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From: Hog on 2 Aug 2010 09:06 ogden wrote: > CT wrote: >> Champ wrote: >> >>> Look, it's quite simple - it costs money to make and broadcast >>> television programmes. There are two ways to raise that money: >>> - advertising >>> - subscription (BBC, many satelite & cable channels e.g. HBO) >>> >>> The BBC has been around since the dawn of broadcasting, where, in >>> the UK, owning a set capable of recieving broadcasts was a >>> reasonable 'token' for whether you should pay for them or not. >>> Nowadays all the cable/satellite guys use encryption, but that >>> wasn't possible back in the analogue broadcast days. >>> >>> Given that the BBC has, and still does, produce some of the best TV >>> in the world, it's a charging model I'm happy to support. >> >> But it could all change: >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10815162 > > "Right-wing think tank proposes end of licence fee" isn't so much a > headline as a macro any sane journalist binds to F8 to save typing. Libertarian ? right wing you numpty The licence fee is patently is not a good idea. It puts excessive numbers of people in Court and in jail for non payment of fines. Not to mention the costs of reminders and enforcement. -- Hog
From: ginge on 2 Aug 2010 09:15 On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:06:17 +0100, "Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: > >The licence fee is patently is not a good idea. It puts excessive numbers of >people in Court and in jail for non payment of fines. Not to mention the >costs of reminders and enforcement. Those people, in court, are they there because they perhaps didn't pay the licence fee, for the TV they were watching? If so, my heart bleeds.
From: Adrian on 2 Aug 2010 09:16 ginge <the.gingeREMOVE(a)THISgmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >>The licence fee is patently is not a good idea. It puts excessive >>numbers of people in Court and in jail for non payment of fines. Not to >>mention the costs of reminders and enforcement. > Those people, in court, are they there because they perhaps didn't pay > the licence fee, for the TV they were watching? > > If so, my heart bleeds. Quite. Nobody's ever died through not having a TV. Maybe it's similarly OK to nick the products which pay for commercial free-to-air TV channels through advertising...?
From: Hog on 2 Aug 2010 09:17 ginge wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:06:17 +0100, "Hog" > <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: >> >> The licence fee is patently is not a good idea. It puts excessive >> numbers of people in Court and in jail for non payment of fines. Not >> to mention the costs of reminders and enforcement. > > Those people, in court, are they there because they perhaps didn't pay > the licence fee, for the TV they were watching? > > If so, my heart bleeds. Mostly unemployed single parents. Ginge to the Right of me shocker. -- Hog
From: Hog on 2 Aug 2010 09:18
Adrian wrote: > ginge <the.gingeREMOVE(a)THISgmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding much > like they were saying: > >>> The licence fee is patently is not a good idea. It puts excessive >>> numbers of people in Court and in jail for non payment of fines. >>> Not to mention the costs of reminders and enforcement. > >> Those people, in court, are they there because they perhaps didn't >> pay the licence fee, for the TV they were watching? >> >> If so, my heart bleeds. > > Quite. Nobody's ever died through not having a TV. > > Maybe it's similarly OK to nick the products which pay for commercial > free-to-air TV channels through advertising...? What I said was; socially and economically it is a bad system. -- Hog |