Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> PS. In theory if you don't own a TV you don't have to pay for a TV 
> license. In reality, *everybody* has to pay. If you so much as own a 
> toaster which contains a CPU with is hypothetically powerful enough to 
> run a TCP/IP stack, they will argue that you could mod your toaster to 
> watch TV, so you need a TV license.

  That's nothing. In Finland they are passing a law that every single
household has to pay for TV. Yes, even people who don't own any kind of
TV nor computer and are blind and deaf at the same time.

  And yes, every household pays a fixed sum. That means that if you live
alone you will be, effectively paying double than your neighbor who is
living with his/her spouse (at least if both of them have a job).

  Also if we proportionate the fixed sum to your yearly income, it means
that the poorer you are, the more you have to pay relative to your income.
For some people this can be a rather large sum of money.

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