Posts by pdlane 21 publicly visible posts • joined 30 May 2014
Re: the FCC mandate only applies to local terrestrial broadcast stations
I also receive some 20+ international stations via a broadcaster who re-broadcasts satellite including RT...CCC (China)...SKorea...Blue (Singapore).. etc. Free and without commercials
Thus I do not have to suffer through the corporate controlled MSM non-news,
Yes... I live in a major metropolitan area...and am aware of the terrestrial and weather problems with OTA
I use an "over-the-air" antenna.... thus do not subscribe to any of the cable trash...
Granted I do not receive some of the proprietary commercial garbage....
FYI... for those of you on the other side of the pond... The FCC requires all tv stations to broadcast "over-the-air".
"over-the-air" reception is limited to distance from the broadcast antenna, although I am able to receive stations within a 50 mile radius
An "over-the-air" antenna currently sells for under US$20 and uses no power....
All current model tv have the capability for receiving "over-the-air" network broadcasting
I pay a minimal fee for internet and a separate minimal fee for telephone...
What I want to know is why the Principal, teacher and police involved have not all been arrested for possessing a potential bomb...
FYI...all were probably wearing wrist watches... plus probably every room in the school probably has a clock on the wall.
Any and all clocks and wrist watches can quickly be turned into bomb timing devices just by removing the crystal (clock face) and attaching one wire to a "hand" with the other wire attach at the time the bomb is to go off. When the hand with the wire meets the fixed wire the circuit is closed....
Thus all involved should have been arrested for having a potentially dangers device on their body.
Should be no problem..... I have a 10 year old 2nd generation Prius with 174,000 miles..
No problems with the drive battery.... Toyota has their Hybrid technology under control unlike others...
But the fob battery only lasts 2 years and the conventional 12v battery should be replaced every 5-6 years.
The most practical computer ever marketed was the UNIVAC II....vintage 1958-66....
Being water cooled we were able to chill 2 cases of beer in the water tank without impacting the system.. Looks like one could not find the space to chill a single bottle let alone a six-pack in z/13
Huh....????
Cash is still the simplest way to pay for anything and it keeps your purchases along with where and when you shop being no one's business but your own along with reducing being inundated with unwanted annoying pop-up web advertisements.
I have a problem understanding why people want to give up all their privacy, not only in their financial transactions but also in their personal life..e.g. facebook, twitter, instagram, etc etc.... where they feel compelled to broadcast to the world every time they manage to scratch their left buttock with their right hand along with the need to include a selfy to prove that they have done so.
Maybe I am old fashioned... preferring to enjoy my personal privacy, but I find that these toys have led to the dumbing down of people.... leaving me to scratch my head in wonder when in the cereal isle of the supermarket observing someone on their smartphone calling to find out which box of cornflakes to purchase.
Yes... I do have plastic... one of each... to use for on-line and telephone purchases along with "pay-at-the-pump" for gasoline and use checks to pay bills received in the mail/post...
Nothing new... Just plain old fashion creative accounting...
Decades ago when employed by a very profitable corporation composed of 14 divisions with over 120,000 full time employees, before each new fiscal year a group of us drones would meet at corporate headquarters to determine which divisions would loose money for tax purposes in the following year. The most common accounting tool we used was inter-division billing where the designated loosing divisions would be billed for services and materials at inflated prices resulting in paper losses.
Past tense...... Self-driving cabs are already here..... ZIP cars has been around for years...
Drive yourself and have reserved parking spaces all over the city. ZIP cars have GPS to guide you to your destination when you are not familiar with the area. You pay a fixed rate for usage by the hour, day or week along with an annual or monthly nominal subscription fee.
I do not know about London, but in the Washington DC area ZIP cars are ubiquitous to the point where even the U.S. government has recently contracted with ZIP cars for use by government employees.
The answer is simple.....NONE....
Between ameeriKAH's federal agencies scooping up every cellphone call, internet browse and on-line purchase along with google, facebook, twitter, instagram, etc etc. profiling users to sell advertising, there is no personal privacy in ameeriKAH's 4th Reich.
Radio Shack was founded in Boston Massachusetts in 1945 or 46 selling U.S. government surplus new and used WWII military electronic equipment, components, assemblies and related supplies to the "do-it-yourself" crowd.
The two original stores were a treasure trove of bins and shelves overflowing with new and used components and complete items where one would rummage through the disorganized mix and then when finding something that one could use on a project or experiment with, ignore the price tag and negotiate a price.
By the mid-1950's, as the supply of WWII military surplus became exhausted, Radio Shack expanded to stocking and selling new electronics, components and complete...assemble yourself... kits.
Sometime in the late 1960's the founder sold out to Tandy and the rest is history.
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