Field Day is about operating under minimal conditions. This can be useful in an emergency but that is not its SOLE or MAIN focus. It is not a training exercise for any branch of the military or law enforcement.
It's also about getting amateur radio out there in front of the public in order to attract people to the hobby. There's a low-level disagreement in my ARC about whether we should continue to have our Field Day activities in the same remote mountain campground we've been using for the last few years or move them to somewhere more accessible to the general public just for that reason.
Amateur radio is dieing. There isnt a need for it anymore and the "hams" are getting old. 144mhz is the new CB where anything goes. I suggest getting satellite devices or something along those lines. Dont waste your time or money on amateur radio.
You know, you shouldn't demonstrate your ignorance in public like that. There were a record number of new amateur radio licenses issued in 2009 and the number of new licensees in 2010 is already ahead of that pace.
Not only is amateur radio not dying (note the correct spelling of that, BTW), it's thriving.
There's no amateur radio transceiver that weighs in at less than a pound that would give you the kind of power or reliability you're looking for. Also, unless you're willing to put in the effort to obtain at least a general class amateur radio license, you'd pretty much be limited to the VHF/UHF segments of the amateur bands, which are not good in mountainous terrain unless you are certain you'd be in range of one or more repeaters during your trips. If you were willing to learn Morse code, you would have access to a small portion of the 40 meter band with an entry-level (technician) ticket but then you'd have to carry some sort of long wire antenna and be able to get it up into a couple of trees if you want a realistic hope of making any sort contact.
I'd say that either use a vehicle mounted amateur radio rig that can put out 100W or so--there are several neat little units available, but they don't come cheap, around $1000--or just enjoy the outdoors without worrying about communication. Hell, I packed into the Sierra Nevada for years without a cell phone (they hadn't even been invented at the time) or any other sort of link to the outside world. I liked it that way.
The problem is you just didn't get my point. I wasn't actually rebutting his post, which was actually well-reasoned (and, I might add, not in fact completely his own), I was poking fun at his sig line which is somewhat inflammatory. It's okay, though, he didn't get it either, but if you're going to use a sig line such as his in a public forum, you better prepared to take some shit for it.
By the way, "big fucking moron," that's quite the erudite reply. I commend you, sir, for your deftness with the English language.
And here's a somewhat more reasoned critique of Libertarianism:
[...] libertarianism is basically the Marxism of the Right. If Marxism is the delusion that one can run society purely on altruism and collectivism, then libertarianism is the mirror-image delusion that one can run it purely on selfishness and individualism. Society in fact requires both individualism and collectivism, both selfishness and altruism, to function. Like Marxism, libertarianism offers the fraudulent intellectual security of a complete a priori account of the political good without the effort of empirical investigation. Like Marxism, it aspires, overtly or covertly, to reduce social life to economics. And like Marxism, it has its historical myths and a genius for making its followers feel like an elect unbound by the moral rules of their society.
I don't agree with much else the author has to say but the paragraph above does a pretty good job of conveying my opinion of Libertarians and their movement.
It wasn't a rebuttal, it was a comment on your sig line.
As for Libertarianism, do you have a better suggestion? At this point, almost anything has to be better than the two parties currently spending our children into oblivion
You want my view of Libertarianism? Check thisout.
This laser defense system may be Navy's answer to this new missile threat.
And it would likely take a lot less money to develop a laser defense than it would cost to build even one more Aegis ship. Besides, San Diego Bay is already overcrowded with them--you can't even take a day out on the water in a small boat without having to dodge at least a couple of those fuckers.
Red lasers on one side, blue lasers on the other. I keep forgetting which is which...
It's red lasers on the port side, green lasers on the starboard side showing from dead ahead to 2 points abaft of the beam. I thought everyone knew that.
Actually, I think he's talking about Apple's Privacy Policy - which is as long as it is due to requirements of the law.
Okay, if he did, that's another thing entirely. Still, I have read and understood that as well and I'm no attorney.
I think the whole thing is just populist political grandstanding by the esteemed gentleman from Texas. If he really cared about that sort of thing, he'd be championing more readable bills on the House floor.
Funny how Macs now lack the equivalent of MacPaint.
Perhaps that's because no one would want it?
Besides, if Apple did include a MacPaint equivalent, people like you would complain that they were taking opportunities away from independent developers.
Not to mention that the Congressman apparently suffers from AADD if he can't read through a 13-page report written in more or less plain English. And, yes, I did read the linked PDF file. It wasn't exactly gripping but I had no problem getting though it.
I, for one, will be building an underground city, you are welcome to join me Slashdot.
