{"id":441,"date":"2009-01-16T07:41:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T07:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2009-01-16T07:41:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T07:41:19","slug":"policy_dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Policy Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI know the about-to-be-President is on the other side of this from me, and he&#8217;s WRONG, and I will tell you why: you could put off the digital TV switchover for FIFTY YEARS and at the end of it you would still have people complaining that they&#8217;re not ready to make the move yet.  I have heard something about this literally at every commercial break on channel 11 here in the Bay Area for well over a year now.  A media that drops the ball on nearly every news item of significance has covered the upcoming digital transition as if it were man landing on the planet Mars in a spaceship made out of diamonds and breasts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nYes, there are <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">end users<\/span> consumers out there who somehow, some way, have not yet figured out that the magic talky box will stop working in the middle of February.  The correct answer is <em>screw &#8217;em.  <\/em>The dogs bark, but the caravan proceeds.  If you allow your technology to be dictated by the least among your user base, you will get HOSED.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo yeah, I officially have a difference with the administration.  Looky there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know the about-to-be-President is on the other side of this from me, and he&#8217;s WRONG, and I will tell you why: you could put off the digital TV switchover for FIFTY YEARS and at the end of it you would still have people complaining that they&#8217;re not ready to make the move yet. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Policy Dispute&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}