19 Oct
2022
19 Oct
'22
12:34 p.m.
Hear! hear! When I was teaching college I told my students I would
cross out any references to wikipedia in a paper.
I saw on Wikipedia that there is no legal definition of a pint of beer
in Canada.
I got a government official to give me the legal definition and
published it on wikipedia, quoting the official source.
A few weeks later, it had been changed back to 'there is no legal
definition of a pint of beer in Canada!' Then I found my account
blocked, but they still wanted me to donate every year!
(By the way it is 568.26 ml, and 5% a.b.v.)
Come to Canada for the beer, stay because your car won't start!
cheers,
Nigel
Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept!
Skype: TILBURY2591
On 2022-10-19 15:21, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> Well, that's because the "WIKI" in "Wikipedia" stands for
"We Impose
> Knowledge Interpretation".
>
> Sadly, the promise of the internet has been utterly destroyed by
> megalomaniacs, zealots, and abject morons. It's up to people like us to
> preserve history as it actually happened, and not as the would-be masters
> would have us believe.
>
> This is why we do what we do.
>
> Sellam
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 11:29 AM Paul Koning via cctalk <
> cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>> On Oct 19, 2022, at 2:09 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk <
>> cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Oct 19, 2022, at 08:14, Fritz Mueller via cctalk <
>> cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 19, 2022, at 6:16 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk <
>> cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>>>> ...a couple of years ago I wrote an article about the invention of
FM
>> radio, in Holland in 1919 (no, not by Armstrong in the USA in the late
>> 1920s).
>>>> That sounds interesting, Paul — I’m only familiar with the usual
>> USA-centric Armstrong lore. Is your article available to read online
>> anywhere?
>>>> —FritzM.
>>> I’d be interested in the article as well.
>>>
>>> There are reasons for the story of FM radio to be US- and
>> Armstrong-centric, even if someone or some institution in Europe did it
>> first.
>>
>> Yes, but suppression of the story, which is what I experienced when I
>> tried to update Wikipedia, is not the right answer.
>>
>> The correct answer is to recognize that (a) Armstrong was NOT first with
>> FM transmission, (b) Armstrong was first with FM-specific receivers
>> (discriminator), and (c) the technology direction started by Armstrong is
>> the one that got traction and evolved into what we have now.
>>
>> As I mentioned in the opening paragraph of the article, Idzerda's FM
>> transmitter is like Leif Eriksson's discovery of America -- he did it
>> first, but it didn't lead to anything. Still, he made a living off a
>> commercial broadcast venture using his technology for 5 years or so, until
>> the creation of the BBC made his business uncompetitive.
>>
>> paul
>>
>>