Here Comes V-Chip 2.0... But Is It Actually Needed?
from the why-mandated-by-law? dept
Jennifer DeLeo writes "Beginning on March 15, the FCC says it will require all new products with digital television receivers to incorporate parental control capabilities by way of a new "open" version of the V-chip that can be reprogrammed to adapt to changing standards. But studies have found that few actually take advantage of the chip's capabilities. To the CEA, which represents TV and other consumer-electronics manufacturers, the V-chip represents unnecessary governmental intervention." Why not just offer it as an option for parents who want it?
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http://www.BlowMeUpTOM.COM
(feminist groups: notice how I didn't even mention "tank-top", aka "wife-beater t-shirt")
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The terrorists have already won.
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Unless, of course, she is one of the bible thumping family oriented fakes that I so love to piss off by being the atheist arsehole at work in the bible belt here in "souf werst geiorja".
The V chip is a piece of crap that parents wouldn't need if they treated their homes the way they should... Being a parent is not like being a democratic leader. It is more like being a dictator. Parent says, child does. Nothing between. I hate to say it, but these parents that think that this touchy feely crap is helping their children are fooling themselves. Their children grow up to become the same spineless pieces of uneducated crap that I have to fight with to even come to work every day. Not to mention no work ethic ever. The only time they care is when you take their checks away by firing them.
It doesn't matter what I think... personal responsibility, ethics, proper home training, and the like are gone... replaced by complacency, apathy, and hopelessness.
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Proverbs 13:24 He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him."
Aka "spare the rod spoil the child"
And the same book that puts disobeying your parents on par with murder has a lot to say about being weak-willed pushover parents. Sure does...
But go on being the atheist arsehole, I absolutely love your worldview.
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There is an ever growing gap (ok, I'll accept that it's always been this way) between those that follow God's word and those that use God's word to further their own viewpoints, and for those that are used to experienced the latter, the former get lumped in the same category.
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You put more posts then anyone on this forum. Do you like to just listen to yourself speak?? I don't get it, I don't have the time in the day to type out as many replys as you give on a daily basis.
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DTV appears to be the catalyst
To me this issue goes beyond the V chip. With 90% of USA'ns getting TV signals from cable or satellite, why in the Hell must new TVs require the expense of an over-the-air tuner at all? No tuner, no need for a V chip, even less expense, which might benefit 90% of buyers. However, I suggest that no company would build them that way regardless.
What manufacturer would want theirs to be the only TVs without a built-in DTV tuner? None of course, which is why "HDTV-ready" TVs have been selling for two years or more that we now know will almost certainly not provide HDTV quality for copy-protected content. Marketing will generally trump the unit cost to add an already engineered feature to the latest version of a commodity gizmo, just as supply and demand and other market factors will trump manufacturing costs when setting the retail price for the gizmo. This is business 101.
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If we buy a DTV today that claims to support the V chip 2.0, but how can we verify it is indeed support V chip 2.0?
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