You'd be amazed what even a small group of dedicated people can do. I know the lady who singlehandedly defeated the Equal Rights Amendment.
In my experience, lawmakers are competent in matters of the law and fundraising, but they're generally woefully ignorant on topics including science, history, or anything else much that's outside their concentration of expertise -- including such fundamental subjects as geography!
Thus, it becomes extremely easy to control the agenda of the entire political system, simply by buying those few who have knowledge and influence relating to your agenda.
In the eighties, the prevailing view in The Administration, Congress, and the Washington "think tanks" was that it didn't matter if the population of the United States were killed in a Soviet attack, as long as the institutions of government and business survived. If the Soviet Union somehow succeeded in killing millions of Americans, the nation could continue to be viable if the polital, financial and public utility infrastructures survived.
This thinking, of course, served the Military Industrial Complex that President Eisenhower warned us about, extremely well.
Though it's the stuff of popular entertainment today, few at the time had ever heard of a magnetic pulse and its effect on solid state electronics. When I mentioned it to a friend in passing, her first response was disbelief. After I convinced her that a couple of Soviet nuclear explosions over key targets would effectively destroy the telecommunications infrastructure for the entire nation, she took the news to The Hill.
Shortly thereafter, the thinking toward strategic defense and the entire related public agenda changed. It was, of course, inevitable that policy makers would get a clue. But from my perspective, it happened a few major defense contracts sooner than some would have liked.
My point is that, in the right place and at the right time, a single anonymous person can change the course of human history.
In simple terms, I believe the best way to affect public policy in the face of overwhelming corporate opposition is to mount a sharp attack, backed by a dedicated mass.
"This legislative action will cause the United States to miss a revolution in biology."
We can only hope this is true. Anything "discovered" in the United States is sure to be permanently encumbered by patent "protection," even if the research behind it is paid for by the public!
Any discoveries made in most of the rest of the world are much more likely to benefit mankind because most societies aren't as subservient to The Corporate Republic, and don't allow the kind of piracy for profit that Americans do.
The most important site on the Web is http://whale.to/
I have just one question: Where will the bandwidth come from to transport this energy?
Besides, do you *really* want to be bombarded with high intensity man-made microwaves from the Clarke Belt?
If you *really* want free energy, insist that the Pentagon give up Tesla's technology that was seized "in the interest of national security" upon his death.
"The upshot is still that there are no easy answers to ensuring that elections are accurate and fair."
Not true. The answer is simply to provide an audit trail.
In its simplest form, this is to use paper ballots.
In a concession to providing a quick vote count, it is to use voting devices that register a vote electronically and print two "receipts". One is retained under the control of the supervisor of elections and provides verification, if necessary, for a hand recount. The other is taken from the voting precinct by the individual voter. The receipts are identified only by serial number.
What is the maximum financial and criminal exposure to Red Hat, yourself and other Red Hat executives stemming from the alleged improprieties and resultant lawsuits related to the company's IPO?
Why should the third world be better than us?
Why is everybody just figuring this out?
The drug companies profit at the expense of ALL of us, every day.
The chemical cartel controls agriculture, food processing and medicine.
Why the hell is this such a mystery?
We eat shit for food and wonder why we get sick.
Then, whom do we turn to? The same cabal that made us sick.
Wake up.
Forget widespread deployment of LPFM. The battle's already been lost.
There *is* a viable addition to the broadcast bands that makes efficient use of *existing* spectrum and that nobody's talking about.
The receivers already exist and are in ubiquitous use for broadcast reception throughout the rest of the world. The current use of this spectrum is being phased out, leaving it available for an alternative use in the U.S. Since no one would be encroaching on existing broadcaster's turf, that war shouldn't have to be fought. The propagation characteristics are ideal for urban use, unlike FM. The technology is the simplest --and lest expensive-- available. At the same time, technological advances like the "crossed field" antenna make the use of this frequency band more viable for inexpensive broadcasting than ever before.
My proposal for additional broadcast spectrum? Longwave! Just *expand* the existing broadcast band downward!
I've always believed that terrestrial broadcasting represents a terribly inefficient use of public spectrum. HDTV appears to be a disaster on many fronts, as does the U.S. radio industry's refusal to adopt the global Eureka standard. IP-based communication provides the most efficient delivery of real-time local content. There's an insatiable demand for point-to-multipoint bandwidth, and extremely efficient spectrum reuse by satellite- and terrestrial-based systems make this the "highest and best use" of the public's finite resource. All that said, what's the future of local broadcasting?
I definitely appreciate your comments about the subtleties of audio system configuration.
