Right it's seems really silly.
What if you buy your pc in parts ? Maybe they will make a table with quota of % that your CPU or memory represents in the total fee :) Heeee ? :)
By the way, I don't pay Billag since iv'e told them 1) that my TV cannot be connected to an Antenna because the building where I live haven't any, and 2) that I my car radio has no antenna connected to, so in both cases, i'm not able to receive any media.
I guess as long as they really have no clue about what they are doing, you could say something as : " my tv runs only shell sessions, I have no GUI interface as windows or X, I have no sound card, so I'm not able to use any video / audio media on the internet. "
But still, the idea is really stupid. (right I was typing silly at the top of the answer, but I'm starting to wake up ... ;)
My 2 coppers :)
Steven Glogger wrote:
...at least the germans are paying less then billag is asking... but imho: it's pure idiotic to collect a fee for a pc...
-steven
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roman Hochuli Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 10:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [swinog] Is Billag the next one following this idea...?
Hey Guys
Take a look at [1] (unfortunatly in german).
The germans are planning to collect the GEZ-Fee (the same thing as we are referring as "Billag Geb�hren" in Switzerland) for every internet capable PC (even for companies!).
IMO they are crazy but don't tell our swiss counterpart of Rundfunk Bundesamt or they will pick up the idea as well... :-|
[1] http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/51982
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