Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Default User wrote:
c.
> >
> > If digital is so much better, the government would not need to
> > mandate it. It would happen. Just as power steering and brakes
> > have pretty much supplanted manual.
>
> Only if the federal government had a department in charge of the
> allocation of a limited supply of hydraulic fluid, as it does the
> radio frequency bands. On my planet, they don't.

Which is why it was a lousy analogy. Glad you agree.

Once again, it's nothing to do with providing superior technology to
the unwashed masses. It's about chopping up the spectrum and using it
for other purposes.





Brian

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