On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:12:10 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:


To be honest though, the one thing that worries me is this reliance on
digital processing. I still say we're setting ourselves up for a
major commuications melt down and sooner rather than later.

You heard it here first.

More than once too.
I'm thinking it goes beyond digital and there is too much reliance on
EMP-sensitive electronics. Even automobiles are dependent on computer
micro-circuitry that's not as robust as what was in them a few years
ago.
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees...as197010_1.HTM

Solar activity or some natural anomaly - the dis-eruption of the
gravitational equalibriums, or some as yet unknown quantum mechanical
type of magnus opus in the physics as we know them for instance -
could wreak havoc in the citizenry. And the public too.
Probably a good backup plan would be to have.....a horse.
Did I already say this? If so, I apologize.

--Vic