British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
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Re: British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
#2Tangent: disturbing to see the BBC thinking they're going to get far by paywalling quasi-randomly in North America. At least right now it's trivial to ignore.
Re: British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
#3Tangent: disturbing to see the BBC thinking they're going to get far by paywalling quasi-randomly in North America. At least right now it's trivial to ignore.
Disturbing? In what sense? Other news sources are paywalled and UK citizens have to pay in tax.
Re: British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
#4Tangent: disturbing to see the BBC thinking they're going to get far by paywalling quasi-randomly in North America. At least right now it's trivial to ignore.
Disturbing? In what sense? Other news sources are paywalled and UK citizens have to pay in tax.
Wait what? Is the NYT not paywalled somewhere?
Re: British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
#5Tangent: disturbing to see the BBC thinking they're going to get far by paywalling quasi-randomly in North America. At least right now it's trivial to ignore.
Disturbing? In what sense? Other news sources are paywalled and UK citizens have to pay in tax.
I'm not seeing this particular paywall, but disturbing in that the BBC is so awful and stupid at this, presumably.
For many years I would have gladly paid the BBC $20/mo for some way to legally watch Top Gear and Doctor Who. That's it, just two shows and I'll give you more than I give Netflix. They never offered a single legal mechanism available to US citizens, so, well.....don't admit to crimes on the internet and all that.
Re: British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
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Re: British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
#7Pretty sure there's more than enough in Australia.
Re: British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
#8Tangent: disturbing to see the BBC thinking they're going to get far by paywalling quasi-randomly in North America. At least right now it's trivial to ignore.
Disturbing? In what sense? Other news sources are paywalled and UK citizens have to pay in tax.
An increasing proportion of UK citizens are deciding not to pay for a TV licence that funds the BBC as consumption patterns have changed.
The BBC will be a zombie in 10 years unless they stop being emotionally driven and sort out their funding.
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This bonmot sounded cool and fun years ago, but not anymore. It is actually OK and desirable for governments to help, to organize and to lead toward positive outcome. Governments should do more then just pay military, prisons and police.
Deliberate destruction and expectation of nothing positive from the governments already caused enough damage.
Re: British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disturbing? In what sense? Other news sources are paywalled and UK citizens have to pay in tax.
I'm not seeing this particular paywall, but disturbing in that the BBC is so awful and stupid at this, presumably. For many years I would have gladly paid the BBC $20/mo for some way to legally watch Top Gear and Doctor Who. That's it, just two shows and I'll give you more than I give Netflix. They never offered a single legal mechanism available to US citizens, so, well.....don't admit to crimes on the internet and…
Have you tried BritBox? It seems to show Doctor Who, but ironically, being in the UK I'm unable to access their site to see specific details.