"yea right" wrote in message
news

It appears the UPLC (United Powerline council) does not value people that
enjoy tube radios. This from a group of people that use glass
insulators and old wooden power poles to send hi-speed internet.

Did you compose that wonderful example of
convoluted logic before, or after, you got drunk
with the rest of the chain-smoking boys at the
ham club meeting or the VFW Post?

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:50:39 -0500, Frank Dresser wrote:


Sounds like the Cranky Old Hams have struck a nerve!!

Frank Dresser


I hate to have to say this Frank but I fear that it is about time
that we set up the:


C ranky
O ld
R adio
P articipating
S ociety
E xtended


Motto: Just don't do something; lie there.

Requirement for SWLs: Have conclusively proved that a
5-tube AC-DC superhet really does have a hot chassis.

Requirement for Hams: Minimum of one RF burn.
Extra points for burn thru fingernail or thumbnail.

Dues: if you haven't already paid
them, what are you doing /here/?

Recruiting Slogan: Why, yes; actually
we /are/ as stupid as we look.



Gray Shockley
--------------------------------------------------------
Be all the B+ that you can be. -30- & 73

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:50:39 -0500, Frank Dresser wrote:


Sounds like the Cranky Old Hams have struck a nerve!!

Frank Dresser


I hate to have to say this Frank but I fear that it is about time
that we set up the:


C ranky
O ld
R adio
P articipating
S ociety
E xtended


Motto: Just don't do something; lie there.

Requirement for SWLs: Have conclusively proved that a
5-tube AC-DC superhet really does have a hot chassis.

Requirement for Hams: Minimum of one RF burn.
Extra points for burn thru fingernail or thumbnail.

Dues: if you haven't already paid
them, what are you doing /here/?

Recruiting Slogan: Why, yes; actually
we /are/ as stupid as we look.



Gray Shockley
--------------------------------------------------------
Be all the B+ that you can be. -30- & 73

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 03:47:15 -0500, wrote
(in article ):

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 03:43:51 GMT, yea right wrote:


It appears the UPLC (United Powerline council) does not value people that
enjoy tube radios. This from a group of people that use glass
insulators and old wooden power poles to send hi-speed internet.

http://www.uplc.utc.org/?cbr_v=dcb&n...n&ct=conten t
browser
or
http://tinyurl.com/35ptp



From the article"

"UPLC reminded the Commission that BPL is not just another broadband
access platform, but one that enables applications in ways that other
technologies do not by providing enhanced utility applications, home
networking, symmetric speeds, and low latency for a variety of
services. Unique applications will improve the efficiency and
reliability of electric service to utility customers as well as
promote broadband competition for consumers, carriers and ISPs -
saving lives, reducing electric generation costs, remedying the
digital divide and conquering the DSL- cable duopoly."



Wow! This stuff can do anything except restore virginity. And
I'm sure they're working on that little problem.

Well, it sorta sounds as if they're actually
going the other way with it.

Picture . . .


Uh, oh - wrong newsgroup - best not.


Forget I brought it up.


++ Gray //

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 03:47:15 -0500, wrote
(in article ):

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 03:43:51 GMT, yea right wrote:


It appears the UPLC (United Powerline council) does not value people that
enjoy tube radios. This from a group of people that use glass
insulators and old wooden power poles to send hi-speed internet.

http://www.uplc.utc.org/?cbr_v=dcb&n...n&ct=conten t
browser
or
http://tinyurl.com/35ptp



From the article"

"UPLC reminded the Commission that BPL is not just another broadband
access platform, but one that enables applications in ways that other
technologies do not by providing enhanced utility applications, home
networking, symmetric speeds, and low latency for a variety of
services. Unique applications will improve the efficiency and
reliability of electric service to utility customers as well as
promote broadband competition for consumers, carriers and ISPs -
saving lives, reducing electric generation costs, remedying the
digital divide and conquering the DSL- cable duopoly."



Wow! This stuff can do anything except restore virginity. And
I'm sure they're working on that little problem.

Well, it sorta sounds as if they're actually
going the other way with it.

Picture . . .


Uh, oh - wrong newsgroup - best not.


Forget I brought it up.


++ Gray //

"Gray Shockley" wrote in message
...

[snip]


Requirement for SWLs: Have conclusively proved that a
5-tube AC-DC superhet really does have a hot chassis.


[snip]

Not only survived close encounters with the Hot Chassis, but I might have
been killed several times over by fully active 5U4s. Yet I survived, thanks
to BPL.

But how? Isn't BPL a new invention, far more recent than my clumsy repair
efforts? Don't we have a temporal anomoly here? Consider that BPL will
provide reliable broadband powerline access to everybody at a very low
price. BPL will make power lines quieter. BPL saves lives. And I'm now
sure the Rules of Time present no barrier to BPL.

I now realize that BPL exists outside the world of known physics. BPL has
found a portal into the world of magical psudeoscience commonly found on
Saturday morning cartoons and Star Trek episodes.

Frank Dresser

"Gray Shockley" wrote in message
...

[snip]


Requirement for SWLs: Have conclusively proved that a
5-tube AC-DC superhet really does have a hot chassis.


[snip]

Not only survived close encounters with the Hot Chassis, but I might have
been killed several times over by fully active 5U4s. Yet I survived, thanks
to BPL.

But how? Isn't BPL a new invention, far more recent than my clumsy repair
efforts? Don't we have a temporal anomoly here? Consider that BPL will
provide reliable broadband powerline access to everybody at a very low
price. BPL will make power lines quieter. BPL saves lives. And I'm now
sure the Rules of Time present no barrier to BPL.

I now realize that BPL exists outside the world of known physics. BPL has
found a portal into the world of magical psudeoscience commonly found on
Saturday morning cartoons and Star Trek episodes.

Frank Dresser

Frank,
Can I have some of whatever you're smoking?
'Doc

Frank,
Can I have some of whatever you're smoking?
'Doc

"'Doc" wrote in message ...


Frank,
Can I have some of whatever you're smoking?
'Doc

Smoking? No sir, I'm in BPL nirvana. BPL nirvana is the best sort of
nirvana, because wishing for something makes it so. The only thing I
haven't been able to wish away is the occasional cacophony of Cranky Old
Hams. They sound just like my alarm clock.

However, I fear it may already be morning in America.

Frank Dresser