The Biggest Corporate Fines
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Sometimes businesses do some really sketchy... stuff. In this video we look at some of the biggest fines ever handed out, and some of them seem insanely unfair (especially in comparison).
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WTF is a TV license? In Australia you can buy a cheap antenna and of you go! All the bad TV you want
In the UK, the BBC makes you pay a fee yearly (something like $100 AUD) if you have a TV with access to BBC Channels, which all TVs sold in the UK do by default.
You're not obliged to, but the BBC like to harass you alot if they don't see any license fees being paid from your address.
They can't exactly do anything about it so they scare people into paying, in the 50s they claimed they had these high-tech vans that could detect what room you're watching the TV in and what you're watching.
There's videos about it all over youtube, search "BBC TV License Van"
Don't ever consider moving to Germany.
@@ronniebon7163 You are obliged to... It is actually a law, passed as part of the Communications Act 2003.
Canada makes you pay for far left wing CBC.....Watch it or not
I had never heard if it before either. So if I don't have a TV, do I have to pay? Plus what if I just got a TV for PlayStation videos games and not regular television? Sounds ridiculous.
Truthfully as an American, I to am confused by medicine commercials too.
Daniel Kohli as a fellow American they bother me so much. Especially when you see a drug ad right after a lawsuit ad for another drug. I know Google & WebMD are every doctors least favorite invention already. “Do not confuse my medicine degree with your google search” is a sign in a doctors office. Now they have patients coming in saying “is Otesla right for me?” I refuse to take any medication advertised on tv.
@@EMurph42 the sad thing is most doctors are far more stupid than doctor google. Some days I honestly wonder if the average doctor can even do basic calculus. I've thought about making a short quiz for my doctors because some of the most incorrect scientific shit has come out of doctors mouths. It makes me worry for people who are laymen as I can call bullshit on them (I have a biology degree).
We definitely don't need to ask our doctors about specific drugs. I expect that's more about getting the name out and having the patients do the job that should be done by the company's reps.
They bother me, but not as much as commercials where they have a cute small child of 5 years go "I'm so glad mommy bought (product that no child would care about, like a vacuum cleaner or insurance policy)"
One time I went to my psychiatrist with a full thesis-style binder of things to ask her about..
She was not impressed.
Simon and Danny...the ultimate dream team!
But....Sam.....
And Sam*!!
Yes...Two of my favourite UA-cam channels!
And Sam
We really need Simon to interview Danny...and then I realized it’d be an interview with himself 😂.
Is that the joke?
"Exhaustive tests" Danny does like sneaking in his puns. :)
Ditto...this is why I read the comments. Thank you good sir!
Ever heard of the American agricultural movement dubbed "right to repair?" I think y'all might enjoy it
That's actually a good idea. I believe John Deere is the major offender. Some tech companies like Apple have similar policies. Simon and Co. could definitely make a video about that
American agricultural? It's a global movement about all tech.
It's more then just a agricultural movement. It's about all equipment and devices.
Yeah that is villainy at an advanced level
@@samiraperi467 Yeah I was gonna say... The fight for it is still going strong today. Hell, even the military has gotten somewhat involved because they aren't allowed to repair some of their own equipment due to legal reasons. It's insane.
Im not someone that really gets involved in yt much anymore but man we need this channel to stay and grow! I have worked or have dealt with a decent amount of your companies you've made articles. As many of us are bound by NDA's ... I vicariously live through these reports screaming at the tv like its sportz television going "O M G i knowwwww that feeling!!" Cheering on Danny and you the whole way lol
Anyway i just wanted to share this. So yeah. Also icing on the cake the moment you said you are bad at parking, in RL i saw a car hit front and back cars trying to pull into traffic 😆
Hahah last year I fully smashed the whole side of two cars while parallel parking. Like three panels. Brutal.
“Wow! Wherever did that TV come from?”
Yeah, same exact shit happened to me in college, when a police officer showed up at the apartment I shared with friends. They were investigating the smell of marijuana coming from parts unknown. We claimed it wasn’t us...while at the same time, my roommate sauntered in with a loaded bong. Oopsie! Thankfully, they just confiscated the bong. We had plenty of other paraphernalia though...no worries!
