that sounds like a place you put someone in time out to punish them so they can't watch their favourite show or charge their phone.
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nah, it is like I said the time and place to interact with each other, have a chat about things which happened or which are interesting to talk about - it is not the time to do something else and smart phones are not allowed in the room as well - it is the time to interact with each other, not with devices. Just look at people and how they behave in public nowadays, having their smart phones glued to their hand and staring into it, unable to interact with others - they are busy with their devices. This has to be avoided, to actually have a chat and interact with each other - anything distracting from it is counter-productive to the whole purpose - namely to have an interaction among the people living in the house, getting to know what they are currently about, what drives their fancy or whatever they want to talk about - it is actually paying attention to the other person, without to charge your phone or any of these activities - it is the time and place to chat in a relaxed way while having tea and biscuits or scones and interact with each other.
You can put whatever you want in the rooms of your domicile, except in Elite: Dangerous Odyssey, because it's impossible to move objects, unless they are debris from something you blew up, or have explicitly been labeled as inventory items and precisely match slots in your suit.
So, you can have a TV in your parlor, but it only accesses station information services or turns off your sprinkler turrets. There are also no scone or biscuit slots, so you couldn't do anything with that plate of them, even if the plate wasn't an immovable and indestructible object. All you can do is go over to the cabinet and steal gyroscopes, optics, and spools of wire to sell to a bartender that won't sell you drinks.
On the plus side, fire safety isn't an issue, because fires can only be put out, not started.
So, you can have a TV in your parlor, but it only accesses station information services or turns off your sprinkler turrets. There are also no scone or biscuit slots, so you couldn't do anything with that plate of them, even if the plate wasn't an immovable and indestructible object. All you can do is go over to the cabinet and steal gyroscopes, optics, and spools of wire to sell to a bartender that won't sell you drinks.
On the plus side, fire safety isn't an issue, because fires can only be put out, not started.
There's a difference between wanting to urinate in it, and what happens after getting home from the pub.
given the popularity of carriers, i wonder if they will add more variants
it would be cool to see a pirate version of each current type at the very least. also some gaudy paint jobs like gold and chrome and like a neon lit one, etc.
it would be cool to see a pirate version of each current type at the very least. also some gaudy paint jobs like gold and chrome and like a neon lit one, etc.
morning, you seem to not be awake yet - it is sunday, that corner shop might be closed.
hmmm good point, and it's only 8:30. Not a great start.
More coffe required.
extra vent would be difficult, the property is inheritance listed and changes to the outside appearance of the house are normally not allowed. In this case there might be an exception possible, because it is a safety issue. But when we applied for allowance of proper air conditioning with vents to the outside, this got denied. So, it might be a problem.
hm, in and/or under the floor might be possible - those water pipes for our heat pump system have been added underfloor and below the house (we don't have a cellar) - there was no other way because the house has a veranda circumventing the house and by the same reason as above mentioned, changes to it aren't permitted.
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I was quite happy living without TV for about 30 years...
Fun story - I lived in a very nice village for a while, and had a 37" display to play movies from NAS and Xbox / PS3 on.
TV Licensing visited one day telling me I had no license (true) to which I pointed out I had no TV reception apparatus... Smart-(slang for rear-end) bloke points at display meaningfully... I invited him in, handed the remote over, and asked him to find any TV channel on it. He wasn't a happy womble
Fun story - I lived in a very nice village for a while, and had a 37" display to play movies from NAS and Xbox / PS3 on.
TV Licensing visited one day telling me I had no license (true) to which I pointed out I had no TV reception apparatus... Smart-(slang for rear-end) bloke points at display meaningfully... I invited him in, handed the remote over, and asked him to find any TV channel on it. He wasn't a happy womble
Morning. It's colder than a witch's boobie bird.
Yep, already seen a couple of unhappy looking brass monkeys here...
in Germany one had to pay for it as well when having a PC, regardless if one is watching tv with it or not - pretty annoying. I actually stopped having a tv set when ads and "program information" together occupied more than 1/3 of the time and a 105 minutes movie takes 3 hours to watch. This is unbearable.I was quite happy living without TV for about 30 years...
Fun story - I lived in a very nice village for a while, and had a 37" display to play movies from NAS and Xbox / PS3 on.
TV Licensing visited one day telling me I had no license (true) to which I pointed out I had no TV reception apparatus... Smart-(slang for rear-end) bloke points at display meaningfully... I invited him in, handed the remote over, and asked him to find any TV channel on it. He wasn't a happy womble
The BBC here (for whom we pay a license fee) are also trying to push for the same, as TV can be watched on any internet connected device, they haven't won yet, thankfully!
Another thing with tv is the dependence on it people often acquire - see Ender's comment, he mentioned not being able to watch your favorite tv show, if there would be a tea time meeting without a tv set. TV is ruling their spare time, they are no longer in charge of it, but let this device decide, when they will be able to do something else. I started to feel that as well, when I still had a TV set, that I first looked up, what will be on TV tonight and quite often I watched something not really interesting even - and consume a whole lot of ads and program information - this had to stop, it was stealing my time and taking over my (spare time) life.
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In Germany you need to pay even if you don't own any devices.