27 Apr
2016
27 Apr
'16
9:13 a.m.
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Mouse wrote:
Well, I think "Sun god" is a significant
overstatement, and I'm pretty
sure I never capitalized the "der", but yes, that was me.
It's not an overstatement to me, sir. You would probably be very surprised
if you knew how many fixes you've helped me out of. I don't know how many
times I'd come across one of your posts on Sunhelp or elsewhere that'd
provide the key bit of info I needed etc... So, thanks! Not to mention
that IIRC, you've carried the torch (magnesium flare in your case) against
top posting for as long as folks have done it!
I stole the "der" from German before I knew
enough German to know what I
was doing.
Heh, that reminds me of living in Norway and learning to speak Norsk
(bokmal). I'd sit and watch TV (as long as it was in Bokmal, and most was
in Nynorsk) in Norsk with English subtitles. Then I'd flip over and watch
English shows with Norsk subtitles. Then I'd unleash myself upon the small
town folk in Moss, Norway and they'd be either greatly amused or
occasionally horrified by my grammar (but they were always cool and
helping me learn). I slowly got better by talking to older folks. They
spoke slower and were more patient with me (but I'd still often butcher
things or say things they thought were hilarious).
The crazy patchwork quilt of regulations applying to
amateur use of
radio spectrum, is my guess. Now, I would add the depressingly high
chance of being invaded by the masses if/when we build something big
enough to be useful.
I wonder if there would ever be a chance of having something like a set of
digital-only FRS frequencies but on a bandpass that's got better range (or
one with perhaps better penetration). My guess on that is that those are
so valuable that the FCC (and industry) wouldn't want to risk having
untrained apelets near their frequencies.
We've already built one network only to have it
invaded and overrun;
why would we expect anything different to happen to the new one?
I'm with you, Mouse. However, perhaps if it wasn't enough bandwidth for
video and the masses already got satiated via Comcast + Netflix, maybe....
just maybe they'd stay away. Bah... who am I kidding, they'd just adapt
the next gen of phones to hork whatever they could from the "civilian
internet" frequencies if they were available. You'd be stuffed to the
gills with facebook and twitter. Ahh... despair.
Many of them demand that the ham accept responsibility
for all traffic
sent by that ham's equipment, which would be death on forwarding packets
for anyone else.
Ewww. I didn't think that. The pedos start freeloading and then the man
comes down on the operators to satisfy the merchant outcry "Will no one
rid me of this troublesome free network!" (to misquote Henry II).
*sigh* Yep.
-Swift