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Platystemon posted:Meaning you would have regrown it if only you’d ever lost it in the first place? I have a toddler. I think I'd rather have my virginity most days 
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LifeSunDeath posted:Oh yeah, I would love to go back in time and drive around using a CB! If you pass the rabid child, say "hammer down" for me.
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Police scanners don’t really do much anymore do they? I do have one of those multi-band handheld radios. It can do ham frequencies, but the little antenna and 8 watt transmitter have pretty miserable range. Still, it’s better than nothing if you’re in the woods.
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Nocheez posted:I have a toddler. I think I'd rather have my virginity most days with the energy of homer simpson explaining his bed situation to kirk van houten: i have no children or virginity, no cheez
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Feb 13, 2020 01:56
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What's in my underwear probably qualifies as obsolete technology at this point.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Police scanners don’t really do much anymore do they? Naw, they still work. I think they have private channels or encrypted or something, but there's still general call out channels. There's websites you can listen to live streams of local police and rescue radio...so far it's not super interesting. My grandpa had one he always kept on and it seemed cool. https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/
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Krispy Wafer posted:Police scanners don’t really do much anymore do they? Depends. Most law enforcement agencies are going over to digital systems, the majority of them P25. Many of the newer scanner can decode P25, and unlike scanners of old, many of them have built in databases and don't require tedious programming anymore. The problem is, many departments have implimented encryption, and scanners cant decrypt that, even if you have the key. Radio reference has probably the best database around and you can look up and see what you could possibly hear in your area. uli2000 has a new favorite as of 02:48 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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Feb 13, 2020 02:44
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LifeSunDeath posted:so far it's not super interesting I work as a telephone system admin for a large municipality and this is about 99% of safety forces radio traffic. When I work in the 911 call center it's more interesting hearing the operators arguing with some old guy who's trying to rat his neighbor out for having too many political yard signs than police or fire radio traffic.
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Feb 13, 2020 03:33
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Yeah here for the fire department at least, it's all transmitted to a tablet and a printout not an actual radio call.
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TETRA over here, which is digital and encrypted and intended to be hard to eavesdrop on. It does also have a messaging system, and I don't know the voice/text ratio in normal use.
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My town of 50k people is still using the same old unencrypted police frequencies so I still get use out of my old scanners. I'll also turn on the storm spotter frequencies when there's bad weather, but that's about it. The most fun thing was in the early-mid 2000's when everyone had cordless phones, I could scan the 900mhz band and usually pick up 1-2 phone calls at any time after 5:00 in my neighborhood. It's actually the reason my parents bought our scanner in the 90s. Nowadays it would feel really creepy doing that, but as a teenager I didn't really care about other people's privacy.
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not gonna lie, wa27, every time I hear about your youth I get a little more confused. (this is The Orange Mage, btw, from goonskate and that time I was The One in 1 vs 100. Sup?  )
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What's up goonskate bros
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AMISH FRIED PIES posted:from goonskate Good to see you guys are still around. I don't ever remember people's forum usernames
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LifeSunDeath posted:There's websites you can listen to live streams of local police and rescue radio...so far it's not super interesting. But they can sometimes be useful. A few weeks ago I was able to use one of these to help out a friend. Her kid's school had gone into full active-shooter lockdown mode and the school authorities weren't saying anything about what was going on. Was there an actual shooting happening or what? Nobody knew, and so the parents were all (quite reasonably) freaking out. So I found a stream of the town's police radio and within a few minutes of listening to bored-sounding cops, we'd pieced together the story. It turned out there'd been an attempted carjacking a little ways away, and when the guy had tried to flee on foot, they weren't sure which way he'd gone but it might have been in the general direction of the school, so they panicked and threw the school into lockdown. Word got around pretty quickly (we weren't the only ones to have the police scanner idea) and by the end of it, I'm told there were a lot of parents seriously pissed off that the school had traumatized hundreds of kids over such a hypothetical threat, and then hadn't even told anyone, students or parents, what was up.
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Nocheez posted:What's in my underwear probably qualifies as obsolete technology at this point. I have four kids; my junk has pretty well served its purpose, I guess.
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That's like when my community college went into lockdown because some guys robbed a gas station or something and then drove into the school's parking lot. Thanks for making me listen to the really loud lockdown announcement for 20 minutes, assholes.
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LifeSunDeath posted:so far it's not super interesting Ah, but put it under bleep-bloop ambient music and you get something like SoMa FM's SF 10-33 or Mission Control, or any of YouAreListening.to's stations. I like it for my work music, more than lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to. You gotta like bleep-bloop music in order to enjoy it though.
