Why not boo both of them, and take your money elsewhere? That's what I do.
Soundclick.com can get you some pretty good music (yeah, you gotta wade through all the goobers who think the world is holding its collective breath waiting to hear them croak out some lyrics while a midi file plays near their microphone... but amongst the chaff is some pretty tasty wheat)... there are other places, as well, to find music that's got nothing to do with the RIAA.
Then there are Wal-Mart's competitors. Use them. Shop them. Buy from them.
As Clark Howard's fond of saying, "Vote with your feet(money)"
Clear Channel contends that patiotism demands that traffic reports only recommend right turns and not any of those pro-Dixie Chicks, gay marriage-ing, terr'ist aiding lefty turns.
So how do you explain 43 pretty patriotic guys going out on a Sunday afternoon and spending 4 hours making left turns?
Though you may have hit on why Clear Channel doesn't carry MRN/PRN.
SCO has absolute control and rights to all code generated by IBM, and by anyone else, for that matter.
Windows itself contains some code that's owned by SCO, and you can be absolutely certain that when the dust settles, Darl will own us all. Including Microsoft.
No, that was Michael Powell, the current chairman.
To be clear, it's not an HDTV tuner that's required, but an ATSC tuner - a digital tuner, in other words.
Television broadcasters are on the air in many locations with digital signals that you can't receive with standard analog tuners. In order to reclaim the spectrum from the analog stations, it's necessary to reach a "critical mass" of digital tuners in the field.
Basically, it's the chicken/egg thing all over again.
Telephone companies have been regulated because they have traditionally been monopolies.
The main reason is that it simply makes no sense financially for another company to hang wires to the same houses.
VOIP doesn't have the same financial implications, and will introduce competition, particularly in the long distance markets.
Television (broadcast - cable and satellite are different animals), on the other hand, uses a finite resource - electromagnetic spectrum. Channel assignments are regulated, which makes sense. I've never been comfortable with content regulation, but that's a discussion for other threads.
I don't believe there'll be a situation where every other system is down. However, you should remember that FEMA and state/local emergency management agencies, along with the Red Cross, Salvation Army and other relief agencies have existing, in-place agreements with amateur operators to provide emergency communications assistance.
In the 9/11 disaster, you were providing one type of assistance that hams provide - until your batteries in your blackberry died. The hams continued providing this type, and other types, of comms because they're trained and prepared, with extra batteries, generators and fuel, etc.
But it's not just about local disasters, either. Where, exactly, do you think those reports of people hurt/dead, damage, etc, come from when a hurricane is approaching the US coast? How do you think the world knows what assistance is needed in earthquake hit areas?
Then there's the problem of training. If BPL wipes out the HF bands, we have a problem training new people to help out in an emergency.
I see the argument thrown out that BPL interference won't be a problem if the power lines are down. True. But where do we train new operators? On simulators?
BPL is a bad idea until the interference issues are dealt with. Period.
To be fair, in a localized disaster, such as a tornado, the primary frequencies hams use are in the VHF and UHF ranges, and interference from BPL would be less of a concern.
Commercial broadcast radio does not pay royalties to the RIAA.
Radio *does* pay ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. These organizations then pay a portion (after extravagant salaries, etc) to the *composer(s)* of a musical piece.
The recording artist doesn't get a dime from broadcast play, unless they're also the composer.
At least get your facts straight before you go off on something. Oh, wait, this is/. Never mind.
I'm frequently reminded of a line from a M*A*S*H episode, when Charles (David Ogden Stiers) tries to help a young man who's lost the full use of one hand:
"I can play the notes, but I cannot make the music. I do not have the 'gift.'"
I think there are far too many who're shoved down our throats who do not have the "gift"
You'll see that the state of PA orders companies that use virtual hosting to shut down the child porn sites that're on the same IP as other, legitimate sites.
"Connolly, the spokesman for the Pennsylvania attorney general, said Wednesday that in such cases involving a Web site with a shared address, authorities contact the Web-hosting companies and order them -- under threat of legal action -- to pinpoint and shut down the illegal pornographic sites."
I think there's still some question about exactly how they're enforcing this law, and as the article says, attorneys are requesting information from the PA Attorney General.
There's no good excuse for child porn, and while this law (and therefore method) may not be the way to go about it, it's a start.
I just wanted to clarify something here... you're suggesting that if someone provides a free service, they have a moral obligation to open it up to anything at all, no matter what?
Morally, they give up the right to determine the uses their network and servers are put to?
I didn't claim we could do 1500 watts with spread spectrum. I said hams can do up to 1500 watts on most authorized bands.
To clarify, there are some bands, and some modes even on other bands, where reduced power is required.
