Conspiracy or Not?

Yeah but it still wasn't fun having to be forced to changed. It's like monopolizing on the system.

No one forced anyone to dump their 8-tracks. You don't have to switch to Blu-Ray if you don't want to. You didn't have to buy a car and put your horse out to pasture, and you can still churn your own butter and not buy it at a grocery. You can still sew all your own clothes and not step a foot into a clothing store for the rest of your life! And you can still send a hand written letter via United States Postal Service instead of sending it via that new-fangle Email computer thingy and you can still actually TALK on a telephone instead of typing a conversation out in shortened words onto a tiny keypad. You can still play a game on a board with pieces, markers, cards and other little objects and win victories in stead of holding some little contraption in your hand and press buttons with your thumbs and saying "I'm on level 31!" You can still bake your own pies and tell Sara Lee to you no longer want to business with her. You can still sit and read a book with paper pages to turn instead of an electronic hand held device that just has you scroll your finger down the illuminated page and touch the - to go to the next worded screen. And you can still put the phone to your ear to talk on the telephone instead of sticking a contraptiion into your ear and have it hanging out your ear by a cord. And you can still grill your own hamburgers at home and dethrone Mr. Burger King.....no one makes you do anything you don't want to do... they may offer you alot of choices, but you make your own decisions.

Yeah, but if I did keep my 8 track which I didn't do. It would cost me more time and money just finding someone smart enough or at least winning to fix it for me as my old 8 track player stopped working one day and just started eating up my 8 track tapes. Yes the decision and choice is ultimately up to me or whoever makes the choices. But what I'm referring to are the folks that are stubborn or just don't want to have to deal with the change. Prime example. During the month of January, our Pastor asked the church to fast and pray for 25 days, to not eat sugary products, no meats and no cheese. My family and I made the decision to honor his request. Do you know I've had an enormous amount of energy lately, and that I'm not sluggish any more? It is really amazing to see, me actually enjoy a meal without desiring or having to have meat every single time. Now that the fast is over, we as a family decided to continue eating in this way. We do eat meat occasionally now, I still eat cheese and have desserts, but it is no where near as much intake of that type of food as previously. I feel so much better. I was even able to give up coffee, which was such a pain in the butt for me as I would drink 2 to 5 cups per day.

The switch date depends on your local stations. The government approved and extension until June because about 6 million people still aren't ready for it. However while the stations can now wait to June whereas before they were mandated to switch by Feb 17, they don't have to wait to switch. All of my local stations are making the switch Feb 17 except for the local public broadcasting station which is waiting until June.

6 million people are a lot, within only a few months away? Seems like everyone won't be able to make the switch before the extended deadline. They were already having trouble giving away the government cards to get the discount on the HDTV boxes........

It's a wonder if we are UNITED after all.

Thanks for the correct political terminology. I wasn't expecting a response such as yours, and I do believe that the folks that already responded to this post, knew exactly what I meant by writing it the way that I did. Yes I do realize it is digital television, but I wrote the discussion about the switch to HDTV's verses keeping our already purchased (analog) television sets that we have. Thank you for your contribution though.

Thanks for the input.

Wow, thanks for the history lessons, I learned something today.