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U.S. agency scraps unused telegraph regulations in Trump rules purge
Reuters ^ | 10/19/17 | David Shepardson

Posted on 10/21/2017 7:26:57 PM PDT by markomalley

The U.S. government is scrapping rules on telegraphs even though carriers no longer exist, part of the Trump administration’s effort to slash regulations, the Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday.

The last Western Union telegram in the United States was sent in 2006 and the commission had stopped enforcing the rules in 2013. The last major telegram service worldwide ended in India in 2013.

The FCC said in a notice it was removing “outmoded regulations” on telegraphs effective in November to “further our goals of reducing regulatory burdens, eliminating unnecessary rule provisions, and making the agency as efficient and effective as possible.”

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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

They got rid of that in 2006.


61 posted on 10/21/2017 10:25:13 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Paladin2

Methanol...


62 posted on 10/21/2017 10:28:10 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: TexasGator

https://www.bing.com/search?q=tetraethyl+lead&qs=LS&pq=tetraethyl&sc=5-10&cvid=D925B1EC638049CE8599F8F9EF8D0F0B&FORM=QBLH&sp=1


63 posted on 10/21/2017 10:36:29 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Pray All Day

Branch and link return? That’s covered up with a lot of rust.


64 posted on 10/21/2017 10:43:59 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: Axenolith

Didn’t look right...


65 posted on 10/21/2017 10:49:44 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Pray All Day
Next they'll be trying to scrap governmental rules on keypunch machine operation, and punch card usage...

I did my FORTRAN and COBOL programming in college with those things.

I'm getting old.

66 posted on 10/21/2017 10:52:42 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Pray All Day

My parents refused to buy a computer for my bedroom as well as refusing to get me a web connection.

I was deprived as a kid. I need reparations!


67 posted on 10/21/2017 11:03:26 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Pray All Day

Furnature shims...


68 posted on 10/21/2017 11:04:12 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: NonValueAdded

Well, my memory says "Branch And Link Register", but mine is very rusty too.   (I just remember we had to do a lot of stuff in those dang "registers"!)

69 posted on 10/21/2017 11:07:05 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Paladin2

I figured it might be autocorrect... I bedevils us!


70 posted on 10/21/2017 11:10:00 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: OldMissileer

Wow, that was a dangerous way to write programs!   If you carried the tray of cards to a card reader, and you happened to sneeze, and that clamp mechanism in the back of the tray was loose...cards everywhere!

71 posted on 10/21/2017 11:13:32 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Paladin2

You should demand them!   (And maybe march around, yelling, "No Justice, No Peace!")

72 posted on 10/21/2017 11:16:40 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: SkyDancer

That tax has been gone since 2006.

http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/ArtWeb/557559440437EDBC8525718B005ACCCB?OpenDocument


73 posted on 10/21/2017 11:30:53 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: markomalley
For me the real question should be; why did we ever need regulations on telegraphs to begin with.

The only law regarding telegraphs should be preventing any interference in their use.

74 posted on 10/22/2017 12:08:54 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: Pray All Day

Do you remember the Mojave phone booth ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_phone_booth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRzBrtLnN0o


75 posted on 10/22/2017 12:15:37 AM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
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To: Pray All Day
(And regarding the nail in the coffin of our yute --- we all probably just say "sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh".) = = = = = = = = = = = = = YEAH.....SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH It all began when W O'Malley stole my Brooklyn Dodgers when I was 16 .. I 'followed' them to LA but joined USN on 17th Birthday. EVERYTHING connected to my Naval Experience is 'gone' My rating Ships I served on are not only not in commission but the Class is no longer around. Now, with a swipe of a pen Morse Code is 'dead(er)'. The second MAJOR round of my yute being dismantled was when Pee Wee Reese passed on and now ALL are considering Vin Scully as the GRAND OLD(emphasize OLD) MAN in baseball but I remember him joining up with Red Barber and commenting he wouldn't last etc etc etc, Ray Boone 3B Cleveland has grandsons playing in MLB Sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile tempus, (But time is lost , which never will renew), Loosely translated as Time Flies like an arrow, Fruit Flies like a banana.
76 posted on 10/22/2017 12:17:09 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: xrmusn

???
Don’t know what I did here AND I know, punctuation and paragraphs are your friend...<: <: <:


77 posted on 10/22/2017 12:20:30 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks bitt.

78 posted on 10/22/2017 12:37:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: HamiltonJay

Anhydrous Isopropyl Alcohol perhaps?


79 posted on 10/22/2017 2:54:58 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: null and void

2% Aniline?


80 posted on 10/22/2017 2:59:27 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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