Gp2x Discussion On Bbc Radio 6 Music

[Javacat]

Yay for taxes

 

[shrubberyrobbery]

If somebody in the street gave me a brick and forced me to give him £100 whether I wanted it or not, that would be theft.

some more digressing:
you don't have to pay for the bbc. just get rid of your tv. my parents did

 

[Hanz™]

If somebody in the street gave me a brick and forced me to give him £100 whether I wanted it or not, that would be theft. If somebody gave me a photo of a brick, and forced me to give him £100 whether I wanted it or not, that would be theft. If somebody gave me a video of a brick and forced me to pay £100 for it whether I wanted it or not, that would be theft. If somebody broadcasted a video of theft to the entire nation, forcing me and everybody else to pay for it whether we like it or not, with government authority to fine up to X Thousand pounds if we don't pay and also broadcast around the world for free, that would be theft.

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No sky tv is theft.
And to be honest I would much rather that everybody payed £100 to fund the BBC rather than the people that want it having to pay £250 per month or something.

 

[critical]

If somebody in the street gave me a brick and forced me to give him £100 whether I wanted it or not, that would be theft. If somebody gave me a photo of a brick, and forced me to give him £100 whether I wanted it or not, that would be theft. If somebody gave me a video of a brick and forced me to pay £100 for it whether I wanted it or not, that would be theft. If somebody broadcasted a video of theft to the entire nation, forcing me and everybody else to pay for it whether we like it or not, with government authority to fine up to X Thousand pounds if we don't pay and also broadcast around the world for free, that would be theft.

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Unfortunately it's not always practical to support everyone's views. If you don't like it, you can opt out and not have a television, but until they switch off the analogue signals, that's the only way. Television is hardly a fundamental human right or anything. Your example is, as I'm sure you're aware, ridiculous.

 

[Tobriand]

If somebody in the street gave me a brick and forced me to give him £100 whether I wanted it or not, that would be theft. If somebody gave me a photo of a brick, and forced me to give him £100 whether I wanted it or not, that would be theft. If somebody gave me a video of a brick and forced me to pay £100 for it whether I wanted it or not, that would be theft. If somebody broadcasted a video of theft to the entire nation, forcing me and everybody else to pay for it whether we like it or not, with government authority to fine up to X Thousand pounds if we don't pay and also broadcast around the world for free, that would be theft.

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Unfortunately it's not always practical to support everyone's views. If you don't like it, you can opt out and not have a television, but until they switch off the analogue signals, that's the only way. Television is hardly a fundamental human right or anything. Your example is, as I'm sure you're aware, ridiculous.

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And this is, in fact, precisely what I do - at least for this year; my entertainment comes primarily from the net anyways, these days.

As long as I own a colour TV, though, I'm quite happy to pay the license. It's just that I don't this year

 

[taras]

The BBC's online news service is impressive in its scale, but not in its content. The articles are fucking terrible, ill-informed, badly written curly gloops of cack. A million times worse than a tabloid.

 

[aapje89]

There'd probably be a good place for the GP2X among the BBC news staff if any of them ever left their desks. They could play the GP2X while travelling between the world's trouble hot-spots or while on the road tracking down corporate crime kingpins, but sadly what they call journalism generally involves cutting and pasting government propaganda and corporate press releases into MS Word, leaving them free to spend the rest of the day playing desk based consoles or snorting cocaine bought with kickbacks from their finance industry friends.

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sounds like a job for me ;P

 

[Trip]

Up until the last couple of years I had a real problem with having to pay the BBC, even if i watched the channels or not.
Over the last couple of years though they seem to have started to get they're acts together a bit.
The BBC radio site is pretty damn good & they're starting to open up the technology's used within the BBC to the general public & open source groups.
In the next 5 or so years they plan on releasing nearly every program made under the BBC name for download on the internet in DVD quality (or so they say).
This kind of change in the BBC will ease the pain of handing over my hard earned cash to them, but it won't make up for them having a completely crap news service

***EDIT***
Sorry! just re-read my post & what I meant to say is that the BBC news service is crap when it comes to politics.
The BBC's coverage on the other hand for technology & some more of the non main news stories are pretty good.
They tend to put more investigation into the non mainstream news.

