To quote Harry Enfield (uk comedian) spoofing a british politician when describing europe (eeuurp = europe):
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"Eeuurp; it's a bit like a train service- it's better to be on the train, standing on the seat pissing out of the window, rather than running alongside on the platform trying to piss in..."
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Ok, so email/sms tax *yawn* why do I pay my ISP for webspace/email space and a certain number of email address aliases then? Obviously it's not enought to pay for something just
once, I mean, who ever heard of such a daft thing?
I can see the similarity with how I run my car: pay road tax, congestion charges, parking fees, toll roads, petrol (and VAT on that), pay twice for an MOT and retest...
I think I can see where this is going- it would potentially turn my home unternet* use into the same format as we're getting at work - no swearing in email, no viewing pages labeled as 'suspect' by the IT admin whos' first language isn't even english so how can you choose content properly?
Better yet, why don't I just go and live in the peoples republic of china... then I can get all the civil oppression many governing bodies seem so keen on, and then some
*my new name for the internet -things seem to be moving backwards in this area- good freely accessible stuff is being ripped off to make a fast buck. So much for that, it can only get more restrictive/ in the end, not less. Expect the 'overseer' to be forwarding a memmo to the didgi-pigs to pay me a visit in the small hours
