The German version of a “TV Licencing agency”, called GEZ, wants to stop akademie.de using colloquial short names for the TV fees and other related things and force them to use long beaurocratic vocabulary – by legal means, because the colloquial names would only be used to “cause a bad image for the GEZ.”
I can’t really translate the whole thing, but it’s, in my opinion, rather causing the opposite…
…or what else is the result if – as reported e.g. on on Spiegel Online (German), but that’s apparently not an isolated case – you have a flat rate for your iPhone and receive an 80-page printed bill in which every single call, every single SMS and every single data transfer are listed, even though they are included in the flat rate and thus billed with $0.00?
And that with all the environmental-frendliness that Apple and AT&T like to emphasize…
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What the world needs is more nazis
Like it needs a hole in the head
Your future is not safe at all
’til this disease is dead
We gotta stop those fucking nazis
(Roger Taylor, “Nazis 1994”)
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