How do you design these days?

Highly doubtful assertion. Case in point: California has rather loose regs in terms of "medicinal" pot use but the feds don't. There have regularly been raids here and the local authorities could do nothing about that. Now I can't recall reading anything about pot in the constitution ;-)

As for your question in the other post, amendment 1, quote "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Freedom of speech means that the listeners also may not be unduly restricted from hearing such speech. The constitution is not meant to be a book the size of the tax code, that's why there are federal laws, regs, codes and so on that (should) take care of the details :-)

I think that TV and other stuff as we know it will slowly go away anyhow and that much of the investment into HDTV equipment will not have the expected return (as in ad revenue). Look at the kids. Many that I know have little or no interest in TV, unlike 5-10 years ago. They get the news on the web or not at all because they don't care for it. Movies come via Netflix. Music via iTunes et cetera.

Sometimes I have the feel that was part of the game when the switch to DTV was made. Because obviously there weren't adequate field tests done for multipath situations. So that forces large swath of the land into the fangs of the "providers".

We have a NOAA radio and regular radios. It's the only way left after the switch to DTV because thick rolling clouds will freeze most channels into a blocky Picasso. OTOH our forefathers didn't have any of this high-faluting radiowave and ether stuff. When an emergency came up they just dealt with it as best as they could ;-)

How's that water line trench coming? If it's any consolation I took out the last little tree and chopped it up this morning, courtesy of global warming. The snow load had toppled it, roots and all. Sad, it was still green and wanted to grow but 90 degrees out of angle.

You need to read up. There are _specific_ things SUPPOSED to be left to state's rights.

Unfortunately the Constitution has basically become a worthless document :-(

Until the next great war. Then "progressives" may be shot on sight... I can hardly wait ;-)

(That must be the reason for today's hostility toward me posted here... they know I'm eventually going to get them. What galls them is that they know it'll be legal ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Washington D.C., but they're hardly needed.

I doubt that a federal court would let states get away with second-guessing an agency the size of the FCC.

BTW, democrates (!) sentenced to death Socrates for being politically incorrect.

VLV

Don't worry. They'll show up if you ever have a thought.

Where is your brain when you need it?

Of course, history repeats itself, but that it does repeat is ignored, just like global warming ;-) ...Jim Thompson

It's on hold till the ground thaws. The lows have been in the teens lately, and I can't use a pickaxe with one hand.