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Don't go to Switzerland
| January 15th, 2015 at 12:07:47 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | The Swiss franc has been abandoned to speculators. Their export business and tourist business may collapse as only the ultra wealthy will be able to visit. The TV watching license fee is now over $450 a year in US dollars. |
| January 15th, 2015 at 12:48:58 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
They charge you to watch broadcast TV? And people pay it? If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| January 15th, 2015 at 12:58:08 PM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18213 |
Been the case in several places. The Brits have done it for years. The "Cat License" sketch on Monty Python where they talk about the "Cat Detector Van" is a spoof of the TV Detector Vans they use or used to use. Fail to pay and they will find you. If you are an expat I forget what they do but I think you get arrested as locals get what amounts to a traffic ticket but most expats would send an "up yours" card and go home without paying. The President is a fink. |
| January 15th, 2015 at 1:07:55 PM permalink | |
| petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Could you stand to lose 30% of your wealth in 13 minutes? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-15/market-chaos-swiss-franc-surges-30-13-minutes-gold-rises-sharply#comment-5666567 The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
| January 15th, 2015 at 1:33:56 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I never heard of such a thing, it's appalling. The airwaves are free, that's rather the point. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| January 15th, 2015 at 2:25:09 PM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18213 |
Free in the USA, not for the Brits. The President is a fink. |
| January 15th, 2015 at 2:33:53 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
I heard they have the same thing in the UK. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| January 15th, 2015 at 2:52:35 PM permalink | |
| TheCesspit Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 1929 |
The airwaves are free, the TV's are licenced. it's how the BBC is funded and operated... no adverts, just the TV licence fee (about 200 quid a year, I believe). EDIT : 145 pounds sterling. Airwave licencing has been a thing for years and across the world. Transmitters pay to use part of the bandwidth everywhere. In this case the recievers are paying instead. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life |
| January 15th, 2015 at 3:00:47 PM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
It's as ridiculous as charging for frequencies (there's no such thing as "airways"). But I believe this is a rather common practice in Europe. It was, or is, a common practice in Israel. I recall my aunt there telling me how people declared less sets than they owned, and for years hardly anyone admitted to owning a color set (can you imagine B&W TV???) Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
| January 15th, 2015 at 3:09:16 PM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | The zurich central bank will no longer have a cap on the exchange rate so the Swiss Franc rose and Turkish and Polish currencies fell. Many polish mortgages are denominated in Swiss Francs, after all who wants a Zloty? |