Electronics, and other issues

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This is an open letter to Ron paul, but it is also to everybody.

The point I would like to illuminate is not really complicated, but it
is heavy, very much so.

I got a buddy, let's call him MrS. MrS was the leader of Radio
Solidarity in Poland. He designed and built the transmitter, and
another guy was around with batteries, and yet another with sections
of metal vacuum cleaner wand. Each of them got caught seperately
except MrS, he was the fastest runner and he had built, and was
carrying the transmitter himself.

Up a hillside, they knew the audio frequency of all the local
channels, and they broke in on the most popular one of course. This is
illegal in almost any country, but with all the money Waleska could
get and everything, they simply refused to sell the airtime.

Eventually MrS was held on suspicion, because of his affiliations, his
education, and his lack of alibis. But he really did do it. He wound
up doing about seven months over it.

What would you do if the TV sound got blotted out on the TV news and
got replaced with someone saying "THEY ARE LYING TO YOU". Would you
believe it ?

Now to the electronics part. When they stop regular TV broadcasts,
noone will be ble to do this. Ii believe that this is part of their
motive for doing it, other than making us buy a bunch of more junk.

What about those who are just happy with what they got ? Like a 20" or
something. Some people do not want much more, why should they have to
pay for a settop box to decode all this ?

I think there is an ulterior motive here, and I know about the
bandwidth issue, yet it seems to me that something is going on. And it
all stinks.

Go ahead and think I am a conspiracy theorist, but before you do that,
do yourself a favor and think about the results first.

JURB

 

[William Sommerwerck]

It's not that you're paranoid, it's rather that you don't understand what's
actually going on.

"They" -- people with money, and people desiring power -- took over millenia
ago, because, since the development of agriculture, all societies have
revolved around economics -- the creation and exchange of wealth.

Contrary to what you see in comic books and movies, there is no practical
way to blanket a city with a sufficiently strong signal to override the
sound carrier of a TV station.

And even if you did, who would listen to your warning?

To change the world, people have to change their values. And that isn't
about to happen very soon.

 

[Don Bowey]

On 9/7/07 2:37 AM, in article
[email protected], "[email protected]"

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JURB

Sicko

 

[Chris Jones]

This is an open letter to Ron paul, but it is also to everybody.

The point I would like to illuminate is not really complicated, but it
is heavy, very much so.

I got a buddy, let's call him MrS. MrS was the leader of Radio
Solidarity in Poland. He designed and built the transmitter, and
another guy was around with batteries, and yet another with sections
of metal vacuum cleaner wand. Each of them got caught seperately
except MrS, he was the fastest runner and he had built, and was
carrying the transmitter himself.

Up a hillside, they knew the audio frequency of all the local
channels, and they broke in on the most popular one of course. This is
illegal in almost any country, but with all the money Waleska could
get and everything, they simply refused to sell the airtime.

Eventually MrS was held on suspicion, because of his affiliations, his
education, and his lack of alibis. But he really did do it. He wound
up doing about seven months over it.

What would you do if the TV sound got blotted out on the TV news and
got replaced with someone saying "THEY ARE LYING TO YOU". Would you
believe it ?

Now to the electronics part. When they stop regular TV broadcasts,
noone will be ble to do this. Ii believe that this is part of their
motive for doing it, other than making us buy a bunch of more junk.

What about those who are just happy with what they got ? Like a 20" or
something. Some people do not want much more, why should they have to
pay for a settop box to decode all this ?

I think there is an ulterior motive here, and I know about the
bandwidth issue, yet it seems to me that something is going on. And it
all stinks.

Go ahead and think I am a conspiracy theorist, but before you do that,
do yourself a favor and think about the results first.

JURB

I think that they probably did not decide to do all this stuff for the
reason that you propose (although that might be a "happy" side effect). I
think that if there are sinister motives behind DAB and DVB-T then
(ignoring bandwidth & quality issues and public entitlement to use of
spectrum or governmental right to sell most of it) any mischief (if it
exists) is more likely directed at stopping smaller independent commercial
stations from getting access to a transmitter. Both DAB and DVB-T are
multiplex things where AFAIK the different radio & TV stations don't have
their own transmitter but have to negotiate space in a multiplex, and when
negotiating is required, small players can be at a disadvantage. Digital
Radio Mondiale has the advantage that each station could have their own
transmitter site so that it might be harder to set up artificial barriers
to entry.

Anyway, regarding your theory, at present the most easy way to make a
protest heard is probably on the internet, and protecting what is left of
that freedom against attempts at arbitrary censorship through both
legislation and technical meddling would in my opinion be a more valuable
use of your effort.

Chris