We don't discuss this sort of thing here.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Philip Stortz
> Sent: 2004 Jun 15, Tue 20:46
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [OT]: detecting emergency vehicles part 2
>
> it's what some have rightly called "security theater", it
> doesn't really make anyone safer, most people aren't fooled
> by it, but the people making the stupid decisions and wasting
> time get to act like they are doing something, too bad it
> isn't something that might actually help, like working to
> change the way we in the u.s. try and control, manipulate,
> and threaten the rest of the world, and how we put puppets
> into power and ignore their evil until we need a distraction
> from how we promised the afghan people that we would help
> them rebuild if they got the soviets out, i guess breaking
> that promised cost us something, though it cost the people of
> afghanistan a lot more.
>
> it might also have helped if we hadn't used the pakistani's
> as middle men when we knew they were delivering the weapons
> primarily to the most religiously extreme groups, oops....
> the hard fact is that the last several american presidents
> are responsible for creating the conditions that let alkiada
> (sp??) flourish, and for letting those conditions continue
> until it became a problem for us, when we had promised so
> much more.  we promised to help the afghan people, we didn't,
> a power vacuum developed and was filled with scum, we let the
> scum ferment until it made a stink over here, then, then it
> was a problem worth worrying about....
>
> i'd suggest you flame off list, particularly if you don't
> have anything intelligent to say, the truth is, there is
> sadly a lack of things to say.  i wish i were wrong.
>
> David VanHorn wrote:
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> > In the post-911 world, it's probably going to upset someone.
> >
> > I recently wanted to get the location of all our fire and
> EMS stations, so I could put them on a map that we use to
> coordinate our activities with them.  Their addresses are not
> in the phone book, removed after 9-11.  Apparently, the
> location of the buildings with the big red noisy trucks with
> flashing lights, is a secret.
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