the FCC has issued an order that a landlord CANNOT block the installation of a receiving antenna or dish.
federal law.
it is in the interest of a landlord to require insurance. your standard homeowners' policy is just fine.
for a no-damage install, if you face direct south, put the dish pole in a 5-gallon drum of wet concrete, and run the wire in under the lip of the air conditioner's fit into its wall sleeve. otherwise, get a roof tower, a 2x4, some lagbolts, and a piece of 1-1/2-inch pipe to fit the roof tower. bolt the tower to three chunks of 2x4, slide it out to the edge of the balcony. put in the pipe. bolt on the dish hardware, aim, and align with the coax run as described above.
one sandbag on each piece of 2x4 held mine for 10 years.
if you look under the bases on molded plastic tube bases (4, 5, and 6 prong types) you'll see a condensed version. deForest ceramic base tubes had the license stamped on the tube base's side.
the most common license in RCA/Cuningham/deForest tubes was that the tube was licensed only for replacement use in radio receivers and amateur uses.
which raises the question, was every broadcaster in operation at the time in the 20s and 30s operating in violation of patent license??? they were certainly not able to use the popular records of the time, for almost all of them prohibited broadcast use.. and the 16 inch transcription programs all were licensed for one-time use. the program distributors varied as to whether the program was to be destroyed after the broadcast date, or whether the acetates were to be returned for destruction (most common.)
pull one of those UX-201As out of your prehistoric "ourPod" and check it yourself.
if it was the network, it would be for new york counties and cities, and they'd have a local weather "icon" bouncing up and down and shaking his fists in the corner of the screen.
if it were LA, they'd have live helicopter shots of low-flying Toyotas and houses sliding down hills.
but it wasn't, so it was your local network-affiliate station.
you think safari, which is basically mozilla with a mask, is going to whomp The Original Zilla and MSIE all by itself? I'll bet apple doesn't. safari is probably the devkit for the iPhone. you know, as in "let everybody interconnect and make my little toy another billion seller?"
I refer you to Tri-X b/w, and to Fujichrome 400 around 1972. a really nicely balanced and warm film. if you pushed it to 1200, you could peel the grains off the base and go bowling with them, but the picture held up remarkably well on the small screen. it was THE go-to magic film for 16mm newsfilm when it came out.
if that was a negative film, it would have been asa 800 with little more grain than the "fast" 125 color film of the time.
ALL the data had to cross that cable, right? same thing as pulling the RAM out and taking it down to the sheriff's office. and it's easier to get to, just unplug it and put it in a brown envelope.
yes, without a country. if they have no ID, they can't do business with the feds.
at which point those states can withhold taxes and national cooperation and "go private," which message the bushers can probably understand. they wouldn't catch on if those states "seceded from the Union." but going private, they'd probably get awards.
if anybody from the US was allowed across the borders to present the awards.
it's all totally ridiculous. going to the brink of national bankruptcy to force states out. we once had a war to prevent that kind of idiocy.
in fluorescent ScotchGlo green. bust the coffeeshop if they mix your latte with skim instead of real milk. bust the parking valets if your car is scratched. bust TSA if they tell you to take your shoes off at the airport security line.
it's the new Superman PJs. everybody will want one.
because as this becomes widely known inside and outside tech circles (please feel to read that as "he should call eyewitness hometeam action news alert at the phone number on the bottom of your TV screen...") Gateway will lose a boatload of sales. this one is bizarre enough to make the international wire services.
we need to stop them on the street, call them at home during dinner, and have all the Mike Wallace Wannabees on their doorstep with cameras and microphones and ask the twisted few why they are terrorizing Americans.
reason being that after you figure all the skybounces and so forth, every single radio wave ever sent has gone through every square centimeter of the atmosphere. might not be strong enough to pull in, but they've been there.
this being the case, governments have set in international treaty how to manage the airwaves within each others' borders, and a signal legally transmitted in one country is accepted as valid in every other one. might be local interference, but if it's IETF in one area, it's the law.
