Bush to consider shutting down GPS in extreme emergency

[kashe]

You can't do "contingency planning" unless there are suitable
alternatives. Without electrical power, you can't listen to the radio,
no matter what your plans.

Unless you have a stock of batteries or a generator.

They paid taxes, and that's the same thing.

Paying taxes is no guarantee of anything the government does
or allows.

 

[kashe]

Depends a lot on the kind of emergency. If there's a shooting war in
that region, civilian air traffic will be zero...

Google Versailles and airliner for another view.

 

[Mxsmanic]

Unless you have a stock of batteries or a generator.

What do you do when the batteries run out and the generator runs out of
fuel?

 

[Joh Smith]

What do you do when the batteries run out and the generator runs out of
fuel?

Get a radio tha has a crank leaver, it does not need batteries or any other
power source only a crak for 20 minutes of play

 

[kashe]

Many parties in the Pentagon are freeloaders, and many outside the
Pentagon are paying customers.


When did the President join the army?

How dull are you anyway? He joined during his inauguration as
predident when he simultaneously became commander in chief. As a
former president once proved, he can, on his word only, send a fleet
halfway around the world, leaving the Congress to allocate money if
they wanted them brought back.

 

[kashe]

So non-US people don't really have any rights to demand GPS uptime.

Technically they have no such rights. It is wholly owned and
operated by the US. Others have no jurisdictionin to control any
aspect of it. Were the US to permanently shut the whole thing down,
others would have no legal recourse. Similarly the US could turn off
all their electrical plants and bomb all their roads into uselessness
with no one to say them nay. As could all other nations wtr power
plants and roads.

 

[Mxsmanic]

How dull are you anyway? He joined during his inauguration as
predident when he simultaneously became commander in chief.

The President is a civilian.

 

[gomez]

Technically they have no such rights. It is wholly owned and
operated by the US. Others have no jurisdictionin to control any
aspect of it.

Judging by recent US activity the rest of the world could see it as an
act of war and respond appropriately.

 

[JGS]

Judging by recent US activity the rest of the world could see it as an
act of war and respond appropriately.

Yup, they could quit using it.That would be an appropriate response for
something they receive free of charge.

Regards
JGS

 

[Marc Brett]

Keep your Map, Compass and Altimeter skills up to date.

Careful, Sam. In the not-too-distant future people with these skills will need
to be registered with the Department of Homeland Security. Suspect unlicensed
navigators will be blindfolded, dropped by helicopter into a remote wilderness
setting and asked to report to the nearest police station. Success will be
proof of guilt, and rewarded with an indefinite stay in Guantanamo's notorious
"Camp Navstar".