http://www.arrl.org/hr-1301

I attempted to bring up this issue for discussion but it got turned down. The HR-1301 Bill addresses the rest of antennas that weren't covered by the prior bill which allows satellite dishes and OTA antennas to be erected in restrictive HOA lands.

Amateur Radio operators really need this bill in order to work with the HOA powers that be in order to work out a compromise concerning HF/VHF/UHF antenna restrictions.

"A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead."

The story of the "good Samaritan" is in reality a parable that shows a person who performs in exactly the opposite of his fellows and takes care of a victim of a mugging. Even going so far as to provide for a hospice to allow time to heal the victim's wounds.

In reality, the Samaritan of the time wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal ('without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat and recycled as firelighters).

This then, is how the modern world works. A former lobbyist hired by the government...

He never did... anything that was... illegal...

[pauses]

Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun. He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!

Actually, If you look at the whole "contractor thing", you'll find that the employers treat contractors and H1-B's like shit. HR is nothing but a rubber stamp for the power-mad "executives" who get off on firing "because they can".

Emusic. You have to download your mp3s. (No cloud support.)

Yah, makes sense to me. Nothing like using time, material, massive tax dollars and technology used to stop _a_ nasty homicidal maniac from murdering again. Well done! A truly Cadmean victory to brag about. Whoo hoo! Let's hear it for the Blatimore Policy mens!

http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2009/07/cold-war-relic-att-long-lines-microwave-site-kingston-ny/

There were a series of Receive Only (RO) towers constructed across the US when Western Electric (AT&T nowadays) had Line Of Site microwave transmissions across the US. Prior to that, there was the transference of tape recordings from them to the various spy agencies.

They've always been listening. It's only now that it's a big deal. That and your junk is in danger of being laughed at...

Google "Puzzle Palace" and see what comes up.

Lawd above! Oh, absolutely! There's nothin' like proper british manners an' customs when speakin' da Runner Bean's english!, innit?

Yes. Yes they do. They're that clueless.

Off-topic but just to present a counterpoise -- My property was purchased for 5 figures in 1998, prior to the real estate bubble in 2007, it was appraised at 6 figures (exactly twice the original price), If I had sold it at this point, the story would have ended. However, after 2008 it was worth 1 and a half times the price. Further, to complicate matters, a real estate developer opened up a new street and houses right at my fence-line. Now the new tenents of the new houses could look right into my back yard from their rear windows. Property value was now 1 and a quarter the original price (just a grand past 6 figures).

I had to work away from the property for a while and hired a person to look after the property. He had to move his brother in to watch it for the better part of 24/7 as the local heroin addicts were stealing copper and everything else that they could to support their stupidity and obsession with getting as much heroin in their veins as was humanly possible. While the property was unwatched over a week-end, the drug abusers stripped out all the copper pipes, destroyed the heat exchanger and took as much electrical wiring as was possible.

It's in a good neighborhood, I can't say as much for my "neighbors" however.

The property is now valued at the price of the greatly diminished lot value: 18000 dollars. I lost 70000 plus interest, electricity, water, sewage, maintenance and theft.

And before you say "You should have sold it in 2007!", I say "My mother didn't raise any psychics. Let's see you do better."

Jenny, Jenny now who can I turn to?

As the product requires less and less physical storage (IE: CD, DVD and etc.), We will see the Music and Movie industries attempting to charge us by the byte and not for the media that carries it. I can see why they are going after anyone who shares their product over the Internet as it's a medium and not their Intellectual Property.

Want to listen to the radio? That will be $xx.xx per minute. Your radio will report how long you've been listening and where you've been listening and what you've been listening to. How will you know what station to listen to? By each station allowing you to listen to them for a few minutes and "tease" you into listening to them for a fee.

The Internet is bringing on big changes in the way that we amuse ourselves. If we can put all of our entertainment choices on a mobile removable media device after directly downloading it from the net, how will the entertainment companies be able to charge us multiple times for it?

This is the endgame of all endgames. The entertainment industry has seen the future as far back as the introduction of MP3. You no longer have to go into a brick and mortar building to purchase a physical medium that holds their product while they hold the "copyright" to the product itself.

I can't wait for the proliferation of microphones in public places to catch you whistling a popular tune and charge you a royalty fee for it. ;-)

/sarcasm on
I think that was a TV show from the 50's to the 60's about a kid called Theodore that was nicknamed "Beiber". Something like "Leave it to Beiber", eh? /sarcasm off