawn sprinkler controllers to modern ham HF-VHF-UHF transceivers. CMOS technology went a couple of plateau magnitudes farther and resulted in nanosecond-speed digital gates with zilch standby power requirements as well as huge, huge capacity RAM. The little watch-fob size "USB disk" portable memory things use up to half a Gigabyte of CMOS RAM and plug into a USB port for mass transfer of data. The same things are used in digital cameras...motion picture cameras that eliminate the need for a magnetic tape cartridge storage (you can get those for under $300 at Good Guys or Best Buy)! Brian Woods' DZ Sienna (and its no-longer-on-sale PSKUBE) use a single-board PC made by another company. Easily enough RAM and ROM on that small plug-in PC-on-a-single-board to hold a half-Gigabyte RAM plus peripheral interface circuitry to do the Sienna controlling, internal DSP, whatevers, plus whatever a clever user can adapt (programs written and developed on any standard PC). Those single-board-PC plug-ins are used in the electronics industry in all kinds of things, built by at least a couple dozen USA companies...plus more available from off- shore designer-makers. There's even more microcontroller and microprocessor hardware-software on the market from USA companies, UK companies, Asian companies for everything from robotics hobby thingies to appliance and precision instrument control...including at least three monthly periodicals covering just the subject of hobby robotics. Hobby robotics is an activity area which has had extraordinary growth and mainly involves "simple" electronics of the digital kind...but is adapted with all sorts of home-grown programming of the PIC and Atmel microcontrollers. Microchip Corporation here in the southwest has shown a phenomenal growth pattern over the last decade plus. They make the PIC series of microcontrollers...plus both CMOS and FLASH memory plus (now) many kinds of interface devices for use with their PICs. Economical prices without scrimping on function or processing speed. [see Allied, DigiKey, Newark, Mouser catalogs for listings] Withoutadoubt the BIGGEST use of on-off keyed CW "rigs" is the keyless auto lock (key fob transmitter) for autos. Made by the millions, in use today in the millions, damn good security, "sends" and "receives" at rates far above the ability of the best-trained, most-experienced USN radio operator! :-) Far more keyless auto locks now than the sum total of all "CW" radios put together in the history of radio. [no, one can't "work DX" on those "CW" "rigs" but it enables one to get in a vehicle to GO where lots of that DX is located...] [similarly, you can't get the security with a "CW" ham rig to open a car or start the ignition or even open a garage door...it ain't fast enough and the "CW op" can't do the math to set or decode that kind of code] Little battery inside is said to be good for five years of "normal use" in the Chebby Malibu MAXX my wife and I got three weeks ago. Love it! Love that "control panel" on it and all its features, all possible with microcontrollers and digital devices and sensors all over the car. Drives well, too. :-) |
John Smith wrote:
Robert: I would think a real president would have surrounded himself with highly capable people. In the event of ANY threat, accident or other occurrence, a contingency plan would already be in place which would cover the emergency in question To have such plans, you have to think of all possible threats ahead of time. But in this case, enough people figured out what to do to handle it. Someone at the FAA decided on his own to clear the air of all aircraft. A sensible move, you don't know if there are more aircraft that will get hijacked. But we had the people in the government who were smart enough to make these decisions as needed. So the president did have a good staff. My comment about Bush's not bailing out of a 2nd grade classroom was that it tended to make him look as if he was thinking "Oh Sh-t, now what am I gonna do". Maybe the kids would be disappointed if I bailed right then, but they'd soon understand that night that I had a whole country to take care of. |
robert:
Oh no, not at all... My second in command of the military would know my wishes and take immediate action--with my blessings... .... it would be the same for all my "second in commands"... Only an idiot would think one man really runs this country. Not even bill gates can run ms all by himself... this country is a MUCH LARGER problem to put under one man... Indeed, old little georgie boy does something that congress doesn't like and his little butt could be toast... John "robert casey" wrote in message k.net... John Smith wrote: Robert: I would think a real president would have surrounded himself with highly capable people. In the event of ANY threat, accident or other occurrence, a contingency plan would already be in place which would cover the emergency in question To have such plans, you have to think of all possible threats ahead of time. But in this case, enough people figured out what to do to handle it. Someone at the FAA decided on his own to clear the air of all aircraft. A sensible move, you don't know if there are more aircraft that will get hijacked. But we had the people in the government who were smart enough to make these decisions as needed. So the president did have a good staff. My comment about Bush's not bailing out of a 2nd grade classroom was that it tended to make him look as if he was thinking "Oh Sh-t, now what am I gonna do". Maybe the kids would be disappointed if I bailed right then, but they'd soon understand that night that I had a whole country to take care of. |
