CW wrote:

This whole argument is pointless. The code requirement will be eliminated.
No thinking person would dispute that.

You would think so, wouldn't you? Yet this thread proves that people are
either not thinking, or their way of thinking makes no ****ing sense.

(Since the FCC says you can now use the word "****ing" on radio and TV, then we
can now use it on newsgroups too.)

The only reason we still have it now
is international agreement.

And that finally is now gone. So the real reason we have it now in the US when
other countries got their act in gear and already eliminated it, is that in the
US government moves really slow unless it is something unimportant like renaming
french fries to freedom fries, that they can move really fast on legislating.

I firmly believe that if people feel that a code
requirement is necessary, that they should go ahead and require it.

Right, those that want to learn the code should by all means learn it. Those
that want to use microphones and don't like to use code, don't have to learn it.

But what about affirmative action? Since people who didn't want to use code
had to learn it all this time, perhaps now the government should make those that
want to use code to learn something else they don't like before they can get
licenses now. You know, just like the reverse discrimination and racism of
affirmative action to make up for the past mistakes.

I say if you want to use morse code on HF, you have to learn and be tested on
Egyptian Hieroglyphics.

Jeff Renkin wrote:

CW wrote:

This whole argument is pointless. The code requirement will be eliminated.
No thinking person would dispute that.

You would think so, wouldn't you? Yet this thread proves that people are
either not thinking, or their way of thinking makes no ****ing sense.

(Since the FCC says you can now use the word "****ing" on radio and TV, then we
can now use it on newsgroups too.)

The only reason we still have it now
is international agreement.

And that finally is now gone. So the real reason we have it now in the US when
other countries got their act in gear and already eliminated it, is that in the
US government moves really slow unless it is something unimportant like renaming
french fries to freedom fries, that they can move really fast on legislating.

I firmly believe that if people feel that a code
requirement is necessary, that they should go ahead and require it.

Right, those that want to learn the code should by all means learn it. Those
that want to use microphones and don't like to use code, don't have to learn it.

But what about affirmative action? Since people who didn't want to use code
had to learn it all this time, perhaps now the government should make those that
want to use code to learn something else they don't like before they can get
licenses now. You know, just like the reverse discrimination and racism of
affirmative action to make up for the past mistakes.

I say if you want to use morse code on HF, you have to learn and be tested on
Egyptian Hieroglyphics.

You are truely an idiot.