Text 7016, 73 rader
Skriven 2008-07-26 13:01:50 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
   Kommentar till text 7013 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
Ärende: The Black Experience
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Hi Bob,

Bob Ackley wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

<big snip, but those who read have been following along I"m sure <g>.
 BA>> Those agency rules should be formally enacted into law by the
 BA>> congress.  By telling the administrative branch to take care of the
 BA>> details the congress is abdicating its Constitutional
 BA>> responsibilities.  Of course, doing it the way they do does provide
 BA>> congresscrooks with political cover for the administration's
 BA>> depredations.


 RW> Looks good in theory, but here again the COmmunications act of 1934 is
 RW> a perfect example of this.
 <another snip>.
 RW> Regulating the airwaves,  landline, etc. requires some technical
knowledge. POls
 RW> don't have the technical background to be able to promulgate rules 
 RW> that are going to be effective in carrying out the wishes of the
 RW> legislative branch. AT least that's the theory <g>.
BA> Cocaine is legally a narcotic, chemically it's a stimulant.

YEp, true, and apropos.

 RW> EXamples abound.  Broadband over powerline being just one, and the
 RW> most egregious example that hits my brain as I digest my first few
 RW> sips of coffee <g>. WHen the pols do things like this, then
 RW> interested parties either have to go back to the congress crooks to
 RW> get it fixed up, or use the redmedies provided by the courts.

BA> I don't see where the FCC gets to regulate *anything* that doesn't
BA> use the airwaves.  The rationale for such regulation, after all, is
BA> the government controlling a supposedly scarce resource, the
BA> airwaves, that belong to the public.
BA> Cable systems, telephones, broadband-over-power-lines etc., do not
BA> use those 'scarce public resources,' yet the FCC gets to control
BA> them. 

WIth cable systems and broadband over powerline however these systems generate
rf. COnsider cable channel 14 for example.  It's frequency band is 121 mhz,
right smack dab in the middle of the aircraft vhf band. THe fcc, and faa have a
real strong interest in ensuring that the cable system is engineered so as not
to leak rf out, or allow rf in. iF it's engineered to do one effectively it
will accomplish the other. SAme sort of thing happens with bpl as noted above.
CLosed loop systems such as cable TV borrow rf spectrum, and are supposed to be
"closed loops" and if not, then the fcc and the public has a strong interest in
making them clean up their act.

YEars ago I was running a packet radio station which was strategically in a
good spot to handle forwarding from the packet backbone in eastern Iowa to a
bbs in the far southeastern corner of the state. THat meant my packet system
was rather busy.

Dad meanwhile was complaining that I just trashed channel 18 on his cable,
center frequency 145.25 mhz.  I was operating on 145.01 mhz. I told him we'd
lcean up his house, make sure all of the extensions he'd done to provide cable
to every room in the house were done with high quality cable, properly
terminated ends, etc. THen he could raise hell with the cable company.

Btw I could find carriers for the cable company in the aircraft band, and
demonstrated how this worked for dad. THe pols in this case wouldn't know how
to even begin to promulgate rules to give their wishes some substance.  Hence
some people with engineering backgrounds have to do it. Only trouble is, these
folks are often overruled by different political crooks whose palms are greased
by those they're supposed to regulate.

Hence, the public that's supposed to win loses.

Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+
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