Interesting you will tolerate the "pilars of excrement" that Joe slathers around in, in fact, you attempt to validate it by defending him with a sort of man on man love fest vigor, I heretofore had not witnessed in this forum, yet you have zero tolerance for someone like me who is simply calling a spade a spade.
I'm not defending Joe at all. I'm merely stating that the spade is the spade and you have to get used to it and work around the spade. What is not ok is coming in and telling everyone that the spade needs to be a pitchfork. Everyone of course knows the moment it's a pitchfork it's going to get rammed up their own ass. Because it's the cycle of "nothing is ever good enough".
Perhaps for some, but for others, it is a pre-requisite to be able to communicate on small slices of particular RF bands, to help those in need, or crisis, outside of the normal local and federal emergency relief sphere. It's too bad that you were unable to embrace that part of the "hobby"... Perhaps there were not enough hero worshipers to keep your inflated ego satiated in the obviously weird circle of HAM licensees you chose to ooze around in? It's a big world out there. Had you taken off your blinders, or perhaps engaged your cranial peristalsis in an attempt to evacuate the anger and discontent from your vacuous brain, you might have met some of us....Who knows either way because you have obviously moved on to browner pastures.
Notably I was not unable but I was unwilling to participate in that part of the hobby because it's a US specific thing and not what everyone else does on the planet. Also the people involved in it, who I will get to later, are quite stupid. I mean as far as the US goes I can't help that you live in a third world country as far as emergency response is concerned but we have pretty damn good 4G coverage everywhere here and for everything else we have satellite based InReach and Emergency SOS as well. And there's actually people on the end of it who will respond unlike your government apparently. In fact in the UK, we have an equivalent thing to ARES called RAYNET. They have the same mentality and the drills as the US lot but the emergency services do not need or want them to be around. So they sit around perpetually waiting for doomsday looking for anywhere they can help out with radios. This turns out to be really important things such as: taking payments for car boot sales, handing out water at cycle races and sitting around eating burgers and generally being fat asses. Recently they were fired from directing traffic at hamfests due to incompetence and were replaced with the local Army cadets who have somewhat higher level of competence and order. As they're all retired or unable to function in society as it stands they don't have a lot of money either so the result is usually some lurid decoration of a caravan, as depicted below. Occasionally if they get a bit of money a camper will be decorated in full police livery with RAYNET spooged all over the side, to the eternal embarrassment of the incumbent partner who is eternally waiting for someone to whisk her away from this weirdo she regrets marrying.
Referring to my point about dressing up as police officers, here's another one. Clearly the police wouldn't let him in, which is amazing because they're mostly morons here, or he was scared of actual emergencies in some way and wanted to look pretty but not do anything useful.
I can see him driving around in his 20 year old Discovery making NEE NAW NEE NAW noises.
As you can imagine I don't want anything to do with them. I also question the legitimacy of civilian responders when it comes to actual emergencies because it's near impossible to train, validate and moderate responders in any meaningful normalised way unless there are professional standards involved and in the US that is certainly not the case. In fact a lot of the time, and I know this after reading a few horror stories over the years, that a lot of time the ham community gets in the way of actual real responders. Ah hell lets throw a meme in:
Anyway back to the point about the rest of the planet, so true story. I'm in the middle of the Terme Pass in Kyrgyzstan earlier this year, somewhere that the average COPD crippled operator wouldn't be able to get near without needing an emergency response even at ground level, and someone in the group lost their footing and injured their back. We're at 12,000ft. Put your money where your mouth is, and don't avoid any further point where you need to be accountable for your perspective like the first few comments and tell me what you'd do in this situation. Here's about 5 minutes before it happened.
Location is:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.70705199241638&mlon=75.27044534683228#map=15/41.7080/75.2706That is all the mapping data there is.
Nah, I think you just dislike anyone not exactly like you. If someone has interests or takes positions not in line with your own narrow view of the world, you belittle and denigrate them. You and Joe sound like two peas in a pod, hence the man on man reference I eluded to earlier. Do you guys do that weird Zoom meeting thing where you are naked from the waste down, while talking in stereo to each other?
Oh I get on with most people absolutely fine and dislike virtually no one. In fact the list is pretty much limited to pedophiles, scientologists and hams. Some people have even met me on here in real life and don't seem that offended by me! Anyway which narrow view of the world is this?
As for the zoom meetings I do not use my camera, because a lot of the time I don't have a top on either. Sometimes I haven't even got out of bed when I go on a zoom call and I sleep in my birthday suit. Sometimes I'm having a shit. I mean I get paid to sit on zoom calls all day so I might as well do it from the comfort of where I choose wearing what I choose or choose not to.
Thank you for validating all of my previous points in this post. After all, it would not be complete without the requisite "I developed the flux capacitor that took Marty McFly to the moon" holier than thou chest thumping on your part. Again, two peas in a pod.... Brilliant.
I don't think you've got the point yet. I will write it in simpler terms: no warranty expressed or implied. In more complicated terms, all open source licenses, which are generally a lot less generous than Joe and myself are on these matters as we are willing to help people (check all our threads). Here's the BSD license for example:
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY <COPYRIGHT HOLDER> AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL <COPYRIGHT HOLDER> BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
In simpler terms, you're on your own, possibly backed up with some help if you're lucky.
Not quite, I mentioned it before, but since you probably flushed your brain cell when you did the whole peristalsis routine, I will say it again so you can keep up: I am just calling a spade a spade.
Did you get your biology textbook from Texas?
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