Scalpers are people who buy something at retail, turn around and sell it at retail for a huge markup, preventing other retail purchasers from buying at the merchant-set rate and intentionally causing scarcity issues [redundant, ed.]. Think tickets for concerts, or the shortages of Wiis and PS3s when those first released.
That would be a rare animal---a.k.a., super-efficient scalper maximus, or Ticketmaster. They're in a league of their own.
Before you flippantly retort, I said, they're in a league of their own. Contrast your example as an etude.
Apropos, let's not exaggerator the effect of these zhonguo ren scalpers.
> Just SMS the name of the business to 46645 (googl) with your non-smart > phone and get similar results messaged back
Google SMS is not as good as it once was! I used it constantly in 2006 and 2007, perhpas early 2008 for all sorts of useful, accurate, fuzzy searches, the stuff you can do with Google Maps but fast. To wit:
* lowes in 10038 * starbucks in 07310 * old navy in 07020 * ducati dealer near metuchen nj
and I immediately received 2, 3 invariably USEFUL texts that I could peruse for proximity, preference. This was prior to smartphone wide adoption. It could have well have been or be for renegade, anti-materialist, unemployed, frugality reasons. However, Google's results began to go absent, un-fuzzy, useless. I was standing on Eight Avenue near Garfield Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn when I once again needed home supplies and tried the above first search. No results! I wasted ten minutes on the street, eight to ten texts to see why I could not get useful results that I knew Google had; it was a regular search for me then. I was so frsutrated as I needed the information, my Garmin unit's DB was incompltete on this topic, I already knew, and Google's results were always fresh AND proximitous if I used a zip code. It turned out that if I used the local Lowe's (home supply) mailing zip code I would get a result! I had to know of its existence and location to receive Goog's result. Unreal! Mind you even searching for Brooklyn, NY gave no results---they have one, as I should have already made concrete.
Emblematically this state of affairs was typical for the next two years and I gave up on Google SMS to their detriment.
Google411 in my experience was like speaking to a dense human, I would shout at it in despair. It would not understand a spoken zip code location, you would have to type it upon its bork. Then would have to repeat search object. Then it would launch into results, which upon selection would dash to dial unwantedly, which upon the command of "next result" would bail to a new search, etc. *sigh* You had to learn its dense syntax, fine, but its frequent aborts, forced repetition, forced repetition, was is grating. Hasta la vista! That's as far as I have wanted to get to it in years, line-of-sight only..
Anyway, use the MS alternative it is less grating, just as (more) useful and Google's loss is the monopolist's gain. Whatevers.
> The really sad part is that I've heard people say Muslims shouldn't have
> constitutional rights ("they are the enemy"), even if they were natural-born Americans.
So, IVF and caesarian babies are rightfully excluded? Native, na-ti-ve born, babe.
> [...] guys is doing is indeed illegal, but not immoral [...]
That's for a court of law to decide; ahem! His actions can best be described sans adjudication as "extralegal."
Not facilely, as you might be tempted to retort, an apropos aphorism is "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Alternatively known as "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
> Google used to use Navteq, which for where I lived provided very > accurate and up to date data. Ever since they switched to Teleatlas, > it was a step backwards.
This switch of mapping companies has been going on for, what? circa 10, 14 months? Something like that. I read somewhere, and have surmised that the switch was for cost reasons, and or not to aid a competitor. Although I can't recollect how that is precisely so. NavTeq's owned by Nokia, something ties in there somewhere.
Toll road information was the !most! glaring drawback from the switch to Teleatlas. The New Jersey Turnpike corridor (I-95 in NJ) was for six plus months _not_ marked as a toll-road! So was the Garden State Parkway, your road. But did you notice that concurrent to this change that a "Report a problem" link was added to lower-right corner of the map? It was. Seems to me Google wanted the lower rates, or the right to keep its own users' maps changes, or not pay, or license over to Teleatlas those valuable near omniscient user changes. Those changes and additions are of great value to me, and to Google's properties' services I have no doubt. They are a an impressive differentiator over Mapquest (a site with SUPERIOR routing algorithms), and MS Maps offerings.
