Ask UPS and FedEx how well that model works for them.

It is not hard to do at all. All addresses are classified by the postal service already as residential, commercial, etc. *Everyone* at a residential address that wants daily delivery should pay for daily residential delivery. The USPS should not subsidize someone's home-based business. Also, the business can always get the delivery point re-zoned and re-classified or get a PO box.

Why not just do "every other day" delivery for residential service? It seems like it would make for a much bigger savings with a similar impact to the recipient. How many residential delivery points needs to get mail every single day? And if people want their mail every day, charge a hefty fee.

Software? PCB designs? Documentation? Photographs? Technical articles? Done. Now what, smart-ass?

Now do the same analysis on copyright and the public domain. Trillions dollars of our public wealth has been sequestered by the corporate oligarchy. And they paid fractional cents on the dollar in "campaign donations". I'm fine with it if we tax the hell out of anything that doesn't go into the public domain after 17 years. You want to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain? Sure, just pay $1,000,000 the first year, doubled every year after that, and adjust the starting and ongoing amounts for inflation. At least we, the people, get something in return.

It's the only way to be sure.

We've got car-sized rovers on Mars roaming around, taking pictures, drilling in rocks, relaying data back through a satellite in orbit around another planet and nothing new was invented to accomplish that?

Idiot.

We should celebrate with a small fete when it comes to him.

Who said it needs to be safe? Orbital bombardment. Ransom, etc. Then, all of a sudden, the world needs to get access to cheap materials in space for defense. Space economy established.

Nobel Prize please.

Looks like they are adding more channels in the 5cm ham band. Good for getting access to cheap equipment that can be modded for amateur radio use. Bad because of the added interference.

I make it a priority not to do business with people that require faxes. I've found it's the fastest way to encourage its demise. There are definitely mortgage brokers, realtors, banks and lawyers that accept signed PDFs via email or provide a secure means of uploading them.

There -- it's fixed.

No, but that sort of experimentation is open to many more amateurs when using open, non-proprietary technologies.

If the D-star repeater is on an amateur band, it is part of the problem. There's no experimentation with D-star. There's just paying for a hunk of proprietary equipment. But, hey, we need yet another repeater on 2m and 70cm. The ones already there are just so overloaded with traffic!

No, what we need is more free space on these bands for experimentation with digital and analog modes, including some wide-band modes. But for that you need to get rid of some of the bandwidth dedicated to unused repeaters.

The proposal affects all amateur bands from my reading, not just HF. I really like this proposal. Someone needs to kick the ARRL in the pants.