[LINK] No cash for phone alert system

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Karl Auer wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 07:17 +1100, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>> Tom's CB radio idea is probably perfectly suited to the remote dwellings.
> 
> Nope, it's codswallop - well, for fires at least. Maybe for other
> reasons, other disasters, but useless for fires.
> 
> Fire moves fast, it makes it's own unpredictable winds. Even the firies
> don't really know where it'll head next, or if they do it's with minutes
> to spare. There would be false alarms by the dozen. Even if they always
> guessed right, even if they had a Big Red Button that would magically
> warn just the right people, even if the warning could be given say a
> half-hour ahead of time, the warning would still be pointless unless
> people were *already* prepared.
> 
> Better (and enforced!) building regulations, better (and enforced!) town
> planning, and more education. They take a long time, and they are
> difficult, but they will save a lot more lives than gadgets will.
>  

I agree, and tend to put communications in the same basket as
"Ethics the time honoured scape goat." from Frank Clarke, Graeme Dean,
Kyle Oliver in Corporate Collapse: Accounting, Regulatory and Ethical Failure


Right across Australia we knew the weekend was bad...Sports was cancelled in
Sydney! The premiere went on TV to tell people how bad it would be,
which probably informed the firebugs that they would be their most effective
that day.

There was also the guy who was involved in the Ash Wednesday inquiry who said
that everything was rebuilt as before...it seems we are not aware of the story
of the three little pigs. Surely this is not a matter of dollars, insurance and
blame. What we would like is to be able to live properly in our environment,
with fire and flood - with building and planning codes that protect us.

Did anyone pick up the news that there was an empty nursing home, which could
provide temporary accomodation - I wonder if it had been evacuated or shutdown.

The comments about bunkers are interesting. The simpsons looked at this in the
episode where he religious guy built a bunker, when the meteor came everyone
wanted to get into the bunker and as one person had to go, they voted out the
religious guy. Then the Homer felt he needed to be with his friend, then
everyone felt the same, then the meteor came and destroyed the empty bunker.
.
Marghanita
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Marghanita da Cruz
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Phone: (+61)0414 869202