Sky News, -hacks CNN Europe, -not british CNBC, -not british EuroNews, -not british CCTV, -never heard of it NDTV 24x7, -never heard of it Russia Today, -not british France 24, -not british Al Jazeera English, -not british Press TV, -never heard of it
We're looking at what works in Britain - foreign broadcasters who reach a minority of the population don't count. Sky are useless, and you may remember the ITV News channel, which was pitiful.
I haven't seen 2DTV (despite intending to), and what I remember of BB&F was that it wasn't as good as HIGNFY, or as cutting. BB&F is largely a sketch show.
I don't really remember what we're arguing about at this point, was it the statement 'The BBC's public funding model is good because it allows it to make reasonable quality programmes whilst still expecting them to have low ratings figures'?
It's no-win - any programme that the BBC makes which is tawdry crap gets labelled as such and as an example of the BBC wasting money, anything they make which is good is immediately siezed upon as something that the commercial channels could have done without license-fee money. So what I have to do to win this argument is produce a half-dozen examples of programmes which
cost a fair chunk of change
were inherently good
got low ratings
Those last two are more-or-less mutually exclusive.
The BBC's strength is that it doesn't have to know that what it makes will get good ratings before it makes it. The BBC can invest in something, see that it hasn't worked out and then invest in something else. The commercial channels can't take that risk, and consequently most of their budgets go on buying in already popular (and massive-budget) shows from overseas.
Watch Sky1 for an evening (say, a Monday evening) Futurama x2, Oops TV, The Simpsons x4, 24, Road Wars x4.
What's crap? Oops TV & Road Wars. What have those programmes got in common? They're homegrown & they're low-budget. Commercial stations cannot afford to risk putting as much money into original programming as it takes to make it work. What did ITV have that used to be good? Morcambe & Wise - what do we notice? The BBC took the risk, proved that they were good and ITV poached them once it knew that they were worth the money.
The other thing working in the BBC's favour is the nature of the format, an 'hour long' documentary on the BBC is actually an hour long and doesn't have to spend the first 2 minutes of every segment patronising the viewer to remind them of what happened before the adverts. This makes for better documentaries and is something that the commercial broadcasters just can't match
And let's not forget News 24 (which commercial broadcasters have tried to compete with and failed) and BBC Parliament (which is made of win).
I also doubt that anyone else could get away with making Have I got News For You - it takes the kind of clout that only the BBC has got to make that sort of thing.
In any case your question is a nonsense, since it boils down to 'name a popular program which isn't popular'.
"What's the difference between 'irregularities' and 'malpractices'" "'Irregularities' means it's a crime, but you can't prove it; 'malpractices' means it's a crime, and you can prove it".
And it's similar with evasion and avoidance. Both involve not paying taxes, the former is essentially finding a way of not paying when the taxman asks for money, the latter involves making sure that he doesn't ask.
no, no, new edition not in PD*, you'd have copyright on the new one.
*How much a work has to be changed for it to be considered new is already defined as regards sending copies of newly-published books to a deposit library. If you wouldn't have had to send a new copy to the national deposit library, you don't get to restart the copyright timer.
Theoretical third party acessories. Oh sure, you can get different coloured wheels, or a set of furry dice for the lawnmower somewhere else, but replacement cutting blades (i.e. the bits you need to use the lawnmower for its intended purpose) only come from Home Depot, and they go out of their way to make sure that you can't get them anywhere else.
"What I should have said was: 'yes', but what I actually said was: 'Well, Officer Pythagoras, I think you'll only find a straighter line if you were to take an electroencephalograph of your own brain'. " - Emo Philips
doesn't the FBI use that whistleblower stuff as justification to go and get non-tainted evidence? They don't usually present the very documents provided by a whistleblower in court, do they?
I can only presume that the police did not arrive before the googlecar had left the scene. Otherwise I should expect to see a set of images of the village, all of them with a policecar infront of the googlecar giving it an escort, appearing on streetview sharpish. Living in a village does not give you the right to prevent lawful traffic passing through it.
I think that the Act of Settlement would disagree with your assertion that HMQ is not the most qualified person to be head of state. You also have to realise that head of state != head of government, and that there aren't really any merit-based qualification required for the former, except to not conduct yourself in a manner which makes your country look bad.
