I'll answer your questions inline. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Legatus wrote: > > I still do not know what NWCG is. I could Google but I find > it irritating that someone who lives in the bureaucracy > (apparently) just naturally assumes we should know what the > acronym means. > Sorry about that. The NWCG is the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. CDF (California Department of Forestry) is a partner. It is made up of most of the land agencies in the Federal Government. The Forest Service makes up the largest portion of the staff and finances. http://www.nwcg.gov is the best place for information. > > What is NWCG? Do they do something? Anything? Who pays > for it? Why? Legatus, are you an employee of this NWCG > or some other sort of "work with"it? Does NWCG do > something we should admire? Why? > They fight fires, and assist the infrastructure is used in other momentary logistics centered projects like recovering space shuttle parts. I work for the USDA NITC ( United States Department of Agriculture National Information Technology Center ). There are certainly people who should be admired in the NWCG. Men and women who risk their lives to protect life and property from fires. There are others who are just pain in the ass bureaucrats. Me, I am just an IT Specialist. > > TIA, > > BobLQ > > PS. I am still waiting for anyone to address the point > I made earlier. Fires are easily extinguished if they > are detected early before they grow to be huge conflagrations. > Yes they are, but there must be equipment to detect the fires, and available equipment close enough to them to extinguish them. > There is existing technology for detecting fires within > minutes of their initiation. SoCal is not using it. Why? > That is a reasonable expectation in such a populated area. > I wish you guys would say, "Hey Bob, you are an idiot." > Instead you ignore any attack on the fundamental problem > and simply get into the political bureaucratic circus that > follows ... Lemmings, lemmings, more damn lemmings. > You answer your own question from above. The tech isn't there because of the political circus. > > Increasingly I wonder why I spend any time here. Once I > though this was a group capable of thought. Even occasionally > capable of innovative thought. Increasingly I realize that > all I am doing is wasting time here. > Then go. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
