Because in the groupthink of the lefty or otherwise kookburger crowd that has taken over Slashdot, it is a Major Sin (tm) to do anything other than mod up 'bush sux' or 'bush is a nazi' d00d posts, all the while the people making such statements have no damned clue what a nazi is or what mental midgets they look like to the people who have more brains cells than mod points.
Yes, but you would get more sex more often than you ever thought possible.
Re:Going the way of the dinosaurs
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Well, my thinking is that the more people we have involved, even those who don't do a lot of tinkering, the better of the hobby is as a whole. Even if someone is more of plug it in and go type person, they may influence someone else to join in the hobby, and *that* person may have a tinkerer inside them just needing an excuse to break out. I'm not someone who does a whole lot or playing around with things, although I have built some antennas from scratch, and that sort of thing. However, I have been influential in getting several others into the hobby, thereby helping to continue the hobby. I'd sure like to see another large influx of people like we saw with the no-code tech license. I fear that may not happen unless the internet collapses, and I'm pretty sure that isn't going to happen. (Not that I'd want it to, but lots of people are missing out on the fun of Radio...)
Re:Going the way of the dinosaurs
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Well, I've been a ham for 12 years, and I can tell you that the hobby must expand or it WILL die. I totally understand that it is a hobby, and keeping it non-commercial is very important, but stifling the innovation and different ways it can be used WILL kill the hobby. Especially when the hobby was born out of the pioneering aspects of people who said, "Hmm, I wonder if this would work?" Placing ten tons of rules on the hobby has both helped it and hurt it. The morse code requirement kept the hobby relatively clean and pure, but also kept a lot of new blood out of the hobby, blood that wasn't CB trash, but were unable to wrap their minds around morse code. I was one of those. I was licensed at 15, and was immediately very active in the local clubs and was a key volunteer with the local Office of Emergency Management, often being one of the only ones that would help in an emergency such as weather. Ham radio gave me the incentive to help others and become active in the community. The thing that started my interest was that on my 13th b-day, I was given a TS440S and a PK232. I spent many nights listening to packet and RTTY chirps, watching a BBS in Guatemala, TG9AXB I think it was. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I'm sure at some point, someone could have said that doing that wasn't right, that we already had postal mail and voice, etc.
Don't handicap the hobby by placing restrictions on reasonable technologies. Encrypting a password is not unreasonable. The Amateur Radio service is still free and anyone who wants to put forth the effort can get into. These days though, 2 meters is dead around here, and there's not much activity due to the internet and cell phones, as someone else said. We sure don't want to be hurting the hobby further by stifling its uses and ability to draw new blood in, and as a result, innovation and continunace of the hobby.
(BTW, we used to have big Field Day events around here. Harldy anything is done anymore, and that saddens the hell out of me.)
(PPS. Amateur Radio was never 'designed' to be anything. It evolved through human innovation. And it must continue to be allowed to, or the layer of dust on many radios will get thicker, save for the occasional large-scale emergency.)
Assumption is the mother of all f***-ups. The average home computer user is lucky they remember how to breathe most days. After dealing with the 'average' user as an ISP for several years, I don't know how some of of these mouth-breathers know to reproduce. The world will run out of people who don't know how to properly maintain a computer about the same time the sun becomes a chunk of cold black coal.
I just bought a 17" PB about 2.5 months ago. I love it, it is fast and what a notebook computer should be. (I use whatever works, I have Mac's, PC's with windows, PC's running Linux, so I'm not a zealot by any measure.
It's google's mail. If you don't want to use it under their rules, then DON'T USE IT. But don't dare tell a company how to offer a FREE SERVICE. You aren't being FORCED to use it. Now if perhaps the US Postal Service was doing this, THEN you'd have something resembling a sane argument.
If I was google and getting this kind of attack, I'd say, in the soupnazi voice, "NO MAIL FOR YOU!"
If I wasn't always so busy, if I didn't have responsibilities that are always demanding more and more of me, such as school and work, and oh, yeah, if there was SOMETHING WORTH WATCHING anymore.
TNT and USA's reruns of Law and Order and L&O SVU notwithstanding, there isn't SH** on that is worth my *very* precious and limited down time.
women's nipples.
Which society would you rather live in?
I really hope you're asking that tounge in cheek. Please tell me you are.
If you'd really rather live in a country that blocks information, political or otherwise, but allows you to see nekkid pictures whenever you want (oh and btw, China is very censuring in that aspect as well), I'm sure there a several million chinese that would love to switch places with you and let you live their lives instead.
How did this get modded as funny? It should be modded informative. In my state, the wife has to sign off on any legal paperwork to do with the business, whether she works in it or not, whether she understands it or not. This can be a bad thing if she happens to be mad at you on the day you sign the loan for that new piece of equipment to handle that new customer. A stupid law, one that I'm not sure a prenup would preclude it's application.
You must be new here. Defending America here is akin to shouting fire in a crowded theater. You can do it, but you'll end up handcuffed, thrown to the floor and gagged.
That is such an interesting observation. Where can I g o to learn how to make such astute observations and put them into such eloquent and flowing terms?
Slashdot Mirror
You are completely and utterly wrong.
Well that's new on Slashdot...
Well, care to share the link? I can't find it on their page.
Because in the groupthink of the lefty or otherwise kookburger crowd that has taken over Slashdot, it is a Major Sin (tm) to do anything other than mod up 'bush sux' or 'bush is a nazi' d00d posts, all the while the people making such statements have no damned clue what a nazi is or what mental midgets they look like to the people who have more brains cells than mod points.
