Carmageddon and Y2K<\/p>\n
Jerry,<\/p>\n
Now that the South half of the Mulholland Drive Bridge is down and the 405 Freeway has reopened about 18 hours earlier than planned we will undoubtedly hear from the usual suspects that the fears of massive traffic jams were overblown and all that planning and fear mongering was not necessary. <\/p>\n
These are the same folks that hsve been saying that the Y2K fears were nothing but a big scam. After all none of the horrible things that we were warned about actually happened.<\/p>\n
Same folks with the irrational fears of Nuclear Power, Food Irradiation and many other very safe things thst, in fact, save lives.<\/p>\n
Once again, as in Y2K, excellent planning and execution have made a potentially very difficult or possibly disastrous event a non-occurance.<\/p>\n
Why is it that the idiots seem to have the loudest voices?<\/p>\n
Bob Holmes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Forewarned is forearmed, and planning for impending problems can often mitigate them. Be Prepared is no bad motto. <\/p>\n
To Arms! To Arms! <\/p>\n
Three Arms! Four Arms!<\/p>\n
Besides, forearmed is forewarned!<\/p>\n
That will only make sense to Pogo fans, and not all of them.<\/p>\n
Of course if it were left to me, I\u2019d put the billion dollars they\u2019re spending into paying down some of the debt. We don\u2019t need car pool lanes, which won\u2019t be used \u2013 Los Angeles employment patterns are such that carpooling is very difficult to arrange \u2013 and we do need to have the deficit reduced. But that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n
Colonel Ted Fehrenbach wrote This Kind of War, the best work I know of on the Korean War; it\u2019s also one of the necessary works to read when contemplating military philosophy, on the same list with Cameron\u2019s Anatomy of Military Merit. He has done a short piece on the last Shuttle and the American manned space program<\/a> that is well worth your time. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n View 683 Sunday, July 17, 2011 Happy Anniversary, Roberta. The national news has been full of the story: the California Department of Transportation, CALTRANS, having decided to spend a billion dollars adding car pool lanes to the 405 Freeway, had to close the 405 for the weekend. The 405 is \u2026 Continue reading ![\"image5\"](\"http:\/\/jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/image5.gif\" "\\"image5\\"")
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