Fair and Balanced doesn't mean unbiased. It means just what it says. They have Sean Hannity, but they also have Alan Colmes. They have Bill O'Reilly, but they also have Geraldo Rivera. And so forth. They at least pay lip service to both sides of the fence when they butcher a story, unlike CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Times-Picayune, the Boston Herald, and USA Today, who claim a lack of bias while presenting the news with as much leftward spin as they think they can without the average Joe catching on.
Pssst...if you're trying to point out conservative bias at Fox, it's probably not a good idea to use George Soros, er, Media Matters as your source. It's a pot/kettle thing, you know.
The first Boeing B-52 Stratofortress flight took place on April 15, 1952, almost 7 years after the end of WWII. This was a test flight of a prototype, not a production plane; the B-52 was . The B-52 has been modified, updated, and adapted to meet the changing needs for a large, long-range, high-level bomber. It was initially designed as an intercontinental nuclear strategic bomber, and has since been adapted for low-level flight, conventional bombing, launching cruise missiles, tactical attack, direct- and indirect-fire ground support, photographic reconnaissance, etc.
The airframes are indeed aging (the last B-52H airframe was completed in 1962), but it boils down to efficient use of resources and adaptation of existing equipment. It's such a superb aircraft that any possible improvements to be had with an all-new design would be so small as to make it not worth the expense of said new design. There is no finer long-range, fast-subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber aircraft on the planet right now, nor is there likely to be in the near future.
There are other examples of military equipment that hasn't undergone a significant redesign in a long time due to lack of need. The current M4 Carbine that is issued to infantrymen in the Army and Marine Corps is simply a slight evolution of a design from 1956 - the AR-15, adopted by the US Air Force in 1961, re-designated as the M16 in 1962, and type classified Standard A in 1965, meaning it became the individual weapon of choice for US military personnel. The M1911 pistol was the standard sidearm of the US military for 74 years, from 1911 to 1985. The M60 general-purpose light machine gun has been around since 1957, and was largely based on a WWII German design, the MG42.
In short, just because something's been around for a while doesn't mean it's no longer useful:)
Service in the United States military is not restricted to nationals. One of my fellow employees is a guy who moved from the UK to the US when he was 13. He served in the USMC, was deployed in The Iraq War Part I, and saw combat there. He still hasn't gotten around to getting his US citizenship. He has no intention to leave the US, apart from the occasional business trip into Canada (we're both truck drivers).
He told me once that when he sees a politician worth getting his citizenship to vote for, he'll make sure to get his citizenship in time to vote for him (or her, as the case may be).
Nope, I refuse to use the "/." moniker for the site "http://slashdot.org/", preferring instead to use "\." in order to truly reflect how it leans so far to the left. "_." might be more appropriate, but that would be confusing...
1. Merkins think a hundred years is a long time. 2. Brits think a hundred miles is a long drive.
Back before I became a freight relocation specialist (sometimes referred to as over-the-road truck driver) I commuted about 35 miles to work. And another 35 miles back. We don't have passenger rail service of any type within 100 miles of my home - it's impractical given the population density and geography.
Now I commute about 450 miles per day on average, in a vehicle that burns a gallon of number two diesel fuel about every 6 or 7 miles, depending on the weight of the load and whether I'm in mountains or on the plains. Just doing my bit to help global warming along;-)
You don't have to like it; I certainly don't. You do, however, have to pay the taxes imposed under the above laws - or lose your belongings and go to prison.
I somehow get the impression that an AK-47 is much cheaper in those little hellhole countries than a decent hunting rifle. Hell, I can get a nice AK (semi-auto only though) for under $400, while a Remington 700 (average bolt-action deer rifle) starts out around $750 and goes way up from there depending on what round it's chambered for, what kind of stock it's on, etc.
