Omega Owners Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Welcome to OOF

Pages: [1] 2 3  All   Go Down

Author Topic: Internet tax-wtf  (Read 2587 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

threppence

  • Junior Member
  • **
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Leeds
  • Posts: 141
    • View Profile
Internet tax-wtf
« on: 09 December 2009, 15:44:39 »
Logged
When INJUSTICE becomes LAW,

RESISTANCE becomes DUTY

waspy

  • Guest
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #1 on: 09 December 2009, 15:48:31 »
Once ALL homes have "super fast broadband" will the tax stop?????????
Logged

tunnie

  • Get A Life!!
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Surrey
  • Posts: 37573
    • Zafira Tourer & BMW 435i
    • View Profile
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #2 on: 09 December 2009, 15:48:59 »
£6 a month i would be angry, but not £6 a year.....
Logged

threppence

  • Junior Member
  • **
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Leeds
  • Posts: 141
    • View Profile
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #3 on: 09 December 2009, 16:01:02 »
I thought that it was private companies and not the govt that installed cable etc and then charged a subscription fee for access.

Am I wrong??

Logged
When INJUSTICE becomes LAW,

RESISTANCE becomes DUTY

Kevin Wood

  • Global Moderator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Alton, Hampshire
  • Posts: 36418
    • Jaguar XE 25t, Westfield
    • View Profile
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #4 on: 09 December 2009, 16:09:42 »
Scrappage scheme for your "household boiler" too. Should promote some interesting debate. ::)

Kevin
Logged
Tech2 services currently available. See TheBoy's price list: http://theboy.omegaowners.com/

Radiomarko

  • Intermediate Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Sunny Devon
  • Posts: 323
    • View Profile
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #5 on: 09 December 2009, 16:28:59 »
This "stealth tax" is in my humble opinion, nothing to do with rolling out BB to rural areas.

Rather its to pay for parts of the much more scary and relatively unknown project requiring the retention by Internet Service Providers of details of who I send my emails to and when. Also the websites I visit, texts I send, phonecalls, VOIP... and anything else that they care to retain as well that may be outside the scope of the project but is planned for a future upgrade. Government will be able to access this remotely, without me knowing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7819230.stm

Orwellian or what?          :-/
Logged
I hate seagulls.   

threppence

  • Junior Member
  • **
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Leeds
  • Posts: 141
    • View Profile
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #6 on: 09 December 2009, 17:04:00 »
Quote
This "stealth tax" is in my humble opinion, nothing to do with rolling out BB to rural areas.

Rather its to pay for parts of the much more scary and relatively unknown project requiring the retention by Internet Service Providers of details of who I send my emails to and when. Also the websites I visit, texts I send, phonecalls, VOIP... and anything else that they care to retain as well that may be outside the scope of the project but is planned for a future upgrade. Government will be able to access this remotely, without me knowing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7819230.stm

Orwellian or what?          :-/

My daughter is doing 1984 as set text for english.Having read the book many years ago and re-read now it's quite chilling to be able to equate alot of Orwells masterpeice with current events

Endless war, big brother, slavery is freedom, thought crimes and newspeak.
Quite a visionary
Logged
When INJUSTICE becomes LAW,

RESISTANCE becomes DUTY

hotel21

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • The Kingdom of Fife
  • Posts: 13021
    • View Profile
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #7 on: 09 December 2009, 17:44:05 »
Quote
Scrappage scheme for your "household boiler" too. Should promote some interesting debate. ::)

Kevin


My one does the washing and ironing as well as making my work lunch pieces too.....  Any of these new fangled models come complete with that attachment?? 

 ;D   :P
Logged

hotel21

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • The Kingdom of Fife
  • Posts: 13021
    • View Profile
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #8 on: 09 December 2009, 17:46:04 »
Quote
Quote
This "stealth tax" is in my humble opinion, nothing to do with rolling out BB to rural areas.

Rather its to pay for parts of the much more scary and relatively unknown project requiring the retention by Internet Service Providers of details of who I send my emails to and when. Also the websites I visit, texts I send, phonecalls, VOIP... and anything else that they care to retain as well that may be outside the scope of the project but is planned for a future upgrade. Government will be able to access this remotely, without me knowing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7819230.stm

Orwellian or what?          :-/

My daughter is doing 1984 as set text for english.Having read the book many years ago and re-read now it's quite chilling to be able to equate alot of Orwells masterpeice with current events

Endless war, big brother, slavery is freedom, thought crimes and newspeak.
Quite a visionary

So did I, 40 years ago!!!   ;D

Suppose whats goes around comes around, in more ways than one....   ::)
« Last Edit: 09 December 2009, 17:46:23 by hotel21 »
Logged

rob in gib

  • Senior Member
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Plymouth
  • Posts: 584
    • Jaguar S type 3.0
    • View Profile
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #9 on: 09 December 2009, 17:52:06 »
wtf sounds like another stealth tax to me
makes me mad and i dont pay uk taxes
Logged
Just chilling in the sun. I wish back in the rain like everybody else

Andy B

  • Get A Life!!
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Bury Lancs
  • Posts: 39778
    • ML350 TDM SmartRoadster
    • View Profile
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #10 on: 09 December 2009, 17:52:15 »
Quote
.....
So did I, 40 years ago!!!   ;D

Suppose whats goes around comes around, in more ways than one....   ::)

And me! It wasn't quite that long back for me, but 1984 was still in the future at the time!  ;D  ;D  ;D
Logged

MickAP

  • Omega Knight
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • South Derbyshire
  • Posts: 1386
  • Facelift 2.5TD Estate "Chipped" not anymore
    • View Profile
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #11 on: 09 December 2009, 17:58:58 »
And what do they define as a landline?
I've got cable telephone, which comes free with my package.

Mick
Logged

KillerWatt

  • Guest
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #12 on: 09 December 2009, 19:45:04 »
Quote
£6 a month i would be angry, but not £6 a year.....
That is exactly the sort of attitude that brought us things like "safety" camera's, CRB checks (which mean f**k all), and a whole host of other crap that most of the populace readily accept these days (although it wouldn't have been tolerated 20 years ago).
Logged

Richie London

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • heathrow
  • Posts: 10932
    • View Profile
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #13 on: 09 December 2009, 19:57:53 »
Quote
Quote
£6 a month i would be angry, but not £6 a year.....
That is exactly the sort of attitude that brought us things like "safety" camera's, CRB checks (which mean f**k all), and a whole host of other crap that most of the populace readily accept these days (although it wouldn't have been tolerated 20 years ago).

then it will rise again and again and again. just like petrol does. the taxman knows people cant live without broadband and cant do break all about it.
Logged

jereboam

  • Omega Knight
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Suffolk
  • Posts: 1786
    • 1999 Omega Elite 3.0
    • View Profile
Re: Internet tax-wtf
« Reply #14 on: 09 December 2009, 20:02:51 »
Just two questions:

What do they mean by "superfast"? 

Which 90% of the UK population?
Logged
I can be handy mending a fuse - but stuff the Isle of Wight
Pages: [1] 2 3  All   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Page created in 0.019 seconds with 16 queries.