Re: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone

2013-02-16 Thread Kevin Brown
That depends. Shortwave radios can reach a long distance on little power. AM requires more, but can also go quite some distance. So, there are certain limits that if you go over them you have to have a license because of the chance of going farther than your local municipality. I believe for F

Re: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone

2013-02-16 Thread Derek Trotter
You make some good points. It does make sense to have one standard for the nation instead of 50 for radio, tv, cell phones, etc. I do have to wonder why the FCC should have any involvement in a radio station whose signal does not reach beyond Arizona. If someone wants to establish a radio st

Re: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone

2013-02-16 Thread Kevin Brown
While it has been used wrongly in some ways, that doesn't mean your interpretation is correct. In fact it makes no mention excluding the rights solely to taxation/tariffs. In the case of something like Radio waves that don't pay attention to political borders, it makes sense for them to be reg

Re: 88 new posts

2013-02-16 Thread Derek Trotter
Thanks. I like it. On 02/16/2013 07:20 PM, Ryan Rix wrote: http://simplest-image-hosting.net/gif-0-email-e1300717398940 On Wed 13 February 2013 21:23:57 Derek Trotter wrote: I'll just blame it on Obama, forget it and go on from there. On 02/13/2013 08:46 PM, Michael Havens wrote: all i can

Re: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone

2013-02-16 Thread keith smith
Agreed.  However we are starting to see the states asserting their rights. Keith Smith --- On Sat, 2/16/13, Derek Trotter wrote: From: Derek Trotter Subject: Re: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Sat

Re: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone

2013-02-16 Thread keith smith
Commerce clause has been false interpreted to extend Federal authority.  It was put in place to ensure there were no trade tariffs between states.  Not to regulate commerce as large. Keith Smith --- On Sat, 2/16/13, Kevin Brown wrote: From: Kevin Brown Subject: Re:

Re: 88 new posts

2013-02-16 Thread Ryan Rix
http://simplest-image-hosting.net/gif-0-email-e1300717398940 On Wed 13 February 2013 21:23:57 Derek Trotter wrote: > I'll just blame it on Obama, forget it and go on from there. > > On 02/13/2013 08:46 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > > all i can say is, 'that is weird.' > > > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On W

Re: Windows cleaner

2013-02-16 Thread Michael Havens
how do you access the included registry cleaner in windows; or else, will the registry clean option in kaspersky do it? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > why do you think Kasersky is not free. I mean it uses KDE. I hope he has > sense enough to open source ev

Re: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone

2013-02-16 Thread Derek Trotter
They're probably suing someone for setting that fire the cop killer died in the other day. On 02/16/2013 02:59 PM, Michael Havens wrote: where's the ACLU when they can be useful? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Derek Trotter mailto:expat.arizo...@gmail.com>> wrote: While

Re: Windows cleaner

2013-02-16 Thread Michael Havens
why do you think Kasersky is not free. I mean it uses KDE. I hope he has sense enough to open source everything so virus definitions can be updated after he stops maintaining it. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Lee Reynolds wrote: > This is awesome if it is free. You used to be a

Re: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone

2013-02-16 Thread Michael Havens
where's the ACLU when they can be useful? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Derek Trotter wrote: > While you may successfully argue that cell phones are not one of the > powers granted by the constitution to the federal government, that means > nothing to them. The federal governme

Re: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone

2013-02-16 Thread Derek Trotter
While you may successfully argue that cell phones are not one of the powers granted by the constitution to the federal government, that means nothing to them. The federal government ignores the constitution whenever they feel like it. On 02/16/2013 02:04 PM, keith smith wrote: Are cellular p

Re: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone

2013-02-16 Thread Kevin Brown
The FCC exists under the Commerce clause of the US Constitution. Are cellular phones one of the numerated power of the Federal Government? Keith Smith --- On *Sat, 2/16/13, ChasM Marshall //* wrote: From: ChasM Marshall Subject: RE: OT: Re: Starting Today,

RE: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone

2013-02-16 Thread keith smith
Are cellular phones one of the numerated power of the Federal Government? Keith Smith --- On Sat, 2/16/13, ChasM Marshall wrote: From: ChasM Marshall Subject: RE: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone To: "plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" Da

RE: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone

2013-02-16 Thread ChasM Marshall
What am I doing? Well, I've NEVER bought a cell phone. Carriers don't appear to be regulated. I've waited half my life just to see "Do Not Call" enforced at a Federal level. Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 06:02:51 -0700 To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org From: l.tut...@cox.net Subject: OT: Re: Starti

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2013-02-16 Thread Nathan England
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