Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: TV Lisence Message-ID: <317@talcott.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 14:48:27 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.317 Posted: Sun Mar 3 14:48:27 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 02:34:01 EST References: <326@abnji.UUCP> <831@ames.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Lines: 18 > > The BBC as a result > > does not require commercials. Given a choice of paying $75/year (I beleive > > the present fee for a colour TV is 56 pounds) or watching 16-20 minutes of > > comercials/hour, I'd pay the money. > > If you don't like commercials you can always watch PBS - a functional > equivalent of BBC. Of course, you also have 4-30 other channels to > choose from here and none there ... Oh, I too prefer paying money to watching commercials. But I also like to have twenty or thirty channels to choose from. In fact, I'm going to have both (unless I decide that any form of TV is a waste of time). Ever heard of cable television? --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "2*x^5-10*x+5=0 is not solvable by radicals." -Evariste Galois.