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To: abb

What's next? Will the networks demand that the "On/Off" switch be disabled so they can force feed their crap to us?


4 posted on 07/06/2006 6:10:59 AM PDT by TommyDale (Stop the Nifongery!)
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To: TommyDale
What's next? Will the networks demand that the "On/Off" switch be disabled so they can force feed their crap to us?

If they could find a way to implement it without the resulting furor - yes.
10 posted on 07/06/2006 6:15:09 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Man was made in the image of God, not pond scum)
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Hah! And after that, they'll create the barcolounger automatic seatbelt that locks shut when you sit down, and won't unfasten during commercials, no doubt!


13 posted on 07/06/2006 6:22:16 AM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: TommyDale

Nope, next they will disable the channel changer buttons so we can't channel-surf during commercials.


14 posted on 07/06/2006 6:26:12 AM PDT by JRios1968 (There's 3 kinds of people in this world...those who know math and those who don't.)
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To: TommyDale
What's next? Will the networks demand that the "On/Off" switch be disabled so they can force feed their crap to us?

Not at first. At first they will disable the channel changer. THEN they'll go for the On/Off button.
21 posted on 07/06/2006 6:30:45 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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Read Stephen Kings "The Running Man." (The short story he wrote as Richard Bachman -- no the Schwarzenegger movie.) He predicted the "FreeVee Mandatory Consumption/Benefit Law" that required people to have a TV running, 24 hours a day. That way, the populace stayed inside, pacified and narcotized.


54 posted on 07/06/2006 7:14:44 AM PDT by Malacoda (The Posting Police need an enema.)
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To: TommyDale
What's next? Will the networks demand that the "On/Off" switch be disabled so they can force feed their crap to us?

Been there, done that in Orwell's 1984. Certain rather horrible scenes from Clockwork Orange also come to mind.

77 posted on 09/07/2006 10:56:10 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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