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Got a contingency plan for men with guns showing up at your cubicle and ordering you to re-route traffic to please the government?
Section 606 of the 1934 Communications Act provides for government takeover of wired and radio communication in the event of war or "other national emergency".
I'm not saying anything will happen in the next few days. Trump's state of emergency might be just talk. It might be limited to its stated purpose. It's rare for actual disasters to happen.
You've got a disaster recovery plan (DRP), though. If it's not in the next few days, a "national emergency" problem might show up sometime down the road. Does your DRP cover it?
It's hard to imagine a technical solution. This may require the company lawyer to prepare a [Layer 8] contingency plan in advance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:12AM (6 children)
FTFY
Capitalism has simply run out of places to expand to. If you want to keep it, we're going to need to see a lot more from the vaunted social-democrats.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Saturday January 12 2019, @01:19PM (5 children)
What's your lifespan again? Have we colonized the Solar System? Do we know everything there is to know? The answer to all of those is "no", right? That means that there's a lot of places "Capitalism" can be expanding to without much drama.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:39PM (4 children)
You're joking, right? As a former dues-paying, card-carrying Libertarian, I think I know quite a bit about capitalism. Your argument is that even if masses of people are living in poverty, barely able to make ends meet, without access to medical care in first world countries that are experiencing housing crises, we must be patient, because soon we'll all be able to live in ghettos on Mars and in impoverished sections of a city in the clouds on Venus! And when the same thing happens, we can send the deplorables in the working class out to Barnard's Star and Alpha Centauri!
Your argument is garbage.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @10:39PM
"As a former dues-paying, card-carrying Libertarian, I think I know quite a bit about capitalism."
What you think you know and what you actually do know seem to be very different things. Just saying.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 13 2019, @04:59AM (2 children)
Who again thinks that is a qualification for knowing about capitalism?
"If". Not much point to having such health care and other shinies, if they don't actually have it because their societies cease to be able to afford it. And you just listed a bunch of stuff that capitalism has a track record of improving. Need I add that elevating people out of poverty is another area that capitalism can and does grow from? For example, it's a huge portion of the economic growth of China and India.
BTW, I'm even more convinced than before that you don't have a clue about capitalism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @08:54PM (1 child)
Society is more than able to afford social programs. When it comes to the military-industrial complex, society is apparently able to find around $700,000,000,000 per year!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 14 2019, @05:00AM
The US already spends several times that on social programs. And those social programs are on track to consume every bit of taxable revenue within a few decades unless they're cut back.
I agree that a large reduction in US military spending is necessary, but I don't agree that it's going to cover the huge spending that people want for social programs. Even 100% redirection won't be able to do that.