Bush: "We want to make sure our radars work well"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040624-7.html

"Our economy is strong today. People are getting back to work. There's an excitement amongst the risk takers, and capital is moving. I'm confident it's going to get stronger as the days go on."

snip

"But we've also got to be competent in our trade policy. In order to be a nation of innovation, we've got to be willing to keep our markets open and insist that others open their markets to us. It's that free-flow of goods and services and ideas that will make sure America stays on the leading edge of technological change."

snip

" We need to get broadband to more Americans and so, therefore, I want to talk about two other ways to get broadband to the consumer. We need to use our power lines better. They go everywhere. It seems to make sense, doesn't it, if what you're looking for is avenues into the home. Well, electricity goes into the home. And so one great opportunity is to spread broadband throughout America via our power lines."

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"And so the problem with this kind of technology is that we can actually interfere with government uses, like radar. We want to make sure our radars work well. (Laughter.) And so we took the necessary steps to make sure these wireless broadband applications could work within the same spectrum as the government functions, without interference. It took some awfully smart people to figure that out. But you know something? Our government employs awfully smart people. And for those of you who have been working on this project, I want to thank you very much. It took some innovation. (Applause.)"

[Vickers]

1. He doesn't understand a fucking thing he said in that speech

I bet I could hold a Cisco router right in front of him, and he would think it was a goddam toaster oven. I bet I could hold a 5.7 GHz access point in front of him and he would think it was an alien death-ray.

[catzies]

3. Except for the subliminable message "Pass My Energy Bill"

a bill that is so bad, even a lapdog GOP congress won't pass it.

[CrispyQ]

7. If only it *was* an alien death ray!

Opps, take that back! That would make Cheney CIC. Oh wait, he already is CIC!



CIC = commander in chief

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. A man who does not read the newspaper...

...can read a speech on broadband from a teleprompter, but that doesn't necessarily mean he understands one word of it.

It was a L-O-N-G speech, too. "Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

:evilgrin:

[Medium Baby Jesus]

2. Idiot

Not you, him. :)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. Understood, and welcome to DU!!!

...anyone with a Zappa avatar is A-OK in my book. I salute you!

:toast:

[newyawker99]

18. Hi Bush_is_Evil!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Cocoa]

4. that's why the Clinton publicity will hurt Bush

people will be reminded that it's possible for a president to make sense.

[smirkymonkey]

5. It just blows my mind that someone so f**king

MORONIC is actually the f**king pResident of the United States.

Does anyone else feel like they are going mad?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

10. "Our government employs awfully smart people"...

...and I hope to God he wasn't including himself in that group.

:evilgrin:

[SpiralHawk]

20. If government employees are so wonderful

why is he doing all they can to eliminate themin favor of private, profit-making prisons, profit-making mercenary armies, and a dozen other responsibilities of government.

Are you talking out of both sides of your mouth again, Mr. AWOL?

BushCo does not have an inalienable right to exorpitant profits at the expense of American taxpayers.

[Skip Intro]

14. Yes, it is hard to believe this is all real

I feel exactly the same sometimes.

This doofy overgrown brat and his handlers are so over the top, just too absurd to be real - and what they've done to be as bad as it seems, that you begin to wonder if you haven't lost touch with reality. But you haven't, and its probably much worse than it seems (imagine what is still secret).

[Dekapo]

6. I'm not a risk "taker"

We want security.

[greenbriar]

11. oh god is he

really that dumb

[merh]

12. Is this what happened on 9/11 - radar wasn't working because of

broadband (at least is that what they want us to think?) And why did people laugh at that?

And so the problem with this kind of technology is that we can actually interfere with government uses, like radar. We want to make sure our radars work well (Laughter.) And so we took the necessary steps to make sure these wireless broadband applications could work within the same spectrum as the government functions, without interference.

[pinto]

13. He Who Hasn't Got A Clue, our President.

You see, electricity goes into the homes of America.

Now here's one light bulb with a low wattage setting

[gbwarming]

15. btw He's talking about pushing BPL, which WILL knock out foreign shortwave

Broadband Over Power lines will interfere with HF and shortwave broadcasting. They're pretending that it will bring broadband to rural areas (since they already have power lines), but the reality is that extra equipment needed at EVERY transformer will make the cost prohibitive.

If you live in the suburbs you might have the choice of BPL, cable or DSL - if you live in the sticks forget it. And Nobody will have the choice to hear alternative viewpoints from BBC, RCI, Deutsche Welle, etc.

BPL interference info:
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/
http://www.anarc.org/naswa/

FEMA also expressed concern that essential emergency communications systems would be impacted but then inexplicably withdrew their complaint.

[Nevernose]

16. This is his typically nonsensical response to JK's latest talking point.

[hatrack]

17. You mean smart people work for the gvt.? I thought government was BAD!!!

But look below the ham-fisted and utterly hypocritical surface of this little number and what do you see? Pure Dada. Bush is not just our first post-modern president, he's our first post-verbal president.

Astonishing excerpt - he's blowing his incoherent word salad over the smoking ruins of the English language like someone with a bad cocaine reaction projectile-vomiting and splattering the walls and ceiling in the process.

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. LOL... maybe he needs to buy one of my telecom courses

Oh man to listen to someone who has NO IDEA what it takes to carry a digital or analog signal from one place to another over a cable or carrier wave just makes me snicker.

Now I want to know which wireless application he means... is it:

GPRS
CDPD
cdmaOne
WAP
iMode
802.11b/g
802.16 WiMax...

Since all of these operate in either the 800-900 MHz or 1.8-2.3 Ghz band I have to wonder how they would interfere with our defensive radar. I wish someone would have asked him even a slightly detailed question.