This was in 1998, by the way.
amazing
I got two Simon rimshots and even a "C'mon, Danny!" My day is now complete.
:D
I don't think he slapped the script though
Anyone else enjoy hearing Mister Simon swear in his posh accent? For me, it’s similar to the inner-child glee I feel when Betty White says something that just seems ‘wrong’ coming from the mouth of a beloved grandmother figure. You go on with your bad selves, Miss Betty and Mister Simon. My inner-child thanks you.
"If I had a dick, this is where I'd tell you to suck it." -Betty White, 2000.
Sometimes he says shit and sometimes he says shite. I wonder if there's like, a specified time you're supposed to use one or the other.
Danny is back! Great script.
Danny does seem to my favorite writer here
I agree as well, but Simon makes them all good either way.
WTF is a TV license.
You literally just buy a TV and antenna in the US, or pay for satellite or cable TV
there ARE actually state and federal fees at the bottom of your satellite or cable bill that are essentially the same type of fees as a TV license. these rates fluctuate and annually probably amount to $150. source: worked for AT&T, people don't read or understand their bill.
crazykids666999666 You could look this up easily but in many European countries the government runs its own "unbiased" TV and radio stations that typically do not have commercials. They have cultural programs and stuff in foreign languages to pander to immigrants and mostly stuff no one would pay for voluntary, so the government does what they always do, they force you to pay for it anyway. In other words if you own a radio and/or a TV set they charge you usually between $50-170 per year to fund the garbage you aren't watching or listening to, but you have to register to pay. Since no one would do this voluntarily, they have inspectors going from door to door visiting houses that do not pay for said license and if they find a TV and/or radio, they give you a fine and register you so you will get the bill next year.
@@noth606 basically like PBS in the US except it doesn't have the asinine fundraisers, sounds like a decent deal.
princesstamika that’s why you should just get the internet and stream your shows
Same in Brazil. That must be an UK thing
First, I thought "One like?!". Then I realized that the video was just uploaded. :D
Here's a topic suggestion: Boeing and the 737 Max (or similar cases in the airline industry) :)
Idea: Business Blaze binge, but take a drink every time Danny’s written “corporate company”. We’ll be smashed in no time.
These days Danny could make Simon tipsy in no time since he's taken to calling them "corporate company corporations"! 😅
Cooked Panda he must be trolling Simon, surely.
I wish you could do this show every day, but then I probably wouldn't watch anything else. You're doing really great work Simon et al. and I appreciate you
Thank you :). Hopefully someday, I'd love to do this daily. It's a ton of fun to record :)
@@brainblaze6526 will we ever get to see Danny?
Have you lost your mind, he has like 6 other youtube channels, You're trying to get blood from a stone eathen.
@@stevenutter3614 I know he's got other channels, I watch those too. But I like this one the most
@@eathenalbrecht5072 liar!! this is drek and you know it
Business daddy! John Oliver! Love it
That was the first thing to pop into my head when he said that
@@Capsaxian That's the reference :D
Lines like that remind me why this my favorite channel that Simon runs.
Simon " I don't wanna get sued"
Me "I don't believe him he didn't sound commited to those words but let's find out"
Edit
Me: "oh shit Simon actually didn't want to get sued well I guess he did say it at the beginning of the video"
Simon is having a little too much fun but then I am too. 😂 Samuel did great as editor. Merry Christmas, folks, have some great holidays! 🎉🎄🎉
You always set off my Siri, it’s hilarious
"Danny I don't want to get sued " .... I love it!
He needs his money to pay all those tickets.
Simon is easily my favorite part of UA-cam!! Please keep up the amazing work! Also all the people behind the scenes, Bravo
Thanks :)
3:30 - Chapter 1 - Volksvagen
8:00 - Chapter 2 - Google
12:45 - Chapter 3 - Glaxosmithkline
15:25 - Chapter 4 - British petroleum
Simon: “yeah, its definitely illegal.”
Also Simon: “now let me explain how I’d do the exact same thing with my shopping site.”
and, by popular demand, Danny's back!
Out of all your channels this is my favorite. Keep up the great work.
Thank you :)
Thanks very much for this entertaining and informative, along with comedic elements sprinkled throughout, video. Keep’em coming as y’all’s video are great and awesomely addictive in the best kinda way.