Terrorists are very good at maximizing bang for the buck, and when you get right down to it, an AK-47 isn't that much less accurate in semi-auto mode as a nice bolt-action hunting rifle. Not to mention that it's probably much easier to find ammo for the 7.62x39 AK-47 over there than it is to find 22-250 or 300 Winchester Magnum:)
I used to live within sight of the Waterford 3 nuclear plant - in fact, my father worked there for about 10 years as a maintenance mechanic, having worked previously as a machinist at Combustion Engineering in Chattanooga, where the core for Waterford 3 was built. I am actually wearing a belt buckle he made from scrap stainless pipe bits that were left over from that reactor core. I absorbed every bit of information he imparted to me about a nuclear plant's reactor core design (and he should know a bit about them, having built one that's still in operation 20 years later). As a result, I have absolutely no problem living in the shadow of a reactor building.
He once actually fell into an open-topped tank of primary cooling water. He had to surrender his clothing and spend about 6 hours in decontamination, showering with a scrub brush and scouring powder, before they'd let him out of the plant. It had no discernable effect on his health. He was exposed to a couple thousand millirem over his entire body.
Dual drive axles, power steering, Bendix ABS, 80,000 pound GVWR. 6.9 miles per gallon average on #2 diesel. Pulling loads that average about 34,000 pounds (averaged over the 300,000 miles that are on it - some loads have weighed 45,500 pounds, sometimes I have to pull an empty trailer over 450 miles to get a load).
Want to improve the average fuel economy of a hybrid? Put 10 of them on a trailer and pull it with an International (or Freightliner, or Peterbilt, or Kenworth, etc.)
I don't know what the legal limit on employer matching is. I do know the trucking company I work for will match half of what you put in, with a max employer contribution of 3% of your pre-tax income. Not the greatest deal in the world, but free money is free money...
Or, you could say they put in 50 cents for every dollar you put in, up to a max of 3%;-)
I won't name the company I drive for here, but we run some of the slowest trucks on the road (governed at 63mph) and our logo is also the current United States Air Force roundel.
Posting from the Pilot truck stop just south of Waco, TX. I get home for Christmas on the 23rd, after 4 weeks on the road.
Move to an area of the US with a low cost of living, such as the Southeast or Midwest, to maximize your buying power and savings potential.
Get a job with any major carrier in the United States (this is easy; all trucking companies are screaming for drivers, offering sign-on bonuses, paying for new drivers to go to truck driving school, etc.)
Earn $0.36 per mile. This is the base pay for drivers with one year of experience - you start with less, but get raises at 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year, with the 1-year raise being the one that puts you at 36 cents per mile. You also get an annual raise, but for the purposes of this illustration, I'll assume you never get another raise after your 1-year raise up to $0.36/mile.
Average 2500 miles per week, 50 weeks per year. I took 4 days off for Thanksgiving, and still managed to rack up 2200 miles from 12:01 AM on Sunday till I got home Wednesday. I have had weeks where I got 3600 miles, and weeks where I got 1800 miles, but average is about 2800 miles per week.
Contribute 6% of your pre-tax income to your company's 401(k) plan. Pick a fund that averages at least a 10% rate of return. I contribute the maximum tax exempt amount (15%) and the funds my 401(k) goes into have averaged about 13% over the last 20 years.
Your company will typically match half of what you put into your 401(k), up to a maximum employer contribution of 3% of your pre-tax income.
Retire at age 60 with $1,207,413.56 in your 401(k).
Yes, I've worked out the details in a spreadsheet. I started at age 32 with zero savings, zero experience, and $10,000 worth of credit card debt. After following the advice of Dave Ramsey and working from a plan, I am now debt free with about $25k in other-than-retirement savings and am on my way to retiring with at between $1.4 million and $1.8 million in my 401(k) at age 60, using $0.36/mile and 2500 miles/week as my averages. That doesn't include my other investments. I'm actually shooting for closer to $2.5 million to $3 million in liquid assets when I retire, including the 401(k).
If you can read this, pass a DOT physical exam, pass a 3-week training course, and aren't afraid to work, you can retire a millionaire. There is no excuse for any able-bodied person in the US to sit around on his/her ass, bitching about being poor.
If by "a little bit" you mean over $1 million, then yeah, I think if you've saved up A MILLION DOLLARS, you can give some back.
Nobody is saying your kids cant start off with a better life than you, but if you're giving them $1 MILLION, perhaps you can give some back to the people you fucked over to get that much money in the first place?
(Sorry for the slow reply; I'm an over-the-road truck driver and have been on the road since the day after I posted the message you replied to).
