The 3/1/99 Problem

[chouse]

as to the evilness of Sarnoff........
He pushed armstrong out the window in a manner of speaking.....


ed sharpe



Nolan Lee wrote:

> At 04:31 PM 9/17/98 -1000, you wrote:
>
> >annals of radio history are many, but one particular comes to mind;
> when a
> >young Russian immigrant, David Sarnoff, copied the dots and dashes of
> the
>
> The same "General" David Sarnoff that drove Armstrong to suicide. If
> you get a chance, read a bit about this guy, he was one evil bastard.
> "Empire of the Air" is one book that comes to mind.
>
> >distress message from the ill-fated SS Titanic. As most of us know,
> Sarnoff
> >went off to become the head of RCA and probably did more to bring
> television
> >into the homes of Americans than any other industry leader, but that
> is
> how he
> >got his start.
>
> It's been a while since I read the book, but I seem to remember that
> there was a good chance that HE was off and wasn't even working at the
>
> time that the distress call came. Still an evil bastard. I watch a
> total
> of about 2 hours of TV a week. I have lots of free time to do other
> stuff. Average person gets home from work and flops down in front of
> the TV till it's time to go to bed. Total waste of time, and they
> never
> get anything done, not to mention all of the liberal programming and
> mental
> conditioning that has contributed to the decline of morals and
> morality
> in this Republic.
>
> Sarnoff was evil. Sarnoff pushed TV. TV is evil...
>
> >  The IMO says, "Morse code is being phased out because of its many
> drawbacks.
> >These include the need for years of training and practice for
> operators to
> use
> >it." The truth hurts, but the IMO says that if something happened to
> the
> radio
> >operator, it is unlikely that anyone else onboard a ship would be
> able to use
> >the telegraphy equipment.
>
> <ROTFL> I love their reasoning. Face it, the code is dead, there are
> much more efficient methods of communication. Actually, ham radio is
> dead if you get right down to it. I hold the hard line "code
> requirement"
> people to blame for this. As the numbers of licensed hams continue to
> drop, more of the spectrum will be lost, but who cares, we still have
> "the code". Maybe we need a secret handshake too! Sheesh... Another
> thing to consider that ham radio peaked before everyone had a TV in
> their house to eat up their time.
>
> I guess that indirectly, you can blame Sarnoff for the failure of
> ham radio and the failure of American society as a whole. Hopefully
> he's burning in hell along with DeForest. <grin>
>
> yes, I passed the code test,
> nolan
>
> Treasonous government officials should have their bronzed,
> severed heads displayed on poles in Washington D.C., or
> their respective state capitals, as a promise of justice
> to all future generations.
>
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