Frankly, I can't see doing 1500 watts on anything but HF, though I know there are the moonbounce folks who do 1500 watts into some impressive arrays and get rather large ERP values.
Also, when these disasters take place, being able to send video or still photos of damage, etc, back to a state or regional Emergency Operations Center will help speed response of equipment and material to deal with the issues actually occurring, not necessarily what's in a written plan that didn't cover what has actually happened.
Recent examples... when the federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed, the public switched telephone network (including cell phones) was overloaded in minutes. Ham radio was the only reliable method of communication.
On 9/11/2001 in NYC, within moments, the public switched telephone network was overloaded. Ham radio was the only reliable method of communication.
In areas hit by natural disasters such as hurricanes, ham radio is often the only method of communication that works.
You see, ham radio operates on many frequencies, from local, line-of-sight to world-wide reach. In times of emergency, when other methods of communication fail, ham radio operators are there, with their batteries, radios and sometimes jury-rigged antennas to get word out about what may be needed in the area, also information regarding the health and welfare of others.
Of course, the fact that licensed amateurs aren't limited to the micro-power levels of Part 15 devices comes into play here.
Legally, licensed amateurs are required to use only the minimum power required to maintain communication... but the rules allow up to 1500 watts on most authorized bands (the hazards of 1500 watts at 2.4 GHz, particularly anywhere near the antenna, are left as an exercise for the reader).
Part 15 devices may not interfere with licensed operations, and must accept any interference caused by licensed operations.
The FCC requires commercial stations to identify themselves by call letter and city of license "as near the top of the hour as practical, at a natural break in programming."
Interpretations of "as near the top of the hour as practical" vary wildly... many, many stations bury their "legal ID" inside a commercial break at:50 or:55...
A "legal ID" consists of ONLY the call letters and city of license, and these may only be seperated by insertion of the frequency.
So a legal ID would be:
WXYZ, Roanoke
or
WXYZ, fm 93.5, Roanoke
Now, a LOT of stations are actually licensed to smaller towns near a larger city... and they want to *seem* to be based in the big city... so you'll hear things like:
WXYZ, Springdale, Roanoke
That's legal... so long as "WXYZ, Springdale" is there.
Part 15 of the FCC's rules allows operation of devices within certain micro-power levels.
To go beyond those limits (or carrier-current AM), you'll need an FCC license.
The steps involved:
Frequency search - you can't just pick a frequency and use it, just because you don't hear a station on your radio at that frequency. There are requirements for seperation of stations on the same frequency, adjacent frequency, etc. Finding an available frequency is not a simple matter - you'll need the services of a consulting engineer.
Once you do find a frequency, then you have to petition the FCC to amend the Table Of Allotments. You'll need a communications attorney to help with this.
Assuming the Commission grants your petition, and the Table of Allotments is amended, then you'll have to wait for a filing window to open... and you'll find that you may get to bid in an auction for the frequency - depending on how many applications are filed for the frequency. Just because you did the donkey work and got the frequency assigned to your town does not mean you automatically get to build a station on that frequency!
When the filing window opens, you'll file an application for a construction permit. Again, you'll need the services of a consulting engineer and a communications attorney to make sure the application is filled out correctly.
Wheeee... your application is accepted for filing. It'll meander its way through the Audio Services branch, possibly emerging as "Granted," which would mean you have a permit to build the station. You now have 18 months to get it on the air and file for a license (no, you don't yet have a license to broadcast - just a permit to build the station)
Just to get to this point can run 2-3 years easily, and cost many thousands of dollars. Certainly you can do the frequency search yourself, and all the attendant paperwork for amending the Table of Allotments, and the construction permit application. If you know what you're doing. But don't try to wing it.
Oh, and in response to Fantome... heh... which was the point here in the first place... please... 2KW? I contacted Mir with 50 watts on a homemade 1/4 ground plane antenna hanging in a tree.
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Why not boo both of them, and take your money elsewhere? That's what I do.
Soundclick.com can get you some pretty good music (yeah, you gotta wade through all the goobers who think the world is holding its collective breath waiting to hear them croak out some lyrics while a midi file plays near their microphone... but amongst the chaff is some pretty tasty wheat)... there are other places, as well, to find music that's got nothing to do with the RIAA.
Then there are Wal-Mart's competitors. Use them. Shop them. Buy from them.
As Clark Howard's fond of saying, "Vote with your feet(money)"
Clear Channel contends that patiotism demands that traffic reports only recommend right turns and not any of those pro-Dixie Chicks, gay marriage-ing, terr'ist aiding lefty turns.
So how do you explain 43 pretty patriotic guys going out on a Sunday afternoon and spending 4 hours making left turns?
Though you may have hit on why Clear Channel doesn't carry MRN/PRN.