IOW, as I see the Google calculation was: Yes the change of mapping company hurts us, our accuracy, but our users (little minions?) will fix the errors in short order, so let's add an error reporting link shortcut in the map itself. Prior to that the error link was several clicks away, or on the upper top near the print link (not a prime real estate location) maps screen. I don't subscribe to the "oh! the sky is falling, Google's now evil because they captured some fractional wifi data; because they make cellphones; etc." histrionics but, man, I use Google Maps with a vengeance so this 'development', evolution sours me with Google. *sigh*
> This is just another nail in the coffin for Motorola, who becomes more > and more irrelevant every year,
This is simply not true. You must be thinking of Nokia (put away your N900 sallies please). Motorola's trajectory for the past couple of years and the short to medium future is rising and robust. They have latched onto Android, whilst finally jettisoning their clamshell, RZR daydreams. Read the financial pages, these guys are on the move.
WTF, are people here not thinking and not posting critically? As though real names are a solution. Lets' see there was in the past decade a college American Football player named Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, not the NBA legend mind you. I believe he is or was in the NFL after college. How about Clint Eastwood, no not the movie star but the Hindu naturalized USA citizen who changed his name to Clint Eastwood in the process, in the 1990s. Or Gene Simmons, or is that Jean Simmons? One's an asshole, the other just passed away, was British, was in a great movie you might've heard of, "The Ten Commandments." Besides, drek will still be posted, libelous drek will just have a name, what would change except a little work for the lawyers. What facebook'ers are shy about their menses, lays, or dramas or they don't stopped reading newspapers, at'all. Yeah right.
Whathe!No correlationisnotcausation keyword from the masses?
Attention summary poster, current user is not necessarily the thief. How about possibilities?
+ lost again + sold + pawned + pawned then sold + lost again then pawned then sold + gifted + lost again then gifted + lost again then gifted then sold...
See? I can go on on forever but you should be enlightened just about now.
>> "Own your own stuff" - Joan Jett... > Also notable: Mick Jagger, London School of Economics '63.
Apropos, I contemporaneously read a ~1976-?1979 Rolling Stone article as a child whilst bored out of mind, somewhere (then as now, unimpressive writing, over-hyped boomer scheisse yes), on the Rolling Stones. It examined how they were defrauded, by their former (money?/financial?/lawyer?) manager I believe, and how they were still paying, literally the consequences. Something to the effect that they did not own their royalties but that the manager owned them, received them, and it was legally unchallengeable. Ownership to several records or a vast amount of their theretofore oeuvre.
The article had to had been prior to 1979 as Thatcherism would've solved, ameliorated the other chord of the piece. At the zenith of fame, adulation, which would continue for decades they were a facade of wealth. Their personal fortunes were a pittance, discordant from their enormous album sales and touring incomes. They were being eaten alive by the exorbitant taxes of their times and their citizenship and, or incorporation. You might not remember, I remember the silliest stuff ("we fought for nothing in Vietnam," "we're running out of petroleum", Mr. Goodbar craze), I do not know why, yet I don't in detail remember early childhood vacations, friends. They were lambasted at the time for being unpatriotic, arrogant, avaricious; they incorporated in the Caribbean, I think---and became rich!
In the early 2000s I saw on MTV/VH1? Behind the Music? Keith Richards broaching this subject (I think I remember it said that they do not own the royalties, as I said, to Satisfacion, etc. Yes, that fundamentally, cool, kewl Stones' scheisse is not theirs! Guao!). Questioner: so X screwed you on Y how do you feel about it now? Keith Richards: That was a long time ago. You can't hang on to that, it'll eat you from the inside. ***I look at it as `the price of an education.'***"
Since I found 1970s punk band "The Avengers" in the early '80s and listened to their "the avengers died for your sins"[1] Paint It Black by the Stones I learned to respect the Stones and was primed to realize the treasure that is Keith Richards, a rhythm guitarist, a composer, and a lyricist. When I heard that essence refracted through the prism of Penelope Houston's furious canto I was given an education that is still paying off. We all get it somewhere. But I remember where mine truly began, riding through Long Island somewhere listening over and over again on my Walkman(R) to Penelope Houston, Danny Furious, Greg Ingraham, Brad Kunt, Jimmy Wilsey.
