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- Fred Stiening said Then you get into the nuances of putting a percentage on overlap – is it population or square miles or ad revenue? Government handouts always have strings. Contrary to the Chamber of Commerc...
- TheChairman said Apparently, the FCC refers to it as their 'Duplicative Programming' rule: no more than 25% duplicate content for stations with more than 50% contour overlap. To me, this is different (more...
- Fred Stiening said The FCC is considering changes to an existing ru!e (or more likely ending it) that limits the number of hours per day of a simulcast broadcast by two or more stations in the same market owned by the s...
- Fred Stiening said Post bankruptcy iHeartMedia is headed to Nashville, at least part of it https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2019/12/02/iheartmedia-chooses-nashville-second-headquarters/2586162001/
- TheChairman said Yes, from Tulsa to west of OKC we noticed 4 or 5 stations were simultaneously broadcasting the same content.
- Fred Stiening said Thank you for the report. Out in Oklahoma, some entity went around taking over several dozen unviable small town stations and organized them under the banner of the Gospel Station Network, simulcastin...
- Fred Stiening said Here is the Libertarian free market 5ake from Reason https://reason.com/2019/11/30/the-nations-biggest-dairy-is-failing-despite-relentless-government-intervention/ FYI, Dean's is not in the cheese...
- TheChairman said Along those lines, here is my informal AM radio survey along some of the Interstates & US highways, during our seasonal migration from MI to AZ: Michigan: AM is nearly extinct, perhaps a faith or...
- CC1s121LrBGT said It's always surprising to me when Republicans unite to take money from the people and give it to the entertainment industry that gives almost exclusively to their opposition and comes out public...
- Fred Stiening said This might be the final nail in Music Radio https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/congress-am-fm-act-copyright-law-terrestrial-radio-1203412412/#article-comments It used to be that radio labels would prov...
- CC1s121LrBGT said > " If the democrat socialists gain total control, your 'social-credit' may affect your food options, increase your pricing, or delivery might be halted altogether. " These demo...
- Fred Stiening said The first line of protection is the bagging area is a scale – so each item scanned has a known weight that should match what is being scanned. Some clever people figured out Amazon does not imme...
- CC1s121LrBGT said I've read that there is already a discount for self-checkout. The old "five finger discount" where items are bagged without being scanned or a code for a lower priced produce item is ma...
- TheChairman said Yes, that's true for a few, but most of us still shop in a local store. On that note, I think customers should get a discount for self-checkout & bagging (no cashier). Neither myself nor my...
- Fred Stiening said With grocery pickup and delivery, the arrangement of the store no longer matters. In fact, 5 years from now, there may no longer be a need for a building. Wide aisles, lighted vertical display case...
- TheChairman said Perhaps the low price is a Walmart 'loss leader' to get people in the store. As with most (US) grocery chains, it is purposely located at the rear of the store. My wife drinks a lot of milk...
- Fred Stiening said How can my Walmart afford to sell regular milk at $0.58 a half gallon? Even at Aldi's, the price is $1.69 This week, Dean Foods declared bankruptcy. https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Expert-we...
- Fred Stiening said Jack Ryan Season Two is out for Amazon Prime customers I doubt Tom Clancy would be happy, but he is dead, so that is that. I remember reading that the filming was going to occur in Venezuela on locati...
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- CC1s121LrBGT said Halloween over, Thanksgiving coming very soon. Don't say "Happy Turkey Day" to these folks, it may "trigger" them. They are already looking for a "safe space". 😉 ht...
- CC1s121LrBGT said What you say is true. I would argue that there is little demand for it in crowded markets as well- the world is moving to internet streaming. From a technical perspective, however, Digital Audio Broa...
- CC1s121LrBGT said What is the revenue and is it enough to pay for leasing transmitter, paying for the associated property taxes and electricity?
- Fred Stiening said DAB is an FM only technology. Much of medium wave AM has been turned off around the world. AM stations have already been offered FM translator licenses for free. This proposal is only of value in...
- Fred Stiening said Since there is no original programming on the non-profit owned stations and no studio to maintain and no office staff to pay, how is it possible to lose money?
- CC1s121LrBGT said Decades overdue… but still behind Europe where broadcasters broadcast a group of digital signals as a package – like cable TV or Sirius XM radio does. Much more efficient that way. This i...
- Fred Stiening said The FCC is seriously looking at allowing AM stations to go "all digital" which would allow FM quality sound on AM. Most new cars are compatible already with all digital AM, but that transist...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Clear ISIL! Trump must have heard the nonstop ads for it on Music Radio 77, WABC back in the 1960s!
- CC1s121LrBGT said Detroit? "Go to California, where the World is Your Toilet"
- CC1s121LrBGT said Impossible! That bacon is Impossible! Just a guess, but anything's possible. https://impossiblefoods.com/company/
- Fred Stiening said Hollywood producer Robert Evans has died. I can't think of another person less worthy of my attention. The moderated comments on Variety are just sickeningly sappy. https://variety.com/2019/fi...
