They should call it a self-disinfecting mouse or something like that. A self-cleaning mouse would be one that saves you the chore of cleaning all the gunk deposited by the ball on the tension roller and optical interrupter shafts.
" There are good reasons why these frequencies are regulated, and they have nothing to do with money.
The FCC existed LONG before the Emergency Broadcast System. So you're just simply wrong."
The relative dates of inception of the FCC and the EBS system have no bearing on whether or not it is correct that there are good reasons why radio frequencies are regulated, or whether they have anything to do with money.
"The FCC uses the rental fees from the stations to enforce regulations instead of getting all of that money from taxes, keeping the financial stress on those who gain the most from the use of a resource. If public airwaves were not controled, aside from the obvious overcrowding and lack of standardization, then the FCC would have to get its money from ALL taxpayers instead of just those who take advantage of the situation."
Your use of the term "rental fees" is not really correct, and is misleading.
You do not get a license to broadcast on a specific frequency with a specific deviation above and below that center frequency with a specific modulation method from a specific location at a specific effective radiated power by "renting" the particular chunk of spectrum. You get a license to do the above "in the public interest".
Of course you can wind up spending a bundle on lawyers arguing over which applicant will do (or has been doing, in the case of renewals and challenges) the best job of operating in the public interest, and you do have to pay various administrative fees (and fines when you screw up), but once you get the license you can usually keep getting renewals if you do even a barely adequate job of serving the coverage area.
How delightful to know that the job is going to someone who won't actually know what needs to be done to solve any problems but will be able to instantly name the companies from whom we need to buy a lot of very expensive goods and services.
Apparently I'm mistaken about it being a SCART connector, it's apparently Japanese in origin, specifically the EIAJ E8. I haven't been able to find a picture, just a scan of an old Taxan monitor manual page, but I'm pretty sure it's the same as what I've got on the back of an old Fisher tunerless TV and and old (piano key SP speed only VHS like you'd see on AV carts 25 years ago) Panasonic VCR.
Social Security is no more a pyramid scheme than any other insurance policy. It's just that the board of directors which oversees the investment of the premiums is, in this case (unlike insurance companies) composed of short-sighted self-serving idiots, i.e., congresscritters.
You're quite correct, however, that the Republican "privatization" conspiracy is nothing more than a plot to let Wall Street loot it by churning accounts and taking it all in commissions.
"Why should I be forced to base my retirement on social security when I can gamble in the stock market instead?"
I realise that you're being satirical, but a lot of people don't understand that Social Security isn't a retirement program, it's death insurance.
Life insurance provides money if you fail to be alive and earning money when you're supposed to be. Death insurance kicks in if you're alive and not earning money due to age or disability. That's why it infuriates me to hear people refer to "payroll taxes" to indicate monies paid in to the Social Security system. They're actually insurance premiums.
That said, it would be nice if those premiums could be invested in something other than bonds issued by the federal government which can just print more money with which to redeem them, thus watering down the value of each dollar. I'd like to see them put into tax-free state and municipals (i.e., not commercial ventures as is the case with the stock market) that could finance badly needed infrastructure and which would have to be repaid with real money.
"fingerprint reader on the keyboard, that is tied to the machine with a hash, combined with a cadence reader. Everyone types at their own cadence...I like my typing cadence idea actually-first dibs, copyleft, right and center, prior art, TM, pat pending and so on. Give me candy! Candy License EULA."
Even assuming that a copyright claimed by an AC would be provable and enforceable, you still have to have a system sophisticated enough not to give false positives when the user is , uh, "practicing one-handed typing".
I readily admit that my computer expertise when it comes to games extends about as far as free cell, but in the following sentence, "He also doctored the Turbine staff about what a Campaign Setting really is.", should 'doctored' have been 'tutored', or is this another case of me being hopelessly out of touch with current slang?
You know those self-appointed and self-promoting "with it" types that are always having conferences and popping up on talk shows? That's their cutsey name for a 10 year period with lots of technological advances going on.
"However, I don't want my ISP limiting my HTTP traffic by allowing google.com to come through unmetered, but at the same time limit money.cnn.com because Google decided to pay my ISP more."
The more likely reality will be that your ISP is RoadRunner over Time-Warner Cable or AOL over Time-Warner Cable or Earthlink over Time-Warner Cable and anything from CNN (which is owned by Time-Warner) will get there faster than anything from Google (or CNN competitors MSNBC and CNBC, both owned by NBC).
What I'm wondering is what other horrible government failures has David Kay been near enough to that he could say after the fact "I could tell it was going to be a disaster" without having been close enough to take any of the blame, and was Scott Ritter around to to declare that it was going to be a disaster before it happened when something might have been gained by having listened to him?
