"Jim Hampton" wrote in message ...
What *might* prove interesting is some emergency where communications can't
get through due to interference. Then the high power lawyers step up to the
plate and see if they can do to the power company involved what was done to
big tobacco. Of course, by then the damage will be done. Let someone win a
billion dollars and then see what happens with BPL. I'm not pushing amateur
radio here; I simply see radio communications (fire, police, aircraft, etc.)
as more reliable than cell phones.


BPL, if allowed, will put several states' statewide public service
agency radio system out of business, teo include California, which
also has a low VHF statewide radio system. So much for protection from
part 15 interference!

It is also difficult to call 20 police
cars individually when you need a rapid response to a large problem as
opposed to just pressing the button on a radio transmitter. I am very
rapidly learning to dislike the present administration a *lot*.


If they ram BPL through in the face of massive negative evidence
there'll
be a whole lot of people feeling much more than just dislike!


An
interesting aside with the power companies; Wall Street doesn't like them
generating power. They simply want to buy power and resell it at a profit.
Where is this power supposed to come from?



Do you ever get the feeling that Wall Street is more *the* problem
than the solution to our problems? The bean counters are in absolute
control and The Bottom Line rules. No matter who or what gets hurt,
nor how badly. If they have to send all our good jobs and
manufacturing offshore and rely on capitol gains to rake in all that
stock gain and profit, they'll do it in a heartbeat, regardless of
what it does to the country.



With all manufacturing jobs
going offshore and no one interested in actually building (or generating)
anything ... well, I'll bet 50 years down the road they'll be teaching
courses in business schools about what *not* to do. And these will be the
years referred to in the books.



Assuming it stays glued together another 50 years.