What do you think is the value of the IM rating?
By the way, I no longer buy anything but professional audio gear. I believe it represents a *much* better value proposition than consumer gear, including audiofile equipment. Even a compact Mackie mixer and a QSC or Crown monitor amp with modest Tannoy, JBL or Mackie nearfield monitors sounds better to me than any high-end hi fi system I've ever heard (with the possible exception of MacIntosh.)
What is it with these boxes everywhere in the audio world that don't do anything?
I once began upgrading a "pro" sound reinforcement system that had a bad habit if squealing like a banshee. I pulled the plugs on everything in sight and started configuring the system all over again.
There was this mysterious box connected between the mixer and power amps. It used line level in's and out's and sported the same unique brand as the house speakers, but didn't require external power or give any hint as to its purpose.
When reconnecting everything, I left it out. Guess what--no more banshee!
I removed the cover and the thing was chock full of all sorts of electronic components. I will probably never know what the salesman told the greenhorns who bought it.
The NAB will never allow direct competition on their turf. The only way to give the public a voice on the airwaves is to follow the rest of the world and license broadcasting on the longwave band.
The Longwave Club of America is probably the best resource to learn more about longwave. They have a section on the ANARC website that includes a great frequency chart! It's at http://www.anarc.org/lwca/ . Their own site is at http://www.lwca.org/ .
In terms of receivers, let's start at the bottom. A portable 12 band radio that covers LW can be ordered from Universal Radio for $25.00. See it at http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/portable/41 72.html . I have a great Telefunken LW/MW/FM cassette tabletop I got in Germany two years ago that covers 148 kHz to 284 kHz. Grundig http://www.grundig.com/ is a well-known European manufacturer, with portable radios, CD radio/recorders, a clock/radio, multiband radios, mini home stereo systems and ALL their car audio products that receive longwave signals. All the Asian manufacturers, of course, make and sell LW receivers globally.
The ITU bandplan for LW specifies 9 kHz spacing, but the ONLY receiver on the American market to take advantage of the 10 kHz bandplan for MW (AM) here is the GE Superadio. This includes hi fi and car receivers! The bandwidth currently specified for LW produces great audio with the typical receiver sold in Europe!
There is no reason to assume, however, that the ITU would not accept a 10kHz bandplan for whatever portion of the spectrum below the MW (AM) band that engineering studies might find to be viable for adding to the broadcast bands in the Americas.
If the bandwidth could be secured, you wouldn't have to worry about receivers! Every manufacturer in the world has amortized the development cost of including LW coverage in their products decades ago. The economies of scale to be realized from adding the American market would likely REDUCE the global cost of producing LW receivers. From a marketing standpoint, opening up this band would be the consumer electronics manufacturers most fabulous dream come true. Imagine adding a feature to your existing product line that costs nothing, and makes everything else in existence obsolete! Imagine having excitement in the commodity AM radio consumer space again!
A few weeks ago, I visited HP's site looking for drivers for a used printer that I got at a great price.
Upon entering the site, I was greeted with a pop-up window asking if I would be willing to participate in a survey. I agreed.
I took the opportunity to document my ownership of numerous HP products, as well as my displeasure with the company's decision not to support me as a user of Linux.
I went on to reveal that for this reason, HP had recently lost a sale, when I purchased a flatbed scanner from a competitor, without first even considering an HP product.
I warned that in the future, HP had forced me to buy from such competitors as IBM, Epson and Kodak, as these manufacturers either directly or indirectly support the use of Linux with their products.
I am only one of thousands who have surely registered the same complaint.
Just for fun, I'd like to approach this subject from a different direction.
If the EU eventually rejects software patents, they could go one step further and contest US software patents as non-tariff trade barriers. In fact, any GATT signator anywhere in the world could bring such an action before the World Trade Organization.
The proprietary software industry is attempting to standardize worldwide treatment of patents in their favor because, if they don't succeed, the pendulum could come back to bloody them.
While the rest of the world has agreed on a single global standard for digital radio, the US has two different and incompatible satellite-based technologies and yet a third for terrestrial radio, all of which are unproven.
Want to see how digital audio broadcasting should be done? Visit:
Slashdot Mirror
Scott Studios, the largest supplier of production and automation systems for radio stations in the U.S., was a very early supporter of Linux.
Although their software solutions are proprietary, their hardware--to the greatest extent possible--is not.
They offer everything a record or radio producer would need--supported on Linux.
http://www.scottstudios.com/
You'd be amazed what even a small group of dedicated people can do. I know the lady who singlehandedly defeated the Equal Rights Amendment.