Thank you :)
Business Blaze. Simon's never-ending dance with the danger of being sued
Boy do I remember #1. "Dieselgate" was quite damaging for VW, the cheat device was developed by Bosch but they supposedly advised VW to not use it for those purposes if I recall.
It really sucks for people in say like California cause we have super high emission standards for vehicles to pass. (though atm our air has been terrible cause the state's been on fire since like October.)
We had one of the huge swaths of land where the VW's that were recalled were parked near by. It got worse when a huge hail storm hammered all the cars too.
There's car plant over near the city I grew up in (Rockford, IL) I wanna say maybe Chrysler? I dunno, but it's near Chicago, but after it was built, one year they had freezing rain... another year they had golfball to softball sized hailstones and some were larger. It ruined roofs and cars all over the area this past winter. TT____TT How large were the hailstones? XD And was it a freak storm or do things like that regularly happen? As I mentioned Northern IL often sees crap like that, it seems like a terrible place to put a car plant as it's on the edge of "Tornado Alley"
I'm moving back there from L.A. this year and I'm so gonna put my car in a garage when I get a car again... (which will be nice to be able to afford one again.... freaking expensive Los Angeles lol)
@@Memento_Mori_Morals There's actually at least one really bad hailstorm at least once a summer here. I think this is the first summer where we didn't have one that hit the whole state. I remember that the year we bought our first new new car we had a bad enough hailstorm that cars were being totaled by hail damage simply because there was such a shortage of body panels and things. Our car barely avoided that because we had gotten a super good deal on it. Like by a thousand dollars. I'm sure our insurance was so annoyed at having to fix it instead.
@@jenniferhof9448 nooooooo...oh no... I was cringing reading that, but I guess that is why you have insurance. Totaled cars are not fun. Storms regularly total cars in the winter in Illinois/"the Midwest" US. I grew up there and witnessed it, but also yeah spring/summer hailstones the size of golf balls are common, cause of the same weather systems that often cause tornados there. It's fun to watch from the safety of a house and gawk afterwards.
YES! AGREED!Companies are NOT PEOPLE!!!
(yet in the U.S., they are, by certain really shitty definitions)
YES! AGREED! Companies DO need to be regulated to ensure they are good corporate citizens, JUST LIKE ACTUAL PEOPLE, FREE PEOPLE, ARE REGULATED WITH LAWS AND RESPONSIBILITIES!
I DISAGREE, on one point, when you say corporations are ONLY about profits, and just DON'T ever choose to do the right thing. Some companies do have some higher motivations, as every company's policies, standards, behaviors, employee expectations, statements, and actions, are 100% controlled by, and actively chosen by, the people, the human beings, that are directing the company in everything it does. Companies are not monolithic automaton s that just go forward doing what they f****** want and the people are just along for a little ride hoping to make a few bucks. Every company is a collection of people and their collective choices of words, and actions. Any company can have whatever set of priorities the people controlling the company decide it should have. Saying every company is just all about profits purely and nothing else absolves the people who run the company from any and all responsibility in their actual responsibilities to not make Society, the planet, or people working for them, or the people and places around them into something toxic, something horrible, or something dead.
Otherwise, a bloody right entertaining bit of content, lads!
You missed VW fined for stopping Italian dealers selling to other EU countries. And VW using emissions defeat devices on the 1970's beetle.
I think most American viewers of this video aren't going to know what a TV license is haha
Apparently not ;)
Nope! When the British government tried to make us pay silly taxes, we threw their tea in the ocean. You guys should give it a go, for having to pay a TV license... lol.
Yay Danny’s back! Welcome back Danny missed you lol. Also great script as always and another great video Simon!
Thanks :)
TV license? WTF?
I've actually seen medication commercials where they don't even tell you what the drug is for! Plus, the list of possible side effects is always at least twice as long as the rest of the advert.
And the list of side effects is spoken so quickly it is hard to understand.
@@garethbaus5471 Head On, apply to head... Head on, put on forehead... Head On, can be put directly on head....
and it turns out it's supposed to be for headaches or something, for the longest time I thought it was for acne.
What are you doing on Christmas?
Me: watching Business Blaze
Love the videos on all your channels Simon, I've learned a lot just listening to them.
