Wow – the beginnings of a discussion in my message board at last! This one is about minidisc vs