On Mar 28, 4:31?am, wrote:
On 28 Mar 2007 03:59:16 -0700, wrote:

wht more needs to be said you deny seeing reality Rip and must being
going through life sleep walking

No, Mark, Miccolis just doesn't WANT to face reality...or
anything else that will disagree with His view of everything.

For example, I've said in the past that I will leave this
newsgroup once the code test is eliminated.

News Flash: I CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT THAT! :-)

Somehow, in Miccolis' odd view of life and things, one
CANNOT EVER CHANGE THEIR MIND...about anything
once it is stated!

Remarkable inflexibility. Not a good thing in a technology
area that is constantly changing the state of the art.

Miccolis wants the comfortable, the secure (because he
made it long ago), the unchanging from His point of view.
Apparently Miccolis swore some kind of oath long ago
to FOREVER hold the old, trite, worn-out traditions,
policies that were imprinted on his brain years ago. He
can't abide arguments against that world-view and takes
out his spite on all his challengers.

I like to keep flexible, both in technology and traditional
things. Tradition has its place but is really an emotional
thing that does not necessarily hold forever and ever.
The technological arts have been constantly changing in
ALL electronics ("radio" is a subset of that) since before
the first demonstration of radio as a communications
medium in 1896; the Morse-Vail Telegraph System was
first operational in 1844 and spread throughout the world
yet there is no manual "morse code" telegraph working
in North America today and hasn't been for over 40 years.

Why on earth should the FCC have held to the morse
code exam for an AMATEUR radio license that has
operating privileges BELOW 30 MHz so long? The
rhetorical answer is POLITICS. USA politics. The sort
of politics practiced by a minority group of radio
hobbyists who prefer morse code mode over all other
modes and insist that all newcomers DO AS THEY DID.
Inflexibility with high seasoning of control-freak opinion.
It was nonsense to hold on to the old for so long. The
FCC had enough and removed the code test...which
shows that the FCC is not the staid old government
agency that some think it is. The FCC *is* progressive
but it is also hindered by the politics of opinion (as are
all governmental agencies).

In early February I was thinking of all this politics
nonsense and it was obvious that an opportunity
presented itself to me to add one more radio license
to my life experience. I simply changed my mind
about the whole situation, took the tests, passed all
of them, got another callsign (the PLMRS business
radio had been cancelled) and the now-lifetime GROL
was still intact. Okay, now I'm an amateur extra class
amateur radio licensee. Have I had my "first experience"
"with my own radio" as a result of that? Hardly. Been
there, done that, several different ways long ago. But
some of the unreal argument-for-argument-sake idiots
in here seem to think that a ham license is the ONLY
way one can get such 'experience!' :-)

The inflexible mind-set presented by Miccolis has nothing
to do with the situation on testing (or even newsgrouping)
behavior. It is just his way of GETTING BACK at his
detractors in here. It doesn't work (obviously) but he keeps
on trying. It must be irritating to others. To me it is just a
familiar pattern in all of computer-modem commications
media...their respective egos are just personalizing their
responses and they aren't thinking farther than their own
in-group of similar-activity devotees. I've seen it long ago
and will - no doubt - continue to see it on these venues.

If Miccolis wants to pretend he is Judge and Jury and
Executioner, let him. He can wear black robes and a veddy
English formal wig if he likes. He doesn't have the authority,
doesn't have the judgement, doesn't have much of anything
upon which to "judge" or "sentence" anyone. He is just a
gavel-banger, making a lot of noise because he loves the
noise. "Court" dismissed.

73, Len AF6AY