Thanks!
Karl mentions to quite a bit. It fills my heart with joy to hear you mention Karl. You, Danny, and Karl could absolutely create the most amazing content together.
After getting to the end of the video, and not wanting to get sued, I realized this must be before he discovered the word "Allegedly"
Video 36. Since 35 was a video recorded ages ago before Danny became the official BB writer the whole comment section is incredibly happy to see Danny back. Shows how important Danny had already been even before he was in the basement
Here's the thing with Android.
'Android', in reference to a touchscreen operating system, is a trademarked brand owned by Google.
The source code licensed under the GPL. This means that everybody is free to take a copy of the source code and modify, give it away, or sell it as they choose, and the person who receives it from them has the same rights. You can also do this to the OS installed on your own phone or tablet, and you are entitled to decompile the kernel and OS binaries to modify them as you wish. The only restriction is that, because 'Android' is trademarked, you can't call your new version 'Android'.
So what Google were doing was decreeing that if anyone wanted to sell the official version which was called 'Android', they would not be allowed to also make their own versions. This is actually legal, since they can impose whatever terms they like when licensing the brand, but is a dick move.
I like all your channels! My wife and I binge watch sometimes perfect mix of entertainment and learning business blaze is probably my favorite channel that you do I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers on this channel
A work in progress. I think 2020 will be a good year for this channel :).
You should definitely watch separately rather than together.
:D
The reason for the "ask your doctor about..." commercials is because the drug is usually new/uncommon, so it's possible your doctor won't have heard of it. Also, some of it isn't even by prescription, but they say to ask your doctor so they don't get sued for you taking it when you don't actually need it. ALLEGEDLY.
Lots of technical issues with this video... every time Siri says ‘hey Siri’ in the video, my Siri keeps responding and pauses it all!!!! Such fun! Lol
Simon: Asks Siri how to spell GlaxoSmithKline
Siri: fails miserably
Me: Asks Google how to spell GlaxoSmithKline
Google: Reads out G-l-a-x-o-S-m-i-t-h-K-l-i-n-e
Also me: Apple, fix yo shit!
The Google thing was an anti-trust (using your dominance in one field to get dominance in another) prosecution and the US had two similar anti-trust cases of their own: Standard Oil (ended up forcefully splitting into 34 companies) and Microsoft (ended up with a very strict settlement and dropping a part of their business). The EU was in no position to force Google to split (since it's a US company) so all they could do was either to fine it or to ban it.
This has to be one of your best videos yet
Thanks :)
Yeah... Normally I'm with you on your gut reactions to stuff, but I remember when Microsoft got busted for being monopolistic about their software products being force fed to Windows users. I'm with the law on this one, even back then no one should have been forced to use Internet Explorer for more than downloading a better browser, or Outlook at all. Even as a kid I wasn't on Microsoft's side there, lol. I'm fairly certain that Google was basically being extortionist over the Android license too, both in terms of what companies paid them and in what could be pre-installed on the phone as far as competing apps. Both with Microsoft and Google, these actions fell under the antitrust laws put in place to deal with monopolies, which have already proven to be terrible ideas for the general economy and customers, so I'd love to see *more* stuff like that happen. We have some serious monoliths that need to be taken down a few pegs (hello Google and Amazon, how's that master file on my life coming along?).
Also, Google Assistant handled your request just fine. Not sayin', just sayin'.
Interesting. I was with Microsoft in the 90s.
No scripts were harmed in the making of this video 👍
I am a bit late but small extra detail about the VW thing is that after they got exposed they did a software update that potentially could destroy the car. Sadly I was the proud owner of a VW passat that exactly did that. I was on a road trip through sweden to the Netherlands when in the middle of nowhere my car slowed down to about 25kmmph and refused to go faster or drive longer than 5 minutes at a time. meaning I couldn't even limp of the highway or to the nearest village.
it turned out that VW had two different options, either recall my VW and give me a new car or money back, or to try and get the car to actually reach the emissions standard they claimed it was driving at. they chose the second option and with the new software update my car was using the Filter system in the engine 20 times more than recommend in order to get to this standard.
