All posts by Peter
Below are all of Peter's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
I remember seeing Ceefax at the Science Museum back in the 1980, and I still didn't have a TV with a text facility.
I use the news and weather pages on the BBC text service every morning to get a 'flavour' of the day, although some of the news summaries appear to have been written by a pupil on work experience. I also check my lottery ticket via this medium just in case I've become a millionaire overnight. It's useful for sports results, exchange rates and so on.
I'd be sad see it go; it's much more convenient than 'firing up' the 'puter in the morning.
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Peter Newlands, I'm still getting the BBC text service via my Humax +Box. I don't think it was available on the BBC HD channels a few years ago, but I've discovered that it is now.As for the licence fee, it is a licence to watch TV, so even if you never watch a single BBC programme, you still have to pay, which is what so many of us find unreasonable. If I do all my shopping at Sainsbury's and only walk past a Tesco store on my way there, would it be reasonable for the government to insist that I also I pay Tesco because it is available to me? The senior managers at the BBC claim their salaries are 'only' what they'd be paid at other companies although the BBC doesn't need to worry about ratings in any real free-market sense.
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Questions:Why is there an American flag at the end of my post, (I'm in London, using a Yorkshire ISP)?Why is my previous post in one paragraph despite having started a new paragraph after "... discovered that it is now."?Is there some trickery I need to engage in for it to display as intended?
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I was 'hounded' although I'd changed my licence on line as soon as I moved. TV Licensing kept sending letters addressed to me at my old address saying that they had no record of said property being licensed. Of course they didn't, I'd moved. When I e-mailed them, they, quite incredibly, told me that they found they got a better response if they wrote to a named person! So someone would open the previous owner's mail bearing TV Licensing branding and get themselves a licence?Since these letters can be used as supporting documents in identity theft I pointed out to TV Licensing that I'd hold them responsible and sue for all costs plus generous compensation should my identity be stolen. They responded immediately and said no further correspondence would be sent to me at my old address.
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Saturday 19 September 2015 3:30PM
I was really disappointed with both surveys; not once was I asked my sexual orientation or ethnicity. That is the least one expects of any survey these days, even the local council asks such basic, yet important, details when consulting regarding moving a pedestrian crossing a few yards.