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Comment Re:Armstrong turns in his grave (Score 1) 264

Which was forced to relocate to new frequency assignments in 1945 (obsoleting all previously sold receivers and transmitters) just as it was beginning to build a following because of a government mandate rammed through the FCC by competing corporate interests (David Sarnoff of RCA).

Ongoing patent litigation with RCA eventually drove Armstrong to kill himself...

Comment Re:The medium that brought us Rush Limbaugh... (Score 1) 264

[sarcasm]
But "emergency broadcasting" = SOCIALISM, no? A government program aimed at providing help for EVERYONE? Even the lazy welfare moochers, and people with objectionable skin colors, politics, or icky gay stuff?

The globalist government just wants to seize control of the airwaves and make sure that people are FORCED to consume their commie UN propaganda the next time they fabricate some so-called "emergency" like a pandemic, climate catastrophe, etc.

What's next, putting Bud Light directly into the water supply along with the fluoride and the gay frog chemicals?
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Comment The medium that brought us Rush Limbaugh... (Score 1, Insightful) 264

is now being supported by a "Big Government" MANDATE?

The fat fucker must be spinning in his grave right now.

If his fans had ANY level of consistency, they would all be ripping the radios out of their cars and burning them, to protest "Big Radio" telling the auto manufacturing companies how to run their businesses....

Comment The last time they talked about this, it was a CIA (Score 1) 79

cover story for an effort to recover a sunken Soviet submarine:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Are they looking for an excuse to blow up more pipelines, or start cutting undersea cables now?

Comment Re:Nuclear isn't clean (Score 1) 362

Again, all of those impacts are a result of our existing mix of power sources for the electrical grid and transportation, and hold for ANY industrial activity.

If the grid were powered by renewables, and mining machines were electric rather than diesel, we wouldn't have the issues.

Comment Re:Nuclear isn't clean (Score 4, Insightful) 362

By the same metric, solar and wind aren't "clean" energy because of the pollution created in building PV panels and turbines. That's just the reality of manufacturing anything while fossil fuels power the grid.

The more of our grid that gets shifted to nuclear, wind, and solar, the cleaner ALL manufacturing becomes.

Music

Ticketmaster Will No Longer Refund Postponed Shows (digitalmusicnews.com) 196

Ticketmaster has quietly changed its refund policy to no longer cover postponed or rescheduled shows. Now, the Live Nation company's refund policy simply says: "Refunds are available if your event is canceled." From a report: It's hardly a secret that the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has brought the live-event industry to a screeching halt. Responding both to government mandates and health concerns, promoters have canceled (or delayed) sporting events, concerts, and essentially all other audience-based entertainment functions. And predictably, a substantial number of would-be attendees are looking to receive refunds for the tickets they bought prior to the pandemic. In responding to this unprecedented cluster of repayment requests, Ticketmaster has quietly changed its refund policy to cover only canceled events -- not the many functions that promoters have indefinitely "postponed" or rescheduled to a date/time that some ticketholders cannot make.

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