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In the U.S., the local public stations just beg for donations for a couple of weeks every six months or so. To be honest, I'd rather pay a tax, because it's really loving annoying whenever they do it.
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Powered Descent posted:Do those TV-detector vans actually detect anything, or are they purely for show? They're for show. In theory you could detect the magnetic field of a cathode ray tube, but even when those were stil a thing, the vans were just there to freak out the non-payers.
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I was reading that in England, you only have to pay the license if the tv was hooked to an OTA antenna.
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Dec 7, 2015 07:40
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Ya it depends. They expanded it in Denmark so you now have to pay if you have more than 200kb downstream or a celphone or some poo poo like that, because they stream everything. Obvs we have to pay for it if we have potential access.
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A Neurotic Jew posted:$100 million and 4 years later, Star Citizen I started laughing when the ship went zooming off into into space leaving the pilot in the seated position. I never really stopped. This would be the perfect company to make an F-35 flight simulator.
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Snapchat A Titty posted:They're for show. In theory you could detect the magnetic field of a cathode ray tube, but even when those were stil a thing, the vans were just there to freak out the non-payers. It was the oscillator of the receiver, not the CRT, that they detected (bug detectors work the same way - it's where the technology originally came from). Still works for DTB, but there's far too much noise to make detection worthwhile, especially since the 80s, when coincidentally computer power and databases got cheap enough and television saturation got high enough to just start sending letters to everyone without a license. kizudarake posted:I was reading that in England, you only have to pay the license if the tv was hooked to an OTA antenna. Slightly more complex than that now but yeah, until the early naughties the fee was on equipment receiving broadcast transmissions rather than the telly itself, so it also covered VCRs and the like. If you could prove the equipment was only used for closed-circuit use (like a computer or console) you didn't have to pay. Originally they had to prove that you were actually receiving broadcasts (hence the detector vans) but that also got changed in the eighties. They changed the definition sometime around 2005 to make non-timeshifted internet streams of broadcast programmes legally equivalent to broadcasts, mostly so the BBC could get around the licensing terms for certain shows and stream them online even though they only had license for broadcast, not for streaming. This is why you can only watch Match Of The Day online when it's being transmitted, not afterwards.
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A Neurotic Jew posted:$100 million and 4 years later, Star Citizen I'm honestly impressed by this video. I had assumed they hadn't done a single thing.
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wyoming posted:I'm honestly impressed by this video. I had assumed they hadn't done a single thing.
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Serephina posted:The engine is Crysis, so the shiny not wholly theirs fwiw. So what you are saying that they haven't broken the engine yet? Don't worry, they will.
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Cpt Thorne posted:they haven't broken the engine yet? 
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wyoming posted:I'm honestly impressed by this video. I had assumed they hadn't done a single thing. They've had 4 years and $100 million, they had to come up with something. Still though, on the off-chance that Star Citizen comes out, it's going to be horrendously underwhelming, if not utter rubbish.
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CommissarMega posted:They've had 4 years and $100 million, they had to come up with something. Still though, on the off-chance that Star Citizen comes out, it's going to be horrendously underwhelming, if not utter rubbish. gently caress, I figured they'd send out 80 relabeled dollar store DVDs with an "installer" that's really just a program that tells you to randomly insert discs 1-78 spaced an hour apart, if you accidentally insert the wrong one you have to start over, and if you wait too long you have to start over, and then errors out on disc 79, requiring you to send off for a replacement disc and wait 6-8 weeks for arrival, and the replacement disc 79 has the steam installer on it with a 25 gig "day 1 patch" that's really the program. Edit: that's what I'd do, because that'd be funny as hell. Anil Dikshit has a new favorite as of 13:20 on Dec 7, 2015 |
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kizudarake posted:I was reading that in England, you only have to pay the license if the tv was hooked to an OTA antenna. Yeah, if you buy a TV to play video games with, you don't need a TV license. If you use BBC iPlayer on your console, you need a license now. It's gotten way too convoluted for me to really understand, but I only watch TV now because my accommodation provided a TV and bundled the license in with the internet fee for the year.
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Dec 7, 2015 13:27
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Strudel Man posted:It happened like this. (Many other comics there NSFW) Accessing oglaf here at work, gives me this: quote:Access Denied (content_filter_denied)
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Dec 7, 2015 13:36
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Dec 7, 2015 13:52
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Kidney Stone posted:Accessing oglaf here at work, gives me this: Maddox' "Best Page in the Universe" was blacklisted at my office for years for "Hate Speech". I like to think that he pissed off Steve Jobs so much he got added to a generic blacklist applied to most big corporations
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Personal schadenfreude re: TV licenses; I managed to avoid paying mine for well over a decade, if the guys came around you obviously didn't have to open your door to them and there was nothing they could do except go away defeated and try to get you later. Then one afternoon they came over and I absent-mindedly opened the door and got hit with a monthly bill for like four months until I was paid up. This was four months before they got rid of TV licensing fees. 
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Kidney Stone posted:Accessing oglaf here at work, gives me this: That's because Oglaf is entertaining pornography, about half the time. Lady who does it loves her some porn.