You seriously think $1 million in assets is wealthy?? A decent house alone is a fourth of that, then there's savings. If you die just before you plan to retire and don't have a million dollars in retirement savings, you've squandered your career. I'm a lowly truck driver and I plan to retire a few years early with about $1.6 million in investments alone, nevermind my house, car, truck, motorcycle, etc. etc. etc.
But if I die a year or two before I plan to retire, my wife gets to pay taxes on money that I've already paid taxes on.
And your statement that anyone with a million dollars "fucked over people to get that money" is offensive. The only way I've ever been involved in anyone being "fucked over" is every time I look at my paycheck and see how much you and others of your ilk have robbed me of, using the IRS as your proxies.
If you think I've "fucked people over" to get what I have, try working 14-hour days, 7 days a week, 3-5 weeks at a time with 3-5 days in between those periods and tell me if I've fucked people over, or if I've just worked my ass off and made good decisions to get to where I am financially.
Personally, I'm all for the inheritance (aka: death) tax.
Yeah, because, like, since you worked your ass off your whole life and amassed a little bit of wealth, nevermind the fact that you paid income taxes in the highest bracket, sales taxes on everything you bought, and capital gains taxes on anything you sold for more than you bought it for. You just haven't paid enough! Up with the inheritance tax.
Because making sure your kids start off with a better life than you started off with is a crime.
Ooh, so we exchanged a party in favor of the Little People being made slaves to the giant corporations, for a party in favor of the Little People being made slaves to the giant nanny-state government.
Wake me up when we get a party that doesn't want to enslave the Little People at all.
(P.S. - I am a conservative. Not a neocon. And I'm sorely disappointed in Bush and his ilk. They have seriously let me down, and I think they deserve to be drummed out of office. I'm just not convinced that the Democrats deserved to be drummed into office, that's all.)
Your source is correct. Bush made a last-ditch effort to save a fundamentally flawed agreement entered into by William Jefferson Clinton and Kim Jong-il, which the parent poster described.
So, you're both right. Clinton was the sociopathic douchebag who foolishly trusted the sociopathic douchebag Kim Jong-il, while Bush is the sociopathic douchebag who foolishly tried to save the deal. A nuclear DPRK is the result.
What neither of you is pointing out, however, is that it was the sociopathic douchebag Harry S. Truman who prevented the sociopathic douchebag Douglas MacArthur from proactively dealing with the situation in 1951. If you would like to know how the DPRK would look today after a MacArthur-led occupation, make Japan your next vacation spot.
If, however, you transmit on 27.185mhz (CB channel 19) and are near an interstate freeway, somebody will hear you. They may not like what they hear, but that's another matter entirely;-)
I've listened to a pirate radio station for a few hours once while passing through Monterey, California. Frankly I can see why nobody was willing to pay the guy to transmit (or even give him a license to transmit legally). Even Clear Channel stations have more original and insightful programming than that guy did. Maybe other pirate stations are better; I certainly hope so.
There is, in my mind, no ethical difference between transmitting with an illegal CB radio and an illegal FM transmitter. Both are illegal. The only real difference is that there are no multibillion dollar media corporations paying the FCC to track down and prosecute illegal CB operators. So if you run a pirate FM station, you'll probably get a visit from the FCC, probably have to pay a stiff fine, probably get your transmitter confiscated, and possibly even do some jail time. If you transmit using an illegally modified CB radio, you'll not even be a blip on the FCC's radar screen.
Yeah, except I stopped in a CB shop in Dickson, Tennessee the other day to get my (legal) Cobra 29 NW LTD Classic peaked and tuned, and they had Galaxy DX99V radios for sale. The "Galaxy 99" as it is called, is a 10-meter amateur radio that looks and acts a LOT like a CB radio, except it broadcasts on 10 meters instead of 11 meters, and has AM and FM functionality in addition to SSB, for a grand total of 361 "channels" capability. Of course, the CB shop will gladly modify it to work on 11 meters (CB frequencies) in addition to the 10 meter amateur freqs.