Actually, he won't leave with anything but what he already had with him, plus perhaps copies of your logs.
NAL (Notice of Apparent Liability) will follow in short order, in the mail.
But no license is leaving, and no equipment is leaving.
That's not fair. Some have investments in bits of dirt and lumps of string.
SCO has absolute control and rights to all code generated by IBM, and by anyone else, for that matter.
:)
Windows itself contains some code that's owned by SCO, and you can be absolutely certain that when the dust settles, Darl will own us all. Including Microsoft.
Stick that in your corn cob pipe and smoke it
No, that was Michael Powell, the current chairman.
To be clear, it's not an HDTV tuner that's required, but an ATSC tuner - a digital tuner, in other words.
Television broadcasters are on the air in many locations with digital signals that you can't receive with standard analog tuners. In order to reclaim the spectrum from the analog stations, it's necessary to reach a "critical mass" of digital tuners in the field.
Basically, it's the chicken/egg thing all over again.
Telephone companies have been regulated because they have traditionally been monopolies.
The main reason is that it simply makes no sense financially for another company to hang wires to the same houses.
VOIP doesn't have the same financial implications, and will introduce competition, particularly in the long distance markets.
Television (broadcast - cable and satellite are different animals), on the other hand, uses a finite resource - electromagnetic spectrum. Channel assignments are regulated, which makes sense. I've never been comfortable with content regulation, but that's a discussion for other threads.
Superchips seems to be conservative in their estimates of increased performance. They only claim 10% more horsepower, 13% more torque.
I don't believe there'll be a situation where every other system is down. However, you should remember that FEMA and state/local emergency management agencies, along with the Red Cross, Salvation Army and other relief agencies have existing, in-place agreements with amateur operators to provide emergency communications assistance.
In the 9/11 disaster, you were providing one type of assistance that hams provide - until your batteries in your blackberry died. The hams continued providing this type, and other types, of comms because they're trained and prepared, with extra batteries, generators and fuel, etc.
But it's not just about local disasters, either. Where, exactly, do you think those reports of people hurt/dead, damage, etc, come from when a hurricane is approaching the US coast? How do you think the world knows what assistance is needed in earthquake hit areas?
Then there's the problem of training. If BPL wipes out the HF bands, we have a problem training new people to help out in an emergency.
I see the argument thrown out that BPL interference won't be a problem if the power lines are down. True. But where do we train new operators? On simulators?
BPL is a bad idea until the interference issues are dealt with. Period.
To be fair, in a localized disaster, such as a tornado, the primary frequencies hams use are in the VHF and UHF ranges, and interference from BPL would be less of a concern.
Commercial broadcast radio does not pay royalties to the RIAA.
/. Never mind.
Radio *does* pay ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. These organizations then pay a portion (after extravagant salaries, etc) to the *composer(s)* of a musical piece.
The recording artist doesn't get a dime from broadcast play, unless they're also the composer.
At least get your facts straight before you go off on something. Oh, wait, this is
In Alabama:
It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle.
Dominoes may not be played on Sunday.
It is illegal to maim oneself to escape duty.
It is illegal to impersonate a person of the clergy.
Women are able to retain all property they owned prior to marriage in the case of divorce. However, this provision does not apply to men.
Masks may not be worn in public.
Putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death.
Boogers may not be flicked into the wind.
Bear wrestling matches are prohibited.
Sure looks to me like Alabama's just as guilty as the other 49 states!
I dunno... it might be kinda fun to commute in a nuclear sub.
Especially when you come up on a traffic jam. Just fire a nice torpedo, and voila, no more traffic jam.
Everything tastes better when it sits on a Ritz
I'm frequently reminded of a line from a M*A*S*H episode, when Charles (David Ogden Stiers) tries to help a young man who's lost the full use of one hand:
"I can play the notes, but I cannot make the music. I do not have the 'gift.'"
I think there are far too many who're shoved down our throats who do not have the "gift"
You'll see that the state of PA orders companies that use virtual hosting to shut down the child porn sites that're on the same IP as other, legitimate sites.
"Connolly, the spokesman for the Pennsylvania attorney general, said Wednesday that in such cases involving a Web site with a shared address, authorities contact the Web-hosting companies and order them -- under threat of legal action -- to pinpoint and shut down the illegal pornographic sites."
I think there's still some question about exactly how they're enforcing this law, and as the article says, attorneys are requesting information from the PA Attorney General.
There's no good excuse for child porn, and while this law (and therefore method) may not be the way to go about it, it's a start.
I just wanted to clarify something here... you're suggesting that if someone provides a free service, they have a moral obligation to open it up to anything at all, no matter what?
Morally, they give up the right to determine the uses their network and servers are put to?
Ludicrous.
