Next they'll be trying to scrap governmental rules on keypunch machine operation, and punch card usage...
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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Was any money saved and people enforcing said regulations let go?
Get the ethanol outta gasoline.
Maybe they’ll drop the tax on phones to pay for the Spanish American war.
Reuters says this as if it is a bad thing!
“””The U.S. government is scrapping rules on telegraphs even though carriers no longer exis. ...”””
i get the feeling the author is somewhat dismayed that they would get rid of rules for a technology no longer in use.
REMOVE ALL TELEGRAM RULES STOP TELEGRAMS NO LONGER BEING SENT STOP RULES NO LONGER NEEDED STOP
TRUMP
But what if the Interweb thingie turns out to just be a fad and big corporations go back into the telegraph business? They will be entirely unregulated!
They probably had a few hundred government telegraph regulation enforcers, supervisors, directors, analysts, planners and experts on the government payroll.
I think they work in the same building with the stagecoach regulation administration.
Sigh... ethanol is a gasoline stabilizer that has been used since the 1920s... it was replaced by an idioicly stupid lead based chemical and the burning of gasoline with this stabilizer proceeded to literally poison the entire planet with lead.
When this lead based chemical was finally removed in the 70s, gasoline returned to using Ethanol as its stabilizer.
I really wish people were not so ignorant of ethanol’s history as a gasoline stabilizer.
Is this gonna affect Stripper-Grams?
Lead was used as an octane enhancer and valve seat lubricant.
Ethanol is hydroscopic and thus in no way a stabilizer. Methane is toxic and really hell on all sorts of rubber/plastic.
Keep it out of my gasoline.
it was replaced by an idioicly stupid lead based chemical and the burning of gasoline with this stabilizer proceeded to literally poison the entire planet with lead.
Tetraethyl lead "Ethyl" was used as an octane booster, not as a stabilizer. It prevented engine 'knock' and enabled higher compression ratios in World War II aircraft engines (both Allied and German) and later in muscle cars. It also helped protect the valves.
Maybe get rid of the five cent phone tax on the Spanish-American war that McKinley had put on it?
I remember those, I’m getting old.
I remember those. “Do not fold, spindle or mutilate”.
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