The filter got full and broke, causing my engine to choke itself and fill with diesel. It turned into a 2400 euro repair bill for the engine and a ruined vacation since I was stuck in Sweden for 3 days causing me to miss my boat ride to Germany and so also missing my appointments I had made. After getting home I had to make roughly 40 phone calls and a few less than friendly visits to my local VW dealer to get my 2400 euros back for the repair. And after all of that I was stuck with a car that I didn't trust and of which its value had dropped to about half.
that fact fiend vid was funny af, thanks for plugging my fav writer :)
*I was on Cymbalta (Duloxetine) between 16-18yrs old.* I had to stop when I enlisted and went through some of the WORST WITHDRAWALS in Basic Training! *I called them "brain-zaps"*
Simon: Company's aren't people
Citizens United: Yes but actually no.
We need some Danny merch.
Agreed.
There's a TV fee in Germany, too, although it also includes radios and costs about 50€ a quarter.
There was this old joke here in Portugal about a tax or license you had to pay if you had a color tv, it also involved a licensing guy at the door ... I had no real notion on the role of taxes in one's life so I thought it was hilarious
I love you fun business stories! Not reading the bonus facts at the end just left me holding my breath until the next video! Bravo! 😆😆😆
I love the one way communication chain (on screen, I imagine they msg each other IRL) between Danny, Simon, and Sam. Simon gives feedback to Danny through the reading, Sam comments on what Simon does through the editing, and Danny just send scripts off into the ether and hopes it doesn't land Simon in a massive law suit.
I would just point to the computer connected to my TV and be like...dude, it's a computer monitor...and I would be telling the truth. It is a computer monitor, I don't even have it hooked up to an antenna.
HAH! I just tapped on this one because I hadn’t seen it before and I had the most Pavlovian moment when the BizBlaze guitar WA-WA ordered me to hit the like button. 🤣
Absolutely love the new channel Simon and Shell. All the very best for your future endeavors. It has been so enjoyable and informative watching you the last 4 years.
Thanks :). This is just me though (Simon), I do TopTenz, Biographics and Geographics with Shell :)
@@brainblaze6526 Apologies - Love all of your channels.
Just want to say that I love you Simon Whistler. Keep up the good work. You are one of my favorite UA-cam personalities.
Thank you :)
I suggest talking to Legal eagle about if the businesses can actually sue you😆 great content by the way! I love me a VW roast 😂
Business Blaze beginning of 2020: here to entertain with business stories.
Business Blaze end of 2020/start of 2021: why are we titled Business Blaze?
Me in 2021: why was the intro not 5 minutes long?
When I lived in the UK the TV license was 90 pounds for a black and white tv and 100 pounds for a color tv. This was in the mid 80's. Now being a US service member stationed there, some members brought their TVs from home to watch VHS tapes they bought at the base exchange. US TVs (NTSC) will not play UK broadcasts (PAL) but the TV patrol stopped at their house and fined them for not having a license for the NTSC only TV. The BBC sucks for this. If it was a multi system TV, like what I had, I can expect this, but for a single system TV not compatible with BBC broadcast, that is just theft.
TV tax. I was blown away by that upon arrival to England. Thankfully, I was American military and got a voucher so I didn't have to pay. But I remember the stories of the tv van. I was so impressed that the British economy was in such good shape that driving around to check for TVs was feasible. Things may be different now or they may have been trying to get over on us Americans, but in 2013 we were told that you had to pay the tax for all TVs you own, whether or not you watched TV or if the tv even worked. But that's just my experience, and I'm sure it was exaggerated for us.
Not an expert, but I believe you pay it per household. So if you have some pimp my house situation going on and have TVs in your TVs, then its all covered under one licence. And also if you don't watch TV (and just Netflix, or play Xbox), then you're all good (I think, not a lawyer blah blah blah)
@@brainblaze6526 I'd imagine you're right. It wasn't something that was gone into very much since we were exempt, they were just telling us how much it would cost if we neglected to send in our voucher, and probably blew it out of proportion. You know, how us Americans roll, lol.
I used the GDPR/DPA to get the BBC Trust's data controller to accept there exists a legitimate purpose to store my data for longer than 2 years, granting them permission to store my details in TV Licensing's "no licence needed" database for 50 years. TV Licensing haven't written to me for 4 years.
