If satellite radio starts to go belly-up...then we have severely reduced options when the Fairness Doctrine is passed:
Clinton wants Fairness Doctrine Re-instated
Sirius could file for bankruptcy as early as next week..
My ultimate question--we know that China controls their internet content--can the Federal Government enact legislation to control our internet content? How would they do it? What gateways would they close? Is there a way around such actions if they were to occur?
I'm kinda scared now!
Yep...Commerce Clause. Wonderful tool to regulate wide swaths of stuff that Congress can't figure out any other way to control.
On the upside, the Administration would give us all free Little Red Books to occupy our time.
They're probably trying to get you all to stop listening to the Grateful Dead and ratdog and so on. That stuff leads you to vote conservative.
I don't miss it one bit since giving it up months ago. My G1 has a streaming internet radio player app that I use non-stop instead.
Oh and if you only use your XM/Sirius in the car, Blaupunkt will soon release an in-dash Internet Radio player. It's developed and ready to go, but I don't believe it's been released yet.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/bl...and-m.html
(02-14-2009 09:44 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote: [ -> ]Yep...Commerce Clause. Wonderful tool to regulate wide swaths of stuff that Congress can't figure out any other way to control.
On the upside, the Administration would give us all free Little Red Books to occupy our time.
The Five Year Plan of Chairman Barak.
It won't go away... if anything it will be bought up by someone else and kept after a major restructuring/cost reduction.
(02-14-2009 04:20 PM)mlb Wrote: [ -> ]It won't go away... if anything it will be bought up by someone else and kept after a major restructuring/cost reduction.
I do believe you are right on there.
There is a lot of talk of Dish Network or DirecTV buying it up and keeping it, but also setting up a mobile TV solution due to the ground based repeater stations that SiriusXM has now. It would certainly be an interesting solution.