Well I DON'T use the poxy railway, so why should I subsidise your transport needs? Can't you walk? What's wrong with a bike? I've NEVER claimed unemployment benefit, so why should I pay for it? I didn't go to a state school, so why's MY pocket being picked for those that do?
You see, collective responsibility is the basis of our taxation-funded society. You can't just opt out because you're one of the luddite TV or radio or WWW refusniks. You don't use the BBC, that's your problem, the majority of us DO, and consider it a valuable national social resource.
Just as you should be forced to fund the state education system, old people's homes, subsidised railway, unemployment benefit, children's homes etc etc etc ad nauseam whether you use them or not, you mean?
The BBC is one of the more widely used public services in the UK.
In the real world of rich western democracies, where social security benefits mean none should starve, be illiterate or go homeless, VAT is just another regressive tax and special duties on cigarettes, gambling and alcohol are - in practice - super-regressive.
The poor are also those who CHOOSE to be poor, not only those that were born into poverty.
Really, our society is not a neatly stratified social trifle, it's a great big bowl of vomit with most of the nastiest lumps either sinking to the bottom or floating to the top. There's no, point talking about the social injustice of the TV licence when nearly all indirect taxation is similarly regressive, and levied at a whopping 17.5+% to boot. At least we can all see what we get for our TVL cash.
We don't export them - we eat all of ours and then import more from elsewhere. England is famous for apple cultivation and has HUNDREDS of varieties, inlcuding a multitude of great cider apples.
Who do you think started growing apples on a large scale in America? I grew up in the 'states, I know what passes for an apple over there. Believe me, you don't know what you're missing.
The best eaters IMO are Cox's, Egremenot Russet, Worcester and - possibly best of all - Tentation.
Washington state might be well known for it's apples in the US, but England is unsurpassed for apple variety and flavour. We do get some good NZ apples over here these days, mind you.
Golden Delicious for pies? Now THAT is a bland apple. Bramleys are the ONLY way to go for a pie, you Americans are supposed to be apple pie experts, aren't you?
All Macs are supplied with a Firewire cable, too. So us happy Mac users lose nothing, and those poor PC users can pick up FW400 cables nice and cheap now. I got a 6M one for £7 recently.
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Who said anything about wood?
TV a fad? No more a fad than the wheel.
The use of QuickTime does not imply ANY kind of compression, lossy or otherwise.
I use the QT lossless CODEC for my iTunes library these days, and it's good to know I might be able to decode those files outside of QT if necessary.
As opposed to the /. post-the-same-story-four-times-and-see-if-anyone-w ill-notice approach?
Oh come on, you KNOW I never got that second series!
It might be in a country where TV is nothing but advertainment, but that is emphatically NOT the case with the BBC.
I DO consider the BBC to be offering a VITAL national public service.
Well I DON'T use the poxy railway, so why should I subsidise your transport needs? Can't you walk? What's wrong with a bike? I've NEVER claimed unemployment benefit, so why should I pay for it? I didn't go to a state school, so why's MY pocket being picked for those that do?
You see, collective responsibility is the basis of our taxation-funded society. You can't just opt out because you're one of the luddite TV or radio or WWW refusniks. You don't use the BBC, that's your problem, the majority of us DO, and consider it a valuable national social resource.
Do you travel around in a horse-drawn trap as well?
I suppose you haven't seen the fottage of the 11th September 2001 attacks on the WTC in New York. You should get a TV, it's spectacular stuff!
If /. was a BBC website it would be significantly enhanced in both features and editorial responsibility.
Just as you should be forced to fund the state education system, old people's homes, subsidised railway, unemployment benefit, children's homes etc etc etc ad nauseam whether you use them or not, you mean?
The BBC is one of the more widely used public services in the UK.
No tax in the USA?
No sales tax?
No income tax?
No local income tax?
No import/export duties?
No wonder your government is so spectacularly in debt.
In the real world of rich western democracies, where social security benefits mean none should starve, be illiterate or go homeless, VAT is just another regressive tax and special duties on cigarettes, gambling and alcohol are - in practice - super-regressive.
The poor are also those who CHOOSE to be poor, not only those that were born into poverty.
Even 50% of not many is not many.
Really, our society is not a neatly stratified social trifle, it's a great big bowl of vomit with most of the nastiest lumps either sinking to the bottom or floating to the top. There's no, point talking about the social injustice of the TV licence when nearly all indirect taxation is similarly regressive, and levied at a whopping 17.5+% to boot. At least we can all see what we get for our TVL cash.
Go and have a look at the number of SKY dishes on your local housing estate, then try that one on again.
Social exclusion my arse, the TV Licence doesn't even compare to the amount of money the 'socially excluded' blow on fag booze and petrol taxes.
The BBC IS liberal, it is also quite conservative.
oh shut up
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it's really not that difficult
We don't export them - we eat all of ours and then import more from elsewhere. England is famous for apple cultivation and has HUNDREDS of varieties, inlcuding a multitude of great cider apples.
Who do you think started growing apples on a large scale in America? I grew up in the 'states, I know what passes for an apple over there. Believe me, you don't know what you're missing.
The best eaters IMO are Cox's, Egremenot Russet, Worcester and - possibly best of all - Tentation.
Washington state might be well known for it's apples in the US, but England is unsurpassed for apple variety and flavour. We do get some good NZ apples over here these days, mind you.
Golden Delicious for pies? Now THAT is a bland apple. Bramleys are the ONLY way to go for a pie, you Americans are supposed to be apple pie experts, aren't you?
Wrong.
Component video is usually 10bit/component before MPEG2 encoding.
Incidentally, subsampled component video isn't ANYTHING "per pixel".
All Macs are supplied with a Firewire cable, too. So us happy Mac users lose nothing, and those poor PC users can pick up FW400 cables nice and cheap now. I got a 6M one for £7 recently.
Do you think a computer can draw more than the rated continuous power of its supply?
I don't think a single 500W PSU is gonna heat chilly Finalnd, somehow.
You make my balls tingle.
I watch either a) my girlfriend's soapy breasts or b) my own semi-erect penis.