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Comment Re:Lease not sell (Score 1) 127

They are. They license the spectrum with use and build requirements. It becomes nearly permanent due to perpetuity.

Would any company spend millions or billions on a network if they couldn't renew in 10 years despite operating within the guidelines of the license (power, antenna, etc.)?

Comment Re:They aren't really selling it are they? (Score 1) 127

No spectrum is truly sold, it's all licensed in 5-10 year intervals and there are build requirements. A company or individual cannot license a frequency or block and just sit on it. If they don't notify the FCC that they've built out their station, their license will be revoked.

Any auction is for an exclusive use of that spectrum for a certain period of time. Obviously once you have it and are operating on it, it's easy to renew each period, so it can become virtually indefinite. BUT, abusing that license, stopping operation, etc. can result in it being revoked and the spectrum relicensed to someone else.

Comment Re:Key combo issues (Score 2) 177

Sounds like called ghosting and is likely a problem with the keyboard itself or the way the emulator handles keystroke 'translation'.
With the former, you'll see a lot of high end keyboards talk about being '100% ghosting free' or something similar to mean that every key press will be registered no matter how many keys are simultaneously held down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_(key)

Comment Re:I wonder if they've improved on the military is (Score 2) 450

I've got 30 or so magazines from different makers. Not once in thousands of rounds of shooting have I had a jam and I load all magazines to capacity.

All have magpul followers, and 12 or so are actual magpul pmags. The rest are the standard metal grey 30 round magazine.

Comment Re:Why can't we have rational gun control? (Score 1) 1862

You also didn't have many massacres before.

Australia was about the same, averaging something like 16 years between massacres. The massacre prior to the Port Arthur massacre was about 16 years before. It's been about 16.5, so we'll see if the sweeping gun ban in Australia did anything, Also worth pointing out that New Zealand which has far looser regulations on guns did not experience any massacres either in that time frame.

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