----- Original Message ----- > From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patr...@ianai.net>
> On Aug 24, 2011, at 8:55 AM, JC Dill wrote: > > On 23/08/11 3:13 PM, William Herrin wrote: > >> A. Our structures aren't built to seismic zone standards. Our > >> construction workers aren't familiar with*how* to build to seismic > >> zone standards. We don't secure equipment inside our buildings to > >> seismic zone standards. > > > > They should be. > > They should be. > > You should. > > > > Earthquakes can happen anywhere. There's no excuse to fail to > > build/secure to earthquake standards. > > Tornados can happen anywhere, there's no excuse to fail to > build/secure for tornados. > > [Etc.] > > Things that cost money are not done unless the probability of the > danger is higher than vanishingly small. This temblor - at 5.8 with no > injuries or fatalities - was the largest earthquake on the entire east > coast in 67 years, and the largest in VA in well over a century. Think > of the _trillions_ of dollars which could have been put into > healthcare, public safety, hell, better networking equipment :) we > could have used instead of making all buildings on the east coast > earthquake safe. False economy. That argument was valid *before* the Internet became a Generally Mission Critical Utility. It is now. And, alas, commerce being what it is, it's not deployed to be *nearly* as failover redundant as it was designed to be,[1] Cheers, -- jra [1]Anyone who wants to debate either half of this, change the subject line. :-) -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
