Hi -
As the Germans say, Quatsch. Quatsch mit Soße.
Rush doesn't own ANY radio stations. His show is carried on those radio stations. Some of those radio stations also carry liberal talk show hosts. Some of those stations are owned by people who own just one station, others are owned by those who own a dozen, and then there are the rest of the stations, who are all owned by ClearChannel.:-)
But the ownership of the station has nothing to do with what is broadcast. Stations exist to make money for their owners, and they broadcast whatever sells radio ad time.
The FCC doesn't enter into this at all. It would if the radio station were ONLY to carry conservative programming, but guess what? They don't. They carry any and all programming that sells radio ad time. Duh.
This is just a naked grab for power, one that must be hindered by anyone with any interest in keeping free speech alive. You don't like what Rush broadcasts? Go out and try to do it better than he does. Just don't expect, like AirAmerica did, that a sufficiently large number of people actually want to listen to you and that the commercial side of the business will automagically support you.
Try thinking this one through: the North Koreans know that they can't simply roll in to Seoul because not only is the South Korean and the US military there, but also the border is heavily mined and that needs to be cleared before they can move. They can clear that by sending in waves of tanks and people or use specialized troops and machinery. Knowing the North Koreans, they'll do the first rather than the last. More costly, but they don't really care about that when push comes to shove.
Now remove those mines, and you've just made it easier for the North Koreans to exercise the option. As a matter of fact, you've made it even attractive to do so: all those troops they'd have lost in clearing the mines are now available.
So you've just made life easier for the North Koreans. What do you purpose to replace the mines? Mines block terrain and make it costly for someone to enter it. What is your alternative?
There are only two alternatives: nukes or troops. Want to deny terrain? Occupy it or destroy it.
There is none. Or do you have one?
Instead of getting all hissy on land mines, get hissy on incompetent militaries and half-assed "revolutionaries" who don't know shit from shinola about how to use mines and stop the Europeans from selling land mines to anyone who pays cash. There's your problem, not the land mines in and of themselves.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the absolutely fabulous Feynman lectures in physics. I recently scarfed about 10 of these on one of the binary usenet groups and they are absolutley brilliant, especially the lecture of crystal formation.
John
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Hi - As the Germans say, Quatsch. Quatsch mit Soße. Rush doesn't own ANY radio stations. His show is carried on those radio stations. Some of those radio stations also carry liberal talk show hosts. Some of those stations are owned by people who own just one station, others are owned by those who own a dozen, and then there are the rest of the stations, who are all owned by ClearChannel. :-)
But the ownership of the station has nothing to do with what is broadcast. Stations exist to make money for their owners, and they broadcast whatever sells radio ad time.
The FCC doesn't enter into this at all. It would if the radio station were ONLY to carry conservative programming, but guess what? They don't. They carry any and all programming that sells radio ad time. Duh.
This is just a naked grab for power, one that must be hindered by anyone with any interest in keeping free speech alive. You don't like what Rush broadcasts? Go out and try to do it better than he does. Just don't expect, like AirAmerica did, that a sufficiently large number of people actually want to listen to you and that the commercial side of the business will automagically support you.
Try thinking this one through: the North Koreans know that they can't simply roll in to Seoul because not only is the South Korean and the US military there, but also the border is heavily mined and that needs to be cleared before they can move. They can clear that by sending in waves of tanks and people or use specialized troops and machinery. Knowing the North Koreans, they'll do the first rather than the last. More costly, but they don't really care about that when push comes to shove.
Now remove those mines, and you've just made it easier for the North Koreans to exercise the option. As a matter of fact, you've made it even attractive to do so: all those troops they'd have lost in clearing the mines are now available.
So you've just made life easier for the North Koreans. What do you purpose to replace the mines? Mines block terrain and make it costly for someone to enter it. What is your alternative?
There are only two alternatives: nukes or troops. Want to deny terrain? Occupy it or destroy it.
There is none. Or do you have one?
Instead of getting all hissy on land mines, get hissy on incompetent militaries and half-assed "revolutionaries" who don't know shit from shinola about how to use mines and stop the Europeans from selling land mines to anyone who pays cash. There's your problem, not the land mines in and of themselves.
And bio weapons are a straw man: nukes deter.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the absolutely fabulous Feynman lectures in physics. I recently scarfed about 10 of these on one of the binary usenet groups and they are absolutley brilliant, especially the lecture of crystal formation. John