As you say, Finland has a population of a little over 5 million, at university level nobody publishes textbooks in Finnish because it's just too small a market. Finnish universities use English language texbooks, thus unless you understand English you won't get far at a Finnish university. So all the reasonably intelligent people in Finland can at least use written English.
*shrug* GCSE English Language has about as much to do with writing and in using your own language skills as maths does. 50% of my marks came from re-entering the same coursework as I did for English Literature. Being able to disassemble and critique someone else's writing does not teach you how to work with the language yourself.
I had some pain-based health problems when I was in school (I was 17 at the time) and I always carried my painkillers with me and a jolly good thing too. If my back went during class, I'd have struggled to get off my chair, let alone walk across the classroom, open the door, and then walk all the way to the office of whoever my painkillers were with in the hope that they were there.
I can see why people want a verdict about the reaosnablness of such an invasive search on this issue, but for this case the school should be ruled against on the far more fundamental basis that as a public school, they have no business trying to operate a zero tolerance policy to over-the-counter medication or prescription mediation for which the person has a prescription.
Also, teachers\school administrators performing strip-searches? WTF? What concievable reason is there for them to do that? If the student is possibly doing something which is properly illegal (not against school rules 'illegal' - properly against-the-law illegal) then turn them over to the police. Otherwise; this is already way out of hand.
yes, my ISP keeps trying to palm me off with some excuse about 'the students' when I complain that my connection is ropey. If they don't have the capacity to provide to a hefty chunk of their customers what they've promised them, I fail to see why that's my problem to put up with.
Well in the UK (and I'm fairly sure it became like this to harmonise with the rest of Europe), your water supplier can't cut you off for non-payment of bills, even with a court order (or, rather, they can't get an order allowing them to cut you off).
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Sky News, -hacks
CNN Europe, -not british
CNBC, -not british
EuroNews, -not british
CCTV, -never heard of it
NDTV 24x7, -never heard of it
Russia Today, -not british
France 24, -not british
Al Jazeera English, -not british
Press TV, -never heard of it
We're looking at what works in Britain - foreign broadcasters who reach a minority of the population don't count. Sky are useless, and you may remember the ITV News channel, which was pitiful.
I haven't seen 2DTV (despite intending to), and what I remember of BB&F was that it wasn't as good as HIGNFY, or as cutting. BB&F is largely a sketch show.
I don't really remember what we're arguing about at this point, was it the statement 'The BBC's public funding model is good because it allows it to make reasonable quality programmes whilst still expecting them to have low ratings figures'?
It's no-win - any programme that the BBC makes which is tawdry crap gets labelled as such and as an example of the BBC wasting money, anything they make which is good is immediately siezed upon as something that the commercial channels could have done without license-fee money.
So what I have to do to win this argument is produce a half-dozen examples of programmes which
Those last two are more-or-less mutually exclusive.
The BBC's strength is that it doesn't have to know that what it makes will get good ratings before it makes it. The BBC can invest in something, see that it hasn't worked out and then invest in something else. The commercial channels can't take that risk, and consequently most of their budgets go on buying in already popular (and massive-budget) shows from overseas.
Watch Sky1 for an evening (say, a Monday evening) Futurama x2, Oops TV, The Simpsons x4, 24, Road Wars x4.
What's crap? Oops TV & Road Wars. What have those programmes got in common? They're homegrown & they're low-budget.
Commercial stations cannot afford to risk putting as much money into original programming as it takes to make it work. What did ITV have that used to be good? Morcambe & Wise - what do we notice? The BBC took the risk, proved that they were good and ITV poached them once it knew that they were worth the money.
The other thing working in the BBC's favour is the nature of the format, an 'hour long' documentary on the BBC is actually an hour long and doesn't have to spend the first 2 minutes of every segment patronising the viewer to remind them of what happened before the adverts. This makes for better documentaries and is something that the commercial broadcasters just can't match
It looks like their stocks are literally decaying away!
Bwahahahahahaha...ahaha...ha...ha..h
Yeah, I'll get my coat.
ok; Never Mind the Full Stops.
And let's not forget News 24 (which commercial broadcasters have tried to compete with and failed) and BBC Parliament (which is made of win).
I also doubt that anyone else could get away with making Have I got News For You - it takes the kind of clout that only the BBC has got to make that sort of thing.