- Fred Stiening said Nancy Pelosi apparently thinks she is the assistant Commander in Chief, and that President Trump must clear his decisions with her first. Wisely, Donald Trump did not tell Ms Pelosi that we were about...
- Fred Stiening said John Conyers has died. He was the congressman for the city of Detroit, and very much responsible for turning Detroit into the cesspool it became.
- Fred Stiening said How is it possible that a 4 pound boneless pork loin roast costs less than 1 pound of bacon?
- CC1s121LrBGT said I enjoy the chat here. Sometimes serious, sometimes kidding around. Fred has attracted an interesting group to his web site and I really enjoy it.
- briand75 said Fred – we moved to TN in Sept. Time for some needed peace and quiet. Have been working from home so I do have some time to chat 🙂
- briand75 said No problem CC – the folks here are all great and I would sacrifice for you, Fred and the rest!
- Fred Stiening said Is Tesla the mysterious potential buyer of GM's shuttered Lordstown Ohio assembly facility?
- Fred Stiening said It is easy to forget that our president once appeared on professional wrestling. He is a big fan of boxing, which is why he was friends with Don King. Trump is no Patsy, and certainly not a Richar...
- CC1s121LrBGT said All that and more. The worst is that she is undermining the Department of Justice and obstructing justice. Obstruction of Justice is a crime that DOJ prosecutes the non-political class.
- Fred Stiening said Well, well. Nancy Pelosi is in Jordon now undermining the State Department and the Commander in Chief. I sure hope she doesn't talk to any Russians or people who know a person who has once talk...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Nice pivot!
- Fred Stiening said If true, then he needs to testify in front of the relevant House Committee. If he ignores their subpoena, they can hold him in contempt posthumously.
- Fred Stiening said But many robots have six degrees of freedom
- CC1s121LrBGT said That would be you, briand75, I need you to start paying your fair share so that I get my free healthcare and free green power. 😉
- CC1s121LrBGT said And a robot prison for robots that don't pay their taxes. At least they will not have to pay back taxes since they have no backs…. to whom will the talk radio station adds sell their advic...
- TheChairman said Hmm, I seem to recall McCain being on that junket as well, but perhaps I'm confusing it with some other foreign 'meeting' into which he stuck his nose.
- Fred Stiening said Glad to see that you were still around. Maybe we should talk 😉 You know what they say about democracy as it pertains to wolves and sheep. With Medicare for all requiring huge taxes on employment, this...
- Fred Stiening said It seems like I'm the only person who remembers Nancy Pelosi going to Syria in 2007 and meeting with Bashir Assad, without coordinating with the Bush administration. I think we need a transcript o...
- briand75 said People seem to act a lot like sheep. Some catch phrase like "pay their fair share" and they all mob together and want to elect an evil person who will destroy this nation. Sad.
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One of the odd items on my résumé is a stint working in FORTRAN IV running on GEISCO, GE’s time sharing service. It ran on Honeywell computers which users 36 bit words – the software was called DTSS that stood for Dartmouth Time Sharing System
The GE 600 business was sold to Honeywell, who repackaged it as the Honeywell 6000 – which was the machine used to build Multics at MIT.
” restaurant is called Carol’s Place in Forest, VA”
I know where that is Ed. Good Food, and clean. They were busy
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Yeah, it was a real treat. We saw some folks getting chicken fried steak or chicken fried chicken (hard to tell under the crispy breading and gravy) so I think I’ll try that next time. The whole area was clean too, very nice.
You guys are making me hungry. I miss that kind of food. Hard to find here in NJ where there is a pizza joint on every other corner. Pizza is great and we have outstanding bagels too, but I miss chicken fried steak and that Bar-B-Que.
Yes, we did do the 50’s test. We felt fine going there because the lot was nearly full. I just checked google maps- the restaurant is called Carol’s Place in Forest, VA. I recommend to anyone traveling the area. Thomas Jefferson’s vacation cottage is there- Poplar Forest. Beautiful home and grounds for any history buffs.
This one doesn’t pass the parking lot test 😉
https://foursquare.com/v/the-stars-motel/4f8075b2e4b0a458ba00f403
oops – https://irs0.4sqi.net/img/general/width960/541756_NzHRk_8jLIU4HD3EtMu8I_oJFL0_UU-xEJw4xvZxh8g.jpg
Boy, do I feel silly. According to the Chicago Crains business from 2006, the motel was torn down in 2006, just leaving the sign. They put it on eBay, but no bids.
Flophouses are a step below old motels. The biggest difference is there is no bathroom and you share a common bathroom and showers. If you drop your soap, don’t bend over to pick it up.
Around the country, states have been turning these motels into half way houses. Cheaper to rent them a room for $100 a week than keeping them in prison. Add in the Megan’s laws and prohibit sex offenders from living within x feet of any school, park, church, dairy queen, or any place a child may be present and you essentially make it impossible to have a home. Most people on the sex registry are not there for having sex with children
I feel silly too Art. Turns out they really did mean Free TVs. 😉
I read that in Pennsylvania some 14 year olds were charged with making, distributing, and receiving child pornography. The boy had asked his classmate to text him a photo of her bare chest and she complied.
