Comment Re:Blimey (Score 1) 518
And where would the colder place be to vent that heat?
Just pop up a little lead umbrella so there's a shady spot.
And where would the colder place be to vent that heat?
Just pop up a little lead umbrella so there's a shady spot.
The BBC is independent from the government.
Other than the part where it's the government that runs the court system that enforces your having been forced to give the BBC money whether you want to patronize them or not.
It's freer from government influence than other funding mechanisms
What? It can't even work without the direct involvement in the government running the courts that are necessary for the BBC to collect their unavoidable TV tax.
Here's a way that the government could be even less involved: don't DO that. Let people who want to show programs to a large audience find their own way to fund the production and dissemination of that material. Say, by selling ads or attracting sponsors, etc. Remove the court system and penalties under law for not wanting to fund everything that's broadcast from the equation entirely. Why should someone who doesn't want to fund a given program be forced to, under penalty of being dragged through court? I have zero interest in watching our many all-sports programming options (ESPN, etc). You think the "best system we have" is for the government to be the enforcer in an arrangement where I'm forced to give them money anyway?
The BBC is funded by a tax on the UK citizens, enforced by the criminal code. Your assertion is completely wrong.
Ah, so in Britain the government isn't involved in tax collection and enforcement. They don't do the collecting, they don't penalize people who don't pay, and they don't get involved in picking and choosing who receives those funds, or have any say, whatsoever, over how that money is allocated. That is an interesting system indeed! Who handles all of that, if not the government?
If you fly a drone over my property, we get to find out how effective the various loads of 12 gauge shot shells are.
Sure, other than the fact that shooting at any aircraft - manned or otherwise - is a federal felony.
I don't care about your excuses. I think you should be banned from flying over a property if the property owner deems he doesn't want you flying over his property
Of course you also think that a person flying a Cessna at a 1000 feet should have to check with every landowner below his flight path, too, right? No?
Why? Be very, very specific.
To do nothing is to be nothing.