Did I mention that the Galaxy DX99V has 10 watts of power on the AM side, and is considered to be the "Ultimate Truckers' Radio"? They're illegal to sell or use in the United States, because they're over the 4 watt limit and are so easily modified to work on the 11 meter frequencies. Yet thousands of truck drivers across the USA have them. And they use whatever frequency they want on it, not just the CB channels. And very few, if any, of those drivers who have these radios and use the extra "channels" have the license required to operate on those frequencies.
Yes, I'm a truck driver. My CB radio is legal. And everybody I've talked with on it says it sounds just fine.
Trucks can travel in both lanes, and at the same speed as other vehicles.
May be true in CO (haven't been there yet), but untrue in (at least) Illinois, Ohio, Arkansas, and parts of Tennessee - right off the top of my head.
IL and OH are the worst - a 10mph speed difference between trucks and everything else is an accident waiting to happen. It would also be nice if many trucking companies didn't govern their trucks to a maximum speed of 63mph to 68mph. My company governs us at 63mph, which is dangerous out west where the speed limit is 75mph.
I also find it interesting that some of the worst road surfaces are found on toll highways such as the NY Thruway, PA Turnpike, NJ Turnpike, Will Rogers Turnpike, etc. I'd pay good money to not have to drive on them. Makes one wonder what they spend the toll money on, because it most certainly isn't maintenance of a smooth, safe road surface.
The absolute worst freeway road surface I've ever had to drive on, however, is I-10 in southwestern Louisiana, from the Texas state line to Baton Rouge. There's one bump in particular on that stretch of highway that'll throw a driver clear out of his seat if he's not wearing his seat belt. The rest of it isn't much better.
Sorry for the late reply, I just got home from 3 weeks on the road (I'm an over-the-road truck driver, in case you hadn't guessed already). I go back out Sunday morning, this time for 5 weeks.
It also moves from "theft" into "hate crime" at that point.
There's no such thing as a hate crime committed by a minority or a hate crime in which the victim is a caucasian. Didn't you know that only whites are capable of hatred?
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Fair and Balanced doesn't mean unbiased. It means just what it says. They have Sean Hannity, but they also have Alan Colmes. They have Bill O'Reilly, but they also have Geraldo Rivera. And so forth. They at least pay lip service to both sides of the fence when they butcher a story, unlike CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Times-Picayune, the Boston Herald, and USA Today, who claim a lack of bias while presenting the news with as much leftward spin as they think they can without the average Joe catching on.
Pssst...if you're trying to point out conservative bias at Fox, it's probably not a good idea to use George Soros, er, Media Matters as your source. It's a pot/kettle thing, you know.
WWII = 1939-1945
:)
The first Boeing B-52 Stratofortress flight took place on April 15, 1952, almost 7 years after the end of WWII. This was a test flight of a prototype, not a production plane; the B-52 was . The B-52 has been modified, updated, and adapted to meet the changing needs for a large, long-range, high-level bomber. It was initially designed as an intercontinental nuclear strategic bomber, and has since been adapted for low-level flight, conventional bombing, launching cruise missiles, tactical attack, direct- and indirect-fire ground support, photographic reconnaissance, etc.
The airframes are indeed aging (the last B-52H airframe was completed in 1962), but it boils down to efficient use of resources and adaptation of existing equipment. It's such a superb aircraft that any possible improvements to be had with an all-new design would be so small as to make it not worth the expense of said new design. There is no finer long-range, fast-subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber aircraft on the planet right now, nor is there likely to be in the near future.
There are other examples of military equipment that hasn't undergone a significant redesign in a long time due to lack of need. The current M4 Carbine that is issued to infantrymen in the Army and Marine Corps is simply a slight evolution of a design from 1956 - the AR-15, adopted by the US Air Force in 1961, re-designated as the M16 in 1962, and type classified Standard A in 1965, meaning it became the individual weapon of choice for US military personnel. The M1911 pistol was the standard sidearm of the US military for 74 years, from 1911 to 1985. The M60 general-purpose light machine gun has been around since 1957, and was largely based on a WWII German design, the MG42.
In short, just because something's been around for a while doesn't mean it's no longer useful
Service in the United States military is not restricted to nationals. One of my fellow employees is a guy who moved from the UK to the US when he was 13. He served in the USMC, was deployed in The Iraq War Part I, and saw combat there. He still hasn't gotten around to getting his US citizenship. He has no intention to leave the US, apart from the occasional business trip into Canada (we're both truck drivers).
