And Rube Shall Dance Naked in the Street
Posted by in Politics at 1:29 p.m. on Sept. 20th, 20060 Comments 0 Pings
Unless, of course, it’s chilly out. Got a reputation to keep, here, not only for myself. For America. But if this comes true, oh buddy:
The Gebühreneinzugszentrale (the fee collecting central office or GEZ) is now even coming under direct fire from German industry and other groups for its ridiculous plans to introduce computer fees starting next January. You can listen to the radio and watch TV with your PC now, get it? Pretty much everybody here, the politicians, as well (for once), see this move to milk anybody who owns a PC connected to the Internet (are there PCs still out there that aren’t?) for over 5 euros a month as an idea that is, well, not a very good one. The politicians won’t budge quite yet, but that might just change any day now.
As Clarsonimus points out, it’ll pretty much be a cold day in Hell before they shut down the milking machines, but still. The GEZ-verbrecher getting the tar-and-feathers treatment makes for a nice dream, doesn’t it?