Posted on 03/03/2008 7:39:03 AM PST by SmithL
> used a typical ham radio short hand code <
No disagreement, but I think “TNX” has also been common among other Morse code users — ships, landline telegraph, etc.
And I’ve also seen it used in cable and telex communications, back in the “good ole days” (pre-satellite, pre-fiber optics, pre-Internet).
Read the full thread.
Another posibility is
Crack head gets ripped off
Goes back to “get even”
Dope dealer & crack Ho GF off the little dude.
I’m just say’n.....
> Another posibility is...
I like your explanation best! Otherwise the scenario doesn’t make sense...
I bet we see an update on this story shortly, more-or-less along the lines you describe.
A typical waste of taxpayer's money, and trying criminal cases isn't cheap.
Two armed criminals broke into an occupied home and one was shot dead by a guest of the homeowner or renter, end of story. Any jury worth it's salt would decide against conviction in this case before the judge finished reading the charges.
r.i.p. tinky mack and man-man
Oh my gosh, a similar story happened in kansas. More victims and less perps though.
That's no joke, you can bet the farm that the dead teenage would-be killer will be counted in the Violence Policy Center's annual bogus count of children killed with guns as just another "innocent child victim of senseless gun violence".
It was 2am. He probably already has received a reward. Often it's kind of hard to top that.
I'll bet the defender was just as "Japanese". But he's still very likely the hero in this "encounter".
Could be, but from the aerial view, (I used maps.live.com) it doesn't appear to be "that kind" of neighborhood. Looks a little old, but lots are large, and most of the houses are not what you'd call shotgun shacks either. Most of the roofs look to be in decent shape, at least compared to those in "That kind" of neighborhood.
No, you’re correct. I just said “ham” because I R one. I’ve used land based telegraphy systems too, and TNX is just a shorthand. In fact, message texters use it these days as well. (Along with a couple hundred other shorthands that some of us ancient BBSers invented, like LOL for instance. I even know WHO invented that one :))
> No, you’re correct. I just said “ham” because I R one. <
I know the feeling. I’ve been licensed since 1954.
> I’ve used land based telegraphy systems too, and TNX is just a shorthand. In fact, message texters use it these days as well. (Along with a couple hundred other shorthands that some of us ancient BBSers invented, like LOL for instance.) <
Did you see the story on TV a year or so back, where a couple of crack CW ops competed against a couple of super-fast teenage text messagers? Of course, Morse won the contest!
Which makes me think it would be handy if my cell phone’s text-messaging software could be modified to let me enter text via the code. Why not?
(My recipients wouldn’t need to know code. They’d only receive the text corresponding to the Morse I had entered.)
Then the succeeding version of the software should allow people like you and me to enter “Q” signals — which would then be translated automatically into their plain language meanings for the benefit of the messages’ recipients!
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