Depends on how much local autonomy there is which in turn depends on how much taxation is raised by local government. In some countries local governments are funded from central taxation and are more or less instructed on what they can or can't do with it.
Estonia seems to be a great country for these sorts of initiatives. Is it because vested interests are less of a thing there?
Also being small might help, I suppose, more agile perhaps?
Thermal printers are the ones where the text becomes invisible over time I believe.
They should be outlawed as a way of providing anything of record.
My credit union gives them as their way of giving you your statement.
Is that not like saying it suffers from groupthink? Because I do feel there's a consensus of opinion among their writers on most topics.
You see a greater range of views in the times and the daily telegraph which are owned by wealthy proprietors as has long been common in the industry.
Yes but they have their own agendas. I think I have seen one comment piece that was from a pro brexit point of view over the last three years. During the Irish abortion referendum run up, it was the same. It was as though the right to have an abortion was self evidently as much a human right as free speech.
The guardian overall is too black and white for me.
I don't understand the point you're making. If I was to read the same number of articles in blendle in a month, that I read for my fiver subscription, it would cost a lot more. The model doesn't work for me.
I tried it and didn't like the model. Paying per article is just crazy, it makes you feel like you have to watch what you're spending all the time.
I'd rather a fixed amount that leads me read as much or as little as I choose
I pay a fiver a month for a newspaper subscription. That feels about the right level to me. It's a lot less than I used to pay for physical newspapers but I tend to gauge the value of things in terms of what Spotify and Netflix cost these days.
The group that most commonly get mentioned are smokers. The reply smokers give is to mention that they are taxed so heavily for their habit that they are paying their way. It's also mentioned that because they die younger, they effectively subsidise other people's old age.
Your argument ignores real politics.
In my country we are constantly having questions about why isn't more money available to help children with autism or old people with dementia, etc. At the same time people complain that taxes are too high. One of the ways to square that circle would be to look at spending on the treatment of avoidable diseases. Particularly ones that affect only a minority (ie not people like us) but yet cost a lot to treat.
The tiobe index always seems to be way out of line with the other indices out there. Nobody but tiobe ranks VB.net above c#. Also the other day I read that Lazarus isn't taken into account in terms of assessing the popularity of object Pascal, because Lazarus is an IDE, not a language.
Tiobe also seen to be constantly tweaking the methodology such that if you look back at historical rankings they can be totally different to the rankings for the same period that were reported historically. Which is verging on the dishonest. It would be like a tipster going back and revising his tips after the fact.
In the late 20th century I almost weekly got an audiobook in tape cassette form from my local public library to listen to in my car. As far as I can remember they cost me nothing. They had a room full of the things, so the selection was enormous. I have particular memories of listening to James Lee burke's books read by Mark Hammer. Later in the noughties I joined audible but it wasn't cheap and they had a couple of sharp practices that turned me right off. The first was that you couldn't carry over credits. The second was they made it hard to cancel. Then there was the way they leaned on the audio software guy whose software allowed you to remove the drm, so you could burn to disk in mp3 rather than the only supported way which would have required a bunch of CDs per book. Bottom line for me today is they're too expensive. Being restricted also to one book a month (was two back then) for the same cost as Spotify and Netflix combined is a joke
How an I apologising for the Nazis? Is it necessary to always preface any remarks in which Nazi Germany and another country may both be referenced with some kind of explanation or risk being called a Nazi apologist?
Can we not let the actual arguments speak for themselves?
America has tortured people. It has also destroyed Nations it regarded as Savage. How is that an apology for the Nazis?
Most people go with the flow. I'd imagine that this was true also when it came to the torturing of prisoners by America post 9/11. How many refused to go along with that I wonder?
Nazi Germany, like the USA, seems to have been a country where the courts were able to operate with a degree of independence and due process consequently existed to some extent. By contrast I remember solzhenitsyn writing how he would much prefer to end up in the clutches of the Gestapo than the NKVD. You had a chance of the Gestapo releasing you if you managed to persuade them off your innocence whereas your fate was already sealed with the NKVD from the moment they decided to arrest you.