Posts by Mister Justin

Little big phone: Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, a toothsome hand-fulla Android

Z3Compact experience

Got this for the lady of the house. She's quite pleased with it. Though, she did experience a cracked back within a month of ownership. There was no obvious damage because, well, there was no damage. Just a nice long crack on the back glass plate. Made the inevitable call to Sony Xperia support. They sent a shipping label and packed it off to a local depot for repair. Was turned around in one day, back plate replaced at no cost. There is some noise on the internet about the back plate fragility, and it appears in my experience to be a possible flaw. But, the service for replacement was seamless, effortless and incredibly fast.

Just my two cents.

'I don't NEED to pay' to watch football, thunders EU digi-czar

Re: Good luck on that one.@ Mister Justin

""if there is a tax on a good, you should have access to it regardless of your location". What are you smoking?"

My point is that in common marketplace, if you pay a tax on a service, and that service is part of the common marketplace, you should have access to said service within that marketplace.

With respect to broadcast rights; if there is a levy on broadcasting, which is paid to the rights holders, then you should have access to said broadcast. If there is an eu levy, then that access should be available in the common marketplace without additional charges.

Re: Good luck on that one.

"Why not? I don't want to pay for sport that I don't watch, so I'm quite happy that it is available to you via subscription services."

Oh, this old canard. Isn't this what every "individualist" complains about wrt taxes? "Oh, I don't use public schools, I shouldn't pay." "I don't drive, so I shouldn't pay for roads." "I don't take the bus, why do I pay for transit taxes?" etc etc etc.

If there is a tax / levy / whatevs charged on a public good, you should have access to it regardless of your location. If Mr Robot pays Estonian taxes which are hoovered up by the EU and broadcast freedom is part of it, why should he NOT have his access regardless of his location in the EU?

Granted, Football is nowhere NEAR as important and public infrastructure / services, but if there is a payment from the populace to the rights-owners via any government levy, then geolocation blocking is just another "tax" on the use of said service and should be repealed.