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US House Kills Proposed Delay For Digital TV Transition
An anonymous reader writes "The Digital TV transition delay bill has failed to pass the United States House of Representatives. By a vote 258 to 168 in favor of changing the date, the bill has failed as two-thirds of the votes are required for it to pass. The delay bill was once perceived as inevitable, [but the House] has now apparently made February 17th the date of transition once again. Now the question remains, will they attempt to pass it again by the deadline?"
I believe Senate is more liberal than the House and thus more likely to kowtow to his O-ness.
The government can't save you.
Quite whining and either go buy what you need, or find something else to do. I hate that my tax money is being given out to boost the profits of converter manufactures.
This is a good thing.
It means that any failures will be laid squarely where they belong: on the Bush administration.
Bush's party think they're dicking over Obama by not allowing this delay, but they're really making it plain that Bush failed to organize this correctly, failed to fund it properly, failed to operate it with any competence, and has run off to hide while it leaves millions of Americans without television for weeks and months.
1. If he's illiterate, he can learn or he can get a new TV. This has been brewing for 10 fucking years. Get over it.
2. Minimum wage is plenty. If they want more money, bring more value. Learn something. We have a million Indians who come here every year and make far more than minimum wage because they work and try to learn stuff. Our fucking lazy ass people won't do dick and they deserve minimum wage. Sorry, that's how it is.
3. Get over it and get a fucking HD TV. Nobody is turning off everything.
4. Who the fuck cares. Your old man should have learned something so he wasn't a minimum wage earning wonder dad and saved some fucking money. See #2.
But is it not also true to say that there is news available on the TV over the airwaves?
It is not true to say that. There's no news, only bullshit propaganda and I for one don't feel like paying dipshits to sit around watching it.