> On Oct 18, 2022, at 11:51 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk
> wrote:
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>> I like how having the old hardware gives physical "witness" and "evidence"
>> that all the old stories are true - people did invent and create these
>> things, they didn't just appear from aliens.
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> Indeed. I am teaching a
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 10:36:58AM -0400, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
> Don't be pedantic. You know what I mean.
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> Anyway, in the US, there are *significant* barriers to cross for
> people taking your land.
Owe the local government a few bucks in unpaid tax? They steal your
house (well,
Le 19/10/2022 à 15:50, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk a écrit :
Florida seems to be particularly creative, too: pay your contractor,
contractor doesn't pay their supplier, supplier puts lien on _your_
house for the money owed. Want to keep your house? Better pay again
and then try to extract
> Owe the local government a few bucks in unpaid tax? They steal your
> house (well, technically not - they put a lien on it and then foreclose).
Yes, if you do not pay you taxes (or rent) - you SHOULD lose your land
after some amount of time.
What I am talking about is Eminent Domain (in the US)
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 6:16 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk
> wrote:
> ...a couple of years ago I wrote an article about the invention of FM radio,
> in Holland in 1919 (no, not by Armstrong in the USA in the late 1920s).
That sounds interesting, Paul — I’m only familiar with the usual USA-centric
On 2022-10-19 10:06, Raphaël Jacquot via cctalk wrote:
Le 19/10/2022 à 15:50, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk a écrit :
Florida seems to be particularly creative, too: pay your contractor,
contractor doesn't pay their supplier, supplier puts lien on _your_
house for the money owed. Want to keep
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 11:14 AM, Fritz Mueller wrote:
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>> On Oct 19, 2022, at 6:16 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk
>> wrote:
>> ...a couple of years ago I wrote an article about the invention of FM radio,
>> in Holland in 1919 (no, not by Armstrong in the USA in the late 1920s).
>
> That sou
> Florida seems to be particularly creative, too: pay your contractor,
> contractor doesn't pay their supplier, supplier puts lien on _your_
> house for the money owed. Want to keep your house? Better pay again
> and then try to extract that money from the contractor later by
> way of the courts.
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 08:14, Fritz Mueller via cctalk
> wrote:
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>> On Oct 19, 2022, at 6:16 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk
>> wrote:
>> ...a couple of years ago I wrote an article about the invention of FM radio,
>> in Holland in 1919 (no, not by Armstrong in the USA in the late 1920s).
>
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 2:09 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk
> wrote:
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>> On Oct 19, 2022, at 08:14, Fritz Mueller via cctalk
>> wrote:
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>>> On Oct 19, 2022, at 6:16 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk
>>> wrote:
>>> ...a couple of years ago I wrote an article about the invention of FM
>>>
Indeed, FM was one of the undesired side effects of AM unless you had a
well-isolated or crystal-controlled frequency source for your transmitter.
As far as detection goes, a simple AM "slope detector" sufficed in most
cases for getting intelligible audio.
--Chuck
Well, that's because the "WIKI" in "Wikipedia" stands for "We Impose
Knowledge Interpretation".
Sadly, the promise of the internet has been utterly destroyed by
megalomaniacs, zealots, and abject morons. It's up to people like us to
preserve history as it actually happened, and not as the would-b
Hear! hear! When I was teaching college I told my students I would
cross out any references to wikipedia in a paper.
I saw on Wikipedia that there is no legal definition of a pint of beer
in Canada.
I got a government official to give me the legal definition and
published it on wikipedia, q
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 3:10 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
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> Indeed, FM was one of the undesired side effects of AM unless you had a
> well-isolated or crystal-controlled frequency source for your transmitter.
I suppose so, but Idzerda's transmitter produces FM with essentially constan
Hear hear!
On Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 3:21 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Well, that's because the "WIKI" in "Wikipedia" stands for "We Impose
> Knowledge Interpretation".
>
> Sadly, the promise of the internet has been utterly destroyed by
> megalomaniacs, zealots, and
On eBay, 10pcs for $75: https://www.ebay.com/itm/394216367144
=]
--
Anders Nelson
Apologies for the off-topic.
On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 at 15:34, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk
wrote:
> I got a government official to give me the legal definition and
> published it on wikipedia, quoting the official source.
>
Was it Measurement Canada's complaint form? Because they - that is,
Measurem
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 11:29, Paul Koning via cctalk
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>>> On Oct 19, 2022, at 2:09 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk
>>> wrote:
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On Oct 19, 2022, at 08:14, Fritz Mueller via cctalk
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On Oct 19, 2022, at 6:16 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk
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