Go have a drink before you read this. And be grateful that the six-pack of beer doesn’t have a clay pot attached that’s full of slowly fermenting barley mash.
Yet.
Music labels and radio broadcasters can’t agree on much, including whether radio should be forced to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars a year to pay for the music it plays. But the two sides can agree on this: Congress should mandate that FM radio receivers be built into cell phones, PDAs, and other portable electronics.
Via Penny Arcade, who responded more or less as you might expect.
Moe LanePS: For those scratching their heads: the key word here is ‘mandate.’
In other related news, the National Association of Typewriters (NAT) is attempting to force all notebook computer manufacturers to include a fully, functional typewriter into all of their products.