But, Jagger's degree wasn't of much of help to them for at least the 1960s and 1970s, although by the 1990s, 2000s I read they coldly, brusquely, nakedly used their considerable heft to realpolitik, as it were, their way to venues, contracts, marketing that they claimed as their rightful desserts. I still love Richards but I don't hold to anyone's reins with unexamined appreciation. My last Stone's album that I dig is Tattoo You, and T&A is just sunshine when I remember the tune and lyrics when the Lords of terrestrial radio programmed Start Me up, aka the Windows95 marketing song.
True: When Jagger was informed that Bill Gates wanted permission/rights to Start Me up for the campaign Jagger annoyed with whomever was this Bill Gates and disdainfully, fuckoffedly uttered, tell him it's eight million dollars! When Jagger was informed of the response he was incredulous, "OK, says Bill Gates" he was informed, he quickly inquired who the hell was Bill Gates and what he sold, and why dumbly he hadn't asked for more. Checkit.
And look at me your mom
Squatting pissed in a tube-
hole at Tottenham Court Road
I just come out of the ship
Talking to the most
Blonde I ever met
Shouting
Lager lager lager lager
Shouting
Lager lager lager lager
Shouting
Lager lager lager lager
Shouting...
Lager lager lager
Shouting
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega
Shouting lager lager lager lager
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
So many things to see and do
In the tube hole true
Blonde going back to Romford
Mega mega mega going back to Romford
Hi mom are you having fun
On you are you on your way
To a new tension
headache
Kewl, good to know. I think the over packaging is a psychological gambit. You pay 50, 100 dollars for a widget that is just data or something trivial to produce, but if it comes in this colossus packaging you tend to ignore just how thoroughly you're being gouged.
Now, if that trick worked on women and engagement rings it'd be all profit! ^.^
> Not only that, but he decided that during the weekend before patch Tuesday.
WTF? Is CBP 5 days? Where is it written that it's 5 -business days-? Shoot, make sure that it's 5 non Jewish Holiday business days maybe, too, if reporting bugs in New York? Are Christian Holidays OK? If so why? I have some Pagan Holidays coming, how about them? Do they count? How about El Malaguena, count or no count? Ahhh, fuckit, how about we make it 5 days, that should cover weekends, holidays and the like. Why don't they do that, ah, wait, but they did.
I dig the sound, adds to my fanaticism. I get jacked up when all the buzzing going on. Hey, it's every four years, man! Then again, I'd like to see numbers for futbol loving countries' acceptance rate. I'd wager that even in Europe the majority of fans love the sound. If not, I'd wager against it, I'm certain that Latin America, East Asia, South Asia, Africa can't see what all the hoopla is about!
Shoot, we've let's see, killed the referees -on the field- if we didn't like the calls; had hooliganism---with their concomitant murders via knifings, beatings, mainly in Europe I might say! (so much for European enlightenment, non warlike psyche; stampedes where dozens of fanatics have die per game, multiplied over years, make that decades, yes decades.
But hey, if the BBC and ESPN say a little exuberasism bothers their viewers, then, well off with their heads. Tempest in a teacup.
>>> >>>> What she got was yet another box for me to put in the chain between her television and the antenna attached to the pole shed. >>>>
Nowhere, Nebraska implies legacy - low power - VHF broadcast and UHF transponders.
Trash the old - likely decades old - antenna.
Mount a new one, designed for fringe area reception. Mount it high. Don't cut any corners. Work strictly by-the-book. If you aren't comfortable with heights, let a pro do the job.
Consider installing a very low-noise pre-amp.
>>>
D00d! I don't need the advice but if I had mod points I'd give them to you for the next month. This is what/. used to be---and I'll say it again for the deluded moderators---you fucking suck, blow me.
Slashdot Mirror
Scalpers are people who buy something at retail, turn around and sell it at retail for a huge markup, preventing other retail purchasers from buying at the merchant-set rate and intentionally causing scarcity issues [redundant, ed.]. Think tickets for concerts, or the shortages of Wiis and PS3s when those first released.
That would be a rare animal---a.k.a., super-efficient scalper maximus, or Ticketmaster. They're in a league of their own.
Before you flippantly retort, I said, they're in a league of their own. Contrast your example as an etude.
Apropos, let's not exaggerator the effect of these zhonguo ren scalpers.
