According to Mark Lloyd :
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 04:54:34 -0000, (Chris
Lewis) wrote:
According to mm :
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:12:48 -0000, (Chris
Lewis) wrote:
I still think they should make the manufacture and sale of slotted and
phillips screws a capital offence.
That would be like making digitial tv the standard, and non-digital
tv's dificult to use.
You did know that the US Congress was mandating digital-only TV
(I think) April 2009 didn't you?
That date keeps slipping, and can be expected to slip some more. It
was in 2006 once.
It looked like the April 2009 date was becoming much more solid
than previous efforts (as much as your government can ever be),
being brought up a few months from one of the two main proposals,
and scheduled specifically to avoid a basketball game.
The remaining sticking point is some sort of fund that US Congress
wants to form to subsidize digital-analog converters for those who
won't/can't upgrade their tvs by then. Most people don't think
the subsidy is high enough - the equipment doesn't exist yet.
Think of all the screwdrivers that would have to go on welfare.
Screwdriver smugglers.
There was an article here once called "my outlaw toilet". Maybe it's
hiding screwdrivers.
You'll not be getting your illegal screwdrivers from Canada this time,
unlike the organized toilet smuggling racket.
--
Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est
It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.