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Thursday, July 10, 2008
The LAW says go digital
So very early next year you'd better have a digital tv or converter box to convert the signals in your old tv to the new digital format otherwise you just might lose everything brother, not only this it's federal law. Now I'm hardly some techno-nerd but I read somewhere it has to do with using up all that "white space" on all those blank channels or something but already the conspiracists are whispering Big Brother will be watching you. Dunno, I'm more into reading again, Chef Ramsay can only do so much bleeping in one whole hour before I start channel-surfing again, I'm still wondering why The View is an important show basic to the Republic and why Oprah can talk about salacious topics that Stern got in trouble over on mainstream radio. As the bumper sticker goes
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just go with the flow, just go with the flow
ReplyDeleteI guess I never thought about the whole conversion thing that way, but with the evesdropping stuff sailing through Congress, you never know anymore.
ReplyDeleteYou have such interesting dreams, Z-man, that it would seem to me television couldn't compare anyhow.
whats so terrible about it?
ReplyDeleteIt's an improvement isn't it?
You people (conservatives) always find something to bitch about, don't you!
Not really shadow. It is a vast improvement and will give people more options I'm just wondering why it was so urgent to pass such a law in the first place, a law usually has some important basis upon which it is based and I really see none here, it's television after all not beef that has to pass inspection or a building code & the government itself handing out these new converter boxes. I'm not saying I'm a conspiracy theorist in all of this I just heard others talking about it like it's Orwell 24 years too late. My pet peeve if you will is we have enough laws and then some already, we can even pare back more than a few imo, so why a federal law about television sets?
ReplyDeleteor to put it another way as soapie might have it (can't speak for him but reading him enough I get the gist of his thinking):
ReplyDelete"what's so terrible about it?" absolutely nothing but why is it being forced upon us?
"It's an improvement isn't it?" I'll say with the current state of television but again I should be allowed to buy a set of my choice even if only comes with 5 channels. The issue is one of liberty and personal choice and the government need not get involved here in what is essentially not a very important matter at all.
& btw liberals bitch as much as conservatives, maybe even more so, it's just that we bitch about different things. To paraphrase from the Griper's grandpappy show me a man who doesn't bitch and I'll show you a man who doesn't think. Just ask the people in Zimbabwe if it's all good.
ReplyDeleteWhat's kinda weird about this law that has people talking is they never made a law like this mandating they can only make digital cameras, market forces have determined that as it should be. Then again it could be they're just bored, just a compulsion to pass laws but as I say I have my books to keep me busy, thanks.
ReplyDeleteNext it'll be we have to have a MySpace account by law(then they csan monitor who our friends are).
ReplyDeleteThey talk about privacy and how precious it is but everyone's whole life story is just one button away for anyone to see. I don't think there's any aspect of our lives that's private or personal anymore. Even when you use you savings card at the grocery store it becomes a record of you that insurance companies can then use to assess your health by practically seeing your diet. I don't even use the word privacy anymore as it really doesn't exist, it's just a nice abstraction.
ReplyDeleteBut look at all the trouble regardless of their motivation that they're making people go through. They have to go out and shell over money for a new digital tv or else get a converter box or risk losing all their channels. Don't most people have enough on their plate in their day-to-day lives?
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of stuff that happens when you let Congress control things they have no Constitutional business doing.
ReplyDelete& it doesn't matter if they're Republicans or Democrats doing it. There's the proof of the pudding right there that they're more or less the same beast.
ReplyDeletea MySpace account by law, that's a good one.
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