| Redundancy. It ultimately equates with security -- including national security. A reason we keep the older water navigation beacons active. These people in DC, many of them seem to have absolutely no technological comprehension. Nor basic systems understanding. Not just in technology, but in accounting, agriculture -- essentially all sustaining human endeavors: You create and foster and innovate redundancies. Because shit breaks. Nature is "fickle". People are selfish. And you want to survive these things. Finally, when you do transition to newer systems (and hopefully, newer redundancies), you want to have an orderly wind-down and transition. Something the Washington buffoons also ignore, these days. For people who claim to espouse "business", they demonstrate surprisingly little respect for a predictable, planful business -- or other -- environment. Yes, there are always surprises -- including the inherent surprises of discovery and disruption. But, it'd be nice to leave businesses and agencies capacity to focus on these, instead of endlessly jerking them around with whiplash policy changes and politically motivated jack-in-the-box initiatives. |