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If the red ship landed in Montana, the pointyears people would be indefinitely detained as a threat to Homeland Security and we'd just invade Japan if they had anything as cool as Protoculture.
Though the thought of Veritechs hunting down Al Queida is an amusing one.
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Truly one of your country's most accoladed TV-captains, with a moustache reaching a Stalinial, almost Grouchoian levels.
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Hasn't anyone ever considered changing the law over there so that the networks have to give equal coverage to both parties, or something crazy like that?
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Liam, it'd take a Constitutional ammendment to give the government the authority to tell the networks to do ANYTHING. Constitutional ammendments are a pain in the ass to pass. Mind you, the Constitution's limits on the government's power aren't enforced ANYWAY, but...
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: Liam, it'd take a Constitutional ammendment to give the government the authority to tell the networks to do ANYTHING. Constitutional ammendments are a pain in the ass to pass. Mind you, the Constitution's limits on the government's power aren't enforced ANYWAY, but...
But the networks are already told not to show hard core pornography during the middle of the day. How's that different?
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They only don't run porno during the day because they know that around 30 million people would sue them if they did. Lose that threat, and that's all that they'd show. Face it, it would bring in numbers.
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-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: Liam, it'd take a Constitutional ammendment to give the government the authority to tell the networks to do ANYTHING. Constitutional ammendments are a pain in the ass to pass. Mind you, the Constitution's limits on the government's power aren't enforced ANYWAY, but...
But the networks are already told not to show hard core pornography during the middle of the day. How's that different?
Because hard core pornography is entertaining. And there seem to be unwritten laws making daytime T.V. anything except entertaining.
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The Supreme Court has upheld the idea that the FCC can fine a TV/radio station all they like for anything they define as "obscene". I'm not sure what part of the constitution is supposed to grant that right. Interstate commerce, possibly?
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