Hello, John

Well, troll is when someone starts a thread with the intent of starting a
flame war.

Since the Republicans came to power and some of the stuff I've seen, I'm
willing to troll now. Not much matters anymore. The cw/no cw threads -
which, from what I've seen, means "I don't want any tests".

I seriously don't care that much anymore. I'm seriously thinking of moving
to Florida and simply spending my days in the sunshine (and pool LOL). Let
the freebanders have at it. Don't call me if there is a problem; I spent my
time in 'Nam and figure the no-test folks will have all the answers anyways.

There are no discussions anymore as politics is controlled via the various
programs concerning national security and the sheep follow the leader
regardless. Why study the calculus when you can pick up a calculator (never
mind I've caught one kid making a mistake even using a calculator - if the
owner looses his butt, that's his problem, not mine)?

As to communications or electronics, it won't matter. I remember going
down to a television station over 10 years ago and being told I'd have to
join SMPTE (I think - Society of Motion Picture and Televison Employees ....
not sure) and was shown a "difficult" test I'd have to take. Same damn test
I passed as a teenager in front of the FCC to get my 1st class
radiotelephone license. I was also a full member of that organization when
I was designing UHF translator stations in 1971.

Unfortunately, I reset my newsgroups as they were taking up considerable
space and lost the start of this thread. Unfortunately, I have not been
able to engage in any reasonable discussion in quite some time myself and
I've about resigned myself to avoiding the flames and simply basking in the
sun.

I'm sure some enterprising individual will find a way to blame the folks
that finally got tired of all the mess. Do let me know if Bush ever gets a
clue or the No Test International folks ever think there might be a problem
with letting everyone on any frequency they desire.

I do not believe you ever started a thread with the intent of causing grief,
but I've had some question as to some of your posts in the middle of
threads. Then again, I've been getting a bit testy of late myself

I heard that AOL died in London. The cell phones overload. Of course,
everyone could be assigned their own "frequency" (rather than a free for all
"freeband" agreement). With something like 6 billion folks in the world,
that would take 6 GHz of channels 1 Hz wide. I don't think one can push
much information through a channel 1 Hz wide. Also, no one could have a
very useful antenna much below several hundred KHz.

Maybe the answer is let everyone drive on whatever side of the road they
want?

LOL - no, John, it isn't you. I'm just getting a bit tired. Perhaps I'll
go to bed. I'm seriously considering moving and trashing the computer.
Retire and go fishing, perhaps. I might even invest in a beam and a good hf
rig. I've never found a lid on cw and have had many interesting discussions
on cw (as well as 440 MHz fm).


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA



"John Smith" wrote in message
news
Jim:

Can you remember when, here in America, we used to discuss matters,
listen to points of view, examine every possibility--in the end, draw
on everything, and finally reach real solutions, real fixes, and
provide solutions everyone could live under?

Do you see how now the word "troll" is tossed out and cowards fly to
hiding places to escape any association with it? Do any of us really
know what a "troll" is?

Frankly, the only definition I will accept for "troll" is someone who
only has the intent of causing anger, confusion and hate--for NO real
purpose...

Do you really see where I do that? Have you even seen where most
accused of being a "troll" really are?

I haven't!

I see where some wish to open up discussions, debate and argument--and
some simply wish to stop all discussion because they are afraid they
will be in disagree with the final conclusions of that--and somehow
they view that as a danger to themselves...

Yanno, some of this is the strangest chit I have ever seen in my
life...

How about your take on it?

John