Re: Free UNIX for non-commerical use.

From: Anthony Mandic (td_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/10/03 

Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:41:26 +1000

Dave Uhring wrote:

> > But were they really useless? From my recollection, they weren't.
>
> They were useless to their owner since Motorola had decided to discontinue
> the service; that's the only utility which counts. It's a "good thing"
> that the service was rescued by a buyer; there is no alternative for the
> people who are able and willing to pay for the service.

        But they could have sold them on rather than bring them down.
        Seems like such a waste.

> IIRC, the US military used Iridium during the Afghanistan and Iraq
> actions. The high orbit military satellites were saturated with all the
> RT video imaging traffic from the UAVs.

        I can imagine. And yet they still can't turn up Osama.

> Yes, a confusing coincidence of word usage.

        I think so.

        Going back to something you said earlier when we were discussing
        trucking, you mention that California supplies most of the US's
        fruit and vegetables. I recall last October flying between Los
        Angeles and San Francisco. From the plane window the ground looked
        like a very light gray or off-white cream colour. I could see a
        fairly big canal which I gather was from Hoover Dam or elsewhere
        in the mountains. I could see plots of land but it didn't look
        very sustainable. Everything east of the Rockies looked far
        greener. Heck, I flew between Sydney and Melbourne about a
        month earlier and it was green all the way too; even though
        we've been in the grip of a fairly bad drought for over 2 years.
        So I was wondering why bother?

-am © 2003

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