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US Digital TV Switchover Delayed Until June
necro81 writes "The Delay DTV Act was passed first by the Senate, now by the House, and will be signed by the President. The hard cutoff for turning off analog TV broadcasts in the US has been pushed out to June 12th. The act had earlier failed to gain a 2/3rds majority in the House, but passed this afternoon with a simple majority. The bill allows stations to cease analog transmissions at any point between Feb 17th (the old cutoff) and June 12th, and many have signaled they will do so."
I'd like to personally thank those in Congress that voted for this delay. All that this proves is that you are all a bunch of fucktards that continue to waste my tax dollars on USELESS laws. How about instead you actually DO something about our fucked up economy, terrible education system, health care and half dozen OTHER more important issues that need to be resolved before our way of life spins down the toilet completely.
My $0.0002 ---economic depression value of $0.02
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"The Republicans (rightly) decided the delay was not necessary, but instead proposed simply handing-out more coupons to help people buy boxes."
The coupon program had run out of money... And the Republicans want to just keep handing out coupons while disregarding that fact that there's no money behind it? Actually... yeah, that sounds about right. I'm totally not surprised.