4B. Bring back Jeri Ryan. Naked.
(This negates the need for the other 11 points.)
Oh, c'mon! How is the parent offtopic?? Plus, it's funny!!
Yes, but you would get more sex more often than you ever thought possible.
Well, my thinking is that the more people we have involved, even those who don't do a lot of tinkering, the better of the hobby is as a whole. Even if someone is more of plug it in and go type person, they may influence someone else to join in the hobby, and *that* person may have a tinkerer inside them just needing an excuse to break out. I'm not someone who does a whole lot or playing around with things, although I have built some antennas from scratch, and that sort of thing. However, I have been influential in getting several others into the hobby, thereby helping to continue the hobby. I'd sure like to see another large influx of people like we saw with the no-code tech license. I fear that may not happen unless the internet collapses, and I'm pretty sure that isn't going to happen. (Not that I'd want it to, but lots of people are missing out on the fun of Radio...)
Well, I've been a ham for 12 years, and I can tell you that the hobby must expand or it WILL die. I totally understand that it is a hobby, and keeping it non-commercial is very important, but stifling the innovation and different ways it can be used WILL kill the hobby. Especially when the hobby was born out of the pioneering aspects of people who said, "Hmm, I wonder if this would work?" Placing ten tons of rules on the hobby has both helped it and hurt it. The morse code requirement kept the hobby relatively clean and pure, but also kept a lot of new blood out of the hobby, blood that wasn't CB trash, but were unable to wrap their minds around morse code. I was one of those. I was licensed at 15, and was immediately very active in the local clubs and was a key volunteer with the local Office of Emergency Management, often being one of the only ones that would help in an emergency such as weather. Ham radio gave me the incentive to help others and become active in the community. The thing that started my interest was that on my 13th b-day, I was given a TS440S and a PK232. I spent many nights listening to packet and RTTY chirps, watching a BBS in Guatemala, TG9AXB I think it was. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I'm sure at some point, someone could have said that doing that wasn't right, that we already had postal mail and voice, etc.
Don't handicap the hobby by placing restrictions on reasonable technologies. Encrypting a password is not unreasonable. The Amateur Radio service is still free and anyone who wants to put forth the effort can get into. These days though, 2 meters is dead around here, and there's not much activity due to the internet and cell phones, as someone else said. We sure don't want to be hurting the hobby further by stifling its uses and ability to draw new blood in, and as a result, innovation and continunace of the hobby.
(BTW, we used to have big Field Day events around here. Harldy anything is done anymore, and that saddens the hell out of me.)
(PPS. Amateur Radio was never 'designed' to be anything. It evolved through human innovation. And it must continue to be allowed to, or the layer of dust on many radios will get thicker, save for the occasional large-scale emergency.)
Assumption is the mother of all f***-ups. The average home computer user is lucky they remember how to breathe most days. After dealing with the 'average' user as an ISP for several years, I don't know how some of of these mouth-breathers know to reproduce. The world will run out of people who don't know how to properly maintain a computer about the same time the sun becomes a chunk of cold black coal.
Nah I want a UT2K4 Map based on it. Assault the nuclear reactor!
Heathens.
I just bought a 17" PB about 2.5 months ago. I love it, it is fast and what a notebook computer should be. (I use whatever works, I have Mac's, PC's with windows, PC's running Linux, so I'm not a zealot by any measure.
But man... I wish I had a 1.5 now.
It's google's mail. If you don't want to use it under their rules, then DON'T USE IT. But don't dare tell a company how to offer a FREE SERVICE. You aren't being FORCED to use it. Now if perhaps the US Postal Service was doing this, THEN you'd have something resembling a sane argument.
If I was google and getting this kind of attack, I'd say, in the soupnazi voice, "NO MAIL FOR YOU!"
How do you tell which one is the head nurse? Her knees are dirty.
I thought Janus was a mutual fund...
What you probably fail to mention is that he got hit by a bus when crossing the road to take a leak.
If I wasn't always so busy, if I didn't have responsibilities that are always demanding more and more of me, such as school and work, and oh, yeah, if there was SOMETHING WORTH WATCHING anymore.
TNT and USA's reruns of Law and Order and L&O SVU notwithstanding, there isn't SH** on that is worth my *very* precious and limited down time.
women's nipples. Which society would you rather live in?
I really hope you're asking that tounge in cheek. Please tell me you are. If you'd really rather live in a country that blocks information, political or otherwise, but allows you to see nekkid pictures whenever you want (oh and btw, China is very censuring in that aspect as well), I'm sure there a several million chinese that would love to switch places with you and let you live their lives instead.
Dog? I always that chihauhaus were large rats.
That's an insult to rats.
How did this get modded as funny? It should be modded informative. In my state, the wife has to sign off on any legal paperwork to do with the business, whether she works in it or not, whether she understands it or not. This can be a bad thing if she happens to be mad at you on the day you sign the loan for that new piece of equipment to handle that new customer. A stupid law, one that I'm not sure a prenup would preclude it's application.
"Warnings! XP takes most times two installs."
Yup. Everyone knows it takes at least 3 installs to make it work right.
You must be new here. Defending America here is akin to shouting fire in a crowded theater. You can do it, but you'll end up handcuffed, thrown to the floor and gagged.
That is such an interesting observation. Where can I g o to learn how to make such astute observations and put them into such eloquent and flowing terms?
Don't give them any ideas.
Attack of the Cronies