Digital TV is here; or is it?
www.theblacksword.net
www.gunslingerpublications.com
My book—The Black Sword: The Secret U.S. Army in Vietnam—is available at the above websites. See post on February 13, 2009 entitled Gunslinger Publications L.C. Website.
I suggest you check out the following website if you are a policy holder of Farmers Insurance Group or thinking about having them insure you in any capacity: www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com
Boycott all PepsiCo products—www.boycottpepsico.com: see my post of January 9, 2009 entitled “Homosexual support leads to boycott of PepsiCo.” That post contains a list of the PepsiCo divisions and the various products sold by each division. Use the list. Boycott all PepsiCo products—www.boycottpepsico.com
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https://affiliates.visionforum.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=367
The above link is for a company—Vision Forum—that provides unique products for the family. I am an affiliate for the company and receive a small commission whenever someone uses this link and then makes an unreturned purchase while using the link. Check it out. I think you might like the products offered. I do. See my more complete explanation on my post of February 1, 2008 entitled “Affiliate program with Vision Forum.”
Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.
I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:
September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
February 13, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and associated companies”
February 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and how others rate the company”
I will not be continuing my Creationism posts at this time. I do not plan to get to them until sometime later this year. I do plan to discuss Iraq but not until later this year. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.
How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?
Stop the
Murder of
Unborn
Toddlers
“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)
www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com
http://religionandmorality.wordpress.com
www.childpredators.com
www.lifedynamics.com
www.libertylegal.org
www.alliancedefensefund.org
www.searchtv.org
I plan to continue with a few more comments on the “stimulus” law and economics. First though, a side topic that is indicative, perhaps, of what is in store for us as the “stimulus” law begins to work its “magic.”
The following commentary is from The Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2009, page A14.
“I want my DTV
Don’t change that channel. If you’ve turned on a TV in the past six months, you’ve probably heard that today, February 17, 2009, is the day that broadcast television is supposed to switch to digital signals from analog. After the transition, older televisions that are not hooked up to cable, satellite or fiber-optic service won’t work
But here’s the rub. Today was the day the big switch was supposed to happen. It was written into law back in 2005. But two weeks ago, Congress delayed the transition to June 12. So the digital revolution will be televised, but not until late spring—at least for that small fraction of Americans with rabbit-ear antennas still perched atop their TV sets.
That’s right—after all that advertising, all those public-service announcements about February 17, and despite nearly four years to plan for that date, Congress itself switched at the last minute.
The official explanation is that the Department of Commerce ran out of money to issue coupons for digital-converter boxes to people who applied for them. These boxes cost between $40 and $80. And Congress, in 2005, decided to subsidize the converters by issuing a $40 coupon. (Was this an example of an earlier Congressional stimulus program?—my addition) Then last November, Commerce warned that it might run out of money to issue coupons if Congress didn’t lift a $1.34 billion (1,034,000,000 dollars—my addition) financing cap. (At $40 per coupon, if there were no other costs which of course there are, that would be 25,850,000 coupons—my addition.) Congress did nothing. Commerce also suggested that, since nearly 50% of the coupons were expiring unused, Congress could amend the law to allow more coupons to be issued under the cap by taking into account the actual redemption rate. Congress declined to do that too.
January rolled around, and sure enough the coupons ran out four days into the new year. Congressional leaders naturally blamed the Bush Administration and John Podesta wrote a letter on behalf of the Obama transition calling for the switch to be delayed. Congress then passed the Digital Delay Act, pushing the date to June but allowing stations to petition the Federal Communications Commission for permission to switch off analog broadcasts today.
Out of some 1,800 stations around the country, 491 requested permission to go all digital. Another 200 have already switched off analog or were scheduled to by today. So instead of a clean switch, we’ll have as many as one-third of U.S. stations going digital today while two-thirds continue to broadcast both analog and digital signals until June. It takes a lot of electricity to beam those signals—tens of thousands of dollars worth (another “stimulus” example of Congress wisely spending our money?—my addition), to say nothing of the carbon footprint (another major concern of Congress—my addition) of all that double-broadcasting. But we digress.
