I think they may have a get-out in that they can use money they raise from their commercial ventures like foreign sales to fund non-TV and radio ventures that the licence fee doesn't cover. DRM seems like a sensible way to preserve the income from those sales to me. Now, if they used that money to speed up development of Dirac and create their own cross-platform content protection system instead of making Little Britain clones, then we'd all be happy.
Also, I ditched my telly two years ago and after informing a lovely lady called Astrid at the TV Licensing call centre of the fact, I haven't heard a peep out of them.
from dictionary.com: subsidy PPronunciation Key(sbs-d) n. pl. subsidies -Monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest. -Financial assistance given by one person or government to another. -Money formerly granted to the British Crown by Parliament.
Nothing about making other people pay, just assisting through grants and you can't grant money that isn't yours.
The government does not 'subsidise' the BBC, except in the case of the world Service. The people of Britain subsidise it directly and the rest of the world, through fees paid by foreign commercial broadcasters, 'subsidises' it too.
You are so wrong I can only think you must be one of those Anglophile Americans who misguidedly spreads marmalade on Yorkshire Puddings and says Toodle pip instead of 'goodbye' thinking he's terribly cosmopolitan.
The Television Licence is so-called because it covers television, hence the name. Nobody needs a licence for radio or internet access. Do. You. Understand? Paying the licence means that some of our television channels do not contain advertising and make an effort to produce minority programming. We still get the joys of crass, multi channel commercialised crap as well, but from the other stations
Uhhhh.... I think one of the points of this article is that THE USA ALREADY HAS THIS SORT OF ENFORCEMENT!! Sorry to shout there.
In my part of the EU we're rather short of people and need more to immigrate here to fill the vacant jobs. Rather than 'biting', unemployment isn't really a an issue that worries us right now.
Perhaps the users of fark.com would be interested to hear your views on intellectual property and the global economy however?
So true. Lego playsets no longer reward or even cater for creativity or innovation in the kids who use them. They're no different from the latest Mattel tv action figure tie-in crap. Children and adults who want to make something themselves have to look elsewhere, like Capsela:
http://www.discoverthis.com/capsela.html
"because they are suddenly also being lobbied by numerous concerned citizens, rather than solely by industry representatives as usual."
Total nonsense. All MEPs get lobbied by the public, stop trying to make them out as ivory tower-dwelling bureaucrats. Only Arlene MacArthy, the sponsor of this whole mess, complained of harassment. Seeing as she has been the focus of this whole mess and been unnecessarily painted as a heartless crone, it's not surprising some compaigners have gone over the top. Other representatives, especially my MEPs receive regular feedback from their constituents and at least listen to what they have to say.
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"They're called dipthongs (sic)"
No they ain't, diphthongs are pairs of vowels that merge together. Pairs of consonants are called err..consonant pairs.
It's difficult not to feel a little smug when Bush & Rumsfeld come begging for military assistance in a war they started when at the time they accused people who had genuine concerns about the justifications for Iraq's invasion as being the diplomatic equivalent of Cheese-eating surrender monkeys. I agree that accusing Americans of being evil is wrong and never helpful but its leaders do continue to interfere with other countries' governments and act outside of international consensus (eg Clinton in Sudan and Bush in Iraq) long after the rest of the world has given up on Kissenger (sp?)-style gunboat diplomacy.
PS just because the Spanish began acting like asshats in the Americas it didn't make the US govt continuing to do so until well into the twentieth century a laudable activity.
We're talking about recent history here, as you concede in your last sentence. Do you want us to start mentioning the United States' genocide of the natives or criticising Greece for Alexander the Great's imperialistic conquest of Asia? Pinochet was a *very* nasty man and the CIA's interest in helping him was nothing to do aiding the Chilean economy but instead in furthering their misguided and patronising belief that foreign nations are unable to look after their own affairs and will turn commie at the drop of a hat. I'd rather have lived under Allende's regime that embraces the positive benefits of science of technology than a fascist state like Pinochet's where I'd risk being executed in the street for reading the wrong book.
"Then we can get to work on helping the rest of the world with their troubles."
Maybe if you looked outwards more, at countries who can already run a fair election for example, then p'raps you could get around to helping us all out much quicker!!!
Self sufficient? It's a park, can't you people let it stay as one? Hey that Alaskan wilderness isn't paying its way, better send in the oil barons, oh you already have.
