http://broadcastengineering.com/news...phasizes-0401/

bob

On 2010-04-04, bob urz wrote:
http://broadcastengineering.com/news...phasizes-0401/

So now that the federal government has established that they will force
individuals to purchase goods and services under threat of fines and
imprisonment ("health care mandate"), no doubt they will also require
Americans to buy government-approved broadband service. Those recalitrant
luddites who try to stick with plans that don't meet minimum government
specifications will be thrown in the slammer where they belong.

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The airwaves were previously the property of the citizens.
Anything for a buck.

"It's interesting to note how often the FCC mentions the value of the
spectrum in dollar terms and not in terms of how it serves the community".

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bob

Wild_Bill wrote:

The airwaves were previously the property of the citizens.
Anything for a buck.

"It's interesting to note how often the FCC mentions the value of the
spectrum in dollar terms and not in terms of how it serves the community".


No, it's exactly what I expect since the FCC is run by politicians,
not engineers.


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On 4/6/2010 3:07 AM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

Wild_Bill wrote:

The airwaves were previously the property of the citizens.
Anything for a buck.

"It's interesting to note how often the FCC mentions the value of the
spectrum in dollar terms and not in terms of how it serves the community".

No, it's exactly what I expect since the FCC is run by politicians,
not engineers.

The usual "politicians" smear doesn't explain it.

The real problem is that the FCC, like most so-called regulatory
agencies, is run by those from the supposedly regulated industry. You
know, like the fox guarding the henhouse.

Cf. the ongoing Wall Street banking/investment "crisis".


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bob urz wrote:
http://broadcastengineering.com/news...phasizes-0401/


bob

Talk about frying your brain with a cell phone and brain cancer. The
plain air will have more RF driving through your brain 24/7 than a cell
phone ever had.





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David Nebenzahl wrote:
The real problem is that the FCC, like most so-called regulatory
agencies, is run by those from the supposedly regulated industry. You
know, like the fox guarding the henhouse.

Oh come on David, is the farmer that much better of a guard for the hen house?

The hens are kept in seculsion, sometimes in places where they can not
move more than a few inches, fed to become fat, have their young stolen
from them and eaten, and when they are past their prime, killed and eaten.

This does not sound like a guard concerned by their well being, except
to produce and become food.

You are just trading one preditor for another. We happen to be the other
preditor so we don't like the competition, but from a chicken's point of
view, we both eat them.

Geoff.
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i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
David Nebenzahl wrote:
You know, like the fox guarding the henhouse.

Oh come on David, is the farmer that much better of a guard for
the hen house?

To the rabbits, it was a bountiful harvest.
To the carrots, it was a total holocaust.

Jeff


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On 4/6/2010 12:39 PM LSMFT spake thus:

bob urz wrote:

http://broadcastengineering.com/news...phasizes-0401/

Talk about frying your brain with a cell phone and brain cancer. The
plain air will have more RF driving through your brain 24/7 than a cell
phone ever had.

And you know this how? I assume you're a qualified public health
professional, or possibly a radiologist or some such.

Hint: remember that thing called the inverse square law?


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On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:39:06 -0400, LSMFT wrote:

bob urz wrote:
http://broadcastengineering.com/news...phasizes-0401/
bob

Talk about frying your brain with a cell phone and brain cancer. The
plain air will have more RF driving through your brain 24/7 than a cell
phone ever had.

Nice job of hijacking the topic. However, I'll play dumb and take the
bait.

Feast what's left of your brain on this graph:
http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/crud/brain-CNS-cancer.jpg
It's the incidence of new brain and central nervous system cancers
from 1975 to 2006 in 9 major metro areas from the Nation Cancer
Institute. It's quite flat and shows a slight decrease in brain
cancer since 1987. If cell phones really caused brain cancer, one
would expect to see at least a small rise in new brain cancer cases.

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David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 4/6/2010 3:07 AM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

Wild_Bill wrote:

The airwaves were previously the property of the citizens.
Anything for a buck.

"It's interesting to note how often the FCC mentions the value of the
spectrum in dollar terms and not in terms of how it serves the community".

No, it's exactly what I expect since the FCC is run by politicians,
not engineers.

The usual "politicians" smear doesn't explain it.


Really? They know absolutely nothing about the technology. The head
is appointed, not elected, and the FCC is run about as well as FEMA.
The only difference is the price of the horses in the race.


The real problem is that the FCC, like most so-called regulatory
agencies, is run by those from the supposedly regulated industry. You
know, like the fox guarding the henhouse.


Really? How do they appoint the head of the FCC? How do they vote
on policy?


Cf. the ongoing Wall Street banking/investment "crisis".

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- a Usenet "apology"


Sigh. You are as underwhelming as your sig file.


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