I like how you brought this thread around with ANOTHER big idea. One look at New Orleans tells me you're right, as if I hadn't been fomenting that kind of treason before (grin).
I'm not thinking about the free wifi networks that sprung up to help rebuild infrastructure, but those help alot too. No, I'm talking about how the private and volunteer group responses were so much better than all the governmental.
Not because governments couldn't respond, but because as you said in your 'two koreas' comment, a government can be very different when the underlying assumptions change, even if the population and resource base is largely the same.
There could be an argument made that how federal and state governments Chose to respond was very chaotic and included more 'cover my ass' sentimentality than 'first response, damn the regulations' intentions.
And in the aftermath law officers charged a few people for stealing abandoned vehicles to help with the rescue efforts. I call that a fundamental disconnect.
We need more peer to peer in the government, as well as the broadcast spectrum.
Wed, 02/07/2007 - 8:58am
I like how you brought this thread around with ANOTHER big idea. One look at New Orleans tells me you're right, as if I hadn't been fomenting that kind of treason before (grin).
I'm not thinking about the free wifi networks that sprung up to help rebuild infrastructure, but those help alot too. No, I'm talking about how the private and volunteer group responses were so much better than all the governmental.
Not because governments couldn't respond, but because as you said in your 'two koreas' comment, a government can be very different when the underlying assumptions change, even if the population and resource base is largely the same.
There could be an argument made that how federal and state governments Chose to respond was very chaotic and included more 'cover my ass' sentimentality than 'first response, damn the regulations' intentions.
And in the aftermath law officers charged a few people for stealing abandoned vehicles to help with the rescue efforts. I call that a fundamental disconnect.
We need more peer to peer in the government, as well as the broadcast spectrum.
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