I'm pretty sure that anybody's motivation to spend money is because they have to, or it gives them something that they want. So what is wrong with something being free at the point of use (think OTA TV) but paying is possible for a 'better' experience (think HBO)?
Plenty of products are 'free' and do quite well - because they are selling or buying something else (such as your attention).
Wow, who butthurt you enough to want to insult Mike over something that probably 95+% of the population don't know, and possibly half even of the tech-literate population?
It's a shame because that was otherwise an Insightful, informative answer.
Yes, but red-light laws are there because two cars hitting each other at an intersection is a proven and predictable harm. In the case of planes and phones, there are apparently no logical predictions, and precious little evidence. It's like a municipality has super-long reds, because somewhere they heard that a Tin Lizzy couldn't get across in time somewhere else 70 years ago.
Which would be quite normal and more legal in countries with saner drinking laws. But no, giving a gun to a four-year-old is laudable, but letting his 17-year-old big brother drink, OH NOES!!11! And as for letting their adult dad gamble...
You really need to make your minds up which century you're in, and which religious denomination is driving your moral hangups. :)
Like several European cities have found that actually reducing the numbers of red lights in total helped improve traffic flow without adversely affecting safety.
And the libertarian cavemen crawl out from under the rocks...
Please, feel free to reject 'your' government and set up your own Galt commune... just remember not to use the government-funded roads to get there, nor to organise it over the government-established internet.
See, it's the unauthorised trafficking of dihydrogen monoxide that is aiding and abetting terrorism and must be stopped! These terrorist criminal drug gangs are misusing chemicals that we should be controlling!
When you call people extremely public nasty names, when you restrict their health options based on your own personal moral 'claims', when you force babies to be born into enviornments where they have apparently negative support until they are old enough to be good little worker drones/cannon fodder/stand-your-ground fodder...
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Plenty of products are 'free' and do quite well - because they are selling or buying something else (such as your attention).
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Now, just look for politicians publishing 'false' information...
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It's a shame because that was otherwise an Insightful, informative answer.
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You really need to make your minds up which century you're in, and which religious denomination is driving your moral hangups. :)
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Please, feel free to reject 'your' government and set up your own Galt commune... just remember not to use the government-funded roads to get there, nor to organise it over the government-established internet.
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Farmers use fertiliser, therefore farmers are terrorists!
DOJ 'logic'...
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