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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 04:30:14 PDT
From: Ham-Policy Mailing List and Newsgroup <ham-policy@ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Ham-Policy Digest V94 #340
To: Ham-Policy
Ham-Policy Digest Mon, 1 Aug 94 Volume 94 : Issue 340
Today's Topics:
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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 01:46:41 GMT
From: news.Hawaii.Edu!kahuna!jeffrey@ames.arpa
To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
References <318of3$3h6@chnews.intel.com>, <31931g$6er@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, <3195j6$866@abyss.West.Sun.COM>
Subject : Re: What is wrong with ham radio
In article <3195j6$866@abyss.West.Sun.COM> myers@sunspot.West.Sun.COM (Dana Myers ) writes:
>In article <31931g$6er@nyx10.cs.du.edu> jmaynard@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>>
>>Because it's a requirement. We, as a society, have gotten away from meeting
>>requirements in order to get privileges, and toward lowering requirements
>>instead.
>
>Uhh, Jay, do laws justify themselves? Why is CW currently a requrement?
Why not ask those who are responsible for that law instead of trying to
second guess their reasons for enacting and keeping such a law?
>>Used to be that f someone wanted something badly enough, he'd do what it took
>>to get it. Now he just whines about "relevance" and tris to get standards
>>lowered until he can get in with no work.
>
>Jay, you really can't fairly dismiss the relevance argument when it comes
>to the CW requirements. These requirements were at one time relevant,
>and I (and others) now question the relevance of the requirement. You're
>going to have to do a lot better than "Cause that's the way it is" in
>this discussion.
Again, ask those who keep that law on the books why they feel it's
relevant.
>Anyway, I'm always amused when the pro-code crowd uses the term "whine";
>sure, there are people that won't learn CW, want the requirement
>removed, and whine about it. However, the pro-code crowd seems to
>include a lot of folks that did learn CW, want the requirement retained,
>and whine about it.
The pro-code folks wouldn't even be discussing this issue if it weren't
for whines of a small group of people on here; we're only reacting to
their complaints.
My Oxford dictionary states that one of the uses of Whine is ``To
utter complaints...'', ``To cause to pass away...''. Neither of
those uses can be applied to the pro-code stance, for why would
we `utter complaints' about keeping the code, and what would we
want `to cause to pass away'?
Jeff NH6IL
jeffrey@math.hawaii.edu
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