The problem with this argument is that it doesn't take into account how the non-public funded channels get their money. Most of them receive most of their money through advertising revenue, and the advertisers pay for their slots by increasing their prices. The net result is that if you buy pretty much anything you are contributing some small amount to the income of the TV channels that show adverts. This is also government enforced and as hard to avoid as the TV licence. In some ways it's even less fair as everyone pays it, not just those who have a TV.
The main problem the BBC has is that it's honest about how it gets its money rather than trying to hide it and thus takes a PR hit.
Why do people think that it is difficult to get a conviction? The sources that I can find suggest that conviction rates are about 97/98% in magistrates courts and around 90% in crown courts. That doesn't really suggest that there are problems getting convictions.ref 1ref 2
I'm not sure I agree with you about ChessBase, Hiarcs having no equal in free software (Bookup I would agree with). I used to use a Chessbase/Fritz combination until Chessbase refused to continue unless I inserted the CD. I'm not the tidyest of people so after about half-an-hour of searching I thought "sod it" and switched to SCID/Crafty, and to be honest I haven't really regretted it. It isn't quite as good but it does everything I need, if not everything I want.
I live in the UK. I think we can safely assume that any laws which allow the US government to read US citizens email, invade their privacy online etc will also apply to citizens of other countries. Is there any realistic way I can try to do anything about this? Or do I just use crypto on anything I want kept private?
I use this as my router/firewall. I paid about 45GBP for an old pentium + 6GBP for a second network card. Took about 15 minutes to set up, I've had it running about 6 months now and the only time it crashed was when the power went out.
I don't claim to be a management genius or even to have the first idea what I'm talking about, but surely a company thats just surviving on the generosity of another company, with no guarantees or anything should be looking to make cut-backs, save money and that kind of thing, not employing more people. I know it's the new economy but does that really mean that common sense doesn't apply?
So far as I am aware, evolution does not depend on RANDOM mutation, merely on variation. Mutations could occour in a completely predictable fashion and still allow evolution to take place. The only limiting factor on evolution is the variation within a species not how the variation is arrived at.
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The problem with this argument is that it doesn't take into account how the non-public funded channels get their money. Most of them receive most of their money through advertising revenue, and the advertisers pay for their slots by increasing their prices. The net result is that if you buy pretty much anything you are contributing some small amount to the income of the TV channels that show adverts. This is also government enforced and as hard to avoid as the TV licence. In some ways it's even less fair as everyone pays it, not just those who have a TV.
The main problem the BBC has is that it's honest about how it gets its money rather than trying to hide it and thus takes a PR hit.
Why do people think that it is difficult to get a conviction? The sources that I can find suggest that conviction rates are about 97/98% in magistrates courts and around 90% in crown courts. That doesn't really suggest that there are problems getting convictions.ref 1 ref 2
I'm not sure I agree with you about ChessBase, Hiarcs having no equal in free software (Bookup I would agree with). I used to use a Chessbase/Fritz combination until Chessbase refused to continue unless I inserted the CD. I'm not the tidyest of people so after about half-an-hour of searching I thought "sod it" and switched to SCID/Crafty, and to be honest I haven't really regretted it. It isn't quite as good but it does everything I need, if not everything I want.
I live in the UK. I think we can safely assume that any laws which allow the US government to read US citizens email, invade their privacy online etc will also apply to citizens of other countries. Is there any realistic way I can try to do anything about this? Or do I just use crypto on anything I want kept private?
I use this as my router/firewall. I paid about 45GBP for an old pentium + 6GBP for a second network card. Took about 15 minutes to set up, I've had it running about 6 months now and the only time it crashed was when the power went out.
This may be true for windows/mac, but does not work on linux boxes. Possibly due to lack of java support?
Why not? They paid for Iraq to re-arm for the Kuwaiti invasion after all.
I don't claim to be a management genius or even to have the first idea what I'm talking about, but surely a company thats just surviving on the generosity of another company, with no guarantees or anything should be looking to make cut-backs, save money and that kind of thing, not employing more people. I know it's the new economy but does that really mean that common sense doesn't apply?
So far as I am aware, evolution does not depend on RANDOM mutation, merely on variation. Mutations could occour in a completely predictable fashion and still allow evolution to take place. The only limiting factor on evolution is the variation within a species not how the variation is arrived at.