I mean no offense to you or your line of work, I am in the same boat. I followed. I am happy where I am at. I know where I want to be and work to get there.

Just like there are superstars in sports there are superstars in business. Whether they bring new products or innovation matters not, their drive is wholly different.

Now I know some will write it off to luck and yes, there are many cases of luck. Guess what, you don't get lucky not doing. You get lucky by trying, in some cases over and over and over.

Look at it this way, I would rather live in a system where there are untold riches for those who succeed. He isn't some politician deciding from up on high the winner or losers. He is deciding for himself and there are hundreds, if not thousands along for the ride. He created something many people value.

Some need that mythical pot of gold on the other side of the rainbow, others just feel the need to do. Which is he? Hell if I know. I don't have the drive but am quite happy to be in their world.

http://www.georgiainjurylawblog.com/archives/bus-accidents-cobb-county-uses-school-bus-cameras-to-catch-errant-drivers-prevent-accidents.html

Cobb County has the second largest fleet of school buses in Georgia. The mere thought that nearly a thousand people don't obey the lights on a school bus each day is hard to believe. Hopefully they will release statistics to show how many people they are photographing.

Second story, reported two violations per day under manual system
http://mdjonline.com/pages/full_story/push?article-School+officials+still+having+issues+with+bus+stop+cameras%20&id=15410211

Cobb County bus stats
Transportation Department
at a glance...

        913 Bus Drivers
        148 Bus Monitors
        845 Conventional Buses
        275 Special Needs Buses
        813 Routes per day
        41,978 Bus Stops per day
        72,181 Miles Traveled per day
        75,642 Students Transported each day

so you figure, if people won't respect school buses I betcha that San Fran certainly has problems with parking or violating bus lanes

he busted his ass getting to where he is. Instead of bemoaning a setback it probably caused him to try again, if not harder and smarter. You won't find the likes of him posting to some website bitching about how things aren't fair, how he don't get his fair share, how others should be giving he stuff, and so on and so on.

The biggest barrier to success in this country is yourself. The second biggest barrier is the government at all levels, the third is your competition. Money comes in somewhere on this list, not much further down.

You end up there by doing. This means that you put in many weeks if not years of ridiculous hours. You do it with a clear goal in mind. You compare your current position to your goal at all times and you make decisions on what to do next based on that.

See my tag, if you live comparing yourself to others you will never be happy.

Green is a buzzword. It has traction. It shows "they care".

When your totally out of ideas you start a buzzword blitz. In other words, find the guys who came up with this at NASA and show them the door. They obviously have nothing better to do.

but they have so convoluted the process that its impossible to follow what they are doing. Worse they now like to pass laws where the actions are decided by groups not yet formed thereby circumventing the action, penalty, and enforcement, parts of many laws.

in the first place.

oh I did it didn't I

have you seen the number of stories floating about talking about how primitive, out of touch, our Constitution is.

As in, its getting in their way more and more and they really don't like it. Worse, there are people in our country clamoring for stricter adherence to it.

Truly, if nothing makes a carrier more obsolete is a weapon that can hit one where there will likely be no practical defense. Is any surface ship safe from such a weapon? Yes I know you can definitely pilot an evasive course but you have to know your being attacked before you can do that.

So how many years before a surface fleet is rendered obsolete? All the quotes in the article about giving sailors more options and precision are too easily reversed.

Our building in is in a very hilly area which means your coverage is pretty bad. As in there are roads higher than us because of the landscape. I can watch cars drive at an elevation higher than us.

So we had the building wired by one of the wireless companies with repeaters. When two of them went out in one area it was battery life hell. From going the whole work day to dead right after lunch.

I would love to know why they spend so much time looking, aren't they smart enough to know their location isn't changing often

this is not just a trait of those in one region of the world, though living in constant threat of your life from your government and those around you does tend to spur innovation. Even Slashdot has been replete with stories of people creating their own drones, shooting off rockets, and the like.

The difference comes down to scale and integration. Anyone can put up a model plane and find things they are supposed to find. Now, having the ability to do so in varied weather conditions, varied terrains, and coordinate the search and response with related elements is there the process bogs down. It bogs down because of dependencies, something this contest did not cover. (Besides there is a good number of small drones out there in the hands of many countries)

The are two messages here. First, smart and innovative exist world wide, and second the pace and spread of technology is outstripping the ability for many people to comprehend.

Well there is a third reason, Iran's government needs to impress. Impress their own people more than others btw.