well, in denmark we pay a license to be able to watch the national tv, and listen to national radio stations, but they did decide that it now had to be a media license, because it was possible to listen to them online, and see different programmes online, so now if you have a computer, but no tv, or, a multimedia phone, you will have to pay what equals to 210 pounds a year. talk about stupid laws.
<br><br>Fabian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 25, 2008 12:43 AM, Richard Reichenbacher <<a href="mailto:richard5@email.arizona.edu">richard5@email.arizona.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
No direspect or anything but that's probably the dumbest tax I've ever<br>heard of.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>On Jan 24, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Steven Le Roux <<a href="mailto:steven@le-roux.info">
steven@le-roux.info</a>> wrote:<br><br>> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:19:46 +0100, "Alexey Feldgendler" <<a href="mailto:alexey@feldgendler.ru">alexey@feldgendler.ru</a><br>> > wrote:<br>>> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:07:23 +0100, Steven Le Roux <
<a href="mailto:steven@le-roux.info">steven@le-roux.info</a><br>>> ><br>>> wrote:<br>>><br>>>> France is about to taxe smartphone which provide 3 features :<br>>>><br>>>> - At least 128mo internal memory (neo will have 256)
<br>>>> - at least one touch/key dedicated to audio playing (what about a<br>>>> touchscreen ?)<br>>>> - mp3 or video playing<br>>><br>>> Neo doesn't have keys dedicated to anything except turning it on
<br>>> and off.<br>>> A touch screen is a versatile controller with areas assigned to<br>>> different<br>>> features at different times, with no part of it being dedicated to<br>>> anything in particular. So it cannot be said that Neo has a control
<br>>> dedicated to audio playing.<br>>><br>> They are discussing about conditions and taxe for less than these 3<br>> cases (for example only mp3 playing hability)<br>><br>> And the screentouch case is the same for iphone I think... and
<br>> iphone is clearly taxed for them.<br>><br>>><br>>> --<br>>> Alexey Feldgendler <<a href="mailto:alexey@feldgendler.ru">alexey@feldgendler.ru</a>><br>>> [ICQ: 115226275] <a href="http://feldgendler.livejournal.com" target="_blank">
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