I was sent a court order on the primise that because I had a TV Licence, and got rid of it (along with my television). I must be using a television without a licence.
Regardless of the fact that, it was a street house and another person at the address held a full valid licence. I was sent numerous warning letters; without anyone coming around; and still expected to pay a £1,000 fine. I phoned them up; they outright admitted to me that they were blackmailing me. I wish I'd recorded that call.
It was thrown out of court on the day. They hadn't acknowledged my housemate's TV Licence because he claimed to live at '1' at that address. As such the TV Licencing thought I lived in flats. Which was utter bunkum. Thanks to my 'housemate' I went through a lot of stress; thanks to the TV Licencing they took me to court regardless of having a TV or not.
PC Tax licence? So what're companies going to do who run servers for Apache and computer gaming? No. A blankett tax is an utterly stupid way of charging for televisial services online or otherwise. It should be a subscription. If I want to watch Sky TV I have to subscribe to it else I'm stuck with the free channels. It should be the same for a PC; if I don't subscribe; I don't receive. Therefore I do not pay. BBC TV Licencing only works at present because there's no way to prove for dead certainty whether you're using a TV for receiving their service or not.
They're just trying to find a way to bleed the public dry for cash. No other country pays for a TV Licence to my knowledge.
You're really missing a great scope of the laptop market with such a statement as that. A large proportion of laptop users are University students who purchase one for it's portability at having to travel to and from home at times of the year; sometimes as far as another country and aren't prepared to trapes a desktop system so far.
Just like anyone; being human they want some entertainment. Everyone's got a computer of some form so they want to play computer games. This pushes some laptops to need to be powerful. It's true though, that they don't necessarily have to be (as another article on slashdot suggests) as most people just need it for web surfing and producing office-esque documentations.
There is the need, there, though to have laptops as powerful as a desktop PC for gaming. A computer 'sibling' to this need is the shuttle PC; which is a more specific system that's designed to be minimalistic, portable and used for 'LAN Gaming'.
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YES! When I'm old and decrepid they better have a WiFi connection so I can play Counter-Strike on my shuttle!
I was sent a court order on the primise that because I had a TV Licence, and got rid of it (along with my television). I must be using a television without a licence. Regardless of the fact that, it was a street house and another person at the address held a full valid licence. I was sent numerous warning letters; without anyone coming around; and still expected to pay a £1,000 fine. I phoned them up; they outright admitted to me that they were blackmailing me. I wish I'd recorded that call. It was thrown out of court on the day. They hadn't acknowledged my housemate's TV Licence because he claimed to live at '1' at that address. As such the TV Licencing thought I lived in flats. Which was utter bunkum. Thanks to my 'housemate' I went through a lot of stress; thanks to the TV Licencing they took me to court regardless of having a TV or not. PC Tax licence? So what're companies going to do who run servers for Apache and computer gaming? No. A blankett tax is an utterly stupid way of charging for televisial services online or otherwise. It should be a subscription. If I want to watch Sky TV I have to subscribe to it else I'm stuck with the free channels. It should be the same for a PC; if I don't subscribe; I don't receive. Therefore I do not pay. BBC TV Licencing only works at present because there's no way to prove for dead certainty whether you're using a TV for receiving their service or not. They're just trying to find a way to bleed the public dry for cash. No other country pays for a TV Licence to my knowledge.
You're really missing a great scope of the laptop market with such a statement as that. A large proportion of laptop users are University students who purchase one for it's portability at having to travel to and from home at times of the year; sometimes as far as another country and aren't prepared to trapes a desktop system so far. Just like anyone; being human they want some entertainment. Everyone's got a computer of some form so they want to play computer games. This pushes some laptops to need to be powerful. It's true though, that they don't necessarily have to be (as another article on slashdot suggests) as most people just need it for web surfing and producing office-esque documentations. There is the need, there, though to have laptops as powerful as a desktop PC for gaming. A computer 'sibling' to this need is the shuttle PC; which is a more specific system that's designed to be minimalistic, portable and used for 'LAN Gaming'.