The reality is that the FCC is an underfunded and incompetent extension of the RF industry. They will attempt to protect broadcast spectrum, and fail. While leaving the rest of the spectrum to rot on the tree.
They rarely enforce and have been reduced, through ongoing budget reductions, to in some cases turning the enforcement over to the actual users of licensed spectrum. They've closed there local offices, fired their engineers, all while giving lip service to the job they should be doing. Heck- I'm pretty
The BLM was entirely in the wrong on that one. A little history:
A bunch of ranchers were getting pissed off over common resources and some assholes were claiming land that wasn't theirs while others were getting raped on taxes for land which was theirs but was entirely unsustainable.
The group got together and tried to find a way to just share the land so they would stop shooting at each other over border disputes and going bankrupt because it couldn't support the cattle required to pay for it.
Fair point, but I meant that they rarely issue warnings. If you're running a pirate radio entirely unintentionally (e.g. a kid with a CB radio that's been hacked and they were without a doubt ignorant of all the regulations surrounding it and their parents knew nothing about it) then you might get off with a warning, if you're really lucky. Things as innocent as a wifi antenna with too much power to it will often result in them coming to smash your shit. Anything remotely intentional or where the person
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The reality is that the FCC is an underfunded and incompetent extension of the RF industry. They will attempt to protect broadcast spectrum, and fail. While leaving the rest of the spectrum to rot on the tree.
They rarely enforce and have been reduced, through ongoing budget reductions, to in some cases turning the enforcement over to the actual users of licensed spectrum. They've closed there local offices, fired their engineers, all while giving lip service to the job they should be doing. Heck- I'm pretty
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As of late, the BLM seems to have become anybody's bitch to fuck with [wikipedia.org] if you are white and have guns.
Interesting echo of this FCC discussion:
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How about the NIH, the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs), the DOT, the FHA, and the OMB ?
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Name one US federal TLA agency that you do want to fuck with.
The EPA doesn't seem to really matter anymore.