Senior Leader Intransit Comfort Capsules

This is an instance of what happens when what should be a private corporation is constrained by an ancient hierarchical structure.

That said, Generals Robert H. McMahon, Duncan J. McNabb, Arthur J. Lichte, and Kenneth D. Merchant are all assholes and should be immediately fired.

18. July 2008 by Shlok Vaidya
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Vandergriff’s New Book

Here‘s a book I want to get an early copy of.  (B/C it would make a very interesting juxtoposition with Arquilla’s book. )

18. July 2008 by Shlok Vaidya
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Someone’s Diary

We lost control. Then the dampening factors in the global system gave out.  We were no longer able to absorb systemic shocks. There were no buffers. We saw this pattern replicate itself across food, energy, transportation, and financial networks.

15. July 2008 by Shlok Vaidya
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One SEI + San Fran’s Network

Pissed off, for no released reason, he cut the city off from its own network. Impressive.

15. July 2008 by Shlok Vaidya
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Going Solar In Baghdad

Elementary steps, which would have made sense in 2003. (Until coopted or destroyed.)

14. July 2008 by Shlok Vaidya
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