In my experience, lawmakers are competent in matters of the law and fundraising, but they're generally woefully ignorant on topics including science, history, or anything else much that's outside their concentration of expertise -- including such fundamental subjects as geography!
Thus, it becomes extremely easy to control the agenda of the entire political system, simply by buying those few who have knowledge and influence relating to your agenda.
In the eighties, the prevailing view in The Administration, Congress, and the Washington "think tanks" was that it didn't matter if the population of the United States were killed in a Soviet attack, as long as the institutions of government and business survived. If the Soviet Union somehow succeeded in killing millions of Americans, the nation could continue to be viable if the polital, financial and public utility infrastructures survived.
This thinking, of course, served the Military Industrial Complex that President Eisenhower warned us about, extremely well.
Though it's the stuff of popular entertainment today, few at the time had ever heard of a magnetic pulse and its effect on solid state electronics. When I mentioned it to a friend in passing, her first response was disbelief. After I convinced her that a couple of Soviet nuclear explosions over key targets would effectively destroy the telecommunications infrastructure for the entire nation, she took the news to The Hill.
Shortly thereafter, the thinking toward strategic defense and the entire related public agenda changed. It was, of course, inevitable that policy makers would get a clue. But from my perspective, it happened a few major defense contracts sooner than some would have liked.
My point is that, in the right place and at the right time, a single anonymous person can change the course of human history.
In simple terms, I believe the best way to affect public policy in the face of overwhelming corporate opposition is to mount a sharp attack, backed by a dedicated mass.
We can only hope this is true. Anything "discovered" in the United States is sure to be permanently encumbered by patent "protection," even if the research behind it is paid for by the public!
Any discoveries made in most of the rest of the world are much more likely to benefit mankind because most societies aren't as subservient to The Corporate Republic, and don't allow the kind of piracy for profit that Americans do.
The most important site on the Web is http://whale.to/
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-594940 1.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,s2086609, 00.html
http://www.infowar.com/iwftp/icn/17May200 1_New_wor m_patches_linux_vulnerabilities.shtml
http://www. securitynewsportal.com/article.php?sid= 437 .
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Also interesting for history buffs is the Internet Worm of 1988 that shut down the internet!
http://world.std.com/~franl/worm.html
Besides, do you *really* want to be bombarded with high intensity man-made microwaves from the Clarke Belt?
If you *really* want free energy, insist that the Pentagon give up Tesla's technology that was seized "in the interest of national security" upon his death.
Not true. The answer is simply to provide an audit trail.
In its simplest form, this is to use paper ballots.
In a concession to providing a quick vote count, it is to use voting devices that register a vote electronically and print two "receipts". One is retained under the control of the supervisor of elections and provides verification, if necessary, for a hand recount. The other is taken from the voting precinct by the individual voter. The receipts are identified only by serial number.
What is the maximum financial and criminal exposure to Red Hat, yourself and other Red Hat executives stemming from the alleged improprieties and resultant lawsuits related to the company's IPO?
shame to lose *the* single best platform in existence for multimedia creation.
Why should the third world be better than us? Why is everybody just figuring this out? The drug companies profit at the expense of ALL of us, every day. The chemical cartel controls agriculture, food processing and medicine. Why the hell is this such a mystery? We eat shit for food and wonder why we get sick. Then, whom do we turn to? The same cabal that made us sick. Wake up.
There *is* a viable addition to the broadcast bands that makes efficient use of *existing* spectrum and that nobody's talking about.
The receivers already exist and are in ubiquitous use for broadcast reception throughout the rest of the world. The current use of this spectrum is being phased out, leaving it available for an alternative use in the U.S. Since no one would be encroaching on existing broadcaster's turf, that war shouldn't have to be fought. The propagation characteristics are ideal for urban use, unlike FM. The technology is the simplest --and lest expensive-- available. At the same time, technological advances like the "crossed field" antenna make the use of this frequency band more viable for inexpensive broadcasting than ever before.
My proposal for additional broadcast spectrum? Longwave! Just *expand* the existing broadcast band downward!
I've always believed that terrestrial broadcasting represents a terribly inefficient use of public spectrum. HDTV appears to be a disaster on many fronts, as does the U.S. radio industry's refusal to adopt the global Eureka standard. IP-based communication provides the most efficient delivery of real-time local content. There's an insatiable demand for point-to-multipoint bandwidth, and extremely efficient spectrum reuse by satellite- and terrestrial-based systems make this the "highest and best use" of the public's finite resource. All that said, what's the future of local broadcasting?
Did The Fish render this translation?
