Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:33:36 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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On 31/01/2025 07:09, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:

I grew up with 2.5 TV stations ... the 0.5
   was more distant and only came in OK if the weather was just right.

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In the UK we had BBC with state propaganda and ITV with soap powder
adverts.
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And really only BBC radio stations were receivable with any quality,
although after dark we could listen to rock and roll on Radio
Luxembourg.
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The brodcasting from moored ships that were outside legal UK limits
started and things improved

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Do you still have a tax on TV receivers and wardens hunting down the
violators?

Haha. In sweden this system existed until maybe 10 years ago or so. It was painfully obvious that very few people paid the tax and that the hunters never were able to catch people except the move naive ones.
So the politician simply added the public tv tax to people income tax. So everyone pays for the pile of sh*t, even if you don't have a tv in your home.