.

The words were an allusion to George Carlin's famouse, "seven words you can
never say on television" routine. *Since it was all over the news that he
died recently, I figured most people would have gotten the reference.


I didn't know he died. I don't watch much tv anymore or listen to the
broadcast
radio. And my isp's newslinks didn't mention it.

Why watch something you can't follow or hear what's going on?

Analog cable tv keeps breaking up into unwatchable unlistenable
blocks,
since the cable company picks everything up digitally now and
retransmits it
over the analog.

Other people at my house thought that effect is caused by poor cable
wiring in
our house and can be fixed by us replacing the cable with new.

Well, that won't and doesn't work. Analog cable doesn't break up into
blocks even with a poor signal.

So since it is, the problem is obvious (to me) on the cable company's
end.

They just can't pick up a watchable digital signal around here even
with their
very expensive antennas and equipment.

Other people with much better antennas than we ever had can't even
pick up
digital tv over the air from here. It keeps breaking up into blocks
and is totally
unlistenable when it does so.

So in about six months, no one around here will have any watchable tv
at all.

Satellite won't work from here either. Way too many trees for that.

So it's the end of tv period, in about six months.

Which will probably cause a huge backlash by the public.