The 2G Scam: which was the real scam?!

so the government wanted to auction the spectrum and rake in tons of money.. Raja let the mobile companies buy it cheap..BUT
- what right did the government have to auction the spectrum anyway? Surely it is a public good - like air.. tomorrow, if the government wants to auction off rights to air, will we stand for it?
- the government has every right, indeed duty, to regulate the spectrum, but to sell it? Don't we pay taxes already, for them to do the job of regulation?
- if Raja had in fact sold the spectrum for much more, guess who would have paid for it, in the end? You and me, of course - the carriers would have just passed on the costs to us in the form of higher rates.. it would have been just one more tax on mobile use - why should there be any?
- perhaps Raja saved us all from this completely illegitimate tax!
- which was the scam in the first place? trying to sell us something they had no right to sell?

Rain, the US Open and Project Management

Now that rain has washed out wo days of tennis at the US Open, the USTA is left with no good options - there are still 4 rounds to play, and only 4 days to play them in.

which brings me to mind of a simple rule of project management: when you put up your project plan, assue that things will happen which you cannot predict or control.. set aside buffers for them AT THE END of the project timeline..

what the USTA should have done is, in the original scheduling, kept Thursday and Friday free of the main events like the Men's and Women's singles, filled them up with doubles, veterans', juniors and whatnot - then they would still have some options..

all life is a project...!