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CALM Act passed, will quiet loud TV commercials within a year

goshddam motherfreakin intrusive gubment stickin its nose in my teevee
 
See, people are fine with BIG GOVERNMENT INTRUSION as long as it's dealing with something they personally don't like.
 
Deuce said:
See, people are fine with BIG GOVERNMENT INTRUSION as long as it's dealing with something they personally don't like.
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Not sure how this is "BIG GOVERNMENT INTRUSION," considering its an incredibly minor law that will have little impact on the day to day lives of the country.

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frankly i'm just glad that they are focusing on the Really Important things, and making sure they knock those out of the way; and ignoring those trivialities like the tax rates or having an operating budget.
 
cpwill said:
frankly i'm just glad that they are focusing on the Really Important things, and making sure they knock those out of the way; and ignoring those trivialities like the tax rates or having an operating budget.
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don't sweat the small stuff:mrgreen::2wave:
 
This is what Congress needs to spend it's time on, vice thinking that only the government can fix the economy.
 
Deuce said:
See, people are fine with BIG GOVERNMENT INTRUSION as long as it's dealing with something they personally don't like.
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Liberals like all that government intrusion. I could care less about TV commercials being loud, I am not a cry baby.

It seems to me that this problem could of been fixed via "petitioning", after all... all the TV channels want to please their watchers.

The democratic party loves to do the EASY stuff and not the most important business at hand. typical bureaucratic and empty BS.

Fix the ECONOMY, dummies!!!!
 
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Red Crow said:
Liberals like all that government intrusion. I could care less about TV commercials being loud, I am not a cry baby.

It seems to me that this problem could of been fixed via "petitioning", after all... all the TV channels want to please their watchers.

The democratic party loves to do the EASY stuff and not the most important business at hand. typical bureaucratic and empty BS.

Fix the ECONOMY, dummies!!!!
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The government is capable of working on more than one thing at a time.

This was probably written by interns.
 
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Probably.

Also, why do so many bills have to have these shoehorned acronyms?
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Because man I keep saying time and time again it is a bunch of assholes running the country.
 
Deuce said:
See, people are fine with BIG GOVERNMENT INTRUSION as long as it's dealing with something they personally don't like.
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I'm not fine with it. Call me paranoid, but the FCC will be enforcing this. The FCC had no power over TV content to my knowlege, (until now).
Remember laughing at Rockefeller for saying he would like the FCC to shut down Fox and MSNBC?
 
Barbbtx said:
I'm not fine with it. Call me paranoid, but the FCC will be enforcing this. The FCC had no power over TV content to my knowlege, (until now).
Remember laughing at Rockefeller for saying he would like the FCC to shut down Fox and MSNBC?
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The FCC can do this though. Here is an scenerio for you which I'm sure a lot of you have come by. Your watching The Godfather on AMC, it is a very quiet movie then all of a sudden BAM SHAM-WOW OH MY GOD DID I JUST SCARE THE **** OUT OF YOU?!

It's the same as subliminal advertising from companies, it's banned for a reason because in many ways, it is unhealthy, decibel levels to a certain point can be as well, and this is a trick advertisers use to get your attention, that can even have implications on your electronics.
 
Red Crow said:
Liberals like all that government intrusion. I could care less about TV commercials being loud, I am not a cry baby.

It seems to me that this problem could of been fixed via "petitioning", after all... all the TV channels want to please their watchers.

The democratic party loves to do the EASY stuff and not the most important business at hand. typical bureaucratic and empty BS.

Fix the ECONOMY, dummies!!!!
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Much rather see them doing this than pork barrel production.

This should be an easy fix. TV programs are able to change without the volume jumping up and down from show to show so don't see it being a major hardship for advertisers.

This is a no-brainer and no need for the mass hysteria opposing it.
 
This is the best news that I've ever heard!

Thanks for posting.
 
apdst said:
This is what Congress needs to spend it's time on, vice thinking that only the government can fix the economy.
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And yet, Republicans continue to insist that tax cuts = job growth = decrease in unemployment rate = increase in economic properity

Sounds to me like one side of the political spectrum believes government can fix just about anything...for the right price.
 
Barbbtx said:
I'm not fine with it. Call me paranoid, but the FCC will be enforcing this. The FCC had no power over TV content to my knowlege, (until now).
Remember laughing at Rockefeller for saying he would like the FCC to shut down Fox and MSNBC?
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There's no content being changed under this law; the government is just asking television stations and ad agencies to NOT intentionally increase the volumn on our television sets during commercial breaks. It's bad enough that they air 5, 6 7 commercials in a row between program segments, but do they have to assault my ears with every commercial break?

The only "attention" advertisers get by purposefully increasing the volumn is me turning my TV down or changing the channel. Either way, I ignore the commercials but only after my ears have been raped from them being so loud.
 
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