No doubt there are some people still waiting for their coupons because they waited until the last minute to request them. (If you requested a coupon, it expired because you didn’t use it before the expiration date, can you request another coupon?—my addition) And it’s possible that some are so desperate to catch the next installment of “24” that they’ll throw a fit if Fox doesn’t come in over their rabbit ears—but not so desperate to, you know, buy a $40 converter box with their own money. But the transition was never going to be without challenges, and the June 12 switch will still leave someone, somewhere, with a dark TV. (Do you think Congress will try to delay the change once again when the June 12 date approaches and I still haven’t bought a converter box?—my addition)
The difference now is that Congress and the Obama Administration will have full ownership of any snafus. (Maybe Congress will buy all of us holdouts new digital ready TV’s. That’s what I am waiting for—another stimulus program to grow TV production!—my addition) Meantime, there will be confusion about the transition and many angry phone calls. In Washington, this is what passes for regularly scheduled programming.”
Two TVs in my house. One is on cable and one has rabbit-ears. I thought about what to do with the second. Since I’m only watching the 6 PM local news and did watch a few football games since the election, I decided to let the second one go dark. I’ll basically not notice any difference and can watch the 10 PM local news if I want to catch a local news program.
Meanwhile, all the local Peoria stations, except for the ABC affiliate, switched to digital on the 17th. I, in the past, would switch between the ABC and NBC broadcasts during the 6 PM news. Now, of course, it is just the ABC news.
However, out of curiosity, last evening (the 19th) I switched to NBC during a commercial. NBC is broadcasting in analog a commercial about the switch having been made and what the viewer needs to do to be able to watch the NBC station. Why not just continue to broadcast the news? We haven’t heard all of this before?
Again, out of curiosity, I then checked out the Fox station. They were broadcasting a similar commercial except in Spanish. (Anyway, it sounded Spanish to me and I lived in Tucson for a number of years.) Checking the CBS affiliate, the airwave was dark. CBS seems to have just cut the signal not caring to educate us on how to successfully receive the signal necessary to watch CBS programming. How uncaring? I didn’t bother to check PBS and can’t receive any other channels from that particular TV.
Anyway, it seems that I have until June 12, at the least, to continue watching ABC local news at 6 PM. Then, it should be (?) in the dark for that TV. Too bad, too sad!
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” Galatians 6: 7-8 (NIV)
Boycott all PepsiCo products—www.boycottpepsico.com
www.theblacksword.net
www.gunslingerpublications.com
My book—The Black Sword: The Secret U.S. Army in Vietnam—is available at the above websites. See post on February 13, 2009 entitled Gunslinger Publications L.C. Website.
I suggest you check out the following website if you are a policy holder of Farmers Insurance Group or thinking about having them insure you in any capacity: www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com
Boycott all PepsiCo products—www.boycottpepsico.com: see my post of January 9, 2009 entitled “Homosexual support leads to boycott of PepsiCo.” That post contains a list of the PepsiCo divisions and the various products sold by each division. Use the list. Boycott all PepsiCo products—www.boycottpepsico.com
https://affiliates.visionforum.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=367
The above link is for a company—Vision Forum—that provides unique products for the family. I am an affiliate for the company and receive a small commission whenever someone uses this link and then makes an unreturned purchase while using the link. Check it out. I think you might like the products offered. I do. See my more complete explanation on my post of February 1, 2008 entitled “Affiliate program with Vision Forum.”
Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.
I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:
September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
February 13, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and associated companies”
February 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and how others rate the company”
I will not be continuing my Creationism posts at this time. I do not plan to get to them until sometime later this year. I do plan to discuss Iraq but not until later this year. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.
How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?
Stop the
Murder of
Unborn
Toddlers
“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)
www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com
http://religionandmorality.wordpress.com
www.childpredators.com
www.lifedynamics.com
www.libertylegal.org
www.alliancedefensefund.org
www.searchtv.org
I plan to continue with a few more comments on the “stimulus” law and economics. First though, a side topic that is indicative, perhaps, of what is in store for us as the “stimulus” law begins to work its “magic.”
The following commentary is from The Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2009, page A14.
“I want my DTV
Don’t change that channel. If you’ve turned on a TV in the past six months, you’ve probably heard that today, February 17, 2009, is the day that broadcast television is supposed to switch to digital signals from analog. After the transition, older televisions that are not hooked up to cable, satellite or fiber-optic service won’t work
But here’s the rub. Today was the day the big switch was supposed to happen. It was written into law back in 2005. But two weeks ago, Congress delayed the transition to June 12. So the digital revolution will be televised, but not until late spring—at least for that small fraction of Americans with rabbit-ear antennas still perched atop their TV sets.