 

[evening2005]

The BBC's online news service is impressive in its scale, but not in its content. The articles are fucking terrible, ill-informed, badly written curly gloops of cack. A million times worse than a tabloid.

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You forgot to add, "in my opinion". What you wrote is not true just because you think it is true. For example, I think that the BBC's online new service is excellent. I suspect that around the world it is respected more than just about any other news site.

 

[Horscht]

The BBC's online news service is impressive in its scale, but not in its content. The articles are fucking terrible, ill-informed, badly written curly gloops of cack. A million times worse than a tabloid.

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You forgot to add, "in my opinion". What you wrote is not true just because you think it is true. For example, I think that the BBC's online new service is excellent. I suspect that around the world it is respected more than just about any other news site.

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Well, the fact that he wrote it should be enough to point out it's his oppinion.

 

[Thunderchild]

Cool

B)

 

[reaper79]

Wow, a lot of people complaing about the BBC. You should try TV here in the States, is positively sucks ass, and I doubt you'll find too many people that disagree with me. I do get a channel that carries BBC broadcasts, and I think it is probably one of the best channels I have, along with BBC online.

 

[remowilliams]

You should try TV here in the States, is positively sucks ass, and I doubt you'll find too many people that disagree with me.

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Bingo!

If American TV is one of our largest "cultural" exports, it is no wonder that the rest of the world has such a low opinion of us. Well, that and everything else I suppose...

Most American TV appears to be made for people with two brain cells and three teeth.

Thank god for cable channels like History/Discovery, etc.

 

[Paradox]

very nice listen

 

[Paradox]

The BBC's online news service is impressive in its scale, but not in its content. The articles are fucking terrible, ill-informed, badly written curly gloops of cack. A million times worse than a tabloid.

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You forgot to add, "in my opinion". What you wrote is not true just because you think it is true. For example, I think that the BBC's online new service is excellent. I suspect that around the world it is respected more than just about any other news site.

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Well, the fact that he wrote it should be enough to point out it's his oppinion.

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actually, if you dont say "in my opinion" its quite rude, because it looks like you speak for everyone else in the world

edit: crap double post, sorry

 

[Lettuce Dude]

He called us CRAZY MOFOS whooo !!!!!!??????!!!!!!
what does that mean?? :blink: :huh:

 

[Horscht]

I loved how he said we don't steal from the rich but from each other.

Lettuce: MOFO is colloquial (heh) for the term "motherfu**er". Yet, in this sentence it means like "Crazy Uberleet peeps"

 

[Poobik The Hare]

In the next 5 or so years they plan on releasing nearly every program made under the BBC name for download on the internet in DVD quality (or so they say).
This kind of change in the BBC will ease the pain of handing over my hard earned cash to them, but it won't make up for them having a completely crap news service

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So your happy to force fund the BBC or face prison, while any other country on the planet can access the BBC for free (net) or for that matter across europe (sat and net).

v strange.

 

[Poobik The Hare]

Wow, a lot of people complaing about the BBC. You should try TV here in the States, is positively sucks ass, and I doubt you'll find too many people that disagree with me. I do get a channel that carries BBC broadcasts, and I think it is probably one of the best channels I have, along with BBC online.

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in the UK, upto 30 people are put in prison each year for not paying for the BBC, many 10's of thousands are fined upto £1000 with the majority being single parent families.

so please, enough of this BBC is wonderful shite. remember, while your enjoying your BBC, uk residents are forced to fund it, no if's or but's....

http://www.tvlicensing.biz/

 

[Poobik The Hare]

No sky tv is theft.
And to be honest I would much rather that everybody payed £100 to fund the BBC rather than the people that want it having to pay £250 per month or something.

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no one is forced to pay for Sky, but if you want Sky, you are forced to fund the BBC.

so give me that forced funding of the BBC back and it will go towards Sky, saving me £120+ quid a year.

me last rant on this topic...