Hey, cool, thanks! I can bring guns, ammo, survival rations, a four-wheel-drive vehicle, electrical power generators and radio equipment and a Caterpillar D-9. But you're not allergic to cats, are you? Because I can't go anywhere without Fluffy...
Tablets have been hyped and died for the last decade, form factor kills their usability
It wasn't the form factor that killed it, it was that manufacturers had designed tablets as scaled-down desktop machines. That didn't work. Once someone came along and introduced a tablet with an interface that made sense for that type of device, tablets suddenly took off.
Some birds can see into the ultraviolet as well. For a long time biologists wondered how certain bird species (many parrots, for instance) which showed no obvious gender dimorphism could pick out another bird of the opposite sex. Now they know how it's done--the differences show up in the UV wavelengths.
In fact, as mac.com, MobileMe was free for a few years. I tried the paid service for a while but didn't find enough value in it to make re-upping worth it. Besides, "MobileMe" has got to be one of the worst names for a product to ever come out of Apple
You do realize that the story is not about privacy concerns, or anything like that, right?
Although if you look at the tags on the summary, "privacy" is right there next to "science," which means that it was the second thing the submitter thought about when choosing tags.
There's a reason that Nokia opened up Symbian, you know--a last-ditch effort to prevent it from becoming irrelevant. It does not appear to have worked. I'm not a huge fan of Android but even with it all it's limitations it's likely to take the place of Symbian within the five years you mention.
Sounds to me like you've got an investment in Symbian either in money or time. You wouldn't be from Finland by any chance, would you? Maybe you should ease off drinking that pine tar-flavored schnapps. That stuff can't be good for you.
You are still missing the point. Slashdot is a U.S. centric site where the discussions have a U.S. centric point of view. In the U.S., nobody cares about Symbian. It doesn't matter if it runs 40% of the smart phones in the world (and, BTW, that number really only applies if you use a very very liberal definition of "smart phone"), people still don't care about it. Symbian is a dead-end OS pretty much relegated to commodity feature phones now; why should anyone outside the Symbian development business talk about it?
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Field Day is about operating under minimal conditions. This can be useful in an emergency but that is not its SOLE or MAIN focus. It is not a training exercise for any branch of the military or law enforcement.
It's also about getting amateur radio out there in front of the public in order to attract people to the hobby. There's a low-level disagreement in my ARC about whether we should continue to have our Field Day activities in the same remote mountain campground we've been using for the last few years or move them to somewhere more accessible to the general public just for that reason.
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Amateur radio is dieing. There isnt a need for it anymore and the "hams" are getting old. 144mhz is the new CB where anything goes. I suggest getting satellite devices or something along those lines. Dont waste your time or money on amateur radio.
You know, you shouldn't demonstrate your ignorance in public like that. There were a record number of new amateur radio licenses issued in 2009 and the number of new licensees in 2010 is already ahead of that pace.
Not only is amateur radio not dying (note the correct spelling of that, BTW), it's thriving.
So what he needs is a 27MHz Citizen's Band radio? Besides rednecks and freaks, who still uses CB?
Truck drivers. Oh, wait...
(Disclaimer: I am a truck driver, so I'm allowed to make that joke without being modded troll/flamebait.)
...no.
There's no amateur radio transceiver that weighs in at less than a pound that would give you the kind of power or reliability you're looking for. Also, unless you're willing to put in the effort to obtain at least a general class amateur radio license, you'd pretty much be limited to the VHF/UHF segments of the amateur bands, which are not good in mountainous terrain unless you are certain you'd be in range of one or more repeaters during your trips. If you were willing to learn Morse code, you would have access to a small portion of the 40 meter band with an entry-level (technician) ticket but then you'd have to carry some sort of long wire antenna and be able to get it up into a couple of trees if you want a realistic hope of making any sort contact.
I'd say that either use a vehicle mounted amateur radio rig that can put out 100W or so--there are several neat little units available, but they don't come cheap, around $1000--or just enjoy the outdoors without worrying about communication. Hell, I packed into the Sierra Nevada for years without a cell phone (they hadn't even been invented at the time) or any other sort of link to the outside world. I liked it that way.
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This time he's getting lots more eaten by the eagle than just his liver.
Yeah. Don't you just hate it when that happens?
(Wonder how many people are going to get your reference to Greek mythology...)
The problem is you just didn't get my point. I wasn't actually rebutting his post, which was actually well-reasoned (and, I might add, not in fact completely his own), I was poking fun at his sig line which is somewhat inflammatory. It's okay, though, he didn't get it either, but if you're going to use a sig line such as his in a public forum, you better prepared to take some shit for it.