> Just SMS the name of the business to 46645 (googl) with your non-smart
> phone and get similar results messaged back
Google SMS is not as good as it once was! I used it constantly in 2006 and 2007, perhpas early 2008 for all sorts of useful, accurate, fuzzy searches, the stuff you can do with Google Maps but fast. To wit:
* lowes in 10038
* starbucks in 07310
* old navy in 07020
* ducati dealer near metuchen nj
and I immediately received 2, 3 invariably USEFUL texts that I could peruse for proximity, preference. This was prior to smartphone wide adoption. It could have well have been or be for renegade, anti-materialist, unemployed, frugality reasons. However, Google's results began to go absent, un-fuzzy, useless. I was standing on Eight Avenue near Garfield Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn when I once again needed home supplies and tried the above first search. No results! I wasted ten minutes on the street, eight to ten texts to see why I could not get useful results that I knew Google had; it was a regular search for me then. I was so frsutrated as I needed the information, my Garmin unit's DB was incompltete on this topic, I already knew, and Google's results were always fresh AND proximitous if I used a zip code. It turned out that if I used the local Lowe's (home supply) mailing zip code I would get a result! I had to know of its existence and location to receive Goog's result. Unreal! Mind you even searching for Brooklyn, NY gave no results---they have one, as I should have already made concrete.
Emblematically this state of affairs was typical for the next two years and I gave up on Google SMS to their detriment.
Google411 in my experience was like speaking to a dense human, I would shout at it in despair. It would not understand a spoken zip code location, you would have to type it upon its bork. Then would have to repeat search object. Then it would launch into results, which upon selection would dash to dial unwantedly, which upon the command of "next result" would bail to a new search, etc. *sigh* You had to learn its dense syntax, fine, but its frequent aborts, forced repetition, forced repetition, was is grating. Hasta la vista! That's as far as I have wanted to get to it in years, line-of-sight only..
Anyway, use the MS alternative it is less grating, just as (more) useful and Google's loss is the monopolist's gain. Whatevers.
1-800-555-TELL
http://www.tellme.com/you
> The really sad part is that I've heard people say Muslims shouldn't have
> constitutional rights ("they are the enemy"), even if they were natural-born Americans.
So, IVF and caesarian babies are rightfully excluded? Native, na-ti-ve born, babe.
> [...] guys is doing is indeed illegal, but not immoral [...]
That's for a court of law to decide; ahem! His actions can best be described sans adjudication as "extralegal."
Not facilely, as you might be tempted to retort, an apropos aphorism is "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Alternatively known as "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
> TSA extended the definition of box cutters to include _nail clippers_
I stopped taking you seriously after this. TSA stopped banning these years ago.
> Google used to use Navteq, which for where I lived provided very
> accurate and up to date data. Ever since they switched to Teleatlas,
> it was a step backwards.
This switch of mapping companies has been going on for, what? circa 10, 14 months? Something like that. I read somewhere, and have surmised that the switch was for cost reasons, and or not to aid a competitor. Although I can't recollect how that is precisely so. NavTeq's owned by Nokia, something ties in there somewhere.
Toll road information was the !most! glaring drawback from the switch to Teleatlas. The New Jersey Turnpike corridor (I-95 in NJ) was for six plus months _not_ marked as a toll-road! So was the Garden State Parkway, your road. But did you notice that concurrent to this change that a "Report a problem" link was added to lower-right corner of the map? It was. Seems to me Google wanted the lower rates, or the right to keep its own users' maps changes, or not pay, or license over to Teleatlas those valuable near omniscient user changes. Those changes and additions are of great value to me, and to Google's properties' services I have no doubt. They are a an impressive differentiator over Mapquest (a site with SUPERIOR routing algorithms), and MS Maps offerings.
IOW, as I see the Google calculation was: Yes the change of mapping company hurts us, our accuracy, but our users (little minions?) will fix the errors in short order, so let's add an error reporting link shortcut in the map itself. Prior to that the error link was several clicks away, or on the upper top near the print link (not a prime real estate location) maps screen. I don't subscribe to the "oh! the sky is falling, Google's now evil because they captured some fractional wifi data; because they make cellphones; etc." histrionics but, man, I use Google Maps with a vengeance so this 'development', evolution sours me with Google. *sigh*
> This is just another nail in the coffin for Motorola, who becomes more
> and more irrelevant every year,
This is simply not true. You must be thinking of Nokia (put away your N900 sallies please). Motorola's trajectory for the past couple of years and the short to medium future is rising and robust. They have latched onto Android, whilst finally jettisoning their clamshell, RZR daydreams. Read the financial pages, these guys are on the move.