According to the law, they are both guilty of sex crimes and would be on the register when they turn 18.
There was talk about amending the law. I hope they did – those kinds of laws only serve lawyers, judges, and police that make a career out of crime. 😉
There was another story a few days ago a 19 year old guy had sex with a 15 year old girl. Statutory rape because someone wanted to make an issue of it. Spin the clock forward 10 years. They’re happily married. She asserts that it was consensual sex and she knew what she was doing. But the law doesn’t permit that. So now they can’t live anywhere. Get a ticket for urinating in public after a concert, you’re a sex offender.
The road to hell….
Brings to mind one of my biggest pet peeves(and I have hundreds), that being gentrification. I’m sure in Chitown that place is indeed a flop house, but those old motor lodges occasionally break the horizon on old biways in more genteel parts, and can be quite a pleasant change from the franchisification of today’s Amurika. Trying to find local flavor in unique places has become as difficult as finding honesty in government.
Give me 1950 America. Please.
I’m with you, Ed. The same is true for places to eat when traveling. In the 1950s, McDonald’s became so successful by locating near the new Interstates and focusing not on food but on clean restrooms.
Consider using sites like yp.com and yelp.com to get see customer ratings and then choose the local businesses with very low risk of disappointment.
Just two weeks ago the wife and I were traveling through the Roanoke and Lynchburg areas of Virginia and passed through a small town that part gentrified (McD’s, CVS, etc.) and part old town. We were ready for some lunch and chose a nice little local eatery that was no frills but all awesome. Nice old fashioned burgers and fries and people so friendly we thought it was forty years ago. We actually saw intact families eating together, and even witnessed one couple saying grace before eating. No lie.
I can’t remember the name of the restaurant, but we were in or right near Forest, VA.
That’s great. I don’t know if you have a smartphone, but if you do, and go back to that place or another like it, consider posting some nice comments on yp.com (yellow pages) or yelp.com so others will try it too.
Without a smartphone, you can also use the 1950s technique of looking at the parking lot. A restaurant with no customers near a restaurant with a big crowd is a good indication of which is better. But you have to see both for that to work. With a smartphone, it will tell you what exit to take and how to get to the place with the good reviews.
Places with lots of trucks are another sign – but only if you like large portions of high calorie food, and it doesn’t alarm you when the PA system announces that someone’s shower is ready.
I need you to destroy your computer then. Your fax machine, stop putting zip codes on letters. Your bank account is a passbook that you take to the bank and the teller manually writes your deposits and withdrawals. Children walking around on crutches crippled by polio. Black and white TV, 3 channels. Gasoline is not $15.9 cents a gallon, sorry. Only AM radio in your car, no way to play your own music. Long trips take forever because every small town has a Barney Fife with his 5 mile long 25 mph speed zone.
I have no desire to live in the 1950s.
This is an interesting commercial for a 1950s computer…. I think it has more apps than Palm or Blackberry. 😉
It is only 3 mins and starts at the 30 second mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFuEg6wtqzc
Random things about Univac… They were not widely used in business, but were the backbone of the Federal Government. Their most high profile customer was Walt Disney, who would include segments about his Sperry Univac computers on his NBC wonderful world of color show, and the computer room was an important attraction in EPCOT, his dream of a top down centrally designed and controlled city were there was no distinction between business and government.
When I arrived at Nasdaq, the quotation part of NASDAQ was still pretending it was a Sperry Univac 1100 – by then the company merged with Burroughs and was called Unisys. The stock exchanges ran Sperry Univac computers because of their close working relationship with government regulators. The Federal Reserve was also a big early adopter of Univac.
Have I connected every dot yet?
Walt had set up Disney World as a municipal government in Florida.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Lake,_Florida
One of Univac’s competitors was GE with computers that ran an operating system called Multiplexed Information and Computing Service (Multics).
Today’s Android is a version of Unix, and Unix was named as pun on Multics. 😉
You’re getting close. Very interesting life!
“Hey Sport, You connect the dots, you pick up the pieces.” – “Burroughs” 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFpN-zdNMI0
“It’s drivin’ me crazy, it’s drivin’ me nuts.”
Grace Hopper – the mother of COBOL and the person who coined the term debugging, left the military in 1.949 to work on the design of Univac 1
It might be free, but I’ll bet when you check in, you find it chained down and you will get an argument from the proprietor when you want to put your free TV in the trunk of your automobile. 😉
That switchboard is a good idea. If your kids are misbehaving from the long trip, they may need to be paddled. 😉
Important not to see things in black and white when looking for a modern motel.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3252/3112168595_2fe3ac64d4_z.jpg
I have vague childhood memories of having to put coins in the motel TV to make it work. Or maybe that was magic fingers bed.
I think everyone should spend a night in a flophouse at least once in their life.