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Google informs me the TV license was introduced on June 1st, 1946.
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Hay alot of comercials on the intenet... A reason why it should be free!
I am waiting for the world to introduce us to a internet licence fee and drop the advertisment
I am waiting for the world to introduce us to a internet licence fee and drop the advertisment
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Use firefox, chrome or Safari. There are plugins for all three that block ads.
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It's a mandatory fee TV-owners have to pay to the government, about £150 (US$300?) per year. It basically funds the BBC, meaning we get high-quality programming from the BBC (from BBC News to Doctor Who) without intra-show advertisement.
I think people in the US would be up in arms if the White House thought about TV licenses, but it's well liked over here.
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How did they enforce the fee in the days of broadcast TV? If you had a TV and an antenna, the airwaves just flow in.
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How did they enforce the fee in the days of broadcast TV? If you had a TV and an antenna, the airwaves just flow in.
WE'RE SPYING IN YOUR HOME, MWAHAHAHA
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Seriously, what does that vehicle do? Is it possible to detect specific locations where broadcast airwaves are being received in "usable" form? Or did it just drive around neighborhoods looking for people with antenna on their roofs?
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The way an RF Receiver works (TVs are RF Receivers) is you take the incoming radio signal, and modulate(mix) it with a fixed frequency. This creates a new set of frequencies that can then be filtered & tuned.
But anyways, to detect a TV all you would have to do is set a "tuner" for the demodulating frequency, if you detect that, you've got a TV that is tuned to a channel.
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Everything that has a AC signal going through it is transmitting in some form.
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This is really for Wiccan Child but anyone can chime if you feel like providing an answer.
How do you see the crisis at Japan's Nuclear Plants ending?
How do you see the crisis at Japan's Nuclear Plants ending?
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A partial meltdown, and a crackdown on policy (including not building a nuclear power plant on a fault line). There's also a pretty high risk of nuclear fallout reaching the Americas, but I don't think it will be anywhere near as bad as the media is making out, certainly not on par with Chernobyl.
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Thank you WC.
I guess I should have worded my question better.
What will be the natural ending for the fuel rods?
Like, continuously flushing them with water, breaking them down somehow, entombment, transporting them, etc?
I guess I should have worded my question better.
What will be the natural ending for the fuel rods?
Like, continuously flushing them with water, breaking them down somehow, entombment, transporting them, etc?
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The fuel rods will probably be dumped underwater. The seawater used as emergency coolant destroys the reactors and the fuel rods, so they can't be re-purposed, but they're still dangerous.
So, yea, they'll be continuously cooled, most of the more critical ones with seawater or boric acid (the former being abundant, the latter being a good neutron absorber), and then they'll be put somewhere safe.
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