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andrewducker- Afghan women's rights are being steadily stripped away.
- How John Carter Was Doomed by Its First Trailer (and a director who was too close to the source material)
- In Sweden, cash is sliding towards oblivion
- In Protest, Democrats Zero In On Men's Reproductive Health
- Best Part Of Gay 12-Year-Old’s Day Half Hour Spent Eating Lunch Alone On Staircase
- Fan Fiction Friday: Thomas the Tank Engine in "Tension Relief". AAAAAARGH. MY BRAIN.
- How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp. (Harrowing, appalling and compelling)
- A very funny picture which contains spoilers for the end of season 1 of GameOfThrones
- Travel Posters for Lazy People.
- Mozilla is going to support h264 video if the OS provides a decoder
- Government pushing to privatise the roads. I really cannot see how this would be more efficient in the long run.
- Demand feeding better for children, scheduled feeding better for mothers
- The bottom half of this article puts forward a much better proposal for funding roads, IMHO
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Date: 2012-03-19 01:08 pm (UTC)I believe it's probably a long term strategic goal.
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Date: 2012-03-19 12:25 pm (UTC)However, in 2004 Alistair Darling announced plans to the Commons to build more toll roads, including another new road to bypass approximately 50 miles of the M6 from north of Birmingham to somewhere north of Manchester. They were never built, but the idea of building them is not a new one.
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Date: 2012-03-19 12:28 pm (UTC)But I don't believe that taking existing road maintenance and handing it over to a private company is going to automatically make it more efficient than doing it in-house.
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Date: 2012-03-19 12:47 pm (UTC)And also, in this case, my childhood,
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Date: 2012-03-19 01:07 pm (UTC)2) If not, watch "How To Train Your Dragon".
3) Return here and thank me for substantially enriching your life.
4) As a by-product, find cartoon funny.
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Date: 2012-03-19 01:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-10 04:47 am (UTC)Shocked
Date: 2012-03-19 01:59 pm (UTC)Re: Shocked
Date: 2012-03-19 06:00 pm (UTC)And then remade few years ago, no longer with Ringo Starr and no longer any good.
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Date: 2012-03-19 07:22 pm (UTC)At some point, someone filled me in that the original was fairly good, and the more recent ones were less so :)
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Date: 2012-03-19 07:46 pm (UTC)I don't really think of the Rev. W. Audry books as Thomas the Tan Engine books. I was always more fond of Donald and Douglas. I'm not sure why. Something about their Scottishness was exotic to me as a kid, I think.
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Date: 2012-03-19 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-19 05:38 pm (UTC)a) taxes are replaced by fees as a means of funding operations and investment
b) taxes are progressive w.r.t. wealth and income, fees are not
c) fees not invested in the asset after operational costs to go to dividends (i.e. out of the pockets of fee payers, into the pockets of asset owners)
If the complication of turning a free-at-the-point-of-delivery system into one for which a fee must be colloected results in inefficiency, that inefficiency is just an opportunity to engage in more economic activity, transferring yet more money from the asset's users to the asset's owners.
When I say "better", this is not better from the position of ninety nine percent of people: even if you're upper middle class, it's a net loss, not a net win. But for a very small number of people, it's clearly better.
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