Improve Television

Cable and Satellite companies need to adopt a new way for their consumers. They could eliminate bandwidth problems in the process. Here's an example of how they could do that using technology that is already in their boxes.

Keep the same model currently in use and offer to charge consumers by the minute of watching. Before you groan, read the entire idea and think about it. Right now, I have 80 channels available to me and I NEVER watch shopping or foreign language channels. It's wasted bandwidth offering those to me.

Here's my idea: Offer all available channels and let consumers decide what they want. Charge them by the minute watched, with premium channels costing more. The networks are being paid by advertisers and consumers who want to skip those ads could also pay a little more. Channels that nobody seems to watch could be discounted and possibly more people would watch them at a reduced rate. Being charged by the minute would also improve parental supervision. Parents could program their TV to not broadcast shows they didn't want their children to have access to while they aren't around. Each person in a household could have their own pin number and you could have an itemized bill that shows how much time was spent watching channels and individual shows.

Consumers should have choices, they could continue the way things are set up right now, or take a chance on reducing their bill or maybe multiplying it by paying by the minute. It should be up to consumers, not what is dictated to them by their provider.

Oh? You're Offended??

Political Correctness is a bunch of horseshit. There are things seen everyday that offend me too. I'm a straight, white male American. You don't hear me bitching about gay pride, Mexican mafia, girl scouts or anything else that doesn't pander to my demographic.

Yep, I'm white. That doesn't mean that I fly Nazi. Isreali or Confederate flags. It doesn't mean that I'm intolerant of others, nor does it mean that I wear a white sheet. Hatred of others is a waste of time and effort that could be spent improving lives around us.

The American flag represents us all. Skin color doesn't matter, religious beliefs don't matter or even sexual preferences don't matter. We are a nation of diverse people who mostly originated somewhere else. Our flag stands for all of us banding together to be brothers and sisters with freedoms to disagree with one another.

If you are offended by my American flag, I suggest that you either grow a pair of balls or go back to wherever you originated. You're free to whine about it if you want but you cannot dictate whether I can be free to have an opinion. Too many people died to give me that right. If you don't like it...Fuck you, get over it!