[austechwriter] Re: OT: How To...

Hi there George,

Thanks for the report. On the face of it that does look scary but it's not
so bad. NSW's powergrid is pretty bad, some areas often have outages and I
just saw a report in a newspaper which says Western Sydney will have
continuous outages in the future due to problems with power. Important sites
have independent backups and UPS. I think we could manage through that.

It's a while since I've been to the centre but I think terrorists would look
very obvious hanging round in places like Katherine, Woomera and Ceduna.
Most small towns in the centre are Anglo-white and Aboriginal black, an Arab
face would stand out.

Severing communications between east and west might be bad for the west but
not really for the east and not really for the economy. Despite the mineral
wealth in the west, most of the Australian economy happens in the east.

The information about the oil and gas pipelines around Melbourne might be
scary, it could burn the town hurting friends I value. Someone from
Melbourne might be able to tell you how they would cope with that.

I also think our troops would keep fighting as long as the government
undertook to look after their families and I think it probably would. Our
prime minister would lose votes if he didn't.

I think we do need to be on guard against terrorism and I appreciate your
sending the report but if terrorists wanted to destroy Australia, these are
probably not the ways.

Hope things are going well for you.

Michelle

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Mena" <George.Mena@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:42 AM
Subject: [austechwriter] OT: How To...


> This link takes you to the daily newsletter of the US State Department's
> Overseas Security Advisory Council -- and to a rather disturbing story:
>
> http://www.ds-osac.org/view.cfm?key=7E445D4B4556&type=2B170C1E0A3A0F162820
>
> George Mena
> Technical Lead/Sr. Technical Writer
> ESS Technology, Inc.
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> Fremont, CA USA 94538
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