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Spectrum Wars: The Hidden Battle

PacketMaster writes: "The USA Today is carrying an interesting commentary entitled All-but-secret battle rages over fate of airwaves. The article sheds light on some topics that many people are completely ignorant on - the fight over the broadcast spectrum. The most interesting tidbit is that the current broadcasters, who were given the new digital spectrum for applications like HDTV for free, now want to keep their old ones too and auction them off for industry profit to help pay for the transition to the new spectrum."

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  1. ASCII Art Parade by l33t+j03 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:ASCII Art Parade by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You are truly a monkey, cyborg sucker.

  2. another battle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The bathroom at work is an odd place. One minute youre working with someone the next your
    hear them in a stall farting out shit with their pants around their ankles. You look for shoes and
    wonder, "Who is that person with the obvious gastrointestinal problems?" One day I walked into
    the bathroom and heard someone in a stall rustling a newspaper and shamelessly blasting away
    with heavy breathing and everything. I knock on the stall door and ask if he?s ok. He seems
    startled and tells me he?s fine. I put a hand under the stall door and ask him to slap me five on
    some excellent doody making. He kind of kicks my hand away and asks who I am. I pound on
    the door demanding to be let in. I tell him I want to see his work and I want to see him in action.
    He tells me that I?m not funny and tells me go away. I tell him he is an excellent doody maker. I
    ask him if his doody is stooly. He now seems angered and demands to know who I am. I go over
    to the urinal and grab a cake and lob it over into his stall. He screams an Ag and seems upset.
    He tells me fuck you. I kick the door in and see Peter (a Vice President!) all in his most
    vunerable. He stares back at me and asks me what the hell I?m doing. I tell him I want to be
    involved with his doody. He wants to know why I?m doing this. I tell him he has no respect for
    doody. I tell him that everyday a doody gives you pleasure and he?s an inconsiderate fuck. I
    club him with a fist over his head and knock him off the toilet. He tries to get up and run but his
    pants around his ankles are presenting a problem. I grab him by his head and dunk his head face
    first into the toilet. I tell him to look at the doody. He bubbles a scream back at me so I shove his
    face further into the toilet mushing his face into the doody- then yank him up gasping. His face
    has some doody stuck to it and i pull him up by his tie and stumble him across the bathroom to
    the smack his face into the mirror. Look at yourself doody face! look at you! Respect the doody!
    I tell him! RESPECT! I pull his head back and then smash it into the mirror. The shards of glass
    cut up his face and brown and blood are running down his cheeks. He seems very surprised and
    stunned. What a turn of events! One second making doody the next you got toilet water all over
    your face and doody and youre bleeding and youre having a problem! I throw him back into the
    stall and hold his face over the toilet. I yell at him to look at the doody! He tells me to let him up. I
    tell him to look at it. He screams back OK OK I?m looking. I ask him what he sees and he tells
    me he doesn?t see shit. I grab a hunk of his doody and shove it in his face. I ask him again what
    he sees and he tells me he sees SHIT OK I SEE MY SHIT! That?s right. I tell him YOUR
    DOODY! And is it beautiful? I ask him. He tells me that it is beautiful. I ask him if its brown he
    tells me yes yes it?s brown its brown! That?s right fucker that?s your doody and it?s brown.
    AND BEAUTIFUL show it some goddamn respect! I respect you doody he tells it. Damn right
    I say. Now clean yourself up I tell him you look terrible and youre embarrassing the doody.
    Doody is modest I tell him. That?s what makes it so beautiful. I am so excited all this activity
    makes me want to doody. Some may say I am doodyfixated or perhaps a bit overly involved
    with the brown brown- well if you ever hear anyone speaking such blasphemy you point em
    out and I?ll make sure they learn proper.

    1. Re:another battle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      ROOFLES!

  3. Re:WESTSIDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Geee looks quite familiar?

    Somebody read the Onion today, hmmm?

  4. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Flamebait?!?! Well, I never...

  5. Re:WESTSIDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Uhm, it's LATYRX, not LATAX.

    It's a combination of Lyrics Born and Lateef

    Quanuum Collective in tha haus!

    P.S.- you are a lamer.

  6. Re:WESTSIDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and he didn't even give no props to De La Soul

    DAMN

    tha source: http://graphics.theonion.com/pics_3731/god_gives_s hout_out_jump.jpg

  7. You're all fucking next by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All you motherfuckers are gonna pay, You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who are making that movie, we're gonna make 'em at our shit, then shit out our shit, then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made 'em eat. Then you're all fucking next.

    Love, Jay and Silent Bob

    1. Re:You're all fucking next by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Fifteen bucks, little man
      Put that shit in my hand
      If that money doesn't show
      Then you owe me owe me oh.

  8. Re:socialize costs, privatize profits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is this the same guy who thinks Timothy McVeigh is an American hero?

    Feh.

  9. Re:socialize costs, privatize profits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, that`s the very same chap.

    Of course, you`ll be medded down to hell and back (as will this post) for daring to critisize a "slashdot hero" but hey, who said this was a democracy?

  10. Re:Shocked and Appalled by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They should take people like you and ship you to Afghanistan or some such place. Maybe we can trade you for those missionaries they're trying to burn at the stake or whatever over there. We need less armchair critic pissants who hate their own country and wipe their ass with the flag, and more people who are proud and glad to be living in THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH!!

    WE ARE NUMBER ONE!

    U-S-A!!! NUM-BER ONE!!!
    U-S-A!!! NUM-BER ONE!!!
    U-S-A!!! NUM-BER ONE!!!
    U-S-A!!! NUM-BER ONE!!!
    U-S-A!!! NUM-BER ONE!!!
    U-S-A!!! NUM-BER ONE!!!

  11. Re:socialize costs, privatize profits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yours is the perfect attitude for a Stalinist

  12. Re:socialize costs, privatize profits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'll be Stalin if you'll be Trotsky... pay no attention to the man with the ice pick.

  13. Fuck you, I do. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    who in the hell still watches basic over-the-air TV anymore?

    fuck you, im sorry if i don't want to pay fucking $50/mo for some monopoly to provide shitty service. (this is BASIC CABLE costs, 4 channels)

    god damn rich freaks think they own the country...

  14. cox0r by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    someone sux0r my cox0r. pl3ase?