We know that it won't be ready (on the Mississippi Gulf Coast) for this hurricane season, and there probably won't be anything in place for next hurricane season. This is a huge undertaking, and there are curves ahead yet that we don't see.

We're looking at doing a convenience contract with a vendor to work with the governance structure (on the Coast). Because this (statewide) system isn't going to be available this summer and probably not next, we need to have a good plan for how we can use what we already have.

The bond money at the state level would be enough to get us started on a good, solid, statewide system but not to finish it.

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think the unstoppable juggernaut which is global warming demonstrates that processing natural materials on an industrial scale is a suicidal practice.

I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected.

In a sense, there is no such thing as a bargain in computing. Models which are popular sell for the price they are supposed to fetch for the best part of their product cycle.