He told me once that when he sees a politician worth getting his citizenship to vote for, he'll make sure to get his citizenship in time to vote for him (or her, as the case may be).
Nope, I refuse to use the "/." moniker for the site "http://slashdot.org/", preferring instead to use "\." in order to truly reflect how it leans so far to the left. "_." might be more appropriate, but that would be confusing...
I thought /. != FUD.
You thought wrong. Particularly when it comes to anything with the potential for political ramifications, \. = FUD.
Two major differences between Brits and Merkins:
;-)
1. Merkins think a hundred years is a long time.
2. Brits think a hundred miles is a long drive.
Back before I became a freight relocation specialist (sometimes referred to as over-the-road truck driver) I commuted about 35 miles to work. And another 35 miles back. We don't have passenger rail service of any type within 100 miles of my home - it's impractical given the population density and geography.
Now I commute about 450 miles per day on average, in a vehicle that burns a gallon of number two diesel fuel about every 6 or 7 miles, depending on the weight of the load and whether I'm in mountains or on the plains. Just doing my bit to help global warming along
See: United States Constitution, Amendment XVI
See also: United States Code, Title 26.
You don't have to like it; I certainly don't. You do, however, have to pay the taxes imposed under the above laws - or lose your belongings and go to prison.
I somehow get the impression that an AK-47 is much cheaper in those little hellhole countries than a decent hunting rifle. Hell, I can get a nice AK (semi-auto only though) for under $400, while a Remington 700 (average bolt-action deer rifle) starts out around $750 and goes way up from there depending on what round it's chambered for, what kind of stock it's on, etc.
:)
Terrorists are very good at maximizing bang for the buck, and when you get right down to it, an AK-47 isn't that much less accurate in semi-auto mode as a nice bolt-action hunting rifle. Not to mention that it's probably much easier to find ammo for the 7.62x39 AK-47 over there than it is to find 22-250 or 300 Winchester Magnum
I used to live within sight of the Waterford 3 nuclear plant - in fact, my father worked there for about 10 years as a maintenance mechanic, having worked previously as a machinist at Combustion Engineering in Chattanooga, where the core for Waterford 3 was built. I am actually wearing a belt buckle he made from scrap stainless pipe bits that were left over from that reactor core. I absorbed every bit of information he imparted to me about a nuclear plant's reactor core design (and he should know a bit about them, having built one that's still in operation 20 years later). As a result, I have absolutely no problem living in the shadow of a reactor building.
He once actually fell into an open-topped tank of primary cooling water. He had to surrender his clothing and spend about 6 hours in decontamination, showering with a scrub brush and scouring powder, before they'd let him out of the plant. It had no discernable effect on his health. He was exposed to a couple thousand millirem over his entire body.
Dual drive axles, power steering, Bendix ABS, 80,000 pound GVWR. 6.9 miles per gallon average on #2 diesel. Pulling loads that average about 34,000 pounds (averaged over the 300,000 miles that are on it - some loads have weighed 45,500 pounds, sometimes I have to pull an empty trailer over 450 miles to get a load).
Want to improve the average fuel economy of a hybrid? Put 10 of them on a trailer and pull it with an International (or Freightliner, or Peterbilt, or Kenworth, etc.)
I don't know what the legal limit on employer matching is. I do know the trucking company I work for will match half of what you put in, with a max employer contribution of 3% of your pre-tax income. Not the greatest deal in the world, but free money is free money...
;-)
Or, you could say they put in 50 cents for every dollar you put in, up to a max of 3%
I won't name the company I drive for here, but we run some of the slowest trucks on the road (governed at 63mph) and our logo is also the current United States Air Force roundel.
Posting from the Pilot truck stop just south of Waco, TX. I get home for Christmas on the 23rd, after 4 weeks on the road.
- Start at age 25.
- Get a Commercial Driver's License (CDL).
- Move to an area of the US with a low cost of living, such as the Southeast or Midwest, to maximize your buying power and savings potential.
- Get a job with any major carrier in the United States (this is easy; all trucking companies are screaming for drivers, offering sign-on bonuses, paying for new drivers to go to truck driving school, etc.)
