On Sunday 17 May 2009, Douglas Pollard wrote: >Marty Swartz wrote: >> I think it's a dynamite idea: I wish they had one in Pittburgh. (I've been >> in contact with them, and someday. All I need is a rich ehough friend to >> make it NOW. ) Just think of walking in having access to all that gear, >> rather than having to buy your own eqipment, etc, etc, etc. Word is that >> they are trying to grow to more locations. >> >> I'd argue that with the economy in its current craptastic shape, we'll be >> better off if more people can get access to tools to help them do >> grass-roots innovation. Bush 41 talked about "a thousand points of light", >> perhaps now it's time for "a thousand garages of light". >> >> Marty the Zealot >> >> Here's the direct URL: http://techshop.ws/ >> >> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Kirk Wallace >> >> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> This seems like a good idea. I don't know if they can make money at it >>> though. >>> >>> http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cls/1163029439.html >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>---- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial >> Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables >> unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine >> for externally facing server and web deployment. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > I have been to the site and like it a lot. It has been tried before >though the first I heard was in WWII and some years later maybe in the >70's but there was no internet back then so thet were hardly know >about. Those places wound up being job shops, one of them was still >operating a few years ago. > I have written emails to senators who claim to be interested in >auntapanurial help for the economy. I kept telling them it's going on >right under their noses on the internet with Gnu and cheap software >with little shops making motor controllers to be used on throw away >computers with older machines and cheaper new ones and Blaa Blaa and so >on. Then I stopped. First I got no answers and a good friend said >yes keep writing them and the next thing is they will want to regulate >it all. You better shut up! So I did! Now I hope my e-mails got >lost. Doug > Yup, regulation=needless expense IMO.
There are 1 or 2 items that CA has been regulating for several decades now, and it has helped to weed out the quick buck artists. They have a regulation that before you can get a business/tax license to run a tv repair shop, you, the owner and responsible party for that business, _must_ be a C.E.T. That is a fair bit harder test to ace than the FCC's 1st Phone ever was. I'd bet that less than half the newly minted EE's would pass that test even fresh out of the cap & gown. I am far prouder of that certificate than I am of the FCC ticket in my billfold. I passed both, about 10 years apart, without cracking any specific books to do it since I was doing that sort of work every day anyway. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'" - Arthur experiences the improbability drive at work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
