Now aint this a kettle of fish?

 

You might notice, that there is something strange here. Well, this is Hazzard County. We do things different here, We fight the system.

Was on Edge a few ago, because, Google's Blogger had a tummy tantrum, Yup, did not like an image or something, so had to reboot, then reboot again, amazing, seems as though Big Tech is needing some serious doses of Pepto-Bizmol. Whatever you feed it, it hurls back up. Makes you wonder if, in fact, there's a stupid college kid, interning at the Alphabet Company's HQ in Mountain View Ca, that catches everyone's blogs and such then just to piss you off, makes it hard to proceed expressing your thoughts and opinions. Look, I'm always doing op-eds, online and even on our radio shows. Things that need to be said, need to be just that, be said, written by, and delivered. 

Big Tech by all fairness took a heckofahit, during the pandemic. Much of which is still not recovered. To thwart these problems, Big Tech hires people at a fraction of the wages that would be needed to be paid in the U.S. to do. Like Call takers. You call up an online vendor say like GoDaddy. Need to fix a problem, that you know dang well is on their end. What you get is some oriental in the Philippines, or Singapore, who has no idea of getting into anything serious that requires a real decision. What they know, is what is on a paper board, post, that says, what the problem is, and to ask you, can it help? The problem is even with AI, I have gone the go around with GoDaddy. Any more before even putting anything down on their bot-powered texting, is, I want to talk to a human. Even then it says, wanna chat? Or asks the question, can you state the question in a different way? I always answer simply, Shut the fck up Bot, put me through to a human. It usually, does that right directly. 

On the subject of dominance Google is fielding a lawsuit in Texas, and a few other parts of the globe, on dominating a market, not allowing competition. Which is just a continuation, of the condition that existed, in this country, when A.T.&.T aka the Bell system cornered the market for landline services. Back then you even had to pay extra for things called long distance, or information aka 411. After some time and congressional actions, that outfit was broken up, allowing some competition. This led to innovation, and ultimately to the cell phone. Internet got faster, with DSL, over simple dial-up. 

Not so with Big Tech. If you get pissd at say Google, you can run off to facebook, or X-aka Twitter. The only problem there is once you get a rep, of being a badass, with one, they all talk between each other. After a while, none of them wants to deal with you.

A few years ago, there were a ton of startups trying to squeeze into the Social Media Network space. Many simply failed. Their servers got clogged, the accuracy was limited, and a few people got whacked over arguments from comments online. Even former President Trump tried to do up a Social Media thing. That went belly up, in no short order. Course that bastard, can't get things straight, in any case. Including his long-running legal problems. Look I dig where that happens. You get fame, money, or both, you make big money, and you get women wanting to cash in.  I experienced the same thing although not to the degree, of Trump. Once my Mom passed on, in 83, I was smothered, with all kinds of attention. Yet when the hussies, found that there were administrators and a board of advisers, most of them, took to legal challenges. So I dig where Trump is coming from, but I don't really think he is the one to step back in the White House. He's just too dang old. He and others piss and moan over Biden being a lot off plumb, and confused. Maybe, so or not, but Trump ain't too far behind. The responsibilities of being President of the nation here, are enormous. Your danged if you do, danged if you don't. Foreign policies, dealing with so-called allies, that just want to take a bite out of our nation's hide, are monumental. That kind of stress can make even the most stable person, nuts. 

Stay tuned, HazzardAyre Radio Sunday at 00:00 Monday after the Super Bowl, and all day Monday.

TaTa.

Whatch out The FCC is at it again Don't Speak loudly Someone might hear you Part 2

 

Again, a Grand Morning to ya'll. Don't ya'll wish that Big Tech would quit fighting you and being so dern greedy that it has to be constantly spying on you? No, they are not in a hall closet, {at least that you know of} but, from blogs to facebook chatter, it's the same, they are watching you. They eavesdrop on you, through your Smartphone, All those hot speaker aps, everything. Think Spotify, isn't monitoring everything you do? Every song, every game, every dern media anything. They got you by the testies and they is a twisting. Now your Cable/Satellite/ TV services are bytching about, the FCC clamping down on excess fee charges. About time. For example, here in Evanston Wyoming, people pay a $12.00 surcharge, for a T translator, that nobody uses. But we pay for it. We pay it's electric bill, about $200.00 a month, we pay for upkeep, that no one ever does, who is pocketing that cash? Then there is the cable access channel. Of the many of those I have seen, while I was there, and that might be, why it went dark, I wasn't there to bottle feed it, but Pocatello, had the best Cable Access Channel, ever. yet, in Evanston Wyoming, cable subscribers, pay for one, that no one ever uses. Why? Nobody to manage it? Nobody to maintain it? what. But we pay for it. The new sitch crunch of the FCC will force big and tiny cable systems, to no longer charge those tight fees. Of course, many of those are not crying, that they will have to raise rates just to cover basic expenses. Okay, fine. I say; time to break out the rabbit ears. Face it the conversion from, Analog, to digital TV was not for your own good. Or good for the video industry. What it did do, was put a bunch of tiny, re-run style TV stations out of business, requiring those that stayed in the game, to buy newer equipment, and having to, for the first time, both TV and Digitized radio, to move frequencies and no real recourse. While many went dark, many went to removing nightly newscasts. KUTV did that, and so did CH 12 out of Nampa. 

HazzardAyre Radio, stayed active, only because we were already digitized, But teat was not easy. We had to reduce our ERP, to a lower prime output, and engage 3 other stations, to triangulate a strong enough signal between the 3 to get out a decent, true stereo-generated signal. 

Even we had to whittle down a few spots in our staffing, two of which I wished we could have kept. Increased my workload 4 fold, to engineer, all 3 of our stations and contract 4 more area stations, just to feed myself and our network. 

Look, you might be a great lover of Trump and all, and while I'm glad Haly is out of the running, as her attitude towards the confederacy, is not warming. That said, under President then, Trump, his FCC Chair, was pro cell phone, not broadcast, nor that promised nationwide wide bandwidth internet that was to be free, ever was created. It was a pre-packaged deal, to get the go-ahead, yet produced no crop, no harvest. Kind of like the Free Obama Phone. 

Church at noon, and I will be on air at 00:00 hours Monday Morning.

Keep it tween the ditches.

Don't speak loudly people might hear you.

 

A grand Morning to ya'll this early Sunday morning. We, rather I will be on the air on HazzardAyre, following the SuperBowl. I ain't a football fan, but some of ya'll are so I'm being kind.