Amateurland

amateurland English Noun - en amateurland. en 24 October 2001 Martin Christensen Dont hesitate on this one 9641 alt.fan.elite https://web.archive.org/web/20251206090147/https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fan.elite/c/Ha1iTN7jbs8 Professionals don't have more respect for industry standards, believe me. But what's the problem, really? It requires so little to code by the standards, certainly no more than breaking them, and the result is many times more useful. On one hand there's no way of enforcing adherence to established standards, and certainly not in Amateurland. en 10 July 2003 kf6tpt@thin.doobie.com CW problems with arabs and ex-USSR rec.radio.amateur.policy https://web.archive.org/web/20251206085644/https://groups.google.com/g/rec.radio.amateur.policy/c/A7NmUX-ISQ4/m/f7pyvXPQSw0J Michael Powell is rather busy these days, what with all the brouhaha surrounding ClearChannel and the media consolidation. If we think that he, or anyone all that high on the food chain at the FCC gives a rat's patootie about what's going on in Amateurland, we're fooling ourselves. en 19 June 2005 John Higdon John Conyers hearing on the Downing Street Memo to be broadcast on KPFA ba.broadcast https://web.archive.org/web/20251206085809/https://groups.google.com/g/ba.broadcast/c/oHcvsOdKryY/m/nvJ88g0w9h0J But posting in the political groups takes skill and knowledge, something conspicuously absent in the political discussions here. Politically, this is Amateurland; such participants here would be eaten alive in adult discussion groups. This is a much more comfortable sandbox.