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25 Dec 2011, 8:25 pm

But the driver did not deliberately damage the television but rather risked damaging it. Politicians on the other hand deliberately destroy high definition televisions because they think its a luxury that the poor are not entitled to.



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26 Dec 2011, 1:58 am

androbot2084 wrote:
But the driver did not deliberately damage the television but rather risked damaging it. Politicians on the other hand deliberately destroy high definition televisions because they think its a luxury that the poor are not entitled to.



I would agree it's not deliberate if he didn't know it was fragile and it can break if he threw it like that. But if he full well knew it can break because it's fragile and not something you just toss on the ground and he did it anyway because he didn't care, deliberate. However if the package fell out of his hands as he was carrying it and it broke, not deliberate. If he had been handling it fine and was very careful with it and it still broke, not deliberate.



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26 Dec 2011, 2:35 am

At least with a delivery driver your HDTV still has a chance of working even if it is tossed. But conservative politicians love to write laws that guarantee that your HDTV will not work.



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26 Dec 2011, 8:20 pm

androbot2084 wrote:
The intention of a digital tuner is to give people free access to over the air high definition television broadcasting. Millions of high definition televisions were sold without digital tuners before the government required these devices to be installed in every television. Yet the government insisted on crippling the digital tuner set top boxes so they would not be able to output a 480p, 720p or a 1080i signal rendering an older high definition television useless for receiving a high definition or a standard definition signal but rather only a low definition interlace 480i signal was allowed.


well, i'm no fan of "that man" [and his privileged ilk] in anycase, and this just puts the cherry on top.