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Stare-Out posted:Personal schadenfreude re: TV licenses; I managed to avoid paying mine for well over a decade, if the guys came around you obviously didn't have to open your door to them and there was nothing they could do except go away defeated and try to get you later. Then one afternoon they came over and I absent-mindedly opened the door and got hit with a monthly bill for like four months until I was paid up. For about 2.5 years, 1988-1990, I lived in the UK because of my father's job, I was 10-12 years old. I remember the occassional ad for TV licenses, particulary one in which a crafty old man sets out in a rowboat with his unlicensed TV to avoid the po-po out at sea; he gets caught by a submarine. I couldn't find that video, but I did find this one from the same era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Zr9-gXpkA I love the 1984 / V-for-Vendetta vibe to it, a van lurking down your street checking for no-good-niks. This one is a bit newer, I think. Subtext: parents are dicks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT5rOnm3JHY Googling for the rowboat ad led me to discover the people who absolutely despise the entire concept and post zillions of ranty videos and POV clips of them heroically mocking and frustrating the local inspector when he or she comes by. I got the impression that a scheme like this would be completely impossible in the US because every one of the inspectors would be gunned down by angry homeowners within the first hours of the launch. Then there's this mildly funny shot at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz0wYN1vfyk And some ranty text overlaid on John Cleese riffing on The Life of Brian in the pub that must be around the back of the BBC building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYuR2rrH68M If you get interested in this (I've had my fill at this point), here's 5 hours of "Goon-ing" TV license inspectors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnGG8SEYDoQ
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Stare-Out posted:Personal schadenfreude re: TV licenses; I managed to avoid paying mine for well over a decade, if the guys came around you obviously didn't have to open your door to them and there was nothing they could do except go away defeated and try to get you later. Then one afternoon they came over and I absent-mindedly opened the door and got hit with a monthly bill for like four months until I was paid up. I wasn't paying mine in university in the UK. Then one of my housemates opened the door to them, invited them in, and made them a cup of tea.
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lfield posted:I wasn't paying mine in university in the UK. Then one of my housemates opened the door to them, invited them in, and made them a cup of tea. The most English story ever.
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The funniest thing Re: TV licensing was when the inspector came by the student housing. The entire campus went into full wartime lockdown in less than a minute because gently caress paying a fee that meant one less case of beer a month. e: getting out once you were signed up used to be a huge pain, at least in Sweden. Until recently you actually had to snail mail them a signed form saying you no longer own a TV, then they called you a couple of times to guilt you into paying before you were out. At least they asked you who you sold/gave the TV to so you could get them to bother someone that deserved it 
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drat I'm happy they removed the licensing few years ago and made it an automatic tax for everyone. Such a pointless hassle.
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Kennel posted:drat I'm happy they removed the licensing few years ago and made it an automatic tax for everyone. Such a pointless hassle. Well, originally it was intended as a luxury tax for ownership of a (non-household-helping or timesaving) luxury item, but yeah. So now we get people who complain that we have to pay extra taxes to maintain a non-commercial radio- and TV-channel network, when "every interesting thing is on Discovery/Fox/whoeverthefuck owns channels 3 and 4". Yeah, lets go full brainwash by TV, thats just a great idea! More reality TV, trashy 'documents' and Dudesons-poo poo for everybody! I didn't like culture or actual news documentaries anyway. Its also something like a 100e per year; I pay twice that amount just to have a dedicated parking spot on my apartment building.
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Australian Dashcam video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLFoQokmpvo
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-Zydeco- posted:Australian Dashcam video That last interaction is superb... The loving cheek of the guy to say that whilst sitting where he is. 
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Klaus Kinski posted:The funniest thing Re: TV licensing was when the inspector came by the student housing. The entire campus went into full wartime lockdown in less than a minute because gently caress paying a fee that meant one less case of beer a month. Yeah these days it's easier. My friend just called them and said he dropped his TV down the stairs when moving to a new place and that was that. I did the same a few years later, they call and pester you every so often, but they generally take a simple "no" these days.
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-Zydeco- posted:Australian Dashcam video Compared to most dashcam stuff those are just delightful and fun. (As fun as car wrecks can be).
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-Zydeco- posted:Australian Dashcam video I love every minute of this.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Compared to most dashcam stuff those are just delightful and fun. (As fun as car wrecks can be). All Australian dashcam vids are  thanks to the slang and accents
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-Zydeco- posted:Australian Dashcam video I literally cried at this. I laughed so hard I think something tore.
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Been dealing with a lot of assholes lately so I would like to request a video where an rear end in a top hat gets his. Specifically looking for a road rage vid. Bumper to bumper standstill traffic on a high way. Douche bag gets out, punches another driver, witnesses call over a cop who was on the other side of v the highway and rear end in a top hat gets arrested on the spot.
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Cleaning out a clogged poop pipe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCFvqbSfgqM
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-Zydeco- posted:Australian Dashcam video Burp @ 1:22
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Ragequit posted:Cleaning out a clogged poop pipe.  Mike Rowe missed out on the cool icky jobs.
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