In any case your question is a nonsense, since it boils down to 'name a popular program which isn't popular'.
"What's the difference between 'irregularities' and 'malpractices'"
"'Irregularities' means it's a crime, but you can't prove it; 'malpractices' means it's a crime, and you can prove it".
And it's similar with evasion and avoidance. Both involve not paying taxes, the former is essentially finding a way of not paying when the taxman asks for money, the latter involves making sure that he doesn't ask.
no,
no,
new edition not in PD*,
you'd have copyright on the new one.
*How much a work has to be changed for it to be considered new is already defined as regards sending copies of newly-published books to a deposit library. If you wouldn't have had to send a new copy to the national deposit library, you don't get to restart the copyright timer.
Theoretical third party acessories. Oh sure, you can get different coloured wheels, or a set of furry dice for the lawnmower somewhere else, but replacement cutting blades (i.e. the bits you need to use the lawnmower for its intended purpose) only come from Home Depot, and they go out of their way to make sure that you can't get them anywhere else.
"What I should have said was: 'yes', but what I actually said was: 'Well, Officer Pythagoras, I think you'll only find a straighter line if you were to take an electroencephalograph of your own brain'. " - Emo Philips
doesn't the FBI use that whistleblower stuff as justification to go and get non-tainted evidence? They don't usually present the very documents provided by a whistleblower in court, do they?
... I don't even know what a twinkie is
then pump CO in instead
Is the twinkie made of antimatter?
I can only presume that the police did not arrive before the googlecar had left the scene. Otherwise I should expect to see a set of images of the village, all of them with a policecar infront of the googlecar giving it an escort, appearing on streetview sharpish.
Living in a village does not give you the right to prevent lawful traffic passing through it.
I think that the Act of Settlement would disagree with your assertion that HMQ is not the most qualified person to be head of state.
You also have to realise that head of state != head of government, and that there aren't really any merit-based qualification required for the former, except to not conduct yourself in a manner which makes your country look bad.
Is your friend, perchance, a waiter at a Torquay hotel?
f'rinstance,
As you say, Finland has a population of a little over 5 million, at university level nobody publishes textbooks in Finnish because it's just too small a market. Finnish universities use English language texbooks, thus unless you understand English you won't get far at a Finnish university. So all the reasonably intelligent people in Finland can at least use written English.
Also, they have trams - Finland is well awesome.
The ones allegedly in the photos? or some other ones?
I'm surpised that it could sound worse...
"Jerusalem; a series of questions to which the answer is 'no' "
*shrug* GCSE English Language has about as much to do with writing and in using your own language skills as maths does. 50% of my marks came from re-entering the same coursework as I did for English Literature. Being able to disassemble and critique someone else's writing does not teach you how to work with the language yourself.
And that you learn to knuckle-under at an early age
I'll fill your analogy in for you: Like the school authorising the amputation of the arm because you can't be too careful
Irrelevant. The girl was still undressed and the 'orders' were still illegal.
I had some pain-based health problems when I was in school (I was 17 at the time) and I always carried my painkillers with me and a jolly good thing too.
If my back went during class, I'd have struggled to get off my chair, let alone walk across the classroom, open the door, and then walk all the way to the office of whoever my painkillers were with in the hope that they were there.
I can see why people want a verdict about the reaosnablness of such an invasive search on this issue, but for this case the school should be ruled against on the far more fundamental basis that as a public school, they have no business trying to operate a zero tolerance policy to over-the-counter medication or prescription mediation for which the person has a prescription.
Also, teachers\school administrators performing strip-searches? WTF? What concievable reason is there for them to do that? If the student is possibly doing something which is properly illegal (not against school rules 'illegal' - properly against-the-law illegal) then turn them over to the police. Otherwise; this is already way out of hand.
yes, my ISP keeps trying to palm me off with some excuse about 'the students' when I complain that my connection is ropey. If they don't have the capacity to provide to a hefty chunk of their customers what they've promised them, I fail to see why that's my problem to put up with.
you saw the photos too, huh?
Well in the UK (and I'm fairly sure it became like this to harmonise with the rest of Europe), your water supplier can't cut you off for non-payment of bills, even with a court order (or, rather, they can't get an order allowing them to cut you off).