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Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't TV stations still allowed to cut off their analog transmissions whenever they want? I thought the mandate just FORCED them to stop their analog transmissions, but they were allowed to stop transmitting analog signals whenever they wanted. I figure that since many TV stations were ready for it, (a few local stations here were planning to shut it off on the 10th) they might still go ahead with it. Maybe, maybe not.

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Why does Jack Thompson hate the First Amendment so much?

Although, he doesn't seem to mind it when he's busy bashing video games. But somebody else writes a story about him and his desire to be on TV, and he sues them for libel.

I agree! I unsubscribed long ago when I found out they didn't support Betamax. Shame on them for not supporting dead formats!

lol, no one rides the Rail Runner really. It's dead empty most of the time. The only time you hear about it is when it hits a car.

I can't ever see this tax being passed. It's stupid, our state's attempts to get kids more active will just involve an ad campaign on TV or something. Oh well, it's 1%, it doesn't really matter.

I agree with that. The only way we'll get them to stop, though, is if people stop buying Gold subscriptions until we get an improvement. As long as people keep buying, they can complain as much as they want, and Microsoft won't care. They have your money, and that's all that matters.

This is absolutely stupid. There's already parental settings that prohibit M-rated content from being played on the console. If parents are too stupid to know how to set it up, that's their problem, not everybody else's. Why should everybody else be forced to follow these guidelines, even if the parents decide their kids are old enough to play mature games? Not to mention the 17-year-olds, who, according to the ESRB, are old enough to play M-rated games, but according to Microsoft, aren't. Also, Xbox Live isn't intellegent enough to figure out when someone turns 18 and convert their account to an adult account, so even some people who are over 18 are left out of this. But the real issue is that Microsoft isn't giving their consumers or their parents choice.

If it really is the ESRB doing this, then they have stepped past the line. I mean, sure, it's a small step, but this will continue. Soon, the game-hating politicians will join in the fun, and start banning games and making it illegal for anyone under age 18 to play M-rated games. It sounds far-fetched, but it's the direction we're headed in. If people continue to blow this off and say it's no big deal, it'll just get worse and worse until we have no control over what we're allowed to play or watch.

A hunter.

Hope I win!

Brutes, definitely. One swipe of their fist and I'd be gone.