http://72.10.34.174/vss/2006/12/system-vulnerability-in-iraq/ An ARC Collaboration Thu, 20 May 2010 03:21:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://72.10.34.174/vss/2006/12/system-vulnerability-in-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Stephen Collier Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:55:59 +0000 http://anthropos-lab.net/vss/2006/12/system-vulnerability-in-iraq/#comment-4 The same thing was endemic in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. People were poor, so they stripped all kinds of things. Electric wire was a particularly dangerous option. One mayor told me that a few people died every year in his town trying to steal it. They would also try to steal the aluminum roofs off of Dachas to sell for scrap. In Georgia, informants told me, virtually the entire heating system of the capital city Tblisi was stolen and sold for scrap in Turkey. The same thing was endemic in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. People were poor, so they stripped all kinds of things. Electric wire was a particularly dangerous option. One mayor told me that a few people died every year in his town trying to steal it. They would also try to steal the aluminum roofs off of Dachas to sell for scrap. In Georgia, informants told me, virtually the entire heating system of the capital city Tblisi was stolen and sold for scrap in Turkey.

]]> http://72.10.34.174/vss/2006/12/system-vulnerability-in-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-3 ckelty Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:32:05 +0000 http://anthropos-lab.net/vss/2006/12/system-vulnerability-in-iraq/#comment-3 Wonderful! Just recently, a similar problem has started to affect Houston--with different and thankfully less disastrous effects-- <a href="http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou061214_jj_copperthiefs.d48398c.html" rel="nofollow"> this story</a> and <a href="http://blogs.chron.com/woodlands/archives/2006/09/construction_th.html" rel="nofollow">this one</a> are about the theft of copper wire and the fact that it is messing with housing prices, and hence with all-powerful developers' willingness to build in certain areas. Wonderful! Just recently, a similar problem has started to affect Houston–with different and thankfully less disastrous effects–
this story and this one are about the theft of copper wire and the fact that it is messing with housing prices, and hence with all-powerful developers’ willingness to build in certain areas.

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