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I thought that was Barbie's job.
What does being mute have to do with the ability to spell?
They should call it a self-disinfecting mouse or something like that. A self-cleaning mouse would be one that saves you the chore of cleaning all the gunk deposited by the ball on the tension roller and optical interrupter shafts.
If you still believe that the problem is that trivial I'm guessing that that was your only semester of electronics.
The FCC existed LONG before the Emergency Broadcast System. So you're just simply wrong."
The relative dates of inception of the FCC and the EBS system have no bearing on whether or not it is correct that there are good reasons why radio frequencies are regulated, or whether they have anything to do with money.
A boneheaded move which will come back to bite us one day, but, so far at least, that spectrum is for cell phones and such, not broadcast.
Google and/or Wiki for "standing wave ratio", and then go find someone with an SWR meter who knows what they're doing.
Your use of the term "rental fees" is not really correct, and is misleading.
You do not get a license to broadcast on a specific frequency with a specific deviation above and below that center frequency with a specific modulation method from a specific location at a specific effective radiated power by "renting" the particular chunk of spectrum. You get a license to do the above "in the public interest".
Of course you can wind up spending a bundle on lawyers arguing over which applicant will do (or has been doing, in the case of renewals and challenges) the best job of operating in the public interest, and you do have to pay various administrative fees (and fines when you screw up), but once you get the license you can usually keep getting renewals if you do even a barely adequate job of serving the coverage area.
Apparently he's willing to try practically anything except for the "quaint" practice of getting a search warrant.
How delightful to know that the job is going to someone who won't actually know what needs to be done to solve any problems but will be able to instantly name the companies from whom we need to buy a lot of very expensive goods and services.
Apparently I'm mistaken about it being a SCART connector, it's apparently Japanese in origin, specifically the EIAJ E8. I haven't been able to find a picture, just a scan of an old Taxan monitor manual page, but I'm pretty sure it's the same as what I've got on the back of an old Fisher tunerless TV and and old (piano key SP speed only VHS like you'd see on AV carts 25 years ago) Panasonic VCR.
Again, thanks to all.
You're quite correct, however, that the Republican "privatization" conspiracy is nothing more than a plot to let Wall Street loot it by churning accounts and taking it all in commissions.
I realise that you're being satirical, but a lot of people don't understand that Social Security isn't a retirement program, it's death insurance.
Life insurance provides money if you fail to be alive and earning money when you're supposed to be. Death insurance kicks in if you're alive and not earning money due to age or disability. That's why it infuriates me to hear people refer to "payroll taxes" to indicate monies paid in to the Social Security system. They're actually insurance premiums.
That said, it would be nice if those premiums could be invested in something other than bonds issued by the federal government which can just print more money with which to redeem them, thus watering down the value of each dollar. I'd like to see them put into tax-free state and municipals (i.e., not commercial ventures as is the case with the stock market) that could finance badly needed infrastructure and which would have to be repaid with real money.
Do you, by chance, have a source for a pin-out of the 8 pin SCART connector to which you could direct me?
Unfortunately.
If we get to see him devoured by the shark, then it's all good.
Even assuming that a copyright claimed by an AC would be provable and enforceable, you still have to have a system sophisticated enough not to give false positives when the user is , uh, "practicing one-handed typing".
I readily admit that my computer expertise when it comes to games extends about as far as free cell, but in the following sentence, "He also doctored the Turbine staff about what a Campaign Setting really is.", should 'doctored' have been 'tutored', or is this another case of me being hopelessly out of touch with current slang?
You know those self-appointed and self-promoting "with it" types that are always having conferences and popping up on talk shows? That's their cutsey name for a 10 year period with lots of technological advances going on.
Yeah, makes me wanna barf, too.
The more likely reality will be that your ISP is RoadRunner over Time-Warner Cable or AOL over Time-Warner Cable or Earthlink over Time-Warner Cable and anything from CNN (which is owned by Time-Warner) will get there faster than anything from Google (or CNN competitors MSNBC and CNBC, both owned by NBC).
While you're double super secret encrypting that file why not keep compressing and re-compressing it until you have it down to 1 bit as well? :-)
No, I'm not entirely kidding.
Apparently ESR (of caps) is an initialism and not an acronym because it isn't pronounced as a word the way, for example, LASER or SCUBA are.
Yeah, I didn't know the definition was that picky either.
Why bother with thermite? Just carry on a Dell laptop. :-)
Well, there are those who claim that George Herbert Walker Bush (Bush 41) was involved in the JFK assasination.