<I am talking right now to sbd who is calling me from a commercial flight with the antenna facing the window while he is bent over trying to hide the phone. We wouldn't want the phone police to nab it. Anyway, crystal clear on my end. He says clear on his but hard to hear because of his bent over position and airplane noise. Oops, he has to go. The phone police are coming down the aisle.>
Did he say he would confirm on landing that the plane didn't crash? If you never hear from him again, it might be a bad sign. It was good of him to conduct a test while actually sitting in the plane which would be the one to crash if the signal upset the navigation co-ordinates or caused a static attack in the fuel tank.
Interesting about Texans. I didn't know they were a sub species. Don Limb [the ghost of the Loral thread whose apparition makes an appearance infrequently, complete with missing tip of finger from some unfortunate experience with a gun and a long-horn cow thingy] is a Texan [so they obviously breed a bit - presumably inbreed like the Pennsylvanian Hillbillies].
I suppose I should have figured out that Texans were a breed apart, from some scheme Don Limb had to make catratsnake-skin ladies' aparrel. I told him New Zealand ladies wear upmarket possum fur [now I understand why catratsnake-skin would appeal to Texan wives - they have the same DNA as other Texans].
I hasten to add, I am NOT racist and some of my best friends are Texans. What's more I think Texans should have full human-rights.
Jim, I presume sbd is a Texan?
This is excellent that the Globalstar Group [GG] has taken the initiative and is confirming that Globalstar phones are TOTALLY SAFE to be used on aircraft.
People should assert their freedom, right to free speech and use their Globalstar phones anywhere on earth they damn well want to!! YOU own those frequencies as determined by WARC. We, The People, established the United Nations and WARC for our purposes, not so some snitty little jumped-up Hitler types who should stick to serving FDA-approved pre-cooked genetically-modified and plasticized meals and stewed tea and coffee could tell us where and when we can use our Globalstars.
Those are OUR frequencies. Globalstar [with help from QUALCOMM] will manage those frequencies and use them where and when we see fit.
Ghandi used civil disobedience to assert freedom and a billion people now live free of the will of Whitehall bureaucrats. Use your Globalstar phone where you like! Gas stations, aircraft, everywhere. Globalstar is your connection to It and It will not be denied.
If somebody is illegally using your spectrum and your signal over-rides theirs, then that is THEIR problem. Good manners, or even ethics in some situations, might make you demur in asserting your use, but it is an act of magnanimity if you graciously choose to allow them to use your spectrum unhindered by your simultaneous use.
Initially, the little Hitlers will be able to assert their power over you, but increasingly, as the numbers of Globalstar phones becomes large, they will, like the British, have to stop trying to stop you experiencing your full right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
The United Nations has established your right.
Use It!
Mqurice
PS: This little rise to $11.50 is NOT the short squeeze. We have not illegally conspired to have that happen until Thanksgiving.
Actually, a few shorts [the ones who were counting on Globalstar running out of money in a month] must be getting really impatient now that they'll have to wait until half way through next year for the cash to run out and bankruptcy. With IFN talking about how good Globalstar is, that's another nail in shorts' hearts.
tpwd.state.tx.us
Apparently Texas is great for killing doves.
These are real men! Not sissy poofters from Noo Yawk simpering on their cellphones.
<Last season, 393,000 Texas dove hunters spent a combined 1.2 million days afield and took 4.5 million birds.
"I believe those numbers will go up this year," Roberson added, "but it really depends on the weather we get between now and the season opener."
Cold fronts in late August tend to push locally produced doves south, and more rain means the dove may disperse over a greater area, making it tougher on hunters hoping to concentrate their efforts around stock tanks, he explained.
Need a place to hunt? For the price of a $40 Annual Public Hunting Permit, hunters can access dove hunting on 48,000 acres of TPW public dove leases. Funds generated by the sale of permits are used to purchase these hunting rights. The 130 leases are scattered through all three dove zones; some cover more than 1,000 acres and the largest contains nearly 4,000 acres. Annual Public Hunting permits may be purchased wherever hunting licenses are sold.
White-winged dove hunters are reminded that a $7 white-winged dove stamp is required to hunt whitewings anywhere in Texas and that whitewing populations are expanding throughout much of the Central and South Zones.> |
