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> Most people are just as smart as you are. For this to be true, you would have to be below average. That's just half of everyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution
Yes?
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Re: Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes
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> These people are idiots. I think 'these people are idiots' is an easy thing to think but almost always the wrong thing. Few people are idiots. Most people are just as smart as you are. More likely, these people fundamentally aren't looking at the situation like you are. Probably, they don't care what you, or the police, or the FBI, or anyone else, think about what they're doing and don't care how they're being trac…
>Most people are just as smart as you are. These people don't believe in objective reality (Biden won the election and there was no meaningful voter or election fraud) and I'm having trouble thinking of a definition of "idiot" where something like that doesn't qualify.
They 100% do believe in objective reality. But they're being lied to by everyone they trust.
Look at the number of nurses refusing the vaccine. There aren't the only people having trouble discerning truth from fiction.
Recording yourself committing sedition is pretty dumb though...
Re: Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes
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People mostly complain about Baofengs because they leak a bunch of RF interference everywhere. Not obvious to the Baofeng user, but obvious to radio operators on other frequencies.
i have measured several models and not witnessed this
Most Baofengs emit an illegal amount of spurious emissions[1]. Maybe you got lucky.
[1] https://observer.wunderwood.org/2020/02/07/baofeng-hts-and-s...
Re: Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes
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> I'm sure I'll get a lot of hate for this My experience in the amateur radio community is that hate is exceedingly rare, although disagreement is common. > Every single person here uses high powered encrypted communication without a license, it's a cell phone. So let's have a discussion: do we really want these kickass bands to become another cell phone band? I think it's useful to have a part of the spectrum on whi…
Use it or lose it in my opinion. The bands are underutilized and the barrier of entry, regardless of what most people think, is too high. Joe Shmoe should be able to watch an hour long video and then get a call sign the same day after passing an exam. Why a tech needs to understand antenna theory, space transmissions, and ionosphere reflection is beyond me. Cool, sure. Essential, c’mon.
> Why a tech needs to understand antenna theory, space transmissions, and ionosphere reflection is beyond me.
It's like asking why a car driver needs to understand when to turn off high-beams, when not to honk, and how to safely open their door after parking on a busy street.
i.e. we live in a society, other people are affected by your actions.
Re: Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes
#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
> These people are idiots. I think 'these people are idiots' is an easy thing to think but almost always the wrong thing. Few people are idiots. Most people are just as smart as you are. More likely, these people fundamentally aren't looking at the situation like you are. Probably, they don't care what you, or the police, or the FBI, or anyone else, think about what they're doing and don't care how they're being trac…
> Most people are just as smart as you are. For this to be true, you would have to be below average. That's just half of everyone.
Or you could be average, and most other people could be average as well.
Re: Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Most people are just as smart as you are. These people don't believe in objective reality (Biden won the election and there was no meaningful voter or election fraud) and I'm having trouble thinking of a definition of "idiot" where something like that doesn't qualify.
> where something like that doesn't qualify. Desperate people mislead by skilled con-artists. You can focus on the fact they got conned, and judge them harshly for it; or, you can focus on the fact that they're that desperate in the first place. I think we only stand a chance at solving the latter problem, so sorting the "idiots" from the enlightened doesn't seem like a meaningful activity.
Many if not most of them are not in precarious situations or at the bottom of society. Like the retired USAF colonel.
They got conned, but only because they really wanted to believe in the kind of supremacy that Trump radiates.
Re: Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
> These people are idiots. I think 'these people are idiots' is an easy thing to think but almost always the wrong thing. Few people are idiots. Most people are just as smart as you are. More likely, these people fundamentally aren't looking at the situation like you are. Probably, they don't care what you, or the police, or the FBI, or anyone else, think about what they're doing and don't care how they're being trac…
> Most people are just as smart as you are. For this to be true, you would have to be below average. That's just half of everyone.
*below median ;)
Re: Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes
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>loot the Capitol Then they should be shot on sight. The only reason they weren't fired upon is the color of their skin.
This attitude really saddens me. We should be advocating for all protestors to be treated with such gentle touch, not for all protestors to be brutalized the way BLM protestors were. Thankfully, this is the attitude I have heard from most BLM leaders.
I agree with you on how protestors should be treated, but take issue calling the people at the Capitol "protestors". Some certainly were simply protestors, but quite a few -- those we are talking about now -- crossed the line from protesting into breaking and entering, vandalism, and in some cases violent behavior.
Re: Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes
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Nice strawman... I don't think either of those things were acceptable either. Quite frankly lumping in all of the protests over the summer, for example the one The Donald had tear gassed, with the looting that largely took place after dark is really saying the quiet part out loud. If they'd protested outside the Capitol not in it, I'd be more sympathetic, even if they were campaigning for the end of American Democrac…
No straw man. A double standard.
Double standard?
How many white men were strangled to death on camera, pleading "I can't breathe!"?[0]
How many white women were murdered in their bedrooms after their apartment was stormed on a dubious-at-best, no-knock warrant? [1]
Now, how many violent, white insurrectionists are getting slap-on-the-wrist misdemeanors for breaching our nation's sanctum sanctorum? [2][3][4]
Yeah, there's a double standard. It's white supremacy.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Breonna_Taylor
[2] https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2021/01/syracuse-man-arrested...
[3] https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/jenny-cudd-fbi-arres...
[4] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/most-of-the-arrests-...
Re: Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes
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100% agree with this comment. Why the warning from the FCC, who knows. I was always told ignorance of the law is no excuse. It must be cheaper to issue a warning rather than expend resources to prosecute the people involved.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or... was signed 1/18/2021 coincidence?
Wait, am I reading that right?
Is it literally making pleading ignorance an option?