> heart and minds
Old nomenclature. "Trust and confidence" is the official new.
WTF, are people here not thinking and not posting critically? As though real names are a solution. Lets' see there was in the past decade a college American Football player named Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, not the NBA legend mind you. I believe he is or was in the NFL after college. How about Clint Eastwood, no not the movie star but the Hindu naturalized USA citizen who changed his name to Clint Eastwood in the process, in the 1990s. Or Gene Simmons, or is that Jean Simmons? One's an asshole, the other just passed away, was British, was in a great movie you might've heard of, "The Ten Commandments." Besides, drek will still be posted, libelous drek will just have a name, what would change except a little work for the lawyers. What facebook'ers are shy about their menses, lays, or dramas or they don't stopped reading newspapers, at'all. Yeah right.
> slashdot probably wins by an order of magnitude.
No-no, babe, you mean: An udder of magnitude. That's at least three teats usually, a thousand fold sounds about right, typically.
(Obvious (missing!)) keyword: kowtow
> Even Duct Tape was involves in the testing,
Use clear nail polish. Invisible, free (always some around, your gf's, your Mom's, sister's, coworker's), reversible, svelte, lean.
Whathe!No correlationisnotcausation keyword from the masses?
Attention summary poster, current user is not necessarily the thief. How about possibilities?
+ lost again ...
+ sold
+ pawned
+ pawned then sold
+ lost again then pawned then sold
+ gifted
+ lost again then gifted
+ lost again then gifted then sold
See? I can go on on forever but you should be enlightened just about now.
Wha! No imlegend keyword.
>> "Own your own stuff" - Joan Jett ...
> Also notable: Mick Jagger, London School of Economics '63.
Apropos, I contemporaneously read a ~1976-?1979 Rolling Stone article as a child whilst bored out of mind, somewhere (then as now, unimpressive writing, over-hyped boomer scheisse yes), on the Rolling Stones. It examined how they were defrauded, by their former (money?/financial?/lawyer?) manager I believe, and how they were still paying, literally the consequences. Something to the effect that they did not own their royalties but that the manager owned them, received them, and it was legally unchallengeable. Ownership to several records or a vast amount of their theretofore oeuvre.
The article had to had been prior to 1979 as Thatcherism would've solved, ameliorated the other chord of the piece. At the zenith of fame, adulation, which would continue for decades they were a facade of wealth. Their personal fortunes were a pittance, discordant from their enormous album sales and touring incomes. They were being eaten alive by the exorbitant taxes of their times and their citizenship and, or incorporation. You might not remember, I remember the silliest stuff ("we fought for nothing in Vietnam," "we're running out of petroleum", Mr. Goodbar craze), I do not know why, yet I don't in detail remember early childhood vacations, friends. They were lambasted at the time for being unpatriotic, arrogant, avaricious; they incorporated in the Caribbean, I think---and became rich!
In the early 2000s I saw on MTV/VH1? Behind the Music? Keith Richards broaching this subject (I think I remember it said that they do not own the royalties, as I said, to Satisfacion, etc. Yes, that fundamentally, cool, kewl Stones' scheisse is not theirs! Guao!). Questioner: so X screwed you on Y how do you feel about it now? Keith Richards: That was a long time ago. You can't hang on to that, it'll eat you from the inside. ***I look at it as `the price of an education.'***"
Since I found 1970s punk band "The Avengers" in the early '80s and listened to their "the avengers died for your sins"[1] Paint It Black by the Stones I learned to respect the Stones and was primed to realize the treasure that is Keith Richards, a rhythm guitarist, a composer, and a lyricist. When I heard that essence refracted through the prism of Penelope Houston's furious canto I was given an education that is still paying off. We all get it somewhere. But I remember where mine truly began, riding through Long Island somewhere listening over and over again on my Walkman(R) to Penelope Houston, Danny Furious, Greg Ingraham, Brad Kunt, Jimmy Wilsey.
