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2015-09-17 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2015-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Best of all, Seoul discovered the deterrent value of information operations, and had already threatened to turn the loudspeakers back on if the North tests a missile. Imagine what a strong deterrent it would have if it built cell towers along the DMZ.

"A typical cellphone has enough power to reach a cell tower up to 45 miles away. Depending on the technology of the cellphone network, the maximum distance may be as low as 22 miles"
How Far Can a Cell Tower Be for a Cellphone to Pick Up the Signal?

Posted by Helmuth, Speaking for Big Foot4718 2015-09-17 00:28|| 2015-09-17 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Once while hiking in a canyon along the Rio Grande in NM, I received a cell phone text message, the only possible source was Sandia Crest, 38.5 miles away (I could see it even though I was in a canyon). At the time the phone indicated "no service".

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-09-17 08:13|| 2015-09-17 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 I remember, in the days before ubiquitous towers in our area, finding a large metal building on the top of a hill to act as a 'reflector' (not tough to find in the upper Midwest although silos and grain bins didn't work - they're round) and positioning about 55-60 feet in the direction of the closest known tower, allowed operations up to 50-60 miles.

'Line-Of-Sight' has a lot to do with it, so elevation in relationship to the tower is key for remote areas.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-09-17 08:35|| 2015-09-17 08:35|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't think your average starving North Korean peasant has ever been able to own a cell phone. And I am still more sceptic about the North Korean government not executing the peasant right away. For Chrissake: in the, by NK's standards, land of freedom that was the USSR under Stalin people ownership of radios was under strict control.

Posted by JFM 2015-09-17 10:27|| 2015-09-17 10:27|| Front Page Top

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-09-17 11:42|| 2015-09-17 11:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Progressives reject the concept of evil and refuse to teach it - because it is the very antidote to their defective and amoral system.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-09-17 15:30|| 2015-09-17 15:30|| Front Page Top

#7 evil is a concept we cannot do without. it is necessary.

Evil is when Saddam Hussein has his translator torn to pieces (literally) in a torture chamber because he was the unwilling witness to the "disrespectful" admonitions of world leaders prior to Gulf War I, telling him to get out of Kuwait, that he had gone too far, that the world would not tolerate his behaviour.
And because no crime boss will tolerate an underling witnessing his shaming - or he might tell others

that is evil.

being forced to witness and applaud as your loved one is executed and then being sent the bill for the bullet - this is evil.

Forcing your slaves not just to obey you but to *love* you as they starve. The crime family Kim does this in Korea - this is evil

Posted by anon1 2015-09-17 18:42|| 2015-09-17 18:42|| Front Page Top

#8 As once was said of Sauron in LOTR, he not only desired to force you to obey, but to do so against your will.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-09-17 23:06|| 2015-09-17 23:06|| Front Page Top

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