Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: chuckers Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: I was interviewed about the Tohoku disaster Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:13:25 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 29 Message-ID: Reply-To: fj.life.in-japan@googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.36.179.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1301555605 3252 127.0.0.1 (31 Mar 2011 07:13:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:13:25 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.36.179.50; posting-account=iPkvIwoAAAAK9uQVY7lJ0Hck6k8yfmjW User-Agent: G2/1.0 Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169821 On Thursday, March 31, 2011 3:32:59 PM UTC+9, The 2-Belo wrote: > We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Declan Murphy > has exploded. Flight director confirms that: > > >On Mar 30, 9:32?am, The 2-Belo > >wrote: > >> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Declan Murphy > >> has exploded. Flight director confirms that: > >> > >> >NHK's budget should come out of general tax revenue, > >> >in much the same way as Australia's ABC. > >> > >> I once thought this way, but the way I see it, in its current state NHK doesn't > >> have to worry about the government slashing funding somewhere down the line, > >> like the United States is currently trying to do with PBS. (Someone correct me > >> if I've got it wrong here...) I sort of considered the fees a "TV tax" anyway, > >> and admittedly my family and I watch a whole hell of a lot of NHK. > > > >I guess it is conceivable that sometime/somehow in the future funding > >could be slashed, though unlikely. Not sure whether how much that > >small army of licence fee collectors are paid, but would imagine there > >is some room for economizing. > > Now that they've instituted a bank account withdrawal system to make it more > painless and keep it in the background, I figured they'd reduced the number of > collectors. I've got to think that's been less of a financial burden on them. > I believe they did, in fact, get rid of the people that came around every other month (or whatever) for collections. They still send people around to find new blood, however.