That’s right—after all that advertising, all those public-service announcements about February 17, and despite nearly four years to plan for that date, Congress itself switched at the last minute.
The official explanation is that the Department of Commerce ran out of money to issue coupons for digital-converter boxes to people who applied for them. These boxes cost between $40 and $80. And Congress, in 2005, decided to subsidize the converters by issuing a $40 coupon. (Was this an example of an earlier Congressional stimulus program?—my addition) Then last November, Commerce warned that it might run out of money to issue coupons if Congress didn’t lift a $1.34 billion (1,034,000,000 dollars—my addition) financing cap. (At $40 per coupon, if there were no other costs which of course there are, that would be 25,850,000 coupons—my addition.) Congress did nothing. Commerce also suggested that, since nearly 50% of the coupons were expiring unused, Congress could amend the law to allow more coupons to be issued under the cap by taking into account the actual redemption rate. Congress declined to do that too.
January rolled around, and sure enough the coupons ran out four days into the new year. Congressional leaders naturally blamed the Bush Administration and John Podesta wrote a letter on behalf of the Obama transition calling for the switch to be delayed. Congress then passed the Digital Delay Act, pushing the date to June but allowing stations to petition the Federal Communications Commission for permission to switch off analog broadcasts today.
Out of some 1,800 stations around the country, 491 requested permission to go all digital. Another 200 have already switched off analog or were scheduled to by today. So instead of a clean switch, we’ll have as many as one-third of U.S. stations going digital today while two-thirds continue to broadcast both analog and digital signals until June. It takes a lot of electricity to beam those signals—tens of thousands of dollars worth (another “stimulus” example of Congress wisely spending our money?—my addition), to say nothing of the carbon footprint (another major concern of Congress—my addition) of all that double-broadcasting. But we digress.
No doubt there are some people still waiting for their coupons because they waited until the last minute to request them. (If you requested a coupon, it expired because you didn’t use it before the expiration date, can you request another coupon?—my addition) And it’s possible that some are so desperate to catch the next installment of “24” that they’ll throw a fit if Fox doesn’t come in over their rabbit ears—but not so desperate to, you know, buy a $40 converter box with their own money. But the transition was never going to be without challenges, and the June 12 switch will still leave someone, somewhere, with a dark TV. (Do you think Congress will try to delay the change once again when the June 12 date approaches and I still haven’t bought a converter box?—my addition)
The difference now is that Congress and the Obama Administration will have full ownership of any snafus. (Maybe Congress will buy all of us holdouts new digital ready TV’s. That’s what I am waiting for—another stimulus program to grow TV production!—my addition) Meantime, there will be confusion about the transition and many angry phone calls. In Washington, this is what passes for regularly scheduled programming.”
Two TVs in my house. One is on cable and one has rabbit-ears. I thought about what to do with the second. Since I’m only watching the 6 PM local news and did watch a few football games since the election, I decided to let the second one go dark. I’ll basically not notice any difference and can watch the 10 PM local news if I want to catch a local news program.
Meanwhile, all the local Peoria stations, except for the ABC affiliate, switched to digital on the 17th. I, in the past, would switch between the ABC and NBC broadcasts during the 6 PM news. Now, of course, it is just the ABC news.
However, out of curiosity, last evening (the 19th) I switched to NBC during a commercial. NBC is broadcasting in analog a commercial about the switch having been made and what the viewer needs to do to be able to watch the NBC station. Why not just continue to broadcast the news? We haven’t heard all of this before?
Again, out of curiosity, I then checked out the Fox station. They were broadcasting a similar commercial except in Spanish. (Anyway, it sounded Spanish to me and I lived in Tucson for a number of years.) Checking the CBS affiliate, the airwave was dark. CBS seems to have just cut the signal not caring to educate us on how to successfully receive the signal necessary to watch CBS programming. How uncaring? I didn’t bother to check PBS and can’t receive any other channels from that particular TV.
Anyway, it seems that I have until June 12, at the least, to continue watching ABC local news at 6 PM. Then, it should be (?) in the dark for that TV. Too bad, too sad!
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” Galatians 6: 7-8 (NIV)
Boycott all PepsiCo products—www.boycottpepsico.com
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