epiphany rasmussin: The stupid FCC

So our non-elected council of five FCC commissioners just made the white spaces a nightmare for anyone using wireless. Big Business wins again. Go figure. Like we didn't all know that to begin with. Here's the article. Wish us luck and let's hope it won't cost us too much to change all of the crystals in our wireless systems.

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
- Iris Murdoch

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
- Franklin P. Adams

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
- Paul Fix

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities."

— Dr. Seuss

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. - Robin Williams

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.
- Anonymous

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterton

An inntellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
- PJ Plauger

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
Unknown

fast, cheap, and good… pick two.
If it’s fast and cheap it wont be good.
If it’s cheap and good it won’t be fast.
If it’s fast and good it wont be cheap.
Fast, cheap and good… pick two.
words to live by.
Unknown

fire is the sun unwinding itself from the wood
Buckminster Fuller

the music was like electric sugar..
-Tom Waits, "Circus" from the album Real Gone

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
- Jef Raskin

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad

Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
- Richard Feynman

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
- Hunter S. Thompson

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
- Ronald Reagan

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
- Bill Vaughan

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
- George Burns

I have a new philosophy.
I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
- Charles M. Schulz

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Who are you and how did you get in here?'
'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'

- Leslie Nielsen

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
- Dan Rather

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