By the way, "big fucking moron," that's quite the erudite reply. I commend you, sir, for your deftness with the English language.
And here's a somewhat more reasoned critique of Libertarianism:
You can read the rest of the article here.
I don't agree with much else the author has to say but the paragraph above does a pretty good job of conveying my opinion of Libertarians and their movement.
Your rebuttal is an ad hominem attack?
It wasn't a rebuttal, it was a comment on your sig line.
As for Libertarianism, do you have a better suggestion? At this point, almost anything has to be better than the two parties currently spending our children into oblivion
You want my view of Libertarianism? Check thisout.
Ya know, you had me there for a while--right up to your sig. Now I just figure you're another Libertarian nutcase, "the autistics of politics."
Fuck you. You don't even have the guts to call me an asshole without hiding behind anonymity.
This laser defense system may be Navy's answer to this new missile threat.
And it would likely take a lot less money to develop a laser defense than it would cost to build even one more Aegis ship. Besides, San Diego Bay is already overcrowded with them--you can't even take a day out on the water in a small boat without having to dodge at least a couple of those fuckers.
Red lasers on one side, blue lasers on the other. I keep forgetting which is which...
It's red lasers on the port side, green lasers on the starboard side showing from dead ahead to 2 points abaft of the beam. I thought everyone knew that.
Actually, I think he's talking about Apple's Privacy Policy - which is as long as it is due to requirements of the law.
Okay, if he did, that's another thing entirely. Still, I have read and understood that as well and I'm no attorney.
I think the whole thing is just populist political grandstanding by the esteemed gentleman from Texas. If he really cared about that sort of thing, he'd be championing more readable bills on the House floor.
Funny how Macs now lack the equivalent of MacPaint.
Perhaps that's because no one would want it?
Besides, if Apple did include a MacPaint equivalent, people like you would complain that they were taking opportunities away from independent developers.
Not to mention that the Congressman apparently suffers from AADD if he can't read through a 13-page report written in more or less plain English. And, yes, I did read the linked PDF file. It wasn't exactly gripping but I had no problem getting though it.
Someone wanna translate this into units of measurement used by, oh I dunno, the entire rest of the world?
Almost as hot as El Centro, California in July.
Of course, that's because I spent most of my high school years stuffed in my locker...
I, for one, will be building an underground city, you are welcome to join me Slashdot.
Hey, cool, thanks! I can bring guns, ammo, survival rations, a four-wheel-drive vehicle, electrical power generators and radio equipment and a Caterpillar D-9. But you're not allergic to cats, are you? Because I can't go anywhere without Fluffy...
Tablets have been hyped and died for the last decade, form factor kills their usability
It wasn't the form factor that killed it, it was that manufacturers had designed tablets as scaled-down desktop machines. That didn't work. Once someone came along and introduced a tablet with an interface that made sense for that type of device, tablets suddenly took off.
Some birds can see into the ultraviolet as well. For a long time biologists wondered how certain bird species (many parrots, for instance) which showed no obvious gender dimorphism could pick out another bird of the opposite sex. Now they know how it's done--the differences show up in the UV wavelengths.
It sounds like some weird cybernetic sexual come-on: "Hey, baby--mobile me!"
iCaramba...
In fact, as mac.com, MobileMe was free for a few years. I tried the paid service for a while but didn't find enough value in it to make re-upping worth it. Besides, "MobileMe" has got to be one of the worst names for a product to ever come out of Apple
You do realize that the story is not about privacy concerns, or anything like that, right?
Although if you look at the tags on the summary, "privacy" is right there next to "science," which means that it was the second thing the submitter thought about when choosing tags.
Blah blah blah...
Wow, snappy comeback.
There's a reason that Nokia opened up Symbian, you know--a last-ditch effort to prevent it from becoming irrelevant. It does not appear to have worked. I'm not a huge fan of Android but even with it all it's limitations it's likely to take the place of Symbian within the five years you mention.
Sounds to me like you've got an investment in Symbian either in money or time. You wouldn't be from Finland by any chance, would you? Maybe you should ease off drinking that pine tar-flavored schnapps. That stuff can't be good for you.
You are still missing the point. Slashdot is a U.S. centric site where the discussions have a U.S. centric point of view. In the U.S., nobody cares about Symbian. It doesn't matter if it runs 40% of the smart phones in the world (and, BTW, that number really only applies if you use a very very liberal definition of "smart phone"), people still don't care about it. Symbian is a dead-end OS pretty much relegated to commodity feature phones now; why should anyone outside the Symbian development business talk about it?