During reentry, the temperatures are going to be so great, and other forces so huge, that ejecting the cockpit simply introduces other problems.
The cockpit would have to be designed to be at least as heat resistant as the rest of the vehicle, including the heat shield tiles.
I didn't claim we could do 1500 watts with spread spectrum. I said hams can do up to 1500 watts on most authorized bands.
To clarify, there are some bands, and some modes even on other bands, where reduced power is required.
Frankly, I can't see doing 1500 watts on anything but HF, though I know there are the moonbounce folks who do 1500 watts into some impressive arrays and get rather large ERP values.
Also, when these disasters take place, being able to send video or still photos of damage, etc, back to a state or regional Emergency Operations Center will help speed response of equipment and material to deal with the issues actually occurring, not necessarily what's in a written plan that didn't cover what has actually happened.
Recent examples... when the federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed, the public switched telephone network (including cell phones) was overloaded in minutes. Ham radio was the only reliable method of communication.
On 9/11/2001 in NYC, within moments, the public switched telephone network was overloaded. Ham radio was the only reliable method of communication.
In areas hit by natural disasters such as hurricanes, ham radio is often the only method of communication that works.
You see, ham radio operates on many frequencies, from local, line-of-sight to world-wide reach. In times of emergency, when other methods of communication fail, ham radio operators are there, with their batteries, radios and sometimes jury-rigged antennas to get word out about what may be needed in the area, also information regarding the health and welfare of others.
What, exactly, would the FCC be looking for?
Of course, the fact that licensed amateurs aren't limited to the micro-power levels of Part 15 devices comes into play here.
Legally, licensed amateurs are required to use only the minimum power required to maintain communication... but the rules allow up to 1500 watts on most authorized bands (the hazards of 1500 watts at 2.4 GHz, particularly anywhere near the antenna, are left as an exercise for the reader).
Part 15 devices may not interfere with licensed operations, and must accept any interference caused by licensed operations.
747-400 stall speed with full flaps and gear down appears to be around 140 knots indicated air speed (161.1 mph).
A Cessna 150 stalls at 42 knots indicated airspeed (48.3 mph), at max gross weight and full flaps (gear down and welded on the 150).
So the 747, at stall, is still going faster than max cruise speed of a Cessna. Going to need some serious ropes on that big parachute!
Let's clear this up once and for all.
:50 or :55...
The FCC requires commercial stations to identify themselves by call letter and city of license "as near the top of the hour as practical, at a natural break in programming."
Interpretations of "as near the top of the hour as practical" vary wildly... many, many stations bury their "legal ID" inside a commercial break at
A "legal ID" consists of ONLY the call letters and city of license, and these may only be seperated by insertion of the frequency.
So a legal ID would be:
WXYZ, Roanoke
or
WXYZ, fm 93.5, Roanoke
Now, a LOT of stations are actually licensed to smaller towns near a larger city... and they want to *seem* to be based in the big city... so you'll hear things like:
WXYZ, Springdale, Roanoke
That's legal... so long as "WXYZ, Springdale" is there.
Part 15 of the FCC's rules allows operation of devices within certain micro-power levels.
To go beyond those limits (or carrier-current AM), you'll need an FCC license.
The steps involved:
Frequency search - you can't just pick a frequency and use it, just because you don't hear a station on your radio at that frequency. There are requirements for seperation of stations on the same frequency, adjacent frequency, etc. Finding an available frequency is not a simple matter - you'll need the services of a consulting engineer.
Once you do find a frequency, then you have to petition the FCC to amend the Table Of Allotments. You'll need a communications attorney to help with this.
Assuming the Commission grants your petition, and the Table of Allotments is amended, then you'll have to wait for a filing window to open... and you'll find that you may get to bid in an auction for the frequency - depending on how many applications are filed for the frequency. Just because you did the donkey work and got the frequency assigned to your town does not mean you automatically get to build a station on that frequency!
When the filing window opens, you'll file an application for a construction permit. Again, you'll need the services of a consulting engineer and a communications attorney to make sure the application is filled out correctly.
Wheeee... your application is accepted for filing. It'll meander its way through the Audio Services branch, possibly emerging as "Granted," which would mean you have a permit to build the station. You now have 18 months to get it on the air and file for a license (no, you don't yet have a license to broadcast - just a permit to build the station)
Just to get to this point can run 2-3 years easily, and cost many thousands of dollars. Certainly you can do the frequency search yourself, and all the attendant paperwork for amending the Table of Allotments, and the construction permit application. If you know what you're doing. But don't try to wing it.
Oh, and in response to Fantome... heh... which was the point here in the first place... please... 2KW? I contacted Mir with 50 watts on a homemade 1/4 ground plane antenna hanging in a tree.