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- From: tchannon@black.demon.co.uk (Tim Channon)
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!ibmpcug!pipex!demon!black!tchannon
- Subject: Radar Detectors, and Radar Detector Detectors
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- References: <1992Jul23.204831.28487@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:34:39 +0000
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- > The BBC does this in the UK with detector vans. I remember when I was a kid
- > and someone told me that in England you need to have a license to own a TV
- > set, and I said, "Oh gimme a break. What do they do, drive around in little
- > vans to see who's paid their TV bill?" And it wasn't until I went there
- > for the first time that I learned that that's exactly what they do!
- >
- In this day and age of computers what would you do if 98% or so of households
- owned tvs?
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- Whichever way you look at it, countries are large, resources are scarce, so
- psychological warfare is a cheap option.
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- Why make these things highly visible? Why have ones with rubber aerials and
- without installed equipment? Why advertise that your area is being visited?
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- The police over here advertise where they _have_ used radar and I have never
- seen them revisit an area while the signs are present.
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- TC.
- E-mail: tchannon@black.demon.co.uk or tchannon@cix.compulink.co.uk
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