The storm trooper uniforms are stupid, kind of remind me of French Legionnaire uniforms that always made me laugh when I saw someone dressed like that in the desert. The red flags on your shoulders make you stick out like a sore thumb regardless of where you are.
You have, of course, realised that that uniform is for ceremonial purposes, and not the battledress used in actual combat situations?
Here's an example of the not in dress uniform:
http://www.legion-2reg.com/modules_media/photo/2_5_02052009_232705.jpg
All they have to do is build giant concrete walls around the turbines, and stick a roof over the top. So long as they don't put any windows in, it should be safe for bats and birds.
It's crazy that they haven't thought of doing this.
How about "Gods peed"?
Yes, but Ireland isn't in the UK.
No, the licence isn't to view the content, it's to possess the apparatus used to view the content. Copyright of the material isn't affected.
Streaming isn't transmitted to the general public whether the material is received or not. Each viewer has to connect to the streaming host and ask for the data. If somebody were broadcasting to 255.255.255.255 to every Irish host on the Internet, then the legislation would start to apply.
On-demand downloads from RTE are not covered by this bill.
Or more relevance:
transmitted, relayed or distributed
This is about passive viewing, i.e. viewing what's listed in the TV guide and pumped out by the broadcaster. On-demand viewing is not covered. So unless you have a TV card, the article is bull.
Of course, if digital television evolved to being an unscheduled and wholly on-demand system, then perhaps this legislation would need a revisit.
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"