User fees tend to discourage large infrastructure projects that people don't need, and encourage large infrastructure projects that people are willing to pay for.
If people don't want to pay for it, but politicians think that it should be built anyway, should the people be forced to pay for it?
And a lot of that 60 million comes from people who have never used the bridge, and don't even own or drive a car. Roads should be funded entirely by people who use them.
There is no extra government regulation needed to make mass transit more popular. All you have to do is end subsidies to both cars and mass transit, so that people have a choice whether to invest in cars or not.
This charge is a step in the right direction; It is a user fee, as opposed to a tax that is placed on every person.
A free market is one that is free of government regulation. (Notice the pattern?) A free market is not "supposed to" do anything, though it usually does.
Claiming that the market has "failed" because there is currently a monopoly is extremely short-sighted.
A free market is a market in which there are multiple companies all competing on the same level with the same rules.
A free market is one that is not regulated by the government, whether there is a monopoly at the moment or not. If you are advocating government control, please don't say that you are interested in a free market. That is called bullshit.
One possible way of getting out of a service plan early (or pausing your service for up to 30 days, when needed) is to call your company and tell them that you lost your phone. When I did this with AT&T Wireless (I actually did lose my phone) they said that they will pause my account (meaning that I will not be billed for the time) for up to 30 days while holding my number. They will then terminate my account. I never did find my phone, and my contract is over now.
Companies get their existence from money people give them in exchange for something else. It is not in their interest to do things that people will not appreciate.
People are not stupid. They do not need to be babysat. People can make their own choices. They only need to be given back the power.
I will never understand why people fear/dislike their government more than private companies who never even have to let you know anything strange is going on unless they get caught.
Because, no matter how much you dislike what the government does, you are still forced to support them by giving them the fruits of your labor.
If you are not satisfied with the job a company does, you are free to stop supporting them by not giving them any more of your money. If you are not satisfied with something the government does, you're SOL. You will still be robbed of your money no matter what.
For easy access to search engines try the page in my sig... I have it set as my home page so I just hit Alt+Home and then type in a search term.
I still use the Google toolbar for searching within a page though. Somehow, the toolbar picks up the search terms when the search page is loaded.
Another cool feature is that you don't even have to perform a search to be able to use the highlight and search features. Just type the strings into the Toolbar and the search buttons appear right away. You can then search within the current page.
Finally, you can press Alt+G to bring the cursor into the toolbar. Pressing Alt+Enter instead of Enter in the toolbar is the equivalent of the Feeling Lucky feature.
Well, he also said that the kids probably couldn't paint the fence right anyway, causing them to try to prove their worth by painting it. So it was a contest -- just not competition.
I sometimes use the OFFICIAL AIM client for Linux. No ads there (yet!). If ads are so important, then how come an official client doesn't display ads?
It's all about the user base. I presume that the user base of the official Linux AIM client is pretty small, so AOL doesn't care about it. The user base of TiK and other TOC clients is also pretty small.
The user base of MSN Messenger is much larger compared to the TOC clients, and that is why AOL made sure it couldn't access the AIM network. Same goes for Yahoo! Messenger.
If AOL is bothering with Trillian, I would take that as a sign that Trillian's user base has grown considerably. The irony is that Trillian is already able to connect to AIM again, while this little event gave it tons of publicity.
Well Microsoft owns the servers that run Hotmail (and Passport, and MSN, and so on) so should they force everyone to use IE to check their Hotmail accounts?
They're doing that already. The only non-MS browser that is allowed to enter (without misrepresenting itself) is Netscape 4.x. Everyone else (Konqueror, Opera, Mozilla, etc.) are blocked.
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The Trillian web site appears to be really slow and unresponsive. Evidently, this story is giving Trillian a lot of publicity...
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Another thing that AIM does right is that all security is done on the server, as opposed to being on the client for most other services. This includes privacy, flood limitations, and authentication.
As for autologging, lack of that feature really ticks me off. However, TiK does support autologging, and that is what I use for 90% of my AIM conversations. I also discovered recently that AIM for Mac OS has an autologging feature, though AIM for Mac OS X doesn't.
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If people don't want to pay for it, but politicians think that it should be built anyway, should the people be forced to pay for it?
There is no extra government regulation needed to make mass transit more popular. All you have to do is end subsidies to both cars and mass transit, so that people have a choice whether to invest in cars or not.
This charge is a step in the right direction; It is a user fee, as opposed to a tax that is placed on every person.
Claiming that the market has "failed" because there is currently a monopoly is extremely short-sighted.
As always, YMMV. Do at your own risk.
In a truly competitive market, a company has the freedom to decide not to sell its products to someone else.
(As long as it is created by a free market, that is, and not by artificial means such as legislation or mafia connections. Oh wait.. same thing ;)
Monopoly is not necessarily a bad thing.
People are not stupid. They do not need to be babysat. People can make their own choices. They only need to be given back the power.
Because, no matter how much you dislike what the government does, you are still forced to support them by giving them the fruits of your labor.
If you are not satisfied with the job a company does, you are free to stop supporting them by not giving them any more of your money. If you are not satisfied with something the government does, you're SOL. You will still be robbed of your money no matter what.
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I still use the Google toolbar for searching within a page though. Somehow, the toolbar picks up the search terms when the search page is loaded.
Another cool feature is that you don't even have to perform a search to be able to use the highlight and search features. Just type the strings into the Toolbar and the search buttons appear right away. You can then search within the current page.
Finally, you can press Alt+G to bring the cursor into the toolbar. Pressing Alt+Enter instead of Enter in the toolbar is the equivalent of the Feeling Lucky feature.
Well, he also said that the kids probably couldn't paint the fence right anyway, causing them to try to prove their worth by painting it. So it was a contest -- just not competition.
How about setting up a demo booth at Best Buy?
I think the term you're looking for is non-profit.
The user base of MSN Messenger is much larger compared to the TOC clients, and that is why AOL made sure it couldn't access the AIM network. Same goes for Yahoo! Messenger.
If AOL is bothering with Trillian, I would take that as a sign that Trillian's user base has grown considerably. The irony is that Trillian is already able to connect to AIM again, while this little event gave it tons of publicity.
Actually, Microsoft built a special HTTP-based module into Outlook Express so that it can read Hotmail messages. And it does display banners.
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As for autologging, lack of that feature really ticks me off. However, TiK does support autologging, and that is what I use for 90% of my AIM conversations. I also discovered recently that AIM for Mac OS has an autologging feature, though AIM for Mac OS X doesn't.
Perhaps this is just a strategy of dealing with the increased delay the FAA is forcing on the airlines?
If you want reliable e-mail, buy your own domain and host it.
Hacked by Americans!
(I'm not affiliated with Sharp.)
Is it possible, at all, to trust a company whose home page has silly javascript that resizes your browser window?