WTF Euros need a license to have a TV
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I don't know how it works in the rest of Europe, but here in Sweden they can only see if you have a TV if you agree to let them into your house (they'll come knock on peoples doors once in a blue moon). I've never payed TV-license in my life..bigmack said:
LMAO @ TV LICENSES. WHAT THE FUCK.
That is piss poor. I am with mack on this one, how are we supposed to know you guys have TV licenses. That is just pathetic. The point of a license is to show that you have the required skill to do whatever with what the said license is. For example: fishing, driving, boating, all the medical fields, etc. So apparently in Europe you need a license to prove you know how to use a television set. Now I know what the intelligence quotient is in Euroville.
On a side note, it is completely hillarious that it says color and black/white TV's. Welcome to 1960.
That is piss poor. I am with mack on this one, how are we supposed to know you guys have TV licenses. That is just pathetic. The point of a license is to show that you have the required skill to do whatever with what the said license is. For example: fishing, driving, boating, all the medical fields, etc. So apparently in Europe you need a license to prove you know how to use a television set. Now I know what the intelligence quotient is in Euroville.
On a side note, it is completely hillarious that it says color and black/white TV's. Welcome to 1960.
cooper667 said:
yea exactly, we need 2 play a tv liscence so that the bbc can get an income through what we pay, unlike other channels such as ITV where they advertise to get income.
anwyays the usa have stupider rules and laws. george bush, haha!
we also have free health insurance. how much would you have to pay for a heart transplant now? $200,000? ouch, maybe paying a tv license instead isn't such a bad idea. you fuckers.
you call this a stupid idea, and the euros claim anyone who wants can just not pay the tv license and get away with it, but... a recent trend has been to take shortcuts wherever you can. cheat on your taxes. not pay your damn dues. a society is like a mild anarchy. for it to work, it rests on the inhabitants of the community to put in work and help wheverer they can. if everyone said fuck taxes, do you think we would have highways and schools? you have your stupidities over in the states, we have ours here, they both serve the same purpose. like i said, free health insurance sucker.
america will be gone in 200 years.
(numbers used in this post are fictional to underscore a point)
EDIT: another point - you only pay license for channels that don't advertise nada. bbc in the uk, nrk here in norway, svt1 and svt2 in sweden i think, there's more around europe.
you call this a stupid idea, and the euros claim anyone who wants can just not pay the tv license and get away with it, but... a recent trend has been to take shortcuts wherever you can. cheat on your taxes. not pay your damn dues. a society is like a mild anarchy. for it to work, it rests on the inhabitants of the community to put in work and help wheverer they can. if everyone said fuck taxes, do you think we would have highways and schools? you have your stupidities over in the states, we have ours here, they both serve the same purpose. like i said, free health insurance sucker.
america will be gone in 200 years.
(numbers used in this post are fictional to underscore a point)
EDIT: another point - you only pay license for channels that don't advertise nada. bbc in the uk, nrk here in norway, svt1 and svt2 in sweden i think, there's more around europe.
Preach said:
i don pay for a tv license or for health care
Canada, the answer to all lifes problems
well then i'm sure you pay for something else that's really stupid that we don't pay for. lol. the point is that money's gotta come from somewhere. all countries charge their citizen for just leading a, per today's western world definition, normal life. it doesn't matter if it's taxes, tv license, or whatever. it all evens out.
At least we're not like American TV, where they manage to squeeze 15 minutes of actual programming into each hour-block, the other 45 minutes consisting of fucking commercials.
Seriously, you have commercials after the fucking opening credits. What's the point?
Seriously, you have commercials after the fucking opening credits. What's the point?
^yeah when i was over i watched simpsons and they had a commercial just before it went off like just before the credits, i was was like "whats the fucking point of that"
The TV license has proved itself one of the most succesful concepts in media history. It allows for quality broadcasting, viewing, production and distribution.
The landscape of the media is forever changing - networks do anything for ratings and for sponsorship, advertising revenue, etc. After all, they are businesses, their priority is to survive as a business and to make money. 99 times out of 100, this causes the quality and accuracy to suffer.
The BBC does not have this worry because its income is secure, it's goal is to make quality programming that appeal and are of relevance to all demographics.
The income is used in a variety of ways, none negative. New jobs are made through new programmes, I mean the BBC will pay YOU if you write something good, you can submit to them on their website. There is no advertising. They research, find new information and stories, developing culture. It is a public broadcasting service: it is made for the public and is funded by the public.
The BBC is generally considered the only source of objective news and is consumed by 1.6billion people. Rupert Murdoch (cunt, fucking die Fox News) did a cable TV deal with China; he sold out, removing the BBC from the package because China's so uppity about censorship.
BBC World is an entity seperate to the BBC and is not funded by the license, however the BBC World Service (radio) is funded by the license and in many countries is the ONLY source of news. The TV license is administrated by an organisation external to the BBC.
From what I've heard, it's easy to get fined if you don't pay your license. TVs emit a signal of some kind, if you're listed as having not paid a license, they send a white van outside your house, they look for this signal and if they find it, you get slapped with a fine. This was how it was explained to me many many years ago and may not be true with all the digital shizzle.
The landscape of the media is forever changing - networks do anything for ratings and for sponsorship, advertising revenue, etc. After all, they are businesses, their priority is to survive as a business and to make money. 99 times out of 100, this causes the quality and accuracy to suffer.
The BBC does not have this worry because its income is secure, it's goal is to make quality programming that appeal and are of relevance to all demographics.
The income is used in a variety of ways, none negative. New jobs are made through new programmes, I mean the BBC will pay YOU if you write something good, you can submit to them on their website. There is no advertising. They research, find new information and stories, developing culture. It is a public broadcasting service: it is made for the public and is funded by the public.
The BBC is generally considered the only source of objective news and is consumed by 1.6billion people. Rupert Murdoch (cunt, fucking die Fox News) did a cable TV deal with China; he sold out, removing the BBC from the package because China's so uppity about censorship.
BBC World is an entity seperate to the BBC and is not funded by the license, however the BBC World Service (radio) is funded by the license and in many countries is the ONLY source of news. The TV license is administrated by an organisation external to the BBC.
From what I've heard, it's easy to get fined if you don't pay your license. TVs emit a signal of some kind, if you're listed as having not paid a license, they send a white van outside your house, they look for this signal and if they find it, you get slapped with a fine. This was how it was explained to me many many years ago and may not be true with all the digital shizzle.
what i said earlier plus what goymz said :thumb:
die you narrow minded plastic americans!!!!!1111ONEONE
die you narrow minded plastic americans!!!!!1111ONEONE
actually its more like 22-24 minutes for a half hour show and 44-48 minutes for an hour long show of actual programing.Illuminattile said:
stfu up and go pay your retarded fee to have a t.v.
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