Minichan

Ohhh syntax is going to have a hissy fit!

that site looks a little suspicious, like the people might be on FBI watchlist

@1,049,327 (B)
Not at all - I have no game currently in Ham Radio and given it's given me so much when I needed it but alas that ship has sailed.

Ham Radio allowed me to have a huge amount of fun and meet people all over the place but most of what I did was local in a 200 Mile zone at most. So lots of friendship in person. Weekly transmitter hunts as a game. AND AND Of course I dated a Gal in a family where all but the Young Lady of the house had their own FCC License - and it was a large extended family because of the number of extra bedrooms.

I married that Gal and it was a terrific Marriage for say the first 12 years and then then then - People change and for her the change was for her better but that change was NOT anything I wanted a part of Soooooooo

But in NO Way do I regret the first 12-13-14 years Alas She decided on a Religion I wanted no part of even though the people are nice warm - AND of all things so many years after the divorce I move into a place in Cardiff by the Sea where my first North Neighbor is that same Religion of a Hindu sorts er Sorta

@1,049,331 (Sheila LaBoof)
> that site looks a little suspicious
No kidding, huh? They seem to be the only site with this news, but they just reference an email to someone about not having a repeater on public lands. There's no announcement from state or county agencies about eliminating ham radio.

It doesn't look like it's true at all. It's just fake clickbait as far as I can tell.

@previous (E)
The public lands thing is a big deal. My Father in Law Art, W6MEP/K6MYK was only able to get a mountain top location in LA by configuring his 2 Meter/420 MHz/ for RACES know known as USRACES.ORG
www.usraces.org
RACES stands for "Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service," a protocol created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC Part 97, Section 407). Many government agencies across the country train their Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS) volunteers using the RACES protocol.

So MT Hollywood was the key communications center for LA Police and Sheriff and FBI and lots of other agencies and by making it in case of need RACES - He got free space including power -

It really is not much as a mountain but for sure it provided coverage From County Limits to just about everything EXCEPT Malibu which only Satellite Phones really work but someday perhaps 6G will work out for the residents

@1,049,345 (Syntax)

> Not at all - I have no game currently in Ham Radio and given it's given me so much when I needed it but alas that ship has sailed.
>
> Ham Radio allowed me to have a huge amount of fun and meet people all over the place but most of what I did was local in a 200 Mile zone at most. So lots of friendship in person. Weekly transmitter hunts as a game. AND AND Of course I dated a Gal in a family where all but the Young Lady of the house had their own FCC License - and it was a large extended family because of the number of extra bedrooms.
>
> I married that Gal and it was a terrific Marriage for say the first 12 years and then then then - People change and for her the change was for her better but that change was NOT anything I wanted a part of Soooooooo
>
> But in NO Way do I regret the first 12-13-14 years Alas She decided on a Religion I wanted no part of even though the people are nice warm - AND of all things so many years after the divorce I move into a place in Cardiff by the Sea where my first North Neighbor is that same Religion of a Hindu sorts er Sorta

You divorced her because she joined a hippy new age religion?

while fucking her, you declare, "I am Vishnu, destroyer of cunts"

@1,049,413 (G)
No it was Self Relationship Fellowship which is more Hindu than anything else but it does mix and match just about every religion on the books. Nor wood I have asked for a divorce over the religion issue because that was not a major issue WITH ONE MAJOR EXCEPTION - They are Vegetarians and albeit my wife continued to cook terrific meals for me with MEAT - The switch to Vegetarian turned off a mass of close friends who stopped including "US" in dinner parties Bar-B-Q's etc.

Social circle quickly collapsed. All of a sudden I found myself gravitating towards events with friends from my Mountain Climbing and Hiking and Backpacking community - My wife was actually responsible for both of us getting into Mountain Climbing - She saw a notice in LA Times about one day of free training with a climb included and all hardware needed and we were good to go BUT she found that ad AND Such activities were R Life Changing.

Yet over time with the Religion she dropped out because a weekend event wood conflict with her Church events - So over all she was doing less and less with me and I was spending time with friends and well I worked on the three strikes method and she had already put her self in the Two Strike with one more to cum Zone.

More to it of course but over all I wood NOT have traded the 1st 12 of 16 years for ANYTHING - Was just Terrific - The guy she later married was an easy sell on her religion (I met him before she met him) Probably bought like $5000+ in wine from him.

@1,049,441 (Sheila LaBoof)
Please! Have a Snickers!

@1,049,331 (Sheila LaBoof)

> that site looks a little suspicious, like the people might be on FBI watchlist

Why is that?

@previous (GROVER !jqZkAz4Usg)
maybe they are wackjobs, I don't know, ask them

@OP
Hitler took the radios, Stalin took the radios, Mao took the radios, Fidel Castro took the radios, Hugo Chávez took the radios. And I am here to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our ham rigs! It doesn't matter how many lemmings you get out there on the street begging for them to have their radios taken; we will not relinquish them, do you understand? That's why you're going to fail, and the establishment knows, no matter how much propaganda, the Republic will rise again when you attempt to take our radios!

No more late night chats with Barry Goldwater!

@previous (K)
lol

@1,049,452 (Syntax)
> No it was Self Relationship Fellowship which is more Hindu than anything else but it does mix and match just about every religion on the books.
Do you mean the Self-Realization Fellowship? In the name of Paramahansa Yogananda, get your wacky religions straight.

@previous (E)
> Self-Realization Fellowship
> Self Relationship Fellowship


"SPELLING"

"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow."

"I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home---where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt."

"I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us."


"...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime."

@previous (Syntax)
ok but those are actually two different words

@previous (L)
What is it called when you say the same thing two different ways?
A tautology is the opposite of an oxymoron, sort of. An oxymoron combines two contradictory terms, like jumbo shrimp. A tautology is unnecessary repetition of meaning, using different and dissimilar words that effectively say the same thing. It is saying the same thing twice when you don't need to.

Pleonasm (/ˈpliːənæzəm/; from Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλέον (pleon), meaning "more, too much") is the use of more words or parts of words than are necessary or sufficient for clear expression: examples are black darkness, burning fire. Such redundancy is, by traditional rhetorical criteria, a manifestation of tautology. That being said, people may use a pleonasm for emphasis or because the phrase has already become established in a certain form. In English usage, redundancy is usually defined as the use of two or more words that say the same thing, but we also use the term to refer to any expression in which a modifier’s meaning is contained in the word it modifies (e.g., early beginnings, merge together—many more are listed below). Think of redundancies as word overflows.

This list is far from complete, and we’re developing it organically (i.e., adding redundancies as they come up in our work) rather than compiling the list by stealing from other online sources, which would be too easy.

"Meaning" is ambiguous: when we think of the "meaning" of a word or expression what we usually have in mind is its sense or dictionary meaning. Sometimes, though (as when I say "I mean you!") the word "mean" means aboutness, or reference. English and other natural languages include a variety of indexicals, words whose reference changes systematically depending where, when, by whom or in what circumstances they are said. They make sentences in which they occur context-dependent. And when sentences are context-dependent you can have same proposition/different statement or different proposition/same statement.

In ordinary English "identical" and "same" are ambiguous: sometimes we mean same type, other times we mean same token. Give examples of situations in which we mean same type and situations in which we mean same token, e.g. what do we mean when we talk about "identical twins"?