- Earn $0.36 per mile. This is the base pay for drivers with one year of experience - you start with less, but get raises at 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year, with the 1-year raise being the one that puts you at 36 cents per mile. You also get an annual raise, but for the purposes of this illustration, I'll assume you never get another raise after your 1-year raise up to $0.36/mile.
- Average 2500 miles per week, 50 weeks per year. I took 4 days off for Thanksgiving, and still managed to rack up 2200 miles from 12:01 AM on Sunday till I got home Wednesday. I have had weeks where I got 3600 miles, and weeks where I got 1800 miles, but average is about 2800 miles per week.
- Contribute 6% of your pre-tax income to your company's 401(k) plan. Pick a fund that averages at least a 10% rate of return. I contribute the maximum tax exempt amount (15%) and the funds my 401(k) goes into have averaged about 13% over the last 20 years.
- Your company will typically match half of what you put into your 401(k), up to a maximum employer contribution of 3% of your pre-tax income.
- Retire at age 60 with $1,207,413.56 in your 401(k).
Yes, I've worked out the details in a spreadsheet. I started at age 32 with zero savings, zero experience, and $10,000 worth of credit card debt. After following the advice of Dave Ramsey and working from a plan, I am now debt free with about $25k in other-than-retirement savings and am on my way to retiring with at between $1.4 million and $1.8 million in my 401(k) at age 60, using $0.36/mile and 2500 miles/week as my averages. That doesn't include my other investments. I'm actually shooting for closer to $2.5 million to $3 million in liquid assets when I retire, including the 401(k).If you can read this, pass a DOT physical exam, pass a 3-week training course, and aren't afraid to work, you can retire a millionaire. There is no excuse for any able-bodied person in the US to sit around on his/her ass, bitching about being poor.
If by "a little bit" you mean over $1 million, then yeah, I think if you've saved up A MILLION DOLLARS, you can give some back.
Nobody is saying your kids cant start off with a better life than you, but if you're giving them $1 MILLION, perhaps you can give some back to the people you fucked over to get that much money in the first place?
(Sorry for the slow reply; I'm an over-the-road truck driver and have been on the road since the day after I posted the message you replied to).
You seriously think $1 million in assets is wealthy?? A decent house alone is a fourth of that, then there's savings. If you die just before you plan to retire and don't have a million dollars in retirement savings, you've squandered your career. I'm a lowly truck driver and I plan to retire a few years early with about $1.6 million in investments alone, nevermind my house, car, truck, motorcycle, etc. etc. etc.
But if I die a year or two before I plan to retire, my wife gets to pay taxes on money that I've already paid taxes on.
And your statement that anyone with a million dollars "fucked over people to get that money" is offensive. The only way I've ever been involved in anyone being "fucked over" is every time I look at my paycheck and see how much you and others of your ilk have robbed me of, using the IRS as your proxies.
If you think I've "fucked people over" to get what I have, try working 14-hour days, 7 days a week, 3-5 weeks at a time with 3-5 days in between those periods and tell me if I've fucked people over, or if I've just worked my ass off and made good decisions to get to where I am financially.
Personally, I'm all for the inheritance (aka: death) tax.
Yeah, because, like, since you worked your ass off your whole life and amassed a little bit of wealth, nevermind the fact that you paid income taxes in the highest bracket, sales taxes on everything you bought, and capital gains taxes on anything you sold for more than you bought it for. You just haven't paid enough! Up with the inheritance tax.
Because making sure your kids start off with a better life than you started off with is a crime.
Ooh, so we exchanged a party in favor of the Little People being made slaves to the giant corporations, for a party in favor of the Little People being made slaves to the giant nanny-state government.
Wake me up when we get a party that doesn't want to enslave the Little People at all.
(P.S. - I am a conservative. Not a neocon. And I'm sorely disappointed in Bush and his ilk. They have seriously let me down, and I think they deserve to be drummed out of office. I'm just not convinced that the Democrats deserved to be drummed into office, that's all.)
Ah, Wisconsin...where the men are men.
And so are the women.
"Never ascribe to conspiracy what can easily be explained by incompetence."
