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I'm not saying it can't be, I'm just confused on how a fridge compressor / motor can output that kind of power, enough to jam a celluar system. That is why I want some proof, just saying it happened isn't enough.

I can't imagine why you're so skeptical. A refrigerator, when running, can draw a couple kilowatts of power... If a non-trivial amount of that is leaking as RF, it could be jamming a huge swath of signals in the area, while running.

It doesn't take much to jam a signal... People regularly run into problems like their WiFi or OTA TV signals dropping out when they (or their neighbors) use their microwave. With weak/remote cellular signals, it would take very, very little local RF interference to cause problems.

This kind of thing happens all the time. A little bit of corrosion on a connection between a power line and a transformer, and you get all kinds of interference in the area.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060429014327/http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2004/10/17/news/top_story/gtsun01.txt

http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/british-digital-tv-box-sends-fake-sos-1007267.php

Well, at least the new reality show wave will be classy!

Of course, on that show, I think that the perks should be like, "You've won the challenge. You have your choice of not having to work Sunday, or some ammo clips for your AK 47."

Seriously, think of the ratings!

"I'm liable - wether I knew they uploaded it or not. "

There's more than a reasonable case made, ironically, by the DMCA that as long as YouTube follows DMCA takedown notices that there is a safe harbor in the law. Your opinion doesn't change that. Neither does mine, but what I can say is that Viacom be involved in a lot of lawsuits and seems to settle a lot:

http://www.dailyhaggis.com/2003/07/08/spike-lee-vs -spiketv-lawsuit-settled/
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070122/0206077.html
http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/lawsuit-between -vh1-and-liza-&-david-fizzles-an-end-1785.php
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB11704750557 2997191-E8lh6c1jyY_4v0U_jLlgu4YnUQk_20070210.html
http://play.tm/wire/click/185873
http://www.acls.org/exdab.htm
http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/24/stern-cbs-sirius- cx_gl_0524autofacescan12.html

Sometimes they even commit fraud:
http://www.legalnewsfeeds.com/RssFeed/newsDetailed .php?Category=Business-Litigation&ArticleID=513

I'm suggesting that Viacom sues regardless of their real legal position. They're a "sue first and then hash it out" company. I'm guess Google wins this after a judge strongly suggests the law is on Google's side.

I guess it's better to be confused with you than with Scott Long the singer, or the Scott Long from that stupid Big Brother show...

(1) Bush may have speech impediments, but so did Enoch and Moses. If you take the time to listen to Bush's message and see what he things and he feels, you'd be surprised at how absolutely brilliant he is.

Are you out of your mind? "Brilliant"? BRILLIANT? Have you ever actually listened to Bush? Speech "impediment" (if by "impediment" you don't mean it in the traditional sense-- ie, slurring, stuttering, lisping, etc.) aside, the man speaks only in soundbytes-- he says the same pre-cooked phrases over and over. He does not respond directly to challenging questions. He does not provide thoughtful answers. He is smug. There is no clarity of thought and he does not demonstrate any depth or familiarity with issues. He repeats the same surface slogans again and again and again. GENIUS? Are you mad?

According to biblical tradition,

One traditional story tells that when he was a child, sitting on Pharaoh's knee, Moses took the crown off of Pharaoh's head and put it on. The court magicians took this as a bad sign and demanded that he be tested: they put a brazier full of gold and a brazier full of hot coals before him to see which he would take. If Moses took the gold, he would have to be killed. An angel guided Moses's hand to the coal, and he put it into his mouth, leaving him with a life-long speech impediment (Ex. 4:10).

Unlike Moses, Bush wore his gold crown on his head and a silver spoon in his mouth from the day he was born and hasn't yet taken it off. Look at the demeaning way he talks to people. I've literally seen him wipe his hands on other people's clothing. He's a prick.

Instead, you focus on his speech impediment and you can't get into his message.

He's a terrible speaker, we agree. But he also represent shallow self-serving, hypocritical, elitist, and compassionateless ideas.

To criticize Bush's critics for poking fun at his "speech impediment" is a serious underestimation of how and why he's going to lose this election, God willing.

(2) Sure, let Ashcroft speak. Maybe he can teach you a thing or two about real justice, how to end the racial divide and the cultural divide in America, how we can really change the tide of the sickening plague of divorce and marital problems and hopefully encourage people to get and stay married for the right reasons. I believe Ashcroft is one of the great visionaries on the cultural / religious debates. He is redefining what it means to be a religious, yet tolerant and just, public official.

Sometimes it's not worth responding to the insane, but because there's a chance impressionable children are reading, I guess I'll indulge you.

Explain to me-- where's the real justice in arresting and holding American citizens without trial or even representation for years? Where's the end of the cultural divide when innocent, loyal, and patriotic immigrants to this country are arrested and deported without any kind of due process? How has the "plague of divorce" been stemmed when Republican mouthpeice FOX promotes show after show that view exploiting marriage as entertainment, when at the same time Bush wants to amend our sacred Constitution so that two people who have love each other for years can't get married?

Where is the Republican outcry about the sanctity of marriage when Bush supporters get married on a whim in Las Vegas for the hell of it and then get annulled hours later?

You have no idea what the Republican party stands for, because you get all your information second-hand. We stand for racial equality.

Yeah right. While fighting affirmitive action. While fighting a living minimum wage so that people can raise their families. Who do you think you're fooling? If Republicans were concerned about racial

Trading Spouses, a which is a FOX ripoff of Wife Swapping. The mind boggles that someone would want to do that, but then again the entire reality TV phenomenon (which, if you notice, is getting further and further away from "reality"). But that should count as your reality show.

You can try Survivor, Baywatch or the The Simple Life

Or maybe it's targeted at Queers: they have more style than us straight guys.

Heh heh, surfing the web and basically wasting my life away, I stumbled across the horribly mentally disfigured and monsterous Omarosa. Apparently, she didn't win the Apprentice, but she did win the title of the only Intern Clinton refused to sleep with. "Jesus, you're gross! Get the hell off me!" the President was quoted as saying.

And I would also put money that she's the reason the hapless Democrats crumbled into impotent nothingness after a decade of being on top politically.

This is why estate taxes originally came about. The government was extremely worried that a de-facto aristocracy would form out of the money that Industrialists were accumulating. So in order to prevent assets from endlessly collecting interest, they decreed that a large percentage of an individual's wealth would return to society upon death. This would also ensure that, at some point, SOMEone would have to work to bring more money in. Not exactly what one would call a fair system, but since Rockefellers and Kennedys do not own GE and Microsoft today, I would have to call it a partial success.

Now just recently estate taxes were repealed by the fiscal conservatives. Will this finally tip the scale to the point where wealth can endlessly create more wealth, so meritous, hard-working individuals like Ally Hilfiger can entertain us with their priviledge? Our children will find out!

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