Ales Novak's old blog

As we have state (public) TV channels, each owner of a TV set must pay regular fee. Now there is a discussion if computers connected to the internet should be subject of fees as well. Germany will take the route. Sounds like you may be breaking the law when travelling to Germany and connecting to the internet and not paying fees.

This is just great. If applied here as well, Czech TV can just sit and collect money. They do not need to be competetive at all, just look for what else could be subject of fees. DVD/video players? They also have their own metric of success - it is not the number of people watching Czech TV (as any sane human being would thought) but rather it is ability to protect and enhance cultural heritage whatever it means.

What is next? Fees for breathing? We already pay fees for fod - it is called VAT.

The popular serie will be broadcasted in Middle East countries. It seems that offending parts will be avoided however. Now the list of those parts look appropriate for Germany 1933 - 1945 or medieval Europe maybe. Jews/Indian characters are to be avoided as well as representatives of foreign religions. Cool. What is next?

Our friends at Intel released Paxville. Paxville rhymes with paskvil (pasquinade). It is a joke only in Czech I guess. The poor CPU is however "joke" regardless of your nationality.