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New Fee For Internet-Capable PCs In Germany
An anonymous reader writes "German online news sites heise.de and spiegel.de has stories, that from April 2005 on a fee of about 17 to 18 EUR per month must be paid to the national broadcasters in Germany for personal computers in private households, which have possible access to the internet. The fee must not be paid, if it is already paid for a TV set. Companies are said to be obliged to pay that fee from 2007 on." Those who don't read German should make use of the Fish.
Sarcasm is *really funny*. It definitely *doesn't* make you sound like a 3-year-old.
Anyway, nobody's forcing you to watch TV. If you don't like Fox News, don't watch it! I don't really like the BBC. Why should I pay for it if I want to watch anime on my big TV? Hmmmmm?
My other car is first.
The BBC is very biased: it's a very pro-arab and leftist news agency.
Just because it's biased the way YOU like it, does not make it good.
Sigged!
The problem is that politics is radicalizing towards the right after the collapse of the soviet union.
It is frankly rich to call the BBC pro-arab when the only think they do is to show the situation of human despair that is the brutal occupation of Palestine.
Just as a token, the BBC is showing tonight a programm called "Jewish Law" that presents the problems and tribulations that the Jewish community faces in Britain when trying to adhere to their religious beliefs. Educational, touching, informative and unbiased.
It is not the fault of the BBC that Israel is lead by a bunch of murderous paranoids, they have to report the facts as they happen in the ground and surely Israel can't come in any way well out of objective journalism relating their occupation.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Except it is under $20 US (£10) a month, and that's only because the exchange rate is bad for you Americans - before Bush came into power that would have been $14 a month for you.
I should think that a leftist would have good advice for that kind of thing. What are the lies of the Left? Hitler's an effective leader; Stalin's a nice old guy; socialism is not communism; socialism works; the economy is a zero-sum game; mass-murder of humans is no big deal, but it's wrong to use animals; it's wrong to execute those who rape and murder children--and those are only just a few. Note that most of those are still being bandied about today.
We got that in America... kinda... try not paying the federal government's share of the NPR/PBS "allotment" in your federal taxes. You'll end up in prison.
Yes, the elite effetes need to be subsidized so they can listen to that bane of comedy Garrison Keillor, driving their Volvo's, sporting their Birkenstocks and sipping their lattes.
The US pays for 90% of it's roads with user fees you twit. Just like BBC, the Guardian, et. al you limey fucks spout off urban legends, assumptions, and other BS and try to pass it off as fact. This must be why you have the worst journalistic standards in the free world.
Besides as so many people in the US drive, drivers can hardly be said to be subsidized. More like the other way around.