The USA has already gone metric for scientific and industrial uses. That's where it's needed; there is no need at all to shove it down the public's throat for ordinary uses like what was done in the UK.

Will it generate radio interference?

My first thought at seeing "AGOR-1" was "AGER-2" (Auxiliary General Environmental Research) aka USS Pueblo which was hijacked and still now held by North Korea. Pueblo was really a spy ship, and categorizing the USS Armstrong so very similarly leaves so little doubt about its real purpose too.

Is this a joke? Can the most civilized nation on earth sink to the level of the state criminals who stormed the American embassy in Iran?

I started with Netscape Mail in 1995 and then painlessly moved to Thunderbird when it was released. I've been with it ever since then and am unlikely to change. Most every new release has some small but nice improvement, and no major detriments of the sort that Firefox has suffered. I refuse to use the vaunted cloud or any sort of webmail.

How lovely to see the "privilege" mantra that's drilled so deep into our heads dragged out to justify even more intrusion. Alex Jones says this will include a microphone in the car and voice recording. Has anyone seen this from any other source? I can hope tha Alex went off the deep end there, but I am sure that by 2015 the "privilege" mantra wil be able to wear down the outrage and have us accept even this.

I wouldn't get anything at best buy even if it were free. Walmart almost the same.

I did this accidentally while setting up my first dish, a 2.8 meter solid reflector one (not mesh) at a radio station in 1983. Heard people across the street talking at normal levels. Put a microphone at the focus and have the ultimate shotgun mic.

The idea that the USA is a republic rather than a democracy is a recent manipulation of language. It is a representative democracy with the legal form of a republic. That was a settled fact until maybe 15 years ago, when the "not a democracy" slogan started to spread.

No code, it is literally true.

The part of this that chilled me the most is that the vice principal thought this sort of thing was tolerable. maybe they will claim that parents signed a consent form for this? Anyone with a normally functioning mind, rather than a prison warden attitude, would know in an instant this would cause outrage. These days school really is prison for students in every way. Where did this "warden" imagine that he has any authority over what kids do at home anyway?

I am sorry there seems to be no way to permanently "retire" a brand name. RCA has been dead a long time and should be buried. This bogus thing is the last straw. Even the real RCA was a cheating gang of lawyers so if the public were aware of RCA history the name would be worthless.

it is truly frightening that the FCC has no one at a high level, or anyone listened to at high levels, who has ANY knowledge of how RF signals behave. Otherwise they would have rejected the BPL idea out of hand, it is that bad. The rawest of radio beginners know this.

This is an example of new is best, old is trash, no matter how good the old is and how utterly unsound the new is. Putting HF signals on open power lines is technical insanity and not just for hams. Fortunately it also doesn't work at all well and therefore will die. Ham radio's 100 year history is a GOOD thing. It is a mix of old and new technologies and that is also a good thing.

Oh I forgot one more thing. I am not a computer professional, I am a radio station technical professional - an older career choice for nerds than computers. I had to learn computers as they appeared in radio stations.