A little off topic, but I do think the fact that South Dakota is voting on extending jury rights would be interesting to much of the slashdot crowd. It's generally a concept and movement that is closely associated with many libretarian ideals.
It allows individual juries to decide on the applicability of laws.
I think one of the beauties of the net is the stuff you weren't looking for.
Sure you can. Tons of companies do it succesully. Local phone bills, AOL, cable, etc. Certainly there is a tendency for people to see that their costs are affected by usage, and decide that revenues should come in the same way. And that frequently is the easiest thing to do when developing a business model, but it can cause customers undue mental anguish (when they have to constantly monitor their usage), and is frequently much more costly from a billing perspective. Andrew Odlyzko (formerly of ATT) has a fascinating paper on this, which also comments a lot on communications technologies. Long but good.
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A little off topic, but I do think the fact that South Dakota is voting on extending jury rights would be interesting to much of the slashdot crowd. It's generally a concept and movement that is closely associated with many libretarian ideals. It allows individual juries to decide on the applicability of laws. I think one of the beauties of the net is the stuff you weren't looking for.
Sure you can. Tons of companies do it succesully. Local phone bills, AOL, cable, etc. Certainly there is a tendency for people to see that their costs are affected by usage, and decide that revenues should come in the same way. And that frequently is the easiest thing to do when developing a business model, but it can cause customers undue mental anguish (when they have to constantly monitor their usage), and is frequently much more costly from a billing perspective. Andrew Odlyzko (formerly of ATT) has a fascinating paper on this, which also comments a lot on communications technologies. Long but good.