Sorry, but I'm too lazy to look up the original author of that quote, but I suspect it was some guy named Bell (not the telephone guy).
Your source is correct. Bush made a last-ditch effort to save a fundamentally flawed agreement entered into by William Jefferson Clinton and Kim Jong-il, which the parent poster described.
So, you're both right. Clinton was the sociopathic douchebag who foolishly trusted the sociopathic douchebag Kim Jong-il, while Bush is the sociopathic douchebag who foolishly tried to save the deal. A nuclear DPRK is the result.
What neither of you is pointing out, however, is that it was the sociopathic douchebag Harry S. Truman who prevented the sociopathic douchebag Douglas MacArthur from proactively dealing with the situation in 1951. If you would like to know how the DPRK would look today after a MacArthur-led occupation, make Japan your next vacation spot.
Them's the tradeoffs :)
;-)
If, however, you transmit on 27.185mhz (CB channel 19) and are near an interstate freeway, somebody will hear you. They may not like what they hear, but that's another matter entirely
I've listened to a pirate radio station for a few hours once while passing through Monterey, California. Frankly I can see why nobody was willing to pay the guy to transmit (or even give him a license to transmit legally). Even Clear Channel stations have more original and insightful programming than that guy did. Maybe other pirate stations are better; I certainly hope so.
There is, in my mind, no ethical difference between transmitting with an illegal CB radio and an illegal FM transmitter. Both are illegal. The only real difference is that there are no multibillion dollar media corporations paying the FCC to track down and prosecute illegal CB operators. So if you run a pirate FM station, you'll probably get a visit from the FCC, probably have to pay a stiff fine, probably get your transmitter confiscated, and possibly even do some jail time. If you transmit using an illegally modified CB radio, you'll not even be a blip on the FCC's radar screen.
Yeah, except I stopped in a CB shop in Dickson, Tennessee the other day to get my (legal) Cobra 29 NW LTD Classic peaked and tuned, and they had Galaxy DX99V radios for sale. The "Galaxy 99" as it is called, is a 10-meter amateur radio that looks and acts a LOT like a CB radio, except it broadcasts on 10 meters instead of 11 meters, and has AM and FM functionality in addition to SSB, for a grand total of 361 "channels" capability. Of course, the CB shop will gladly modify it to work on 11 meters (CB frequencies) in addition to the 10 meter amateur freqs.
Did I mention that the Galaxy DX99V has 10 watts of power on the AM side, and is considered to be the "Ultimate Truckers' Radio"? They're illegal to sell or use in the United States, because they're over the 4 watt limit and are so easily modified to work on the 11 meter frequencies. Yet thousands of truck drivers across the USA have them. And they use whatever frequency they want on it, not just the CB channels. And very few, if any, of those drivers who have these radios and use the extra "channels" have the license required to operate on those frequencies.
Yes, I'm a truck driver. My CB radio is legal. And everybody I've talked with on it says it sounds just fine.
IL and OH are the worst - a 10mph speed difference between trucks and everything else is an accident waiting to happen. It would also be nice if many trucking companies didn't govern their trucks to a maximum speed of 63mph to 68mph. My company governs us at 63mph, which is dangerous out west where the speed limit is 75mph.
I also find it interesting that some of the worst road surfaces are found on toll highways such as the NY Thruway, PA Turnpike, NJ Turnpike, Will Rogers Turnpike, etc. I'd pay good money to not have to drive on them. Makes one wonder what they spend the toll money on, because it most certainly isn't maintenance of a smooth, safe road surface.
The absolute worst freeway road surface I've ever had to drive on, however, is I-10 in southwestern Louisiana, from the Texas state line to Baton Rouge. There's one bump in particular on that stretch of highway that'll throw a driver clear out of his seat if he's not wearing his seat belt. The rest of it isn't much better.
Sorry for the late reply, I just got home from 3 weeks on the road (I'm an over-the-road truck driver, in case you hadn't guessed already). I go back out Sunday morning, this time for 5 weeks.
It also moves from "theft" into "hate crime" at that point.
There's no such thing as a hate crime committed by a minority or a hate crime in which the victim is a caucasian. Didn't you know that only whites are capable of hatred?
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