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Sweetheart deal for billionaire could cut off GPS service
Washinton Times ^
Posted on 02/10/2011 12:20:19 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
FCC bending the rules for obama's internet service. Throw your GPS's in the trash.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billionaire; broadband; cronycapitalism; dod; fccchairman; garmin; gps; juliusgenachowski; lightsquared; obama; philfalcone; sweetheartdeal; wirelessinternet
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To: Lazamataz
If you can’t afford gas you don’t need a GPS. For once Obamma has a five year plan for something!
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:42:32 PM PST
by
blackdog
To: proxy_user
The users of GPS constitute most of the upper crust int he US. Good ole boys in their bass boats will be PO'd too.
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:43:51 PM PST
by
RatRipper
(I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
To: Moonlighter
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:43:54 PM PST
by
knittnmom
(Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
To: enraged
You are thinking of the bone heads who have a little dash thingy in their car to get them to work over a path they have already traveled 1000 times. Not just him. That's all zero is thinking of as well. Having NO experience in the real world of business and having NO idea of what makes things work, zero probably thinks it will only affect those boneheads.
I really have to believe this will be killed if there is a real interference issue. There's way too much commerce that depends on GPS to allow anything to interfere with it.
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:44:40 PM PST
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: Red in Blue PA
We are GPS dependent at this point. It’s not going to happen. I’ve been doing GPS for 20 years...Only used by the top echelon...besides the military and surveyors, just the opposite.
To: blackdog
If you cant afford gas you dont need a GPS.GPS comes in mighty handy on hiking and climbing expeditions.
To: enraged
The first time I coaxed my wife into using my GPS was on a business trip she was on. She called to tell me she was lost. I told her to turn on the GPS and enter the home location. She selected an entry my daughter had put in the unit by mistake, titled Home-Vac.
My wife called me three hours later asking why she was in St Louis instead of Tennessee?
After using GPS and LORAN for decades, I'd be hard pressed to old school navigate in my plane. You get dangerously hooked to it's use.
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:49:05 PM PST
by
blackdog
To: Blood of Tyrants
GPS road navigation units are almost as common as cell phones.My cell phone can be used as a GPS unit. As long as I have a satellite signal, the GPS part will work regardless of cell signal.
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:51:04 PM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(Rose, there's a Messerschmit in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
To: enraged
You are thinking of the bone heads who have a little dash thingy in their car to get them to work over a path they have already traveled 1000 times. You sound a bit too concerned about how others choose to exercise their freedom. How would you know where they live and work? Do you stalk "bone heads"?
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:51:07 PM PST
by
Niteranger68
(Jared Lee Loughner - Disciple of Michael Moore)
To: buccaneer81
Hiking and climbing are damaging to fragile ecosystems bud! You need to be hiking to your local neighborhood organizer so he can redirect your spare time into something which benefits everyone. /s
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:52:21 PM PST
by
blackdog
To: Niteranger68
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:53:37 PM PST
by
blackdog
To: Red in Blue PA
I really hope that the acting President does something to cut off GPS.
My sense of direction isn't too bad, and I would rather see Biden or Boehner President.
ML/NJ
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:55:59 PM PST
by
ml/nj
To: raybbr
That a SANJIV AHUJA can have any influence on the direction of US policy tells everyone all they need to know about the trouble we are in.
ML/NJ
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:58:17 PM PST
by
ml/nj
To: All
"Turn right, NOW!"
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:59:33 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Straight Vermonter
This breaking news was posted here 3 days ago. This breaking news was published early last month.
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posted on
02/10/2011 1:01:11 PM PST
by
SeeSac
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
02/10/2011 1:01:56 PM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: blackdog
Hiking and climbing are damaging to fragile ecosystems bud!I doubt if it's fragile, but hiking and climbing would certainly be damaging to the head organizer's wife's derriere.
To: enraged
Civil Engineering unoits can cost up to $75K
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posted on
02/10/2011 1:24:37 PM PST
by
CIDKauf
(No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
To: enraged
Civil Engineering units can cost up to $75K
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posted on
02/10/2011 1:24:58 PM PST
by
CIDKauf
(No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
To: Carry_Okie
“The haste may be related to surprising laboratory test results from the worlds top manufacturer of navigational gizmos, Garmin Ltd. The companys engineers found that popular consumer GPS units started experiencing dropouts when approaching within 3.6 miles of a LightSquared transmitter. A commonly used aircraft navigation unit completely lost its fix within 5.6 miles.”
If a plane is to be disrupted, I hope it’s in DC
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