On 10 Jul 2006 14:52:20 -0700, "an old friend"
wrote:

Slow Code wrote:

You
have to pass a test for the privileges. If you can't pass the test like
Techs used to have to pass, you get no privileges to operate and have to
go back to CB with everyone else that can't pass a test and acts retarded.
You earn privileges, licenses aren't totally free handouts from the FCC
yet, as much as you people wish they were.

I already earned those prevlidges

Earned? By what? Filling out an application? Memorizing enough
answers to just pass the written exam?

The no-code license was a bad idea to begin
with anyway.

perhaps it was (I don't agree it was but I will grant it might be)
but it is 20 years too late for that discussion

It's never too late to correct a mistake.

You couldn't have got licensed under the old system.

Acualy I could have gotten one

It was you who said, "I having never been able to passa code test", so
you couldn't have.

by simply accepting the offer of those testing to lie and say that I
tooked the recieve I passed one and tranmtiing test I took a month
later and passed (while failig n that day ) and claim they taken and
passed the same day

That's not passing, that's cheating. If you're old enough to go to
school you're old enough to know the difference.

but you clearly hate what the ARS is

If he hated it he wouldn't care what it's become. He cares because he
DOESN'T hate it.

and you would enact a sytem that would kill they ARS as it is if you
had the power

There were plenty of hams when 13 wpm was the entry level. A 5 wpm
code test and a *real* written test wouldn't kill it, it would just
separate those who are willing to do what it takes to be hams from
those who just want the license without the work.