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Jul 3, 2015 at 1:19 PM | It doesn't add up...
here is the weather station I assume, and I can't see any wind. It looks like it generally drops overnight until the morning. If you want to do it for TV reasons why not just say so.
http://www.wunderground.com/us/hi/kalaeloa
Rob Burton
Solar Impulse is currently flying around in circles about 100-150 miles short of its destination.
We're informed this is so they can land at dawn (around 5 p.m. BST), when the cross-winds allegedly will die down, rather than risking a night time landing.
It couldn't possibly have anything to do with getting some pretty pictures in time for the evening news bulletins in Europe, could it?
Would the BBC pay them to land *live* on the Six? Will they switch from Childrens' TV to carry the event otherwise?
Would you want to fly in a plane that can only land in daylight hours?
It doesn't add up...
Stewgreen:
I'm sure the BBC pension fund actuaries will have advised them on how much extra contributions would be required as a consequence of their investment strategy - it is their fiduciary duty - and so licence fee income will have been budgeted for that purpose. OTOH, I suspect the BBC is genuinely shocked to discover that people are no longer consuming its output. I note that the ONS now report an increasing number of households with no TV.
It doesn't add up...
Jamesp
Re detector vans they claim to know which channel you were watching so they must tune into the Local Oscillator in the TV set. I expect cable send composite video so no LO. ( I don't know how the satellite signal is processed but no doubt some one on this blog can fill in the gaps). If they scrap all the repeats they could manage with just two channels or even one ! Hopefully with a consequent increase in quality (and fewer cooking shows).
Ross Lea
stew
"no one else see a connection ?"
The main connection I see with the reduction in licence fee receipts is the reduction in programme quality, more and more obvious news bias, and daft makeovers like 'wimbledon2day' when most viewers want a straightforward summary of the day's play when they slump onto their sofas after work.
There was some comment in the Times yesterday about the licence fee, including a question about the detector vans that were promoted so heavily in the 70s and 80s. In true Beeb fashion, they won't tell you if they've still got them (rusting heaps by now, I should think) and even resisted an FoI request. TBH, I don't know how they would do it nowadays, as the old system relied on the weak RF output of the CRT screens that are now largely obsolete, so what they would detect now is something of a mystery! I suspect it can't be done, but they don't want that to become common knowledge!
jamesp
Curious that the 'hottest day evah!' hype on Wednesday involved a temperature measurement at Heathrow, where the heating effect of acres of glass, concrete and tarmac (not to mention 1000 degree jet exhausts) was conveniently overlooked. I noticed that even at Wimbledon it was reported as a whole degree cooler, but of course that wouldn't have fitted the BBC/MO/MSM script.
Here on the Isle of Wight, it was a full 10deg less, and very pleasant...
jamesp
Bish - running shoe spam on 'discussion'
Martin A
Sorry to bang on but
Jan 2014 BBC announce PENSION fund deficit so they will top it up by £740m over 4 years = £185m/yr, instead of asking staff to fix deficit themselves.
July 2015 BBC announce LICENCE fund deficit = £150m/yr and 1000 redundancies to fund it. (6% of staff)
* no one else see a connection ?
* no one else wonder if BBC licence payers are compensating BBC pension fund for failed "green investment strategy" ?
* It would have been OK if there hadn't been an "unexpected" failure in increasing new paying viewers by 1m
stewgreen
@michael hart, yep worth highlighting but look at top right of the screen to the "Seen Elsewhere" column and you'll see that story has been there for a while.
@Tomo - There are RELATIVE hyperlinks and ABSOLUTE hyperlinks
In html links that begin http are detected as absolute
..if you miss the http:// off then the link gets process as a relative hence http://bishophill.squarespace.com/unthreaded/www.bbc.co.uk/
BTW this connects to an issue when for speed you enter the BH site via http://bishophill.squarespace.com and suddenly find yourself on http://www.bishop-hill.net
- The post headlines and blue menu bar links are RELATIVE, so click them and you stay on bishophill.squarespace.com
- but some of the links on the page were set up as ABSOLUTE so can end up on http://www.bishop-hill.net eg. when you click Bishop Hill main header or the RHS columns marked "Recent"
.......(I said touching forelock ..as I am just a humble hanger on here)
Re BBC "An unexpected increase in the number of households saying they do not watch live TV "
UNEXPECTED cos they so accustomed to ignoring viewers/listeners complaints.. and are not in touch with sentiment towards them
stewgreen
magicseaweed.com/Kalaeloa-Airport-Weather-Station/67944/
This might be better but doesn't work too well on my tablet.