Those of us Britons who could be described wither as “middle aged” or just plain “old” will likely recall the innovative comedy show Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (also known as simply Monty Python) was a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, who became known collectively as “Monty Python”, or the “Pythons”. The first episode was recorded at the BBC on 7 September 1969 and premiered on 5 October on BBC1, with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV. A feature film adaptation of several sketches, And Now for Something Completely Different, was released in 1971. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus
Well, for today’s post, I am going to two two things:
#1: Focus on a subject other than Gulf War 3.0.
#2: Piss of the MAGA base even more than my previous posts!
I’ll start off by posting a second image (below) within this post!
Yes! The flag MAGA hate almost as much as the Palestinian flag- the flag of the United Nations!
You see, the act of switching on the PC and downloading the latest crop of emails, served as the inspiration about the subject for today’s blog-post.
For anyone who is “online” junk emails is an irritant. They exist for one reason and one reason only – the cost to businesses of sending literally millions of emails a year is the cost of the equipment to do so and the cost of the electricity to power them!
If for example they had to pay one US Cent (US$ 0.01) for every email sent they could not afford to!
Therefore, it would be an excellent way for the United Nations to raise money for “good causes” were every person on the planet who sends an email have to pay US$ 0.01 for each one sent!
Furthermore, were each hour a person spends online (metered through their providers) had a UN service tax of one US Cent (US$ 0.01) applied the United Nations to raise money for “good causes”!
Let is do the maths/math:
A person sends 80 emails a day, meaning 560 emails a week for 52 weeks of the year. This totals 29,120 emails. At US $0.01 per email that comes to US $291.20 for the year.
This person also spends 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks of the year online. This totals 2,912 hours. At US $0.01 per hour US $29.12 for the year.
In other words, this person would have to pay (via their service providers) US $291.20 + US29.12, a total of US $320.32 for the year.
This, I respectfully suggest is NOT a huge sum. Especially for a person with such heavy internet usage!
The benefit to internet users is that we would see the effective end of junk emails and the world’s poor would benefit from the vast sums raised.
Now clearly, critics will point out (correctly) the immense corruption inherent across most of the member states that make up the UN. However, although imperfect, the United Nations is the only such organisation we have.