[PLUG-TALK] Dead Analog TV Riot Day February 17, 2009

[Alan]

On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 12:20 -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Just a reminder - February 17, 2009 is Dead Analog TV Riot Day,
> when the least intelligent of our fellow citizens become aware
> that their old-style boob tubes aren't working anymore, and
> their conversion boxes (if they were aware enough to buy one)
> don't work or are too complicated.  Color me elitist, but I
> assume these same mentally-challenged folk believe that
> rioting is a problem-solving technique.  I have visions of
> helicopter videos from that evening, showing looters climbing
> out of broken store windows carrying stolen analog TV sets!
> 
> Since Advanced Topics is scheduled for February 18 at Jax, in
> the room with the large-screen TV, we should talk with Barb
> to make sure that Jax has a functional converter box so that
> the TV will keep working on the 17th.  While I would rather 
> the damned idiot box go away entirely, I would hate to see
> our favorite meeting space get burned down by enraged and
> inebriated sports fans the day before we want to use it.

They are on either cable or satellite service so they are not affected.

> 
> I expect there will a similar reaction on the eventual dead
> IPV4 day, when the same fools riot because their favorite
> porn sites are inaccessable without converting to IPV6. 
> A.K.A. "Boobs Without Boobs" Day.  Dead Analog TV Riot Day
> will be good practice.

I expect most of them will just split the difference and use IPv5.