Really rich guys are getting upset that their plan to become even more rich is being held up.

More hams on 20meter and 10 meter with PSK31 than cb'ers.

It depends. a dipole in your apartment/condo is just fine at QRP power levels. if you plan on transmitting at 1000 watts, well things will get really exciting for you.

I have a 10 Meter dipole ran at the peak of my house in the attic, works great for the directions I want to talk.

Everything else I use a current Loop antenna that is smaller and easily turned. or if I am portable when camping I use a BuddiPole/BuddiStick setup. Those also work indoors, but again, if you are at 100 watts or higher, RF feedback and RF exposure to yourself get's really wacky. I have seen guys fry their own gear when running 500 watts on an antenna that was only 30 feet away from themselves due to induction.

A lot of hams claim that more power is good. It's not. 5 Watts QRP you can easily talk around the world on. and it's a lot easier to do in an apartment/condo setting.

Add PSK31 digital mode into the mix and suddenly you are talking to people barely above the noise floor 1500 miles away.

No apologise for D-link router hardware quality.

... It didn't. It installed sort of but it didn't work. The firmware was all screwed up and half the features had to be manually tweaked by modifying files using the terminal. Seriously pissed because the only reason I bought the damn thing was because they said it was DD-WRT compatible. Fuckers.

I'm burned on D-link for a good long time because of that.

The only thing I care about is the wire itself. I care nothing for the tv service or the licenses. That's all dying anyway. The cable is all that is relevant. And what I want more than anything is for there to be a competitive environment for last mile ISP service. And for that, we need as much competition in the last mile as possible. I want more cable run... not less.

Yep. That's how sentencing works. Same as with putting people in prison. I don't put someone in prison for what they will be but what they were and are. Same thing.

What if I told you that putting a young man in prison would hurt his career opportunities? That he might have been a famous poet or painter or scientist or politician. But you put him jail for knifing someone and now none of that is going to happen because he's going to spend the better part of his life in jail.

How sorry do you feel about that? That is precisely how sorry I feel about throwing the switch.

You commit multiple first degree murders... you're not a diamond. You're shit. Case closed. Stick your head in this noose and walk off that plank.

Next issue.

The words you're using don't mean what you think they mean. ;D

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Norway is discontinuing FM transmission entirely.

So... I think that shows you that I called this perfectly. FM is retrograde. It is on the way out. Mandating that phones have FM reception in that context is goofy and more than a little out of touch with the times.

Well, only if you are not bypassing some OTHER water use that is more easily curbed. Why not start filling in all those private swimming pools in Southern Cali? Can you image how many billions of gallons go into evaporation alone for pools that might be used once a month?

What about watering lawns, leaking toilets, dripping faucets, leaking pipes and kids playing in the hydrants opened in the street? I'm sure ALL of these are orders of magnitude bigger issues than what is "wasted" by bottling it for drinking.

Nah, the reps have solutions. You just veto them all leaving the reps with two options... your way or nothing.

They choose nothing because they don't believe in your solutions any more than you believe in theirs.

We have no common ground and statements like yours merely underscore the issue. You don't want to find places of compromise and common action. You just want to try and dominate HALF the fucking country and pretend like that is your right.

And yeah, there are people on both sides that do that. They're both assholes. But what is accomplished by pretending like the opposition isn't actually offering solutions? That's just a confession of ignorance at best and a fucking lie at worst.

Which is it? Are you ignorant of the solutions being offered by your political opposition or lying that they don't have any?

Those are the only options. They have them. I can quote them if you like. I rather suspect you know that.

Tell you what, you can honestly come to the table looking for substantive compromise or you can go fuck yourself. :-)

No, actually the earthquake wasn't the problem, the plant survived fairly well with an earthquake that was many orders of magnitude above the designed speciation's. If the emergency power hadn't failed (by being flooded in sea water), the plants wouldn't have been useable and we would have had some leakage of radioactive water but not the mess we have now. What failed was the electrical power at the plant because the giant wave that took out all the backup generators and there was no way to get portable generation on site fast enough to keep the plants from overheating.

Not to mention that these designs where incredibly OLD technology, having not advanced in nearly 20 years. Much safer designs exist, ones that don't have the problems with needing supplemental cooling pumps when there is an unplanned shutdown, where they fail to an inertly safe state in emergencies. They can be built to withstand just about any earthquake short of total local destruction, and even then fail into a inert state. (but an event like that would likely make the nuclear issue look tame anyway) And although you might have to wait a few thousand years before you can totally decommission the plant after something like that, you won't have the issues Japan saw.

In regards to religious people, prisons predate Christianity. And for the record I'm agnostic.

As to picking diamonds out of the shit, that is the point of the court trial.

If we don't have kangaroo courts then the sentences are valid. If we do then all sentences are suspect.

Choose one.

As to execution trials being expensive, I have addressed this repeatedly. That is an artifact of the anti execution lobby. They've effectively tried to ban executions by making them prohibitively expensive. It is basically legislative trolling. Limit the appeals process to one year after the trial. If you can't find enough evidence to call the initial verdict into question by that point... carry out the sentence.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

That argument cuts both ways. Not just against people seeking redress of grievances but also against those owed their final rewards.

Justice is not just about you getting stuff. Think upon the blind lady. Note that she carries her scales in one hand and her double edged sword in the other. It is a miscarriage of justice to not execute a just sentence as much as it is to execute a false one.

Have the case. See that due process is done. Log the sentence, follow a reasonable process afterwards if you want some appeals to be in place. But the sentence must be carried out in a timely manner. A year of delay is quite generous. More than that is procrastination.

If the appeal process stops at one year because the guilty party is dead... then the costs associated with the process become quite reasonable.

As to flame baits... I am internet fearless... so I don't care.

As to the ISS being useful... its purpose was to bridge relations with the Russians. It failed. Absent that we would not have built it at all.

As to shooting space junk, remind me why we need to put a space laser on the ISS and not just on anything at all? We could have a space junk shooting satellite. The Russians will accuse us of putting weapons in space but what is new.

As to the Russians not being able to put pressure on the US if we didn't make ourselves vulnerable to them... thank you for proving my fucking point. That is why I don't want to give them more leverage. They exploit EVERYTHING no matter how petty and rediculious.

Newsflash, the US doesn't actually care about the ISS. As you point out, we didn't really fund space exploration for awhile. Why was that? Because we had more pressing concerns.

If the Russians are going to exploit every moment of weakness to get something then they are terrible partners for ANYTHING.

This is right up there with that dumb idea to put a tunnel between Alaska and Siberia so we could have a transcontinental train.

No one is investing in SHIT to do with Russia because no one trusts them. Think about it. Russia sits between east asia and Europe. One of the busiest trade routes in the world. And what does everyone do? They bypass Russia by any means.

If Russia were at all truthworthy there would be a big freight train service from China to Europe. But instead, everything is loaded on to boats and taken by sea. Think of the trade Russia would get if the cargo ran through their country? Warehouses, factories, all sorts of infrastructure investment, lots of transport jobs. I mean... we're talking about total economic benefits into the hundreds of billions per year at the very least.

And Russia ruins any chance they'll have at getting any of that on a regular basis by being raging morons.

And before anyone says "oh the US isn't trustworthy either"... well then why is the US getting massive investment from all over the world as well as a huge capital flight from China AND Russia into the US? It must be because these powerful interests want to lose their money. Because if the US isn't a trustworthy investment then putting your money in the US is stupid. So no... the US is exceptionally trustworthy. That isn't saying the US is perfect... and all things are relative.

Never let a good crisis go to political waste.. That's what I always say.... (sarcasm off)