White spaces legislation
This happened earlier this year, but it’s still interesting. Rep. Bobby Rush, in whose district Shure (wireless microphones manufacturer) resides, introduced a bill that would put off even considering having mobile wireless devices in the white spaces until 2012.
What would you do if you were a big online company that wanted to take advantage of the white spaces in an unlicensed way and route around the incumbents? Would you build a new prototype device and try to convince the FCC that the old one was just broken? Would you wait it out until a new administration showed up and hope for better treatment? Would you take Rep. Rush’s bill seriously?
I’m thinking of becoming a ham.
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What would you do if you were a big online company…
Would said “big online company” create a non-profit QUANGO full of
lawyers to delay and distract for years and years ?
Would said QUANGO have a mission to do some “proof-of-concept”
market trials ?
Would said “market trials” be carefully designed to only enrich other
“big online companies” ?
Would all of the secret society insiders, shaping “the process”, fly around the world for years
to parties|galas|events etc. to discuss the future ?
Would selected dilitants be used as puppets to continue to distract and delay ?
Would citizens be told that more money is needed to fund the non-profit QUANGO that is working hard [at the local health clubs and
juice bars] to study the issues ?
Would the QUANGO's budget grow from $5 million per year to $50
million per year ?
Would the QUANGO's leaders be selected from outside of the U.S. and work to extract as much of that $50 million as possible to their off-shore islands ?
Would said “big online company” laugh all the way to the bank ?
Would the public benefit ?
Would the Directors of said QUANGO be held responsible ?
Who on Earth would be foolish enough to be a Director of said QUANGO ?
What would motivate a rational American to be fooled by said QUANGO ?
Apology: s/Dilitant/Dilettant/
The Society of Dilettanti was a society of noblemen and gentlemen which sponsored the study of ancient Greek and Roman art and the creation of new work in the style. It was founded as a London dining club in 1734 by a group of people who had been on the Grand Tour.
The group, initially led by Francis Dashwood, contained several dukes and was later joined by Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, Uvedale Price and Richard Payne Knight, among others.
The club quickly became wealthy and influential, through a system in which members had to pay it 4% of their income in any year in which they received certain forms of windfall, such as a marriage.
The group aimed to correct and purify the public taste of the country; from the 1740s, it began to support Italian opera, and from the 1750s, it was the prime mover in establishing the Royal Academy. It also funded scholarships for youths to go on the Grand Tour, or for archaeological expeditions such as that of Richard Chandler, William Pars and Nicholas Revett, the results of which they published in Ionian Antiquities, a major influence on neo-Classicism in Britain.
Modern manifestations of the society have popped up on campuses in England and the United States, most notably at Cambridge University where the society, comprised mostly of fellows and students at Clare College, meets every so often to discuss topics of interest [1]. Another, more obliquitous version of the society originates in Seattle, Washington and is devoted primarily to publishing art criticism. The society has since surreptitiously expanded to campuses across the United States.
I keep meaning to take the ham test, but it's always at 9 am in the middle of nowhere, and it's taken on less practical importance to me since I moved out of Florida. (Last hurricane I was stuck in, power and phone were out for over a week, but radio still worked. I lived about a block from my college — housemates and I got interesting information by listening to campus staff's transmissions…)
I keep meaning to take the ham test, but it's always at 9 am in the middle of nowhere, and it's taken on less practical importance to me since I moved out of Florida. (Last hurricane I was stuck in, power and phone were out for over a week, but radio still worked. I lived about a block from my college — housemates and I got interesting information by listening to campus staff's transmissions…)