On Apr 15, 2013, at 12:49 , Ann Sanfedele wrote:
> Watching the news here... :-(
> NOThing yet on cause of the explosions near end of the Marathon -
> not clear if intentional explosion or not
>
> ann (in NY)
I grew up in the area, Wellesley, and spent some years beside a table handing
out cups of water near the bottom of the hill leading down into Newton Lower
Falls. My Dad worked at a laboratory out in Hopkinton, so I've been there at
the start, even before it was staggered. (1953-1961)
I was watching TV after my lunch at home when the news came over about this
tragedy. And there I stayed for most of the afternoon until Defiance came on
SyFy at 6PM PDT. I was shocked.
My feelings have ranged between disgust at the act, prayers for those injured
or otherwise involved, and more disgust at the stupidity of those who feed us
the news. I knew enough to pay little attention to the blather and statistics,
but instead do my photo-intelligence of the images they were running over and
over.
Media should have people in the studio watching these raw snippets for content
and feeding the visual content in context to the talking heads. Todays talking
heads were rarely fed, nor did they see, the video that they were talking over.
This led to them stumbling over their words, disagreeing with what was before
our eyes on the other side of the glass.
It takes many hours in ANY unstable emergency situation for the actual
statistics to unfold and be passed on to the news-hounds. And a day or more
before announcements can be made that take heed of those involved. A week or
more before the timeline of events is discerned.
All of you in the Boston area were on my mind, along with dozens more from my
mis-spent youth, including a few old girlfriends. :)
Now, coming in to the computer room and scrolling through and reading all of
your outpouring of love and concern regards this tragedy reminds me once more
why I hang on, knowing that my blather is already shuffled unread to some junk
files here and there. :)
Sleep well tonight. Tomorrow the Washington Lawmakers are to debate and vote on
a bill that wants to take away no small part of our online, and other, freedoms
of privacy from the Man. It's called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing &
Protection Act (CISPA) and it's aiming to allow the Man to get information on
any one without a warrant. BigBigBusiness has flooded D.C. with Execs pandering
up to the powers that be talking cooperation. They think it's a good idea.
I don't know enough about it personally, only what the resistance posts. I
believe the majority would feel dis-inclined to have all our communications
available to those who have no good use for it. There are plenty of legal
pathways between suspicion and broad-scale ELINT collection for the
supercomputers that are tasked to sort out our quirks. Probably have a field
day with the last three paragraphs. :)
Loves ya ALL!
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
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