Doesn't the BBC get it's money from TV's people have. If you have no TV you pay nothing, but if you do, you pay for each one you have?
No you only pay one licence regardless of how many TV's you have.
Commercials don't bother me at all. That's what a DVR is for, to just skip them all. Hell now with my Tivo Roamio and it's new update I can hit the green button once and it'll skip them all and start right at the end of all the commercials. I get my TV with a Antenna and so pay ZERO for TV service per month!!!
And most of them are part of the same Islamic axis as Turkey - but only Turkey pretends at the same time to be a secular democracy that could join the EU one day.
Also a lot of that money only gets through because Turkey lets it.
Only Turkey actually directly supports ISIS by attacking the Kurds - who have been one of the most effective forces on the ground against ISIS.
Were you out of the loop about the whole US government funding, training and supplying weapons to the "moderates"
Well I'd say that the US would admit(at least privately) that this was a mistake* - whereas for Turkey it is actually deliberate policy.
*Unless you actually believe the whole "Obama is a closet Muslim..." conspiracy nonsense.
BBC don't have any ads at all - I guess that is the difference. Maybe the BBC is a kind of happy accident that has largely avoided toeing the governmnt line despite being publicly funded.
What bothered me was that the arguments you made were very reminiscent of the Murdoch press' attempts to bring down the BBC - when of course the Murdoch press is more biased than just about any other mainstream media outlet.
. That means it is financed by every German household with a part of the mandatory payment of about €20 per household and month Like the BBC then. The function of these channels is to keep the provate channels honest - without them the private channels fill up with ads at an annoyance level that is beyond funny as I rediscover anytime I watch television outside the UK.
The real risk with the publicly funded channels is government interference - and since this particular video is also taking a sideswipe at Merkel I don't think there seems to be a problem there.
Many, perhaps most, definitions do mention race at some point - and I still maintain that this is in practice the most common usage. This applies particularly in the UK in relation to those who complain about immigrants - as in the Gordon Brown/Gillian Duffy incident.
Dictionaries often don't capture the most common current usage of a word - because part of their mission is to educate. As I'm usually on the side of the dictionary in these debates I feel a bit odd arguing the other way on this one.
btw - I am not the AC above - just trying to explain why he said what he said.
Objectively the US is just as bad but in different ways. We don't have the aggressive plea bargaining culture that you have. We don't have the executions that you have. We don't have to be in fear of our lives if a traffic policeman stops us like you do - because our policemen are not armed. (I would say that this forces them to do the job better).
So NO the UK is no worse than the US - and in any ways better.
If the US was better for freedom and justice then there would never have been the high profile cases where people tried to avoid being extradited there from the UK or other european countries.
Hmm I seem to remember Gordon Brown coming to grief for accusing someone of being a bigot. On that occasion the press and public sided with the "bigot". This time
I think it might be a good idea to refrain from using that word because it generally shows that you are no better than the person you are accusing.
The USA is one of the only places, maybe the only place, where free speech is enshrined in the a founding document. The UK does not have such a commitment as far as I know.
The UK does not have a written constitution and hence there could not be such a written commitment - but that doesn't mean that we don't have a commitment to free speech.
The fact that people in the US are constantly arguing about what the constitutional right actually means in practice shows to me that having it written down doesn't make a whole lot of difference.
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However the Swiss have a high gun related suicide rate.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/switzerland-s-troubling-record-of-suicide/8301804
In fact even if guns did reduce crime (which they don't) it is likely that the difference would be more than compensated by suicides and accidents.
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You should see the uproar when there is even the vaguest hint of her actually exercising that power.
No the fact is that the Royal Family has been tolerated only on the basis that they don't interfere.
The Royal family would be out very quickly if the failed to maintain that neutrality.
They nearly went before Victoria and during the Edward VIII episode.
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No you only pay one licence regardless of how many TV's you have.
Commercials don't bother me at all. That's what a DVR is for, to just skip them all. Hell now with my Tivo Roamio and it's new update I can hit the green button once and it'll skip them all and start right at the end of all the commercials. I get my TV with a Antenna and so pay ZERO for TV service per month!!!
If everyone was like you there would be no TV.
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This is the US remember!
FTFY
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Well if that were true he would happily accept extradition to the US wouldn't he.
The fact he doesn't want to go there sort of proves that the US is worse - doesn't it.
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And most of them are part of the same Islamic axis as Turkey - but only Turkey pretends at the same time to be a secular democracy that could join the EU one day.
Also a lot of that money only gets through because Turkey lets it.
Only Turkey actually directly supports ISIS by attacking the Kurds - who have been one of the most effective forces on the ground against ISIS.
Were you out of the loop about the whole US government funding, training and supplying weapons to the "moderates"
Well I'd say that the US would admit(at least privately) that this was a mistake* - whereas for Turkey it is actually deliberate policy.
*Unless you actually believe the whole "Obama is a closet Muslim..." conspiracy nonsense.
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What bothered me was that the arguments you made were very reminiscent of the Murdoch press' attempts to bring down the BBC - when of course the Murdoch press is more biased than just about any other mainstream media outlet.
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Re: NDR = German Gov channel
Like the BBC then.
The function of these channels is to keep the provate channels honest - without them the private channels fill up with ads at an annoyance level that is beyond funny as I rediscover anytime I watch television outside the UK.
The real risk with the publicly funded channels is government interference - and since this particular video is also taking a sideswipe at Merkel I don't think there seems to be a problem there.
Who is paying you? Murdoch or Erdogan?
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I'm surprised
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Including sticking to the proper definition/usage of words!
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Dictionaries often don't capture the most common current usage of a word - because part of their mission is to educate. As I'm usually on the side of the dictionary in these debates I feel a bit odd arguing the other way on this one.
btw - I am not the AC above - just trying to explain why he said what he said.
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By implication when the word bigotry, which is usually associated with racism, is used to describe anti-islam sentiments.
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Bigotry is a term we use in order to dehumanise a political opponent.
FTFY
We use the term when we want to deny an argument without taking the trouble to actually address it.
In other words accusing someone else of bigotry is usually a form of bigotry.
In order to truly eliminate bigotry we must first fix the plank in our own eye and stop using the word.
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So NO the UK is no worse than the US - and in any ways better.
If the US was better for freedom and justice then there would never have been the high profile cases where people tried to avoid being extradited there from the UK or other european countries.
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Re: Bigotry and public perception.
"This time they seem to have gone the other way."
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Bigotry and public perception.
I think it might be a good idea to refrain from using that word because it generally shows that you are no better than the person you are accusing.
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The UK does not have a written constitution and hence there could not be such a written commitment - but that doesn't mean that we don't have a commitment to free speech.
The fact that people in the US are constantly arguing about what the constitutional right actually means in practice shows to me that having it written down doesn't make a whole lot of difference.
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I think that that was one of the conclusions of the experiment.
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