Re: All in favor of deregulating the radio spectrum, say "aye!"
Day Brown
> Yes anarchy. The Lex Mercator was developed in the middle ages
> without the governments of various nations when merchants of those
> nations realised that they needed a consistent law across all European
> nations. They didn't need the State then why would you need it now
> when we are far more sophisticated and information technology so far
> advanced?
If you drive up US 65 on your way from Little Rock to Branson MO, and
just past Leslie, turn on your radio, the scan will stop at the
Christian station in Marshall, 8 miles ahead. Hit scan again, and it'll
stop... at the same station.
The rest is all empty bandwidth, reserved for the use of urban
commercial radio & TV stations that will never be built. If it were not
for FCC bandwidth restrictions, I've have broadband.
I did have it a couple years ago, in one of the usual high frequency
bands the FCC allows, but then the Ozark forest leafed in, and blocked
the signal. If we could have used say, 300mhz, then the wavelength is
longer than an oak leaf, and economic development here would do a lot
better. But you cant run a business without broadband these days.
Spoze I should write my elected representatives again? All I've gotten
back so far are form letters, and if anything, all they ask about is
campaign contributions.
As regards a Capitalist Free Market, the Silk Road independent city
states are instructive. In the Eastern Deserts, the wells along the
routes didnt have enuf water for an army. So, they generally operated
beyond the hegemony of the Chinese, Persian, and Byzantine empires, and
only sent out posses of the "Longswords" to deal with bandit gangs.
There was no expensive military industrial complex. Altho, from the
images, it looks like these people invented what came to be called
"Damascus steel" blades. But without a powerful warrior elite, most of
the cities, most of the time, and most of the shipping businesses, were
run by women. The men did the leg work. It would seem to take a warrior
elite to keep men at the apex of power.
Since women tend to operate more on a consensual model, they never
needed to setup the Silk Road as a homogeneous empire. They didnt need a
federal authority to enforce the rules. Peer pressure was enuf.
Poetic Justice
I lived near Branson... and even if women rule the world and you give
drugs to little boys to help make them act like little girls, you still
won't have broadband in the middle of f@#$^%g nowhere.
--
robert bowman
> The rest is all empty bandwidth, reserved for the use of urban
> commercial radio & TV stations that will never be built. If it were not
> for FCC bandwidth restrictions, I've have broadband.
Don't bet on it. I'm one of those people they mean when they talk
about 'last mile'. Forget DSL and the cable makes a sharp left turn about a
mile from me, as the crow flies. When a WiMAX company started up, I thought
my problem was solved. However, they chose to focus more on mobile wireless
withing the city, and to expand their service south rather than west, even
though many of those areas already have broadband access.
I fully expect India will have broadband in every village before I see it.
On the providers' part, it is a sound business decision; there are too few
potential subscribers to justify the infrastructure. That I even have
something to plug a computer into is due to an electric cooperative that
goes back 1936 and was organized with the aid of the Rural Electrification
Act. It wasn't sound business to provide ranchers with electric in 1936.
The ball started rolling when one area rancher would have had to pay
$10,000 1936 dollars to get the existing lines extended 1000'.
I have a few shovel ready infrastructure projects in mind; unfortunately,
the money seems to be doled out to projects that aren't ready to shovel
anything but bullshit.
Day Brown
RS232 to a transmitter in the 50 to 500 mhz range with yagi antennas to
beam it out in any direction you want.