I agree MP3 sucks and I really wish I could find just 1 person who agrees 
with me, finally it seems I have.
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From: "Richard Webb" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: Mel's Hole


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> k2lkk wrote:
>   >And why should we be able to chew away at the ozone layer, change
>   >the chemical composition of the atmosphere with greenhouse gases
>   >and still think that it won't have any effect on how radio signals
>   >travel through it?  I'm being serious, now.
> Maybe we won't have near term effect that way, but the more
> we pollute the spectrum with all these unintentional
> so-called radiators, switching power supplies, bpl ... you
> get the drift.
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>   >My suspicious mind wonders if the governments and the HF
>   >broadcasters know that things are declining, and that it is an
>   >expensive medium to operate in and that's why so many of them are
>   >pulling the plug on HF.
> IT isdn't about their expenses as much as it is about how we
> can force everybody to have to have this less robust net
> connection if we want to hear that streaming audio in all of
> its compressed band limited unglory.  does anybody else
> think mp3 sucks that's an average guy or are we folks in the
> audio industry alone?
>
> But seriously, who cares if the have-nots can hear.  wHo
> cares if a guy can get emergency information for himself and
> his family with a liuttle crank it up freeplay radio even in
> the jungle!  IF we get everybody on the streaming bandwagon
> eventually we'll be able to control what's said and the
> marketplace of ideas just because we control the pipeline.
> IT's that simple.  WE have all the freedom of speech
> possible except that much talked about freedom to yell fire
> in a crowded theater.  YEt your freedom of speech and the
> freedom of exchange of ideas does no good if you can't get
> to the conduit.
> Just think, that little boy in China who might get his taste
> of what freedom could be like listening to that hidden
> transistor radio in the barn can instead turn to a stream
> that's allowed to exist on their version of the internet.
> rEmember even GOogle is censored in some parts of the world.
>
> COnsider for a moment:  No heavy investment in a big
> transmitter and all that antenna hardware.  NO big
> investment in staff, but you can control the marketplace of
> ideas rather simply.
>
> 73 de nf5b
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> Richard WEbb,
> Electric SPider Productions,
> Eads Tennessee
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