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And I cannot wait to learn who really shot down MH 17.

I usually don't take sides, but it must be the side who doesn't let anybody else approach and destroys the evidence?

I wonder which side that would be, the separatists apparently not.

Just the fact that you don't use sarcasm quotes on the word leak leads me to believe that what you read was most likely quoting directly from the original (and creative) Daily Fail beat up.

Realise that when people talk about useful idiots, they are talking about you! Wake up and smell the coffee, don't make it worse by getting angry with Science, make it better by getting angry at the people who are using you to squeeze the nuts of your local congress critter.

Posted anonymously - no need to thank me for the education.

I don't have time for a full writeup, but read for some reasonable info. This is intended for areas where the user density is very low, so low that the users are at significantly different angles from the base station, and multiple steered beams can be sent to different users at the same time. They can get about a 6x gain in capacity that way.

The "reuse of analog" simply means that existing VHF antennas at the user end will work. This is useful, because in remote areas, people already have big towers with fixed antennas pointing in the right direction. The base station antennas change drastically, the modulation scheme changes, the user interface boxes are new. Only the user end antennas remain. But that's the item that's a pain to replace in the field.

The guy behind this is a serious RF guy, worth listening to. He can probably make this work.

Some would argue that the proper language of any country is the language spoken by the people there. And the correct form of writing is the form that people choose, whether that is by means of exotic spelling, ideographs or petroglyhs.

Now, for a refreshingly different form of English (-ish), see:

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/tokpisin/

The minimum wage in American Samoa used to be less than the standard Federal rate, but that is changing now.

On the other hand, the recent recovery bill allows American Samoa tuna canners special tax breaks.

We (Western nations) should just bite the bullet and install fibre. The theoretical limit of data transfer over fibre is far in excess of what we can reach now, so a good fibre network would serve the country for decades.

Correct. This is what the Australian federal government has recently announced.

Good on them, the damn socialists!

turn landfill into oil?

I wouldn't source People's Daily Online

ok, how about these:

Philippines guilty of violations: forum
Independent tribunal probes Philippines killings
Obama Says US Should Monitor Killings in RP