robert casey wrote: John Smith wrote: Robert: I would think a real president would have surrounded himself with highly capable people. In the event of ANY threat, accident or other occurrence, a contingency plan would already be in place which would cover the emergency in question To have such plans, you have to think of all possible threats ahead of time. But in this case, enough people figured out what to do to handle it. Someone at the FAA decided on his own to clear the air of all aircraft. A sensible move, you don't know if there are more aircraft that will get hijacked. But we had the people in the government who were smart enough to make these decisions as needed. So the president did have a good staff. break My comment about Bush's not bailing out of a 2nd grade classroom was that it tended to make him look as if he was thinking "Oh Sh-t, now what am I gonna do". Maybe the kids would be disappointed if I bailed right then, but they'd soon understand that night that I had a whole country to take care of. and just what would bush's leaving have done to improve the situation |
"robert casey" wrote in message nk.net... Did you see Farenheit 911? Always working on .... things. Golly, he seemed so indecisive in Florida with the schoolchildren when the first tower was hit. Eyes kept going back and fourth ... then the secret service guy whispered in his ear (the second tower was hit). Still he sat there with his eyeballs clicking back and fourth. If I was president, I would have just terminated the classroom photo op. "Sorry kids, something's come up, I gotta go." Even if I didn't have a clue as to what to do about it, I'd still split. Maybe go to the principal's office and borrow the phone and call various people at the Pentagon and such. Back on topic, the FCC released it as a proposed rule making. But unless someone can come up with a really good reason to keep code, it will be history. But I doubt that there is anything about code that the FCC hasn't already seen. All the arguments on both sides have been presented a multitude of times. Since there's really nothing new to be said, I'm pretty sure this will go through in this form. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
John Smith wrote:
Robert: I would think a real president would have surrounded himself with highly capable people. In the event of ANY threat, accident or other occurrence, a contingency plan would already be in place which would cover the emergency in question--indeed, if it were I which were president, there would even be a plan in place which would ensure America is quite safe and well protected and life could go on as usual with EVERYTHING being taken in step, even upon my death, or even the death of myself and a great number of my people. If you are president there is no reason to expect the American people to settle for anything less! Indeed, even if I were blocked from communication and interaction, for some period of time, my people would have been instructed what to do until such time as I could take my place beside them. So you can think of every possible threating event that could ever possibly occur and be prepaired for it. Sure you can. |
commander buzzoff:
You mean you bought georgies line? The one where he is the only capable man of running this country? Get real, cheney can do just as good a job... The house speaker can too... However, yes, I would have wrote down plans on what to do if attacked by a foreign power.... .... would have written down plans if a giant meteor struck the earth in my absence too... and the first step in BOTH instances would be to raise the guard and do damage/tactical assessment--if a clear enemy is evident--strike back--if the attack was conventional weapons--then use conventional weapons, if nuclear--respond with a minimum megaton-age of 10X that used against us (well, maybe not 10X, but at least 2X grin.) Frankly, I can't go into any more detail here, if I win the presidency--it will weaken my position having everyone knowing my plans... ROFLOL!!!! I believe was being done as the pres finished his little chat with the kids... assessment and raising the alert level... no clear enemy was identified at that time (even now that is difficult) .... frankly, those kids are more important that a couple of buildings--and, like you see here, takes awhile to get ahold of the bad guys and string 'em up! John "Cmdr Buzz Corey" wrote in message ... John Smith wrote: Robert: I would think a real president would have surrounded himself with highly capable people. In the event of ANY threat, accident or other occurrence, a contingency plan would already be in place which would cover the emergency in question--indeed, if it were I which were president, there would even be a plan in place which would ensure America is quite safe and well protected and life could go on as usual with EVERYTHING being taken in step, even upon my death, or even the death of myself and a great number of my people. If you are president there is no reason to expect the American people to settle for anything less! Indeed, even if I were blocked from communication and interaction, for some period of time, my people would have been instructed what to do until such time as I could take my place beside them. So you can think of every possible threating event that could ever possibly occur and be prepaired for it. Sure you can. |
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