Brickbat: Pirate Radio

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Zimbabwean police have been seizing radios in villages across the country. Officials say the radios are being used to spread hate speech. But human rights activists worry it's part of a clamp down on media before elections later this year.

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[Mensan]

Speaking of radio: Florida DJs may face felony charges for calling water dihydrogen monoxide.

[Question of Auban]

We are doomed! Seriously, idiots who don't even have the intellectual curiosity to google "dihydrogen monoxide" deserve to die of dehydration.

In other news, my dad recently came out of the closet as a Homo sapiens.

[SIV]

.Homosapien

[Radioactive]

haha you said homo....

[Rich]

Florida DJs may face felony charges for calling water dihydrogen monoxide

"Florida prosecutor's office: 'April Fool!'"

[Rich]

It is a known fact that, on a number of occasions, he emulated older boys at a certain playground. It is also known that his parents not only permitted him to masticate in their presence, but even urged him to do so. Most explicable of all, this man who poses as a paragon of virtue exacerbated his own sister when they were both teenagers!

[Matrix]

yeah, it was pretty funny when Penn & Teller got econuts to sign a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide.

[Question of Auban]

Maybe people are using them as barter items since the Zimbabwean Dollar is even more worthless than the U.S. Dollar.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall.

John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache.

[BlueBook]

Prioritize and continue to strengthen friendship with Joe and Dennis.

[db]

Here's an idea: copyright a bunch of examples of "hate speech" and then set the RIAA to prosecuting people who disseminate them. DMCA can solve hate speech!

[Rich]

Radio dealers should ensure that people buying the radios had a listener licence, he added. These licences cost $20 (?13) annually for those living in urban areas and $10 in rural areas - and cover radios and TVs.

Of course, you can't get an "assault radio" with a telescoping antenna, and you're limited to receiving three stations.

[Tim]

A radio in your home AND in your car? That's an arsenal.

[Auric Demonocles]

Why does anyone need to listen to more than 80 dB?

[db]

Don't go over 85 db or OSHA will own your ass.

[Rich]

Just imagine the universal background test required to become a legal *radio* owner!

[Tonio]

It isn't just third-world shitholes that do this; the UK and some other european countries require you to buy a TV license. The revenue is used to fund state-owned broadcasters.

[SumpTump]

Man I totally love pirate radio!

http://www.DatAnon.tk

[Question of Auban]

So do I Anonbot, so do I.

[Radioactive]

arrrrrr....me too matey

[Tim]

I like that they've adopted the language of western inteelectuals to serve totalitarian brutality.

[Auric Demonocles]

Isn't that why that language was created in the first place?

[db]

Goddammit I posted this first but the sqwerls ate it for breakfast.

[Auric Demonocles]

This just leads back to my earlier post. No one needs that many dBs.

[Tim]

"When he took a placement exam in May 2008, Lanza refused to answer some background questions ? including his gender.

Asked whether he had a "documented disabling condition" that could impact his test scores, he said no ? although his mother had told people he had Asperger's disease, which is low on the autism spectrum."

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_new.....snhp&pos=3

[Rich]

a college ID snapshot that shows him staring wide-eyed into the camera as though scared out of his wits

Now *that's* objective journalism, Tracy Connor.

[Radioactive]

was he LGBT questioning? might be hard to answer with no corresposnding bureacratic box to check...

[Rich]

This.

I can't understand why, in The Twenty-First Century, these boxes have not been replaced by multidimensional shade-in spectral input displays.

[db]

So, he had an *undocumented* disabling condition? Or is that an *illegal* disabling condition?

[Tim]

He lied on a government form? Unthinkable.

[Radioactive]

alert the media...

[Rich]

BULLY ALERT!!

[Tonio]

Well, there are people here who refuse to specify their race/ethnicity on those forms. I think the media is just stretching at this point.

But do look for failure to completely and "properly" execute forms being used to declare someone as mentally ill.

Moral panics - how duz they werk?

[PapayaSF]

I know it's unlibertarian of me to think this, but Mugabe needs droning.

[James Anderson Merritt]

Don't forget that NATO troops, including US forces, IIRC, made a big deal of seizing or destroying broadcast outlets during Clinton's Balkans adventure. This, despite our own first amendment and similar language in the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Also, the mere existence of the FCC is an affront to the first amendment, at least to the extent that it facilitates government control over electronic publication outlets.