Part of it I suppose is the law of unintended consequences. It’s what happens when laws are hastily passed because “we have to do something NOW”.
Part of it is the prosecutorial practice of piling on charges and maximum sentences until “your grandkids are serving time” as an incentive to dispense with the whole trial by jury “nonsense” and just plead guilty in exchange for a reduced penalty.
They are The Onion of amateur radio.
Example: FCC’s “One Kilohertz At A Time” Gets Closer To 14.313, But Not Quite There
FCC agents began the program in 1974. “We started listening for offenders at 3 Hertz and have been working our way up the dial since then. We arrived at 14.312 MHz on February 25th and were very pleased to find some interference,” said Speakman.
Although the link referring to the $10,000 fine for unlicensed operation is quite real. You can get yourself into some serious trouble by operating unlicensed and/or out of band.
Installed.
From: Examiner.com via The War on Guns
Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag
order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free
speech, a federal judge in California ruled Friday.
What took so long?
At least I can read and bookmark the articles using the Kindle (while outside enjoying a cigar and a whiskey), and then find and re-blog them later using the PC (where I can use the mouse and a real keyboard and see WTF I’m doing).
And for now, Feedly reads from your Google Reader account. Supposedly they’ll go independent using a copy of your database when Google kills Reader.
It’s supposed to be seamless. Regardless, you should back up your RSS list and any saved or favorited articles. I’ve worked all weekend on changes that were supposed to take 5 minutes and be transparent and non-intrusive.
Thanks to Jennifer for the tip!!
…and a mansion to park it in, indeed.
Updated: with the link this time.
Since Google Reader is going away, might as well clean out the starred list…
How do you argue with someone who thinks that “compensation” is your reasoning for owning firearms? From: Borepatch: Quote of the day: we have small dicks edition
Back when we had more freedom: Knuckledraggin My Life Away: It’s not going to be just the youngsters
The “war on terror” is just like the “war on drugs” or the “war on <whatever”… a cottage industry that’s taken on a life of its own and whose primary purpose is to maintain employment for those involved. From: Michael German on the FBI’s Terror Stings – Hit & Run : Reason.com
Damned right they’re not. Sipsey Street Irregulars: Of martyrs and Wacos. “People aren’t buying this stuff because they want to turn it in.”
… as an elite hypocrite who can afford their own armed security detail, yet would choose to have you disarmed. From: There is nothing so deserving of mockery… | Live from the Alamo City
From: Bayou Renaissance Man: Heads up: Google Reader is shutting down soon
It’s the only reader I’ve found so far that keeps up with the read/unread status of my RSS list across multiple devices (the PC, the Kindle, and the Droid phone).
Because I passed the general class amateur radio license exam yesterday.
For study/prep work, I used the free practice test generator at QRZ.com and the Kindle version of the Plain-English Study Guide for the FCC Amateur Radio General Class License: Richard P. Clem, Yippy G. Clem.
It’s been a while since electronics classes in college, and my tech license is nearly 10 years old now, but most of the electrical/electronic theory appears to be in NVRAM. It’s the rules and regs and bandplans I was having problems with.
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