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'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

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Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

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Post by marshmallow_12 »

agd wrote: post #31
prepend wrote: post #24

Off topic, but BBC blocks me because I use iPhone’s Adblock. BBC is government funded with a mission to inform the British people. Why would they require ad viewing and default to not showing news without ads? Seems against their mission. For profit news I understand as the whole “maximize shareholder equity” thing, but when government news sources use these anti-consumer tactics it’s depressing to me.

BBC is free to UK viewers but ad-supported for international viewers. This seems fair to me as UK citizens are the ones funding it.

exactly! we don't want just anyone reading OUR news for free;) (I'm a bit horrible that i'm happy because someone else is having a worse internet experience then me. I'll try and work on myself.)

Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

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Post by marshmallow_12 »

hardlianotion wrote: post #49
londons_explore wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> required to be completely editorially independent. Although historically it seems very rare that the BBC view on any international politics differs from that of the UK government. Hopefully that's because both cater to the views of the British public, but it also seems possible that there is some kind of informal backchannel going on...

> Although historically it seems very rare that the BBC view on any international politics differs from that of the UK government. I know a lot of Britishers that would dispute this version of affairs. To my mind the typical BBC point of view is mildly left-of-centre, well-to-do and urban.

>To my mind the typical BBC point of view is mildly left-of-centre, well-to-do and urban.

sounds accurate.

Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

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Post by midrus »

ridaj wrote: post #66

I sort of freaked out the first time I saw something like this. Then Wikipedia held my hand and said everything was OK and this even has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)

"...The optical phenomenon occurs because rays of light are bent when they pass through air layers of different temperatures in a steep thermal inversion where an atmospheric duct has formed..."

To me that's the most Men In Black explanation I've ever heard.

Definitely confirms this is aliens.

Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

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Post by M2Ys4U »

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #45
M2Ys4U wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The BBC is not a government news source. It's not even funded by the UK government.[0] It is - by law[1] - required to be completely editorially independent. The BBC is primarily funded by the TV Licence. The licence is levvied on anyone who watches live TV (any live TV) or uses BBC's SVoD service, BBC iPlayer. The BBC does operate a commercial subsidiary (BBC Studios), and the main BBC does have other revenue source…

The TV license is a tax imposed by the government, ergo the BBC is funded by the UK government.

>The TV license is a tax imposed by the government

The requirement to hold a licence is a statutory one. Likewise, payment of the fee must, by law, be made to the BBC, and enforcement of the licensing regime must be done by (or on behalf of) the BBC.

Thus, it is Parliament, not the government, that imposes the tax.

(Yes, I know that all taxes must have a statutory basis, but this is one that is levied outside of the usual budgetary process using Finance Acts (the passage of which are traditionally considered confidence votes), and the TV Licence is not considered by government as part of its annual budget).

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