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Trabant posted:Ah, but put it under bleep-bloop ambient music and you get something like SoMa FM's SF 10-33 or Mission Control, or any of YouAreListening.to's stations. I like it for my work music, more than lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to. Oh hell yes. I first started listening to SomaFM around 2001/2. I had a winamp pluggin I could rip audio from it, before it was easy to find music like that for download. I'd set it up and the next day have 12h of music just waiting for me, it was awesome. Also anyone use this program?  Somehow it's still around, but not sure what the use is anymore. It was the absolute best place for obscure electronic music through the early 2000's. Also met a bunch of early streamer DJ's in Europe that would shout me out on their streams, it goddamn blew my mind that the internet was connecting me with cool randos in this way.
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I still use soulseek to acquire music  . Since the demise of oink and what.fm I've found it nearly impossible to get an invite to another music tracker and even harder to maintain ratio on one. Easier just to use soulseek.
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Imagined posted:I still use soulseek to acquire music Awesome! I thought about dipping back in just to see what the userbase and selection is like, but since I stream everything I don't have any files to share.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Oh hell yes. I first started listening to SomaFM around 2001/2. I had a winamp pluggin I could rip audio from it, before it was easy to find music like that for download. I'd set it up and the next day have 12h of music just waiting for me, it was awesome. Also anyone use this program? I last used it a few years ago because I’m still a guy that just has a couple hundred GB of music rather than using a more “radio” like service (still using iTunes Match) and there’s still a lot of electronica (especially late 90s and early 2000s) that I can’t find anywhere else.
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anyone else here ever listen to radiooooo.com? it lets you pick music based on country and decade.
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Joke post: hey guise remember gbs.fm?
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no one tells jerry to no you shut the gently caress up dad  hes my friend and cusses will not be tolerated
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Jerry Cotton posted:Joke post: hey guise remember gbs.fm? I will never get tired of kuuenbu's video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OYZ04mCGCo edit: maybe funnier? I dunno. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qnM14VRu6U
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LifeSunDeath posted:Oh hell yes. I first started listening to SomaFM around 2001/2. I had a winamp pluggin I could rip audio from it, before it was easy to find music like that for download. I'd set it up and the next day have 12h of music just waiting for me, it was awesome. Also anyone use this program? I've talked about it before how I was introduced to it by my Audio Engineering Lecturer at University. I met some really interesting people in the various chat rooms while getting some really unique electronic stuff. Somewhere I still have an mp3 of a song that samples Hans (?) the surplus store owner talking about rocket launchers to Homer.
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Humphreys posted:Somewhere I still have an mp3 of a song that samples Hans (?) the surplus store owner talking about rocket launchers to Homer. I think you might've met Dankmus before he got famous!
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uli2000 posted:Ham here. I promise, we're all not batshit crazy Omaba hatin' diabetes havin' boomer, but yeah, most are.  amazon!!e: no matter, once you get into ham crimes these details don't mean much because you're already in too deep to the lifestyle SniperWoreConverse has a new favorite as of 05:10 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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ham crimes and misdemeanors
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Trabant posted:I think you might've met Dankmus before he got famous! I trawled through my and it's credited to '5th Street'Here's a gofile link to the track https://gofile.io/?c=CrAd61 I have a few more tracks and remixes too lol Humphreys has a new favorite as of 17:42 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:Police scanners don’t really do much anymore do they? Unless you are in some straight-up podunk-rear end poor area, you need a trunking scanner to listen to cops, which gets pretty expensive pretty quick. However, living in a city of a quarter-mil plus I was still able to get some EMS dispatch, rural and volunteer fire departments, which came in pretty handy during a big snowstorm. For police, your best bet without blowing way too much money is an app or radioreference. Even then half the time it'll be "uh Pitt central, 10-26, have 54 call the station" and fire department pagers. I miss the days when you could listen to all the cordless phones in the neighborhood. LifeSunDeath posted:Also anyone use this program? if your ISP likes getting nasty about BitTorrents and you can't afford a VPN, Soulseek is a godsend. Especially if you want, like, full-Blu Ray disc rips of some concert Blu Ray.
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less than three posted:ham crimes and misdemeanors 
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tell me that's a real game
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Randaconda posted:tell me that's a real game https://i.imgur.com/aFzfLMh.png
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Randaconda posted:tell me that's a real game Bad Dudes is a real game, and it has great lines, but that isn’t one of them. 
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Does anyone remember eMule?
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Vavrek posted:Does anyone remember eMule? Best thing in my school days!
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Platystemon posted:Bad Dudes is a real game, and it has great lines, but that isn’t one of them. Which also specifies that it's "President Ronnie" IIRC. EDIT: wait I actually managed to read the thing. No, I believe the original said "Ninja", not "Ham"
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