I definitely appreciate your comments about the subtleties of audio system configuration.
What do you think is the value of the IM rating?
By the way, I no longer buy anything but professional audio gear. I believe it represents a *much* better value proposition than consumer gear, including audiofile equipment. Even a compact Mackie mixer and a QSC or Crown monitor amp with modest Tannoy, JBL or Mackie nearfield monitors sounds better to me than any high-end hi fi system I've ever heard (with the possible exception of MacIntosh.)
What do you think of the use of FET's in power amps?
What is the most *realistically* accurate objective measure of performance in a power amp?
Thanks!
Just what the world needs. An armed gypsy!
I was referring to the ISO standard year-month-day-hour-minute-second.
I once began upgrading a "pro" sound reinforcement system that had a bad habit if squealing like a banshee. I pulled the plugs on everything in sight and started configuring the system all over again.
There was this mysterious box connected between the mixer and power amps. It used line level in's and out's and sported the same unique brand as the house speakers, but didn't require external power or give any hint as to its purpose.
When reconnecting everything, I left it out. Guess what--no more banshee!
I removed the cover and the thing was chock full of all sorts of electronic components. I will probably never know what the salesman told the greenhorns who bought it.
The Longwave Club of America is probably the best resource to learn more about longwave. They have a section on the ANARC website that includes a great frequency chart! It's at http://www.anarc.org/lwca/ . Their own site is at http://www.lwca.org/ .
In terms of receivers, let's start at the bottom. A portable 12 band radio that covers LW can be ordered from Universal Radio for $25.00. See it at http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/portable/41 72.html . I have a great Telefunken LW/MW/FM cassette tabletop I got in Germany two years ago that covers 148 kHz to 284 kHz. Grundig http://www.grundig.com/ is a well-known European manufacturer, with portable radios, CD radio/recorders, a clock/radio, multiband radios, mini home stereo systems and ALL their car audio products that receive longwave signals. All the Asian manufacturers, of course, make and sell LW receivers globally.
The ITU bandplan for LW specifies 9 kHz spacing, but the ONLY receiver on the American market to take advantage of the 10 kHz bandplan for MW (AM) here is the GE Superadio. This includes hi fi and car receivers! The bandwidth currently specified for LW produces great audio with the typical receiver sold in Europe!
There is no reason to assume, however, that the ITU would not accept a 10kHz bandplan for whatever portion of the spectrum below the MW (AM) band that engineering studies might find to be viable for adding to the broadcast bands in the Americas.
If the bandwidth could be secured, you wouldn't have to worry about receivers! Every manufacturer in the world has amortized the development cost of including LW coverage in their products decades ago. The economies of scale to be realized from adding the American market would likely REDUCE the global cost of producing LW receivers. From a marketing standpoint, opening up this band would be the consumer electronics manufacturers most fabulous dream come true. Imagine adding a feature to your existing product line that costs nothing, and makes everything else in existence obsolete! Imagine having excitement in the commodity AM radio consumer space again!
Side bar: Just be sure to bring any talented people you need with you.
Upon entering the site, I was greeted with a pop-up window asking if I would be willing to participate in a survey. I agreed.
I took the opportunity to document my ownership of numerous HP products, as well as my displeasure with the company's decision not to support me as a user of Linux.
I went on to reveal that for this reason, HP had recently lost a sale, when I purchased a flatbed scanner from a competitor, without first even considering an HP product.
I warned that in the future, HP had forced me to buy from such competitors as IBM, Epson and Kodak, as these manufacturers either directly or indirectly support the use of Linux with their products.
I am only one of thousands who have surely registered the same complaint.
What matters is that HP listened.
If the EU eventually rejects software patents, they could go one step further and contest US software patents as non-tariff trade barriers. In fact, any GATT signator anywhere in the world could bring such an action before the World Trade Organization.
The proprietary software industry is attempting to standardize worldwide treatment of patents in their favor because, if they don't succeed, the pendulum could come back to bloody them.
While PayPal may not be happy, either their insurance or that of the bank which issued the card would most likely end up eating the charge.
Obviously, prevention is best.
Want to see how digital audio broadcasting should be done? Visit:
http://www.worlddab.org
There's audio content that I listen to religiously that's only accessible using Windows Media Player.
Slashdot carried a story a while back which said that Real Networks had licensed the Microsoft codec.
I'd just like to have Windows Audio on Linux for Intel!
Nikola Tesla harnessed the "ether" energy that drives those waves.
Upon his death, the FBI seized all his equipment and records, in the interest of "national security."
Oil company stock, anyone?