Oh look. LightSquared have figured out how they'll get around the FCC.

[Chip Fetrow]

AH, but originally the FCC was run by Engineers.  That was mostly good.

THEN, it was taken over by lawyers.  That was bad.

LATELY, it has ben taken over by politicians.  WOW, that has been  
dreadful.

--chip

On Dec 12, 2011, at 1:00 PM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:

> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:54:03 +0000
> From: Phil <philmt59 at aol.com>
> To: Tacos AMRAD <tacos at amrad.org>
> Subject: Re: Oh look. LightSquared have figured out how they'll get
> 	around the	FCC.
>
> Thanks guys. I get the 'adjacent band filtering' problem, so I guess  
> I'm just flogging a stupid, circular argument here: isn't it the job  
> of the FCC to ensure that adjacent band usage doesn't lead to this  
> kind of interference problem? I've already worked out the answer to  
> that. But has no-one the understanding, authority and plain common  
> sense to realise that when (and let's be generous, if) the whole  
> thing goes Hara Arena fountain-of-ordure, somebody who allowed it to  
> happen is going to get a right kicking? I mean, this is one major  
> cock-up that even the general public are going to notice, it seems.
>
> [I am unpopular with administrators at the university where I work  
> for repeatedly suggesting that things will not improve unless some  
> of us stop fixing the problems that they cause.]
>
> Okay then, in the words of Goethe (or was it Schiller?) via Isaac  
> Asimov: "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain."
>
> Phil M1GWZ