FCC 15, home or office use.

[Eeyore]

Stupid tax system, when 99% owns a TV. Pay the BBC from income taxes
and get rid of that silly TV tax and the entire organisation that
collects it.

Given the current popularity of the BBC, maybe a subscription based funding
would make sense ? No-one else offers TV and radio and internet with no adverts.

Graham

 

[joseph2k]

I don't get it.

A: "you're not allowed to interfere with anybody"
B: "anybody is allowed to interfere with you"

sounds a little lop-sided to me, like, howcome "anybody" doesn't have to
obey the same rules I have to? ?:-/

Thanks,
Rich

A somewhat more careful reading shows that both rules apply only to
intentional emitters.

And yes, i have current hardcopy and links.

 

[joseph2k]

Don

In certain senses part 15 applies to everybody.
for RC modelers with amatuer licenses part 97 applies, for general
unlicensed (power limited and for specific frequencies only) part 95
applies.

For emissions not covered under other parts for intentional radiators part
15 applies.

 

[martin griffith]

Stupid tax system, when 99% owns a TV. Pay the BBC from income taxes
and get rid of that silly TV tax and the entire organisation that
collects it.

The concept is to seperate the BBC from the state, and prevent state
meddling. The BBC are proud of this division and struggle to keep it.

It is worth the collection fee problems.

Without it the UK TV would be as boring as TV in Moscow, which just
reads out goverment press releases for news


martin

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:13:25 +0200, martin griffith

[snip]

The RIAA et al. are the bastards who try to put DRM on technology
outside the US jurisdiction, they should be smothered in boiling
Marmite.
[snip]
martin

"Boiling Marmite"!

You're really serious about this aren't you ?

...Jim Thompson

Grrrrrrrrr... the RIAA should have stuck to picking time constants. It
kept Walt Jung in business for years.

And no that wimpy Vegimite wont do ;-)


martin

I like Vegemite... though my wife about throws up any time I spread it
on toast ;-)

...Jim Thompson

 

[ian field]

Given the current popularity of the BBC, maybe a subscription based
funding
would make sense ? No-one else offers TV and radio and internet with no
adverts.

Graham

Reckon the licence fee will go up any day now - someone nicked the BBC's £8M
master tape of the new Robin Hood series for which there's no backup tape,
they're asking £1M ransom!!!

 

[John Woodgate]

Reckon the licence fee will go up any day now - someone nicked the
BBC's £8M master tape of the new Robin Hood series for which there's no
backup tape, they're asking £1M ransom!!!

The BBC is denying the ransom demand and says there are backup tapes.
There had better be - it's high treason not to have backups! You have to
go to work for ITV for 15 years without parole.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Given the current popularity of the BBC, maybe a subscription based
funding
would make sense ? No-one else offers TV and radio and internet with no
adverts.

In the US/Canada somewhat similar networks operate on donations.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Stupid tax system, when 99% owns a TV. Pay the BBC from income taxes
and get rid of that silly TV tax and the entire organisation that
collects it.

Sensible policies are antithetical to government management.

 

[John Fields]

Given the current popularity of the BBC, maybe a subscription based funding
would make sense ? No-one else offers TV and radio and internet with no adverts.

---
Not true. In the US we have PBS and many independent stations which
operate on a subscription/donation basis.

In Austin, our 24/7 PBS station is KLRU, and an excellent example of
a subscription based independent is our KMFA, a 24/7 classical music
station which offers streaming audio over the Internet at:

http://www.kmfa.org/listen.htm

Try it, you might like it... even if it is American.

 

[Jim Thompson]

In the US/Canada somewhat similar networks operate on donations.

Eeyore wouldn't know that, he just ignorantly blathers on... and on...
and on... and on... and...

...Jim Thompson

 

[John Fields]

What drugs are you on ?

---
Good ones.

AIUI you all have to buy a license to operate a TV. How does the
government know whether you're operating one if you haven't paid for
the licence and you're running it illegally?

 

[John Fields]

JF has probably never encountered ad-free TV / radio / internet news.

 

[John Woodgate]

AIUI you all have to buy a license to operate a TV. How does the
government know whether you're operating one if you haven't paid for
the licence and you're running it illegally?

They send out detector vehicles that pick up local oscillator radiation.
But they hardly need to do this now; they data-mine for addresses that
don't appear on their list of licence-buyers. If you change the name of
your house and it doesn't have a number, you may well get a 'polite
request' to buy a licence or declare that you don't have a TV.

 

[Jim Thompson]

They send out detector vehicles that pick up local oscillator radiation.
But they hardly need to do this now; they data-mine for addresses that
don't appear on their list of licence-buyers. If you change the name of
your house and it doesn't have a number, you may well get a 'polite
request' to buy a licence or declare that you don't have a TV.

Damn! That's almost as scuzzy as our red light cameras ;-)

Note: I have NEVER received a red-light-camera ticket. I only get
speeding tickets, usually for at least 85+ ;-)

...Jim Thompson

 

[John Fields]

Damn! That's almost as scuzzy as our red light cameras ;-)

---
I read a story a few years ago about this guy who got caught
speeding by a camera/detector and he got a copy of the photograph of
his license plate, along with the ticket, in the mail. He then sent
back a picture of a check written for the amount of the fine. Later
on he got back a picture of a jail cell...

I think it happened in the UK; sounds like that deliciously dry kind
of humor.

 

[Joel Kolstad]

Just curious, Jim...

Note: I have NEVER received a red-light-camera ticket. I only get
speeding tickets, usually for at least 85+ ;-)

....does being a "senior citizen" help or hinder in trying to talk your way out
of speeding tickets relative to being middle-aged?

 

[martin griffith]

---
I read a story a few years ago about this guy who got caught
speeding by a camera/detector and he got a copy of the photograph of
his license plate, along with the ticket, in the mail. He then sent
back a picture of a check written for the amount of the fine. Later
on he got back a picture of a jail cell...

I think it happened in the UK; sounds like that deliciously dry kind
of humor.

Can you imagine working in that office............?


martin

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I read a story a few years ago about this guy who got caught
speeding by a camera/detector and he got a copy of the photograph of
his license plate, along with the ticket, in the mail. He then sent
back a picture of a check written for the amount of the fine. Later
on he got back a picture of a jail cell...

I think it happened in the UK; sounds like that deliciously dry kind
of humor.

I recall counting 13 post mounted speeding cameras on the A90 from Peterhead
to Fraserburgh. I had the notion to put a radar signal generator in a
backpack calibrated to 80 mph and cycle along it. But I don't think they
were much in use.

 

[Jim Thompson]

Just curious, Jim...



...does being a "senior citizen" help or hinder in trying to talk your way out
of speeding tickets relative to being middle-aged?

You don't get out of ANY ticket when you're driving a $63K car ;-)

However I have found that being polite and non-combative does get you
privilege. The ticket I got around the first of the year was written
up as 79 instead of the actual 88 I was doing, thus avoiding a
"criminal" speed complaint, where I would have been arrested instead
of simply ticketed.

My policy is to never argue or deny your speed. When they ask how
fast I was going I tell them. How can you deny what the COP read on
his radar gun? In this last case I did fudge a little and said "70's
??", since I knew he was at a significant angle away from head-on ;-)

...Jim Thompson