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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 20th, 2009 @ 7:08pm

   
   

   NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ... please ... let me keep my booze

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 20th, 2009 @ 7:38pm

   
   

   I wonder what tv show he was missing.
   NASCAR ? or maybe it was Hee Haw.

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   Copywrite ???!!

   

   Simon, Feb 20th, 2009 @ 8:07pm

   
   

   (Copywrite 2009 NBC. All rights reserved.)

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   LOL

   

   bob, Feb 20th, 2009 @ 8:11pm

   
   

   LOL

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   Drugs or Weapons, pick one.

   

   Michael, Feb 20th, 2009 @ 10:37pm

   
   

   Clearly he should not have weapons and drugs at the same time. He should pick one, and lock the other away. Behind a puzzle lock for the guns, and the drugs behind a lock that requires some key component of the guns.

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   ass

   

   jeff, Feb 21st, 2009 @ 4:39am

   
   

   what an asshole. he should have shot himself. I hate people that get technology.

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   Azrael, Feb 21st, 2009 @ 5:51am

   
   

   I think it would be better to outlaw the rednecks. Unfortunately it will never happen, you can't outlaw 90% of the population of a country.

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   Gen. Lee, Feb 21st, 2009 @ 6:21am

   
   

   Gawd what a snot you are. When you're effin' hybrid-green-no-polluting-piece-of-sh*t-Jap-made car breaks down, who the f*ck do you think will fix your POS? Ward Churchill? Paul Krugman? Barack Obama?
   
   Long live rednecks!

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 21st, 2009 @ 7:18am

   
   

   90% ?
   I doubt it.
   It may seem that way, because they tend to be loud and obnoxious.

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 21st, 2009 @ 9:08am

    
    

    "Gawd what a snot you are. When you're effin' hybrid-green-no-polluting-piece-of-sh*t-Jap-made car breaks down"
    
    Obviously a redneck statement. When was the last time a jap car broke down?
    
    Ohh, you must be referring to the jap cars the build right here in the South.
    
    I gotcha now. Sorry

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 21st, 2009 @ 9:51am

    
    

    I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this was probably not the first time the cops were out to this guys house. So if it wasn't the DTV switch, it would have been something else. The thing is he had a converter box, he was either too drunk or retarded to figure it out....snd its not rocket science.

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 21st, 2009 @ 11:24am

    
    

    Nope... it was Sopranos.

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    Wrong Victim

    

    Chuck Norris' Enemy (deceased), Feb 21st, 2009 @ 1:05pm

    
    

    Why didn't he shoot the converter box? The real cause of his problems. Oh yeah, drunk.

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 21st, 2009 @ 3:19pm

    
    

    Should have smoked ganja instead, don't need a converter box - just get high and watch the static. I like to estimate whether the black or white dots are winning

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    DTV Better Pic-same old s**t

    

    Frogpond, Feb 21st, 2009 @ 4:44pm

    
    

    We are lucky that he did not get it to work. If he had, he might have been so disappointed he would have shot up the whole town.

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    Why is the transition to DTV planned all at once???

    

    Joe K (profile), Feb 21st, 2009 @ 4:57pm

    
    

    It would a lot more sense to turn off analog transmission in steps in stead of all at once. Some people in the country can get a fuzzy but usable signal, but will not be able to tune in digital.
    
    They should at least leave one analog channel running for a while for emergency/weather broadcasts for all of those portable emergency TV+radios. My guess is that they are in a hurry to make money from selling all of the new bandwidth.

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    Re: Why is the transition to DTV planned all at once???

    

    Anonymous Coward, Feb 21st, 2009 @ 7:49pm

    
    

    The bandwidth was already sold; companies who bought/invested in it are the losers here because services are not being rolled out which they intend to recover spectrum costs with.

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 22nd, 2009 @ 12:51pm

    
    

    so who fuck died and made you queen ?

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    TV IS NOT A F***ING RIGHT!

    

    Anonymous Coward, Feb 22nd, 2009 @ 5:43pm

    
    

    I'm tired of reading these articles about people that aren't ready for the digital switch ... Who gives a flying f***!? if they aren't ready, they lose out! Since when is TV a right in this country!? Get off your asses and get an effing box or pay for cable! douchebags!

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    Imee, Feb 23rd, 2009 @ 3:07am

    
    

    I heard of that guy who shot his TV. Perhaps he was trying to imitate Elvis? Then again, the man was drunk. Haha.

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    DS, Feb 23rd, 2009 @ 5:30am

    
    

    The problem was is that the guy ended up buying a Sony Stupid Piece of Shit Box.

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    Re: TV IS NOT A F***ING RIGHT!

    

    Anonymous Coward, Feb 23rd, 2009 @ 7:42am

    
    

    Good call. Quit moaning America.
    
    In the UK, we have to pay a license fee to have a TV as it is supposedly a public service. How much of that is being given back to folks to buy digital equipment? Yup, none.

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    Tech Support

    

    kirillian (profile), Feb 23rd, 2009 @ 8:40am

    
    

    I'm just seeing the tech support call right now.
    
    Tech Support: "Hello, how can I help you today?"
    Guy: "What the F*** @#!$!@#$%%^$%^ is up with my @#$@#!$ tv?!?!?"
    Tech Support: "What seems to be the trouble..."
    Guy: "It doesn't work."
    ...
    Tech Support: "You shot a HOLE in your TV?!?!? I'm sorry sir, but we can't support damaged equipment. You're gonna need to buy a new one."
    - 'Click'

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    Better reporting, please.

    

    CW, Feb 23rd, 2009 @ 10:39am

    
    

    You would think a tech website would put forth at least a smidgen of effort to figure out what's wrong with this statement in the linked article:
    
    "The 70 year old homeowner was angry that he had lost his cable, and was unable to get his new DTV converter to work properly."
    
    As it turns out, the dude's cable just got shut off.
    
    Original story: http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_049234843.html

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    Re: Better reporting, please.

    

    Another AC, Feb 23rd, 2009 @ 12:18pm

    
    

    Umm yeah, maybe you should read a little closer? His cable got shut off so he had a DTV coverter which wouldn't work. This was reported just fine.

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    dtv conversion

    

    anita tyndall, Feb 23rd, 2009 @ 2:13pm

    
    

    I hate it. My favorie thing to watch on digital TV seems to be SCAN. I get some channels at night, lose them during the day; and have to rescan at night.
    
    Also, have to constantly play with the antenna. It's in a good spot then 30-hr later, I lose the signal. When I check signal strength it is between 78-85%, but the channels are constantly going in and out...sounds like I'm watching a DJ making a record skip.
    
    If I knew all this, I would have saved the money I spent on convertor boxes and antennas and bought a digital ready TV.

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    dtv conversion

    

    I hate it..., Feb 23rd, 2009 @ 2:15pm

    
    

    I hate it. My favorie thing to watch on digital TV seems to be SCAN. I get some channels at night, lose them during the day; and have to rescan at night.
    
    Also, have to constantly play with the antenna. It's in a good spot then 30-hr later, I lose the signal. When I check signal strength it is between 78-85%, but the channels are constantly going in and out...sounds like I'm watching a DJ making a record skip.
    
    If I knew all this, I would have saved the money I spent on convertor boxes and antennas and bought a digital ready TV.

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