this is like trying to sue God because sunlight also has UV rays in it, and the sunburn cancers affect your quality of life. good luck collecting on that one, although you are certain to find somebody, somewhere admitted to the bar who will bring the suit.
the only reason it's "illegal" is that there is nobody around for the weasels to get license money from with FOSS software. no license, no magic number.
well, the free market is saying they are a bunch of bonehead morons for taking that stance, we'll gin up a magic number with Special Midnight Magic, and screw you.
moral: a weasel without a secret is no threat. make their secret public, and the weasel is just another annoying little pesky bug on the wind. allow access, or folks will find it anyway.
yes, indeed, they do have blanket BMI and ASCAP licenses to allow them to play recorded music. they don't have to log the songs and pay by play, but there is a pool of broadcast money that the agencies divvy up. kind of like Macy's had better have their blanket license, or the Tone Police can come in and take them by the lawyers for the background music.
kind of like you can take out a blanket license for your website, go see bmi.com for details.
what congress did in the copyright law in the 30s was write a law that, in one section, required the music folks to license their music for broadcast and other public purposes. not create a free ride.
put up or shut up. sue IBM and other Penguinistas all the way down to the guy with a cell phone at the bus stop, or just admit you're whining because 100% of any market is not enough for you.
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the FCC has issued an order that a landlord CANNOT block the installation of a receiving antenna or dish.
federal law.
it is in the interest of a landlord to require insurance. your standard homeowners' policy is just fine.
for a no-damage install, if you face direct south, put the dish pole in a 5-gallon drum of wet concrete, and run the wire in under the lip of the air conditioner's fit into its wall sleeve. otherwise, get a roof tower, a 2x4, some lagbolts, and a piece of 1-1/2-inch pipe to fit the roof tower. bolt the tower to three chunks of 2x4, slide it out to the edge of the balcony. put in the pipe. bolt on the dish hardware, aim, and align with the coax run as described above.
one sandbag on each piece of 2x4 held mine for 10 years.
or at least the slip therein.
if you look under the bases on molded plastic tube bases (4, 5, and 6 prong types) you'll see a condensed version. deForest ceramic base tubes had the license stamped on the tube base's side.
the most common license in RCA/Cuningham/deForest tubes was that the tube was licensed only for replacement use in radio receivers and amateur uses.
which raises the question, was every broadcaster in operation at the time in the 20s and 30s operating in violation of patent license??? they were certainly not able to use the popular records of the time, for almost all of them prohibited broadcast use.. and the 16 inch transcription programs all were licensed for one-time use. the program distributors varied as to whether the program was to be destroyed after the broadcast date, or whether the acetates were to be returned for destruction (most common.)
pull one of those UX-201As out of your prehistoric "ourPod" and check it yourself.
darn all these pesky different formats!
if it was the network, it would be for new york counties and cities, and they'd have a local weather "icon" bouncing up and down and shaking his fists in the corner of the screen.
if it were LA, they'd have live helicopter shots of low-flying Toyotas and houses sliding down hills.
but it wasn't, so it was your local network-affiliate station.
you think safari, which is basically mozilla with a mask, is going to whomp The Original Zilla and MSIE all by itself? I'll bet apple doesn't. safari is probably the devkit for the iPhone. you know, as in "let everybody interconnect and make my little toy another billion seller?"
and color in the 70s.
I refer you to Tri-X b/w, and to Fujichrome 400 around 1972. a really nicely balanced and warm film. if you pushed it to 1200, you could peel the grains off the base and go bowling with them, but the picture held up remarkably well on the small screen. it was THE go-to magic film for 16mm newsfilm when it came out.
if that was a negative film, it would have been asa 800 with little more grain than the "fast" 125 color film of the time.
