>The use of the sound is prohibited to prevent people becoming desensitized to something you should only hear in the most dire circumstances. "To preserve the unique purpose and effectiveness of the EAS Tones, the Commission enforces laws that prohibit their use or simulation, except for specific permitted uses," the FCC said.

With the number of times I've heard the alerts for their weekly tests, I've already become desensitized to it.

Man I have 75% of these books in my loft, amazing books.

I think S21E04 was on par with earlier much funnier seasons. But this season it's being pretty meh.

Caruso was really good on NYPD Blue but was gone after the first season because he demanded more money. He left, the show was a massive success for a long time and his career was non-existent until he got CSI Miami. Few people get a second chance like that.

Gates McFadden was fired from Star Trek:TNG after season 1. The reason was she was too vocal in her dislike for some sexist elements and a sexist producer, Maurice Hurley.

He took a dislike to her and she was forced out. After season 2 Hurley left the show and she was invited back. The rest is history and the show certainly seemed better for Hurleys departure.

I've been on teams that had to get Part B before. Makes me grumpy about it :)

I still feel like the vendor has some measure of liability here. Part B isn't the same level as an electrical hazard but I'd at least try to get a healthy discount on upgraded converters. Find out the depreciation schedule for them , blah blah blah.

Any rate, an interesting issue and thanks for it.

Jake T. Austin in The Fosters

Butttt Noah Centineo grew into the role and ended up miles better

But who cares what resolution something is if you can’t get it at all? In 2007 when I bought my nice antenna, I could get 54 channels here in Seattle. Now, I can only ABC and its crappy subchannels, and that is unreliable. We need to make it work again in the first place.

Finland does this, and they set the record for the biggest trafic fine in the world when a Nokia exec gor caught speeding.

Seems pretty pointless to fine a multinational corporation a half million. Not much of a deterrent

Michael O'Hare wasnt really fired, he had mental health issues and stepped aside because it was a problem.

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Just to own the libs.

Doesn’t seem like it. The article mentions:

> The Federal Communications Commission, which polices use of the sound to protect its integrity, now wants to fine the organization $504,000 – just as it did for Hollywood action film Olympus Has Fallen ($1.9 million, 2014) right down to Jimmy Kimmel Live ($395,000, 2019).

I am in a iffy reception area (valley surrounded by mountains) with traditionally very heavy cable penetration, so very few antennas around. No one around me has an antenna, which makes giving directions easy - look for the house with an antenna. My inververters are 10 years old and they convert dc to ac at the panel. The newer converters use a better shielding. It is more of an annoyance than a problem.

I feel like this fine is plenty of incentive for them to stop doing it in the end, though

I kind of like how people are acting like this was some boardroom decision about an ad for a show. This was made by a creative, then approved by probably a mid-level executive, maybe as part of a committee, but probably not, depending on his/her title.

Weird, the article says the audio was used in a promo for a game in November, 2021. So why does the FCC care now?

The point of a commercial is to draw attention to a product. Any company would use it if they think the attention is worth the cost.

> They are the ones that told me solar inverters are except from section 15 part b of their regs.

Gaaah! Well, poot then.

> The only solution is replace all 24 inverters.

You are a very thorough human being :)

So being a nerd, I gotta ask - those were NOT granted Part B but because green, they're exempted? I honestly thought everything ever made had to have Part B.

I'd lean on the solar panel vendors to put a grounded Faraday cage on the inverters. At their expense. I'm also wondering why an inverter is emitting in that band... That's pretty high up in frequency for an inverter. Is it a square wave inverter? This is very clearly a design defect.

My experience is that requests like that on legal stationery/letterhead get more attention.... lawyers love doing that sort of thing for you. Especially since there's clearly a tort; FCC regs do not constitute a fully legally binding exemption. Er, they used to not anyway. You're one guy and I imagine the solar panel people have more than one customer...

Did David Caruso...takes off glasses...ever have chemistry with anybody on that show?

It's another 500K that's what.

The story as Clayne Crawford tells it was that Damon Wayans didn't want to be on the show. He took the job as part of a bigger deal to get his own project financed, but when Lethal Weapon turned out to actually be good he started phoning it in and being really difficult to work with because he was pissed that he was stuck on the project. Eventually it all came to a head with a huge fight between Crawford and Wayans on a difficult shooting location with Crafword getting the boot as he was the less known name attached to the show, but all that did was sink season 2 because Wayans was still there not giving a fuck.

They should raise the fine to one meeeeeellllllliiiooonn dollars.

Yes. They started as strikebreakers and private investigators, and now they are security services.