But, Jagger's degree wasn't of much of help to them for at least the 1960s and 1970s, although by the 1990s, 2000s I read they coldly, brusquely, nakedly used their considerable heft to realpolitik, as it were, their way to venues, contracts, marketing that they claimed as their rightful desserts. I still love Richards but I don't hold to anyone's reins with unexamined appreciation. My last Stone's album that I dig is Tattoo You, and T&A is just sunshine when I remember the tune and lyrics when the Lords of terrestrial radio programmed Start Me up, aka the Windows95 marketing song.
True: When Jagger was informed that Bill Gates wanted permission/rights to Start Me up for the campaign Jagger annoyed with whomever was this Bill Gates and disdainfully, fuckoffedly uttered, tell him it's eight million dollars! When Jagger was informed of the response he was incredulous, "OK, says Bill Gates" he was informed, he quickly inquired who the hell was Bill Gates and what he sold, and why dumbly he hadn't asked for more. Checkit.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_(album)
It's Thursday. Wednesday passed.
> Took the words right out of my mouth. You'll never know if you have a real competent spy around
We can say with certainty, they don't make them like they used to. ?N'est pas?
> A woman does not deserve to be raped just because she wore a skimpy black dress
``No! she doesn't. But, ladies, if you put on a whore uniform don't be mad and act surprised if you're treated like one.'' --Chris Rock.
And look at me your mom
Squatting pissed in a tube-
hole at Tottenham Court Road
I just come out of the ship
Talking to the most
Blonde I ever met
Shouting
Lager lager lager lager
Shouting
Lager lager lager lager
Shouting
Lager lager lager lager
Shouting...
Lager lager lager
Shouting
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega
Shouting lager lager lager lager
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
So many things to see and do
In the tube hole true
Blonde going back to Romford
Mega mega mega going back to Romford
Hi mom are you having fun
On you are you on your way
To a new tension
headache
> eave packing feedback. Amazon has a nice form
Kewl, good to know. I think the over packaging is a psychological gambit. You pay 50, 100 dollars for a widget that is just data or something trivial to produce, but if it comes in this colossus packaging you tend to ignore just how thoroughly you're being gouged.
Now, if that trick worked on women and engagement rings it'd be all profit! ^.^
> they can throttle you. But people ... wind up canceling the service.
Reportedly, canceling your subscription and resubscribing a month(?) later eliminates the throttling, as per past /. poster.
> Not only that, but he decided that during the weekend before patch Tuesday.
WTF? Is CBP 5 days? Where is it written that it's 5 -business days-? Shoot, make sure that it's 5 non Jewish Holiday business days maybe, too, if reporting bugs in New York? Are Christian Holidays OK? If so why? I have some Pagan Holidays coming, how about them? Do they count? How about El Malaguena, count or no count? Ahhh, fuckit, how about we make it 5 days, that should cover weekends, holidays and the like. Why don't they do that, ah, wait, but they did.
I dig the sound, adds to my fanaticism. I get jacked up when all the buzzing going on. Hey, it's every four years, man! Then again, I'd like to see numbers for futbol loving countries' acceptance rate. I'd wager that even in Europe the majority of fans love the sound. If not, I'd wager against it, I'm certain that Latin America, East Asia, South Asia, Africa can't see what all the hoopla is about!
Shoot, we've let's see, killed the referees -on the field- if we didn't like the calls; had hooliganism---with their concomitant murders via knifings, beatings, mainly in Europe I might say! (so much for European enlightenment, non warlike psyche; stampedes where dozens of fanatics have die per game, multiplied over years, make that decades, yes decades.
But hey, if the BBC and ESPN say a little exuberasism bothers their viewers, then, well off with their heads. Tempest in a teacup.
>>>
>>>>
What she got was yet another box for me to put in the chain between her television and the antenna attached to the pole shed.
>>>>
Nowhere, Nebraska implies legacy - low power - VHF broadcast and UHF transponders.
Trash the old - likely decades old - antenna.
Mount a new one, designed for fringe area reception. Mount it high. Don't cut any corners. Work strictly by-the-book. If you aren't comfortable with heights, let a pro do the job.
Consider installing a very low-noise pre-amp.
>>>
D00d! I don't need the advice but if I had mod points I'd give them to you for the next month. This is what /. used to be---and I'll say it again for the deluded moderators---you fucking suck, blow me.
Sorry, man. Great work. Rock on.
"Score 0, Flamebait)"
=) Blow me! You fucking dweeb. moderators---sigh!!