Heys Simon "Volkswagen" is properly pronounced "FolksVaagen" or "Planet killer" depending if you ask a german or greta thunberg ...
When the hammer and sickle subliminally flashed on my screen, i instantly became hungry and the need to produce nuclear weapons...
It's funny with the TV licensing, Gough Witlam was the PM that abolished it in Australia in 1974. He was also the first prime minister to be dismissed by the govt general not but a year later after the abolishment of tv licensing due to a parliemental deadlock that meant funding to govt agencies got frozen (sound familiar friends in the US? :) )
I never see ads before this channel and it makes me so sad! I love all of Simons channels
Welcome! Thank you :)
Think what you may about him, but one cannot deny that Simon is honest and to the point, and it seems Danny is too.
Simon, you completely left out the Monsanto case where 3 people (I think) sued Monsanto after using cancer-causing pesticide called round up
Thank you Danny for the great script!
I find it very entertaining and weird that in most of the videos you're like having a one way conversation with Danny -whom we can't really picture... so it kinda seems you're fighting, agreeing, disagreeing or making fun of a made up person 😂
Thanks to the VW defeat Device, VW bought me a Tesla Model 3. Or rather, they had to buy back my old Diesel Jetta at nearly new price, plus a punitive fine, and that paid for over half of my Tesla back in 2018 - which is fueled by my home solar. That noted... I highly suspect a big part of why VW is now getting into electric is a desire to avoid a repeat performance... after all... my other option was to get my Diesel 'fixed' to have good emissions without cheating... and a few months after I got the Tesla, it came out that the 'fix' was also their engineers making a new defeat device to try and defeat the attempts to spot their defeat devices... oops again... allegedly... ;)
Yes Factfiend is awesome!! You both are!
As for google, I want people to keep two things in mind:
It involved Anti-trust laws, which are intended to prevent the weaponized monopolies of periods past.
Please watch Simon's biography channels on people whom made a fortune destroying competitors with monopolies. Some of the tactics involved where so disgusting, such as running a loss knowing the smaller businesses can not follow suit... and after they are gone, up goes the price. These where not nice people, some where enigmas and sort of gray areas but a lot where just down right ********* and it is good these types are regulated when it comes to the global economy.
Most people don't click off the first page of a search engine.
This is very important in this case, for it explains even those erroneous results for things that are semi-related but would never be purchased at all. Each item would knock the competitors further down the list, and further off that front page of search results to obscurity. This would give google the same effect as having a 'closed storefront' while *tricking people into thinking it is displaying competitors items* for that sweet traffic boost. A closed storefront showing only a single companies items is one thing, but a search engine boosting that it shows everyone's while 'fudging things' is another.
If the fine was based on the fact that they were saying that they were displaying things equally but weren't, that makes sense to me.
@@brainblaze6526 ,
The news reports I find simply state the amount of the fine and the fact they where manipulating search results. As I lack a research team to fine comb things any further, or the desire to search for court documents, it is up to others to determine exactly what the reasoning was. I was just putting forth how Alphabet could have easily used their position to 'stealth black-list' competitors without informing those using the search function that it was occurring. As google has a reputation so strong that 'google it' is a legitimate term, it is possible to see why a regulatory board would be upset with this sort of deception.
Billions though... that is more a sign of the times, where numbers like that even exist....
Ok Simon, who displays your picture in the thumbnail? Are they cropped in editing from your videos or is it a selfie? Because the faces you make can be quite humorous and adds a certain flare! Love it!
Hahahaa, they are a whole bunch of photos that I took with silly faces just for the thumbnails :)
VeeDub just copped a $150 million fine for this in Australia. That's Australian dollars , the equivalent of about 50 euro.
Can't quite believe I'm saying this, but honestly I agree with Simon on the whole Google thing... it's their search engine and if they want to ruin it for everyone else that's their business.
As it is, I remember when those ads would show up on google searches and, yeah, it was a little bit annoying, but I could work around it, and I don't think "a little bit annoying" is worth two and a half billion dollars...
Maybe there's something I'm not seeing. I wouldn't be entirely surprised if some folks weren't tech-savvy enough to work around the annoyance that well, but I still can't imagine that they'd have no other option but to buy from Google when they didn't want to.
