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To: Bear_in_RoseBear; Corin Stormhands

Yes. the DVD has two endings. The 'alternate' one was the one where [she] lives.

But that wasn't the part that ticked me off. It was the german mole that ticked me off.


3,834 posted on 09/15/2005 8:17:25 PM PDT by Ramius (Blades for war fighters: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net)
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To: Ramius
Heh, to tell you the truth, I haven't seen it since it was first broadcast. All of the moles, double-agents, terrorists, and world-threatening plots start to run together after four seasons...
3,836 posted on 09/15/2005 8:22:58 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear ("Usually we try to go break things. Here we're trying to fix things." --Gen. Honore 09/07 press conf)
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To: Ramius

This is off topic... but an interesting thing was said the other day, if any of you saw the [discovery channel?] show called "Grounded"... about 9/11 and the air traffic controllers and airlines and the scramble to get over 4,500 airplanes on the ground all across the country. I thought it was a pretty well-done show.

But there was an interesting thing they said, in the "planning is overrated" department.

Nobody, but nobody had ever really contemplated any such order ever happening. There was no plan. There was no set of guidelines. Nothing. YET-- they all managed to get it done in only about three hours. Not one accident, no midairs, no real problems at all except of course some inconvenience for people suddenly stuck in the wrong city.

It was masterful, when you think about it. More interesting yet-- the 9/11 commission started down the road of establishing a committee to design some plans and rules and guidelines should it ever need to be ordered again.

Then a totally astonishing thing happened. Somebody... some unnamed staffer in some unnamed meeting, piped up on the conference call and said something to the effect of "how about we *don't* do it". His point was that rulebooks and plans and procedures and protocols were *manifestly* unnecessary on 9/11. In fact, having such encumbrances probably would have merely gotten many people killed. If people can hide behind a plan and procedure they will. It was the seat-of-pants creativity and damn-it-just-do-it-because-I-said-so attitude that really made it work.

And, miracle of miracles... the commission abandoned any effort to build such a plan.

Pretty cool. IMHO. :-)


3,838 posted on 09/15/2005 8:39:38 PM PDT by Ramius (Blades for war fighters: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net)
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