Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!haven!mimsy!fe2o3!michael From: michael@fe2o3.UUCP (Michael Katzmann) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Television detection. Message-ID: <292@fe2o3.UUCP> Date: 29 Jan 90 17:10:09 GMT References: <2981@servax0.essex.ac.uk> <1273@otc.otca.oz> Reply-To: michael@fe2o3.UUCP (Michael Katzmann) Organization: Rusty's BSD machine at home Lines: 32 In article <1273@otc.otca.oz> brendan@otc.otca.oz (Brendan Jones) writes: >in article <2981@servax0.essex.ac.uk>, zotog@sersun0.essex.ac.uk (Zotos G) says: >> In UK they use a system (detector, presumably a sort of receiver) to detect >> a non-licence TV household. > >Is this true???? I can't believe that you still need a licence in the UK to >own a TV set (or perhaps use one?). TV licences were scrapped in Australia >in the late '60s, and from what we hear in Oz about Maggie's right wing Free >Market society I would have thought such an antiquated and absurd impost >would have gone long ago. >-- Actually Australia got rid of the Licence fee in 1973 because it was a regressive tax. i.e. the fee as a percentage of your income was higher for a low income earner than for the more affluent. The government of the day was concerned for the ordinary citizen (A rare thing). Somehow I don't think those sort of inequalities matter very much to the Thatchers of this world. --------------------------------------------------------------------- email to UUCP: uunet!mimsy!{arinc,fe203}!vk2bea!michael _ _ _ _ Amateur | VK2BEA (Australia) ' ) ) ) / // Radio | G4NYV (United Kingdom) / / / o _. /_ __. _ // Stations| NV3Z (United States) / ' (_<_(__/ /_(_/|_