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BBC Says “Unprecedented Funding Challenge” Lies Ahead As Content Spend Set To Fall By $200M
  • I just wish there were a legal way to stream BBC content (i.e. iPlayer) outside the UK. I'd gladly pay the licence fee (as a non-resident) or more, to be able to watch all their content without having to grub around on a million different services.

    Whether there'd be enough people in the same boat to be able to make up a $200M shortfall, I don't know, but it seems like it could be a pretty big untapped market.

  • GM storing poor-selling Canadian-made electric vans on Michigan lot
  • Years ago — late 90s — I used to travel to Vermont from the UK on business. Because of the time difference I'd often wake up at ~3:30 in the morning and since there was very little to do in a hotel room in Burlington, I'd put The Weather Channel on.

    Quite often they'd report on "snow coming down from Canada", or "frigid air coming down from Canada", and I always thought it was weird how they seemed to be subtly blaming another country for weather phenomena.

    Dunno why I thought of that.

    Anyway, electric vans. Cool.

  • Britain issues travel warning for US
  • First time I ever went there (1997) I landed at Boston Logan Airport, and a guy in plain clothes, but with a gun, stopped everyone who was departing the plane and repeatedly yelled out "American citizens this way, foreigners line up against the wall!".

    I never once felt safe going there, and was always relieved when I got out alive. Decided a few years ago that I'll never set foot in the US again.

  • Buying local is a much more enjoyable experience
  • I dread to think how much energy and effort is wasted shipping these items back and forth when someone buys something online and then returns it.

    It's worse than that — a lot of returned stuff ends up in landfill because it's not worth the cost of re-stocking it.

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