Re: US customs poor service

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:54:12 +1000, "ant"
<claimsagent_directives@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

JA_MORAN wrote:

I am a systems engineer and design things so there is not a single
point of failure, there are multiple network connections, multiple
switches
or routers, and also multiple servers in a cluster or load balanced
arangement.

I have noted, with some astonishment, that Americans generally are quite
poor at risk assessment and risk-mitigation. They are quite likely to allow
a system that can collapse with quite minor failures, and have no useful
contingency plans in place either.

If a catastrophe does happen, they all get very active, but actual results
are slow to emerge.

When I first noticed this, I was surprised but didn't quite believe it. But
repeated observations of the same thing confirmed this conclusion. I bet
I'm not the only one to have noted this.

I'm sure this moronic, simplistic generalization is based on just tons
of credible research, so post it for us.
.

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