Court Upholds FCC's 2007 Deadline For Digital TV

phil reed writes "According to this article on Digital Spy, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has upheld a Federal Communications Commission ruling requiring that all TVs with 13-inch screens or larger must be equipped with a digital tuner by July 2007. FCC press release here (warning - PDF document). The Court specifically cited foot-dragging on the part of the industry, and noted the chicken-and-egg problem. Here's the Washington Post story." sdriver writes adds a link to CNN's coverage.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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California is burning

[Anonymous Coward]

It is official; Netcraft confirms: California is burning

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered California community when IDC confirmed that California rain levels have dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of last year's peak. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that California has lost more water supply, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. California is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Shit Not Catching On Fire test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict California's future. The hand writing is on the wall: California faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for California because California is burning. Things are looking very bad for California. As many of us are already aware, California continues to lose inhabitants. Red embers blow like a tornado of blood.

Southern California is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its inhabitants. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Southern Californians only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Southern California is burning.

All major surveys show that California has steadily declined in tax revenue collected. California is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If California is to survive at all it will be among porn stars and perverted anime freaks. California continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, California is dead.

Fact: California is burning

Re:how is this an issue

[drinkypoo]

You can get lead substitutes which you add to your gasoline. It costs a couple bucks which used to be a big deal except now fuel is two bucks a gallon. Oh ho you say, you can get 87 octane for $1.50 in many places! That's true, but it won't do you a bit of good in most of those old cars, which have fairly high compression (remember, this is before they detuned the shit out of everything on the road) and which generally demand at least 89 octane fuel and often 92. Of course, you can only get up to 91 around here. This is why lead substitute often comes in the same bottle as octane booster.

I had a 1960 Dodge Dart Phoenix, the 2 door model, with the B block 318. It had about 240hp, and 340ft-lb. It actually got reasonable mileage too. A 318 is a 5.2 liter engine, which is not unreasonably large. However it had 9:1 compression and so if I wanted to run low-grade fuel, a full tank (21 gallons) of fuel required one container of lead substitute with octane booster, and one container of octane booster. Remember, one bottle treats ten gallons.