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Exactly
I have been through this every few years with the licensing authorities and I am perfectly within the law 
It also takes me out of the realm of chavdom by not having a 10foot flatscreen tv.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Interesting
However, And how do they judge if you're using the pc (or whatever else) to just watch "catch-up services"? Here they just bill you because you could use it not because you actually do use it. You can't really prove that you don't watch live tv or listen to live radio on the internet, therefore you pay.
Don't get me wrong. I'm in no way defending this decision. I rarely use tv or radio at all. Least of all to watch those channels which are getting the money from this tax. So I'm just shoving my money down their throats for nothing 
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You have to pay the UK TV licence fee even if you don't actually switch on the TV so that is the same kind of idea.
However, when I consider what I pay for cable over here in the US and get a 1,000 channels of crap with adverts every 5 minutes the licence fee for the BBC seem super cheap and totally worth it - I miss it terribly.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You can watch it here[^]. It's worth it.
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Cool, thanks! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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Excellent I scored boyfriend points by sending the gf a cheeky link to video, cheers!
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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You just lost as many man points by admitting you care about boyfriend points though.
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I've never watched this show.
I guess I'm going to have to watch it if I'm going to hang out around here.
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Well, it's about time. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It is obviously a huge cultural touchstone.
Should a person start with first episode?
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You'd be extremely lucky if you could - the BBC destroyed many of the early episodes back in the 60s and 70s when they were recycling tape. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I knew the BBC was run by commies.
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If one cared too, the entire series is available on various torrents.
My personal take is that the earlier stories were far better. Special effects sucked, but the stores and characters were much better. The new stories, in my opinion, are too faced paced and short, targeting the limited attention span of the current generation.
The general (albeit not universal) opinion is that the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) is the best.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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When I posted this goto statement[^] comment I didn't think it would grow as such. I think I touched a deeply controversial topic in the development world.
I then suggested on CodeProject to vote regarding GOTO and they replied on me with this old vote[^]
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... so ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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So you got told to GOTO the old vote?
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This happens all the time... Goto here[^] please.
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My first program had a goto statement in it:
<br />
10 CLS<br />
20 PRINT "HA HA HA!"<br />
30 GOTO 20<br />
Heh 
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What, no dependency injection? I like it - this is the future.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Tarek Elqusi wrote: I then suggested on CodeProject to vote regarding GOTO and they Leslie Nielsen replied on me with this old vote[^]
Strive for more accuracy in the details,
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I saw a sign in a shop window today - The local Brownies group are having a cake sale this weekend down at the Church Hall.
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:Groan:
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Crumbs... 
/ravi
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Tarek Elqusi wrote: I think I touched a deeply controversial topic in the development world.
It's a topic that has been "discussed" once too often.
While it has its uses in procedural languages, it rarely has one in a modern OO language. Its use is discouraged simply because it makes it hard to follow the programs' flow, often resulting in what is known as spaghetti-code. A simple mind would summon that up as "goto is bad". The best practice nowadays would be ravioli-code.
What controverse?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: What controverse?
Tabs. You definitely should use tabs instead of spaces.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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