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Sorting Through the Analog to Digital TV Mess
H_Fisher writes "CNN offers an article from Fortune magazine, giving a look at the problems surrounding the mandatory switch from analog to digital TV in the U.S., now slated for 2009. 'Managing this transition -- which will render about 70 million TV sets obsolete -- will be not be easy,' Marc Gunther writes. Among the problems: millions of American households without cable or satellite access will lose free access to news and weather along with the rest of their broadcast fare. Uncle Sam's solution? 'Yes, the very same federal government that is cutting back on college loans and food stamps will soon be issuing TV vouchers' - $1.5 billion to help U.S. households buy new digital TV equipment."
How do you watch DVDs without a TV you hipster fuck?
(Yes, I realize standalone DVD players and Computers would fill this gap, but your entire post is still completely retarded. Keep raging against that TV machine.)
gee Dave, I'm a grad student at the very institution where you work, doing quantum physics, a job you could never do. Yet, I am in that bottom 20% despite my highly skilled job at which I work ~80 hours per week. Who exactly 'deserves' to make more money than me? Name one person. On top of that, my services are routinely cut, the state wants me to pay for my own healthcare, and my 'raises' neverkeep up with inflation. I would advise you to think before you start blathering about 'fairness'
gee Dave, I'm a grad student at the very institution where you work, doing quantum physics, a job you could never do.
What would make you say something like that? Arrogance? Did you even look at my web page or CV? And no matter what I did or what my educational background, still, why would you say something like that? "A job you could never do?" WTF?
Yet, I am in that bottom 20% despite my highly skilled job at which I work ~80 hours per week.
Good for you. And let me get this straight - you're actually bringing grad school into this argument, and doing it with a straight face?
Who exactly 'deserves' to make more money than me? Name one person.
Did I say anything about who "deserves" what? And aside from that, there are probably quite large numbers of people who "deserve" to make more money than you, but that's hardly the point.
On top of that, my services are routinely cut, the state wants me to pay for my own healthcare, and my 'raises' neverkeep up with inflation.
Another big eye roller, here.
First of all, your "services" as a grad student are second to none. You make shit for money, like ALL grad students. And this is news to you? Yes, poor you, doing a physics PhD. I'm sure you'll be suffering your whole life.
Second, the state never wanted you to pay for your own healthcare. In fact, I can't even believe you said that. The state wanted graduate students to pay SOMETHING for their healthcare. In fact, it was a premium that would have been under $10/month. Yes, that's right, folks: graduate students at the University of Wisconsin have paid $0 for FULL healthcare. Your stipend as a graduate student is not designed to be luxurious, and never has been. The ridiculousness of you bringing a grad student stipend into this discussion is beyond belief.
And on top of it, at your income level, you already pay no federal tax.