[opendtv] Re: CEA: TV Chs Worth More As Broadband
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:22:12 -0500
Craig Birkmaier posted:
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/mobile/newsletter/article.php?id=36685&type=am&date=20091026
Sorry, Craig, but I can't tell you how umimpressed I am with these self-serving
analyses.
First, what this country really needs is more spectrum to create even more
hand-held-device addicts than we have now. Just yesterday, I saw the car next
to me come to within inches of the car in front, at a stoplight? Why? The idiot
in the car was texting. Yes, we need more of that.
Secondly, we could do that same sort of irrelevant cost analysis on all sorts
of things.
I already gave you the national parks example. Imagine how much they would be
worth, if they weren't wasted on just a few visitors paying a pittance for
admittance. Ditto with public beaches, local parks, etc.
Or what about public roads? Imagine how much more we could get from them if
they were given to private companies and operated as toll roads.
Hell, why don't we gut the existing zoning laws, to allow more dense housing to
be built? Imagine how lucrative all this inefficiently-used land could become.
I could go on and on. To see greedy b____ds licking their chops over what they
consider underutilized spectrum that was assigned to others is, in a word,
unbecoming.
Bert
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