From: "b.b." on Sat 6 Aug 2005 18:18


wrote:
From: Carl R. Stevenson on Aug 4, 1:55 pm


Steve,

The comment period isn't OPEN yet (the release of the NPRM by the FCC
doesn't "start the clock," it's the publication in the Federal Register,
which has not yet happened.

Heyo Carl! Welcome again.

Sunnuvagun you are RIGHT! I checked the FR at the GPO site
and there is nothing there yet from 15 July (the NPRM release
date) through 4 August!

[wasn't there in the Federal Register for 5 Aug 05 either...]

Amazing...two weeks gone on this NPRM and it hasn't started yet!

Even worse, at least a dozen ham-interest websites have made it
a cause celebre, front-page headline thing (which it is)...and
lots of folks are now urging Comments to be sent in! Everyone
from Nancy Kott at FISTS on out... :-)

That's impossible. FISTS is non-political, and all things Morse Code
related are PURE! So that's impossible. Completely impossible.

To morsemen minds, that's absolutely true.

They think there is no better "music" than the on-off keying of
an RF carrier wave by the mislabeled "international language"
of morse code. ALL "interested in [ham] radio MUST test for
that skill...to "show dedication and committment to the
amateur community" (which consists of the individual mind of
each morseman in their hive-collective).

Thus, technically speaking, while the docket is open in the ECFS, comments
filed now are "premature," so I would suggest you consider refraining from
"dis-ing" people over something where they are behaving in a completely
appropriate manner.

Stebie don't need no steenking rules! :-)

Bet Steve got "steenking Badges!"

Stebie's cigar box of medals really needs an air freshener...

See 25 Jan 99 on 98-143, 10 days AFTER the supposed window close
on the Restructuring NPRM. Stebie was in there dissing me. :-)
He hasn't stopped since.

Same Stuff, Different Millenium.

Poor feller hasn't learned to "play well with others" in six
years. I've given up on optimism of his changing enough to
get along with others. As Jeswald likes to say, "Ya 'jes
cain't fix stupid."

fix not