The Queen is Head of State but, because Parliament holds the purse strings, if it came to it then Parliament would win out over HM, her powers are all delegated to the PM anyway and the army pledges allegience to 'The Crown' which means the established government of the day. The Commons does not answer to the Lords, the Lords' only power is to delay legislation for a year. I don't know what I should recommend first: that you learn to spell or that you learn to comment on subjects over which you have some kind of grasp.
Yes it has, it just isn't written down in one place with 'The British Constitution' at the top of the page. It's contained by statute and common law, convention and what are called authoritative texts on the subjects, eg Bagehott. ALL countries have a constitution of some sort otherwise they'd have difficulty calling themselves countries.
From a UK TiVO user's page at http://www.garysargent.co.uk/tivo/faq/tivosfuture. htm:
TiVo say: "Nothing is changing for TiVo subscribers in the UK. We'll continue to provide the TiVo service, and we're glad to have you as subscribers. As far as the overhead of supporting the UK, you might remember this summer when I mentioned that we'd significantly improved our throughput in publishing the UK service. We're running quite efficiently. And we're talking with partners, old and new, about what's next in the UK. There's nothing imminent to announce, so don't start the countdown yet. But there are several things that might be interesting." Source: Bob Pony, TiVo. 19 Nov 2002.
I hope this is true; for Sky (ie Rupert Murdoch) to corner another section of the British media would take us one step further towards being one big Fox franchise.
32K was an enormous amount of memory to have at your disposal on 80s consoles - [old timer voice]: seems to me like the Atari developers had it preeetty sweee-eet. Dungeons of Daggorath was an amazing 8kb 3D maze game for the TRS 80 http://members.tripod.com/~Frodpod/index-2.html, Braben and Bell wrote Elite for 20KB of free memory. That's what I call tight coding.
Pedants corner: Mallory did make it to Everest-several times. Whether or not he conquered it is unknown. He was lost on the mountain but his body was found a year or two ago. He had a camera on him and it was hoped that the snow and ice would have preserved the film and provided proof of whether he was on his way up or his way down when he died. Does anyone know what came of it?
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I think they may have a get-out in that they can use money they raise from their commercial ventures like foreign sales to fund non-TV and radio ventures that the licence fee doesn't cover. DRM seems like a sensible way to preserve the income from those sales to me. Now, if they used that money to speed up development of Dirac and create their own cross-platform content protection system instead of making Little Britain clones, then we'd all be happy.
Also, I ditched my telly two years ago and after informing a lovely lady called Astrid at the TV Licensing call centre of the fact, I haven't heard a peep out of them.
I think they were criticising your logic rather than your nationality.
Really? and you get those for free do you?
from dictionary.com:
subsidy PPronunciation Key(sbs-d)
n. pl. subsidies
-Monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest.
-Financial assistance given by one person or government to another.
-Money formerly granted to the British Crown by Parliament.
Nothing about making other people pay, just assisting through grants and you can't grant money that isn't yours.
The government does not 'subsidise' the BBC, except in the case of the world Service. The people of Britain subsidise it directly and the rest of the world, through fees paid by foreign commercial broadcasters, 'subsidises' it too.
You are so wrong I can only think you must be one of those Anglophile Americans who misguidedly spreads marmalade on Yorkshire Puddings and says Toodle pip instead of 'goodbye' thinking he's terribly cosmopolitan.
The Television Licence is so-called because it covers television, hence the name. Nobody needs a licence for radio or internet access. Do. You. Understand? Paying the licence means that some of our television channels do not contain advertising and make an effort to produce minority programming. We still get the joys of crass, multi channel commercialised crap as well, but from the other stations
Uhhhh.... I think one of the points of this article is that THE USA ALREADY HAS THIS SORT OF ENFORCEMENT!! Sorry to shout there.
In my part of the EU we're rather short of people and need more to immigrate here to fill the vacant jobs. Rather than 'biting', unemployment isn't really a an issue that worries us right now.
Perhaps the users of fark.com would be interested to hear your views on intellectual property and the global economy however?
"in protest he surrender his controlling hares in the company."
Damn those controlling hares...
So true. Lego playsets no longer reward or even cater for creativity or innovation in the kids who use them. They're no different from the latest Mattel tv action figure tie-in crap. Children and adults who want to make something themselves have to look elsewhere, like Capsela:
http://www.discoverthis.com/capsela.html
"because they are suddenly also being lobbied by numerous concerned citizens, rather than solely by industry representatives as usual."
Total nonsense. All MEPs get lobbied by the public, stop trying to make them out as ivory tower-dwelling bureaucrats. Only Arlene MacArthy, the sponsor of this whole mess, complained of harassment. Seeing as she has been the focus of this whole mess and been unnecessarily painted as a heartless crone, it's not surprising some compaigners have gone over the top. Other representatives, especially my MEPs receive regular feedback from their constituents and at least listen to what they have to say.
