Why are we going backwards ? MPs cut BBC

We had a wired world until 1903 and now we are going backwards so that we can be slaves to companies for fees and surveillance for nosy security forces to have infinite and indefinite busy work. The BBC and any future US cuts should be seen that way.

The BBC has confirmed plans to close five of its 32 World Service language services.

Staff have been informed that up to 650 jobs will be lost from a workforce of 2,400 over the next three years.

The Macedonian, Albanian and Serbian services will be axed, as will English for the Caribbean and Portuguese for Africa, in a bid to save £46m a year.

The BBC estimates audiences will fall by more than 30 million, from 180 million to 150 million a week.

Internet radio is wired and it doesn't work that well to begin with when you really look at it. In 1993 the reason I was chosen as a Teaching Assistant at Trinity College was that I wrote a hypertext app for the Mac that was an interface to listen to radio over the internet. The professor tried to get investors but they declined citing a lack of infrastructure.

The service, which started broadcasting in 1932, currently costs £272m a year and has an audience of 241 million worldwide across radio, television and online... Instead there will be more focus on online, mobile and TV content distribution in these languages.

There still isn't any infrastructure compared to point to point wireless. Anyone thinking the internet will be there in an emergency is clueless. Did your cell, your local police and fire trunk radio system or the internet work nicely after 9/11 ? Or Katrina ? They were all stepping on each other and out of bandwidth and switches.

There's a reason brilliant men like Tesla and Marconi went wireless. They were brilliant. They knew the telegraph was limited. The telegraph lines could be broken or a solar storm could wreck havoc with no recourse to other frequencies because it sent was over a wire. The telegraph could be tied up when an operator fell asleep at his key or left the circuit connected. Today's politicians can't even read what they sign into law.

Internet radio is what you use for an hour here or there. Yet you're being steered to it as surely as they sought to make you use NTP for the time (even as there are no household NTP clocks) by "studying" away WWV and WWVB.

There are too many internet radio standards. Even WTIC-FM uses MP3 while WTIC-AM, as far as I know, now requires Realplayer, Winamp or the browser based player. The latter now goes to sleep in an absurd bandwidth neurosis if you don't interact and / or have it as the topmost browser window ! The on air ads aren't enough for the handlers. We can be sure Clear Channel is now demanding that you keep the player up so that you see the screen ads besides ! Thus, they're hitting on the internet listener even more than the radio listener.

Internet radio as touted by the ax swingers at the BBC is all well and good when you're in front of your computer on the fringes of stations or listening to an AM, FM or shortwave station out of its coverage area. Are you really going to put an internet radio in your kitchen or crank the volume up on your stereo ? How about the bathroom ?

Therefore the next goal is to sell you a standard-less piece of plastic that'll be as without a future as the last decade's still perfectly useful DVD player soon enough.

Internet radio is, in the end, a gimmick to get you to buy different gadgets that'll be defunct in a decade and indeed are from when they ship. A review of the manuals of the Grace Digital, Sangean, Cobra, and Logitech receivers (all their current models and some in stores yet) show that there is no way to enter a URL !

What there is however, is the need to use Pandora to create a station or Reciva. You become a slave to an intermediary.

Can you say drug pushers ?

They're going to hook you then charge you and if you don't, they'll thank you for the donation to their handlers when you bought your now useless radio. Ever notice that 95 percent of the internet radios don't have an over the air tuner ? If they do have a tuner it's a cripple ware FM tuner. They don't want you having an out when they eventually try to charge you.

That's what they've done with Hulu, by now restricting most of the seasons that were free for two years are on Hulu Plus. Even then they were funded by ads. Don't be fooled. The ads covered their severs just fine or they wouldn't have created Hulu. Now they want you to pay for ads like the old MTV bait and switch when ads were put into the rotation. The shows on Hulu were transmitted over the air for free to you when new. Now all those devices that have Hulu embedded are no more than a hook, or so they hope. And once Pandora is secure financially and with a broad listener base they'll give you 5 minutes of songs free a month.

Do you think Pandora in your car will be cute ? Fee. Ipod radio app ? Fee. They're not free ! You're paying for service ! Fees are more slavery shifting the burden onto you so that money from transmitter and staff maintenance can be shifted to the listener. That means more money for Congress and the House of Commons to pee into the wind. After that, they'll hold hearings to ask why no one is listening to radio (as if they didn't know), in a standardized dance that started with plummeting CD and DVD sales.

In the long run the nefarious goal is to restrict your access to information and channel what you do get through their hired guns communications cable taps, splice rooms at Verizon, AT and T and satellite stations. They want to add what you're listening to and watching to the John Poindexter TIA database that doesn't exist because they renamed it, to add to what medicines you take and all the rest.

A new law that went into effect Jan. 1 requires people to show their driver's license or another type of identification before a pharmacist can dispense prescriptions ranging from addictive opiates to some medicines for diarrhea. Their purchases will be recorded in a massive database that will include their names, addresses, and the kinds and amount of pills they take.

(Go watch and prosecute a drug addict doctor like the one that nearly murdered me for a change instead of giving them medical board probation so they can then go and rape female patients.)

So do you like wires now ? Wireless internet and internet radio isn't, not even in your car. You're chained to an IP network. You're chained to a very nearby cell site or router.

It's as false a paradigm as the replacement of the Roman Empire with Globalism. Was not Rome global ? Rome wasn't making these stooges' ancestors wealthy, though. So it was replaced with a 1550 year process to install each other as world "leaders". In the course of this misadventure, it earns politicians and bureaucrats millions individually and trillions in aggregate in their careers as pusher stooges for industry. They are shown some whiz bang Technicolor plastic toy and tell their staff to develop their end to profit from it.

Buy an HD radio. It's fee free. It tells you the song name. As I look around there is a clear push for internet radio in cars too now; that's just to hook you forever. HD radio is a CD quality "secret".

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