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From: JF Mezei on 20 Jun 2010 14:10 George Kerby wrote: > You're right, it's *still* all Bush's fault. > > The Anointed One will fix it - between rounds of golf and that bothersome > oil thingy. What Bush Jr did was remove the requiremenet that incumbents had to provide wholesale access to their last mile facilities. It gave incumbents their monopoly back. And the incumbents blackmailed Bush into doing this "if you don't do this, we won't invest in fibre to the home (verizon) or upgrade our old copper (AT&T)". Since about 2006, Canada has followed this Bush (our PM is a follower of the Bush philosophy) without actually making a specific ruling. Canada has fallen from 3rd world ranking down to about 13th if I remember correctly in 5 years. And now the incumbents are using the same tactics, threathening to stop investment if they are forced to (again) provide competitive access to last mile facilities.
From: Mark Conrad on 20 Jun 2010 23:54 In article <4c1e5982$0$1310$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > Since about 2006, Canada has followed this Bush (our PM is a follower of > the Bush philosophy) without actually making a specific ruling. Canada > has fallen from 3rd world ranking down to about 13th if I remember > correctly in 5 years. About that same 2006 time, a Canadian outfit buried a fiber optic cable along the roadside here in northern California, over the mountains here. It ran for miles, right past my ranch. I thought for sure we would get fiber-optic cable here. Then for some unexplained reason, the Canadian outfit abandoned the entire project. Mark-
From: salgud on 21 Jun 2010 12:21 On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:31:28 +1200, David Empson wrote: > - Dimensions of the original video. Enlarging a small image won't > magically add back the missing information, despite what TV crime shows > might imply. You mean that CSI is not a documentary? And here I thought that Crime Scene Investigators carried guns, shot it out with bad guys, and ran the police department! Why do they even keep those stupid detectives around? A good friend of mine's granddaughter was going back to college and looking for a career. She was interested in a Forensics Tech program somewhere, based on watching CSI in it's various incarnations. Wisely, Rich arranged to take her on a tour of a Denver area crime lab (don't think it was Denver Police - they can't seem to manage a major bust without killing an innocent bystander or two). On the tour, she learned that forensics techs rarely even visit the crime scene - most live a rather dreary, monotonous, repetitive life of running finger print matches or balistics tests or just entering and retrieving data at a computer. None actually carry guns, investigate crimes or arrest criminals. That's what detectives are supposed to do (some do, some don't, depending on what department they're in). After the tour, she changed her major. I find it rather amusing that the producers of CSI spend a small fortune on expert consulting services (read and article where they interviewed the lead consultant for the original CSI, a former ME for LA County) and amazing animations on the forensics side, then create an entire fantasy world with no connection to reality on how the police operate and how they system works. Like painting and polishing up a classic muscle car, but leaving the engine running on 5 cylinders, the clutch plate worn and slipping, the limited slip diff clattering and banging down the highway, with acrid black smoke pouring out of the chrome tipped exhausts.
From: JF Mezei on 21 Jun 2010 13:05 salgud wrote: > You mean that CSI is not a documentary? And here I thought that Crime Scene > Investigators carried guns, shot it out with bad guys, and ran the police > department! Why do they even keep those stupid detectives around? CSI is a documentary... a documentary on how Hollywood makes cop shows ! For a real documetary on how Hollywood police operates, you need to watch "Beverly Hills Cop". To see how New York investigators work, you need to watch "Castle". You'll find that investigators are all unmarried females accompanied by some writer whose vivid imagination always finds the answers to how/why a crime was committed. And for a peek into Boston investigations, you need to look at Fringe. I swear, there are strange things that happen in Boston, and the FBI there always finds answers with some of the strangest methods.
From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson on 21 Jun 2010 13:34
salgud wrote: > A good friend of mine's granddaughter was going back to college and looking > for a career. She was interested in a Forensics Tech program somewhere, > based on watching CSI in it's various incarnations. Wisely, Rich arranged > to take her on a tour of a Denver area crime lab (don't think it was Denver > Police - they can't seem to manage a major bust without killing an innocent > bystander or two). On the tour, she learned that forensics techs rarely > even visit the crime scene - most live a rather dreary, monotonous, > repetitive life of running finger print matches or balistics tests or just > entering and retrieving data at a computer. None actually carry guns, > investigate crimes or arrest criminals. That's what detectives are supposed > to do (some do, some don't, depending on what department they're in). After > the tour, she changed her major. Watch the pilot (first episode). It starts out at a crime scene and Jim Brass says to someone "Here comes the nerd squad." The original premise of CSI was that they were one of those companies that sprouted up in the late 1990's that was NOT the police department, they were an independent company that solved crimes through science and were paid by the case solved. Las Vegas was picked as the location because second to the FBI lab at Quantico, they have the best funded crime lab in the US. I think the original premise lasted only a few episodes if any beyond the pilot and they were quickly converted to police officers. In reality, while private CSI companies existed, and may still do, they never made enough money to be profitable. If your friend's granddaughter wants to go into interesting science, she should IMHO go get a job as a production assistant on Mythbusters. A lot more science than CSI and a lot more fun, IMHO. That said, I have watched every episode of CSI every broadcasted and will continue to do so. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM I do multitasking. If that bothers you, file a complaint and I will start ignoring it immediately. |