ALL the data had to cross that cable, right? same thing as pulling the RAM out and taking it down to the sheriff's office. and it's easier to get to, just unplug it and put it in a brown envelope.
since they aren't doing anything, just deal with it yourself.
maybe that will also settle business not giving a rip about identity theft, too.
yes, without a country. if they have no ID, they can't do business with the feds.
at which point those states can withhold taxes and national cooperation and "go private," which message the bushers can probably understand. they wouldn't catch on if those states "seceded from the Union." but going private, they'd probably get awards.
if anybody from the US was allowed across the borders to present the awards.
it's all totally ridiculous. going to the brink of national bankruptcy to force states out. we once had a war to prevent that kind of idiocy.
in fluorescent ScotchGlo green. bust the coffeeshop if they mix your latte with skim instead of real milk. bust the parking valets if your car is scratched. bust TSA if they tell you to take your shoes off at the airport security line.
it's the new Superman PJs. everybody will want one.
because as this becomes widely known inside and outside tech circles (please feel to read that as "he should call eyewitness hometeam action news alert at the phone number on the bottom of your TV screen...") Gateway will lose a boatload of sales. this one is bizarre enough to make the international wire services.
CowboyNeal, of course.
why somebody hasn't pulled RICO on the RIAA escapes me. this is what the law was written for, slamming extortionists' fingers in a car door.
we need to stop them on the street, call them at home during dinner, and have all the Mike Wallace Wannabees on their doorstep with cameras and microphones and ask the twisted few why they are terrorizing Americans.
which, after all, is against the law.
imagine, RIAA in gitmo
it's easy if you try....
it's the latest gotcha is all. those guys lie like a preacher at a lap dance parlor.
they never see wrongdoing on their part.
Microsoft. the reason there is braille on the keys of the drive-through ATM.
reason being that after you figure all the skybounces and so forth, every single radio wave ever sent has gone through every square centimeter of the atmosphere. might not be strong enough to pull in, but they've been there.
this being the case, governments have set in international treaty how to manage the airwaves within each others' borders, and a signal legally transmitted in one country is accepted as valid in every other one. might be local interference, but if it's IETF in one area, it's the law.
this is like trying to sue God because sunlight also has UV rays in it, and the sunburn cancers affect your quality of life. good luck collecting on that one, although you are certain to find somebody, somewhere admitted to the bar who will bring the suit.
why not bring him around to all computer users for a personal meet-and-greet?
drive him to the first one, use a wheelbarrow to take him to the second one, pour him in a bucket for the third one..........
no practical reason for this whatsoever.
the only reason it's "illegal" is that there is nobody around for the weasels to get license money from with FOSS software. no license, no magic number.
well, the free market is saying they are a bunch of bonehead morons for taking that stance, we'll gin up a magic number with Special Midnight Magic, and screw you.
moral: a weasel without a secret is no threat. make their secret public, and the weasel is just another annoying little pesky bug on the wind. allow access, or folks will find it anyway.
smart judge.
that's all you need to know.
higher transportation costs are part of the price of everything you buy. it's just economic redistribution to send some to the farmers.
as always, the little guy at the end of the chain... the underclass, whether domestic or in third-world countries... gets the short end.
and frankly, local police officials, who don't arrest the open-secret workers.
and all of the immigration guys, because they won't respond to the local cops unless there is a major crime involved.
none of these pinheads should get work again until they fix the issues that already exist.
congress: no money for DHS until they do what they've already got the authority to do.
immigration: ship 'em back or sleep under a bridge.
local cops: no donut for you unless you get the illegals off the streets.
OTHERWISE, kwitch'er'bitchin. don't grandstand and create secret police files, work with what you have for once and do SOMETHING....
yes, indeed, they do have blanket BMI and ASCAP licenses to allow them to play recorded music. they don't have to log the songs and pay by play, but there is a pool of broadcast money that the agencies divvy up. kind of like Macy's had better have their blanket license, or the Tone Police can come in and take them by the lawyers for the background music.
kind of like you can take out a blanket license for your website, go see bmi.com for details.
what congress did in the copyright law in the 30s was write a law that, in one section, required the music folks to license their music for broadcast and other public purposes. not create a free ride.
put up or shut up. sue IBM and other Penguinistas all the way down to the guy with a cell phone at the bus stop, or just admit you're whining because 100% of any market is not enough for you.