New HA product development

It's my fault. I accidentally crossposted troll-food the other day. Please, don't punish me!

Love, The Moderator Of The Pissing Box

He shouldn't have had to hide his device, is the point --- Einstein.

Particularly since mom has the TV busy watching soaps and is finishing off a quart of vodka, eh fleen? As you now know, FAS is an ugly thing.

This is an illegal requirement. You can be sued for this.

You are addressing this proposal to the wrong group. You want to be talking with an "embedded systems engineer" with strong ethernet programming skills. This probably will not be much of a job for them as it is likely you don't know enough to conceive a requirement of any complexity. The people who know this sub-specialty can draw on several candidate reference designs off the top of their head very quickly, and patch together the software already at their disposal to get a prototype working quickly. The main problem you will have is that the person who takes you up the the offer will have something wrong with them.

As you can tell from the quality, demeanour, and overall tone of Mr F's posts, he has a rather deeply rooted personality disorder --- a type of disorder that attracts the attention of mainstream troll-hood. As mainstream trolls, our objective is to trigger as many enraged, apoplectic outbursts as we can from certain individuals (such as Mr F) to teach them that such outbursts are counter-productive, unnecessary, and are simply an ineffective method of interacting with their fellow human beings --- even those who disapprove of their NNTP posts. Most would simply find it laughable that someone has a derogatory opinion of them or their NNTP posts --- only a very limited minority of newsgroup users will actually become enraged and post adrenaline-charged, rage-filled ripostes in response --- these individuals are like gold to the troll community because these are the people with whom we can do our most valuable work. Mr F. is one these precious individuals. Please feel free to use him in this capacity --- all we ask is that you don't over-stress his fragile ego to the breaking point (as could easily be done). The more Mr F can be shown that his vitriolic diatribes are something that the world finds amusing --- not something that inspires fear or awe, the quicker he will learn to change his errant ways and be brought back into the fold of humanity --- minus his vituperative rantings. Please, no over-stressing of an already fragile and fractured ego!

Indeed! How excrutiatingly mah-velous ...

Whattsa matta- your favorite cartoon shows in re-runs?

You and the rest of your ilk, mes amis, are FAR more entertaining than cartoons ever were! ;)

I believe true maydays are never illegal on any band. Note you do not claim he was arrested for illegal operation. (I admit it has been over

As I wrote, seizure of a non-type accepted radio, that has been legally used, is different than saying the particular mayday use itself was illegal.

You sort of got it there. I do not believe a true mayday requires type accepted equipment.

The perfect way to have the government put the clamps on maydays, is to make them a nuisance.

The normal comm channels into 911 work pretty well, so in practice, these fears won't likely materialize.

The point is that context itself can define criminality.

Usenet access is so much cheaper than Prozac and doctors. Technology marches on!

Whatever- sounds like so much smug innuendo from an idle little zero. I bet you're "bored" too.

Gentlemen, Please stop copying comp.home.automation on your conversation. Thanks.

From:Fred Bloggs snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com

Well, if you wanted to stir up trouble (not that I could imagine you doing such a thing...), you could try to get your favorite alt.electronics troll all wound up but crossposting to a group where the moderator makes personal attacks disapear...

What you may have missed is that, unlike requirement US citizens for a particular position, being ugly is not illegal. Of course, someone with a couple more neurons would realize that.

--- As anyone of even marginal intelligence should be able to understand, the _lack_ of quality in a troll's life, the admitted desire of a troll for the acceptance of criminal demeanor to be considered mainstream behavior, and the troll's propensity toward fomenting discord in the affairs of those not so afflicted are the troll's raisons d'être.

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--- In order to feed their egos and bring feelings of self-worth into their wasted lives, trolls like to attempt to engage passers-by by shouting personally derogatory epithets in an attempt to attract retaliation (and thus validation) from the passer by. Should _any_ response be forthcoming, the troll's true nature will come to light and an attempt will be made, by the troll, to slough off its character defects onto the passer-by and to cause an infection to occur in the passer-by which will make the troll's actions seem to be benevolent.

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--- Vituperative ranting directed at a troll is anathema to it in that it forces a crack to appear in its thin outer shell which can easily be widened by the application of anger, real or feigned. Once the crack has been opened, the troll is forced to look within itself and, horrified by what it sees, call for the cessation of activities which would open the crack wider and wider and eventually lead to the troll's understanding of its true nature.

Failure to accede to the troll's pleas for "reason" to prevail is the kindest thing to do, in that it will put the troll out of its misery.

-- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer

--- It's considered poor form not to leave a snippet of the post being replied to in the reply, as a courtesy to the reader.

-- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer

certainly is

Yes, I meant "transmitting on the police bands in general." Sorry for the confusion.

In general I agree with you, but I think that modifying a radio to transmit on police bands -- and then using it to do so -- is a pretty cut and dry case of breaking the law. :-) Although I would say that, if the modification were made on the spur of the moment (e.g., you're out in the middle of nowhere in a cabin that happens to have a ham radio, you break your leg, and if somehow you can't manage to bring up another ham :-), you instead modify the radio to transmit out of band), the violation would likely be overlooked.