Danny's master plan was to get Simon sued so he'd stop making videos and maybe unchain him and let him go. But Simon was wise to it.
I'm Canadian. I had to Google what a TV license is. Apparently it applies to anything a video could be viewed on. What sort of bullshit it this? How does the government justify charging a fee for something they are in no way involved with? If I'm watching a UA-cam video, on my phone, delivered to me by my cell phone service provider, by what right would the government demand the equivalent of a few hundred dollars for me using my own electronics? I really want to know the justification for this.
Never paid for a TV licence, never use live broadcast TV services or BBC iPlayer. Had them at the door, showed them around and they left, but not before trying to convince me that I still needed a licence. Cue a court order several weeks later, attended-explained situation to the judge, judge laughed it out of court-no fine.
thank you for watching your ass while also entertaining us, all the best for the Christmas season from your Canadian fans(mostly just me and my girlfriend) who love what you do Simon
Thanks :)
I would suggest to those Australians in the comment sections that are doing the "WTF is this TV Licence stuff about Huh??!!" to remember that Australia once had both TV and Radio licences.
www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/radio-and-tv-licences
They were abolished around 1974 by the Whitlam Government. We still remember the PMG man coming around checking licences. He would say that they could tell we had a TV by the aerial on the roof. It made my father laugh. Back in Holland the local council would send a letter telling you that your licence was due. In the letter they would spell out how many TVs you had, what the model and serial numbers were of each, when you bought them, which shop you bought them from and how much you paid for each. He said that was what he loved about Australia. The only way someone knows that you have a TV is to look at your house and check if you had an aerial. I asked him why he though our system was better. "During the war the German would grab the records from the town hall knowing that those records listed exactly how many Jews there were and where to find them. Holland made it so easy"
I love this so much. You guys are rockstar's and I hope the holidays are treating you well.
Thanks :)
3:56 he definitely says "Yes daddy"
"Yes, Danny" w/poor enunciation.
@@andiward7068 I always watch with subs cause I have hearing comp issues and they're pretty accurate... but it always says "yes, daddy".. like maybe 95% of the time... it raaarely says Danny.
The thing about Google is that people have to pay them to be included in top results, or even on say, the first page of results. The statistics are that almost no one is going past the first page on your average search, so it's not just a search engine, it's also a service. In the world of commerce and business, you can't be giving yourself an unfair advantage like that even if it is your own platform, because it defeats the purpose of being a search engine and is then just another marketing tool. Amazon is even worse.
Folks-vaagen is how the Germans say it and instead of "vee-double you" they say "fau-vey" (or fow vay, i guess it could be written)
The difference between a real store promoting their own brands first without telling you and search engines doing it without telling you is that you can always just walk over to a different store, but what are you going to do, build your own search engine? If every search engine is allowed to do this, effectively there is no longer any unbiased access to the online shopping. It's like if you wanted to walk over to another store because you didn't like the practices of the first one, but the only way to get to other stores as to ask the owner of the first store for directions.
Honestly, right before Sam stated his experience with the fine of life, I had the exact same thought. Nailed it.
I had to google what a TV liscense was. Apparently in some countries you have to have a license to receive live tv broadcasts and it’s there to fund public tv stations
Yeah that's why the bbc doesn't have ads (in the UK, international versions do)
Does Simon even have time to eat dinner? He seems to be everywhere.
Fun fact: his head is shaved so he can more efficiently absorb info though radio waves and nutrition via photosynthesis.
The Triple-A Gaming Industry is going to learn why you should do that whole 'don't over step unless you want regulation' thing.
i found karl smallwood before you simon and i like how you two worked together
you two fit together
Also, my stepfather had friends on the Deepwater Horizon when it went up. It still hits him hard on each anniversary
technically speaking, android is open source, anyone can view the source files, make their own version of android, so on. google doesn't make any money off of android. the way google makes money is from their services (eg. google play store) and, more importantly, tracking software on your phone. the issue was that while android was free to use for everyone, google said that if you wanted apps on your version of android, you have to make chrome and their search engine the default (as well as obviously preinstall them, quite obviously)
I love Smallwood
Thank you, Simon. Now I know why I was put on Paxil at 16 years old with horrible results. 👍