On 2/26/01 11:25 AM, "Peter Boisseau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> From: "Christian M. M. Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> On 2/26/01 9:09 AM, "Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>> Again, pa shaw! Pa shaw to the paranoiacs who think that some white van
>>> outside is "reading the flux" on their monitors.
>>
>> Well, I don't know about reading the flux, but in England there are white
>> vans that go around "reading" whether or not you have a TV in your house
>> (via signals of some sort I assume) and, if you have not paid your TV
>> license, they will then send you a fine.
>
> You're referring to those nice people who work out of Bristol called TV
> Licensing. And yes, they can read your TV - tell you which channel you're
> watching, the whole nine yards - while parked outside in a van. The BBC
> (British Broadcasting Corporation) doesn't carry advertising, but is funded
> via a license fee, which all TV owners have to pay. This, and the method of
> detection, has been standard in the UK since time forgot.
And seemed mildly unfair to a struggling graduate student just trying to get
a bit of telly! ;-) The license seemed cheaper than the fine in the end...
;>)
Cb
cbrady @ tulane.edu
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