"They're called dipthongs (sic)"
No they ain't, diphthongs are pairs of vowels that merge together. Pairs of consonants are called err..consonant pairs.
It's difficult not to feel a little smug when Bush & Rumsfeld come begging for military assistance in a war they started when at the time they accused people who had genuine concerns about the justifications for Iraq's invasion as being the diplomatic equivalent of Cheese-eating surrender monkeys. .
I agree that accusing Americans of being evil is wrong and never helpful but its leaders do continue to interfere with other countries' governments and act outside of international consensus (eg Clinton in Sudan and Bush in Iraq) long after the rest of the world has given up on Kissenger (sp?)-style gunboat diplomacy
PS just because the Spanish began acting like asshats in the Americas it didn't make the US govt continuing to do so until well into the twentieth century a laudable activity.
We're talking about recent history here, as you concede in your last sentence. Do you want us to start mentioning the United States' genocide of the natives or criticising Greece for Alexander the Great's imperialistic conquest of Asia?
Pinochet was a *very* nasty man and the CIA's interest in helping him was nothing to do aiding the Chilean economy but instead in furthering their misguided and patronising belief that foreign nations are unable to look after their own affairs and will turn commie at the drop of a hat. I'd rather have lived under Allende's regime that embraces the positive benefits of science of technology than a fascist state like Pinochet's where I'd risk being executed in the street for reading the wrong book.
"Then we can get to work on helping the rest of the world with their troubles."
Maybe if you looked outwards more, at countries who can already run a fair election for example, then p'raps you could get around to helping us all out much quicker!!!
I've had problems restoring save games but have made it onto the planet on the OSX version. Are you using Sarien 0.7.0a1?
Yep, it does work on Sarien (Mac OS X version at least) This rocks!!
Does it work with Sarien, the linux AGI interpreter, then?
http://sarien.sourceforge.net/
Uhhhh....isn't it FASTmail.fm?
Self sufficient? It's a park, can't you people let it stay as one? Hey that Alaskan wilderness isn't paying its way, better send in the oil barons, oh you already have.
The Queen is Head of State but, because Parliament holds the purse strings, if it came to it then Parliament would win out over HM, her powers are all delegated to the PM anyway and the army pledges allegience to 'The Crown' which means the established government of the day. The Commons does not answer to the Lords, the Lords' only power is to delay legislation for a year.
I don't know what I should recommend first: that you learn to spell or that you learn to comment on subjects over which you have some kind of grasp.
UK:
Verb: License
Noun: Licence
US:
Verb & Noun: License
UK:
Verb: Practise
Noun: Pracice
US:
Noun & Verb: Practice
Go figure...
Yes it has, it just isn't written down in one place with 'The British Constitution' at the top of the page. It's contained by statute and common law, convention and what are called authoritative texts on the subjects, eg Bagehott. ALL countries have a constitution of some sort otherwise they'd have difficulty calling themselves countries.
From a UK TiVO user's page at http://www.garysargent.co.uk/tivo/faq/tivosfuture. htm:
TiVo say: "Nothing is changing for TiVo subscribers in the UK. We'll continue to provide the TiVo service, and we're glad to have you as subscribers. As far as the overhead of supporting the UK, you might remember this summer when I mentioned that we'd significantly improved our throughput in publishing the UK service. We're running quite efficiently. And we're talking with partners, old and new, about what's next in the UK. There's nothing imminent to announce, so don't start the countdown yet. But there are several things that might be interesting."
Source: Bob Pony, TiVo. 19 Nov 2002.
I hope this is true; for Sky (ie Rupert Murdoch) to corner another section of the British media would take us one step further towards being one big Fox franchise.
32K was an enormous amount of memory to have at your disposal on 80s consoles - [old timer voice]: seems to me like the Atari developers had it preeetty sweee-eet.
Dungeons of Daggorath was an amazing 8kb 3D maze game for the TRS 80 http://members.tripod.com/~Frodpod/index-2.html, Braben and Bell wrote Elite for 20KB of free memory.
That's what I call tight coding.
Pedants corner:
Mallory did make it to Everest-several times. Whether or not he conquered it is unknown. He was lost on the mountain but his body was found a year or two ago. He had a camera on him and it was hoped that the snow and ice would have preserved the film and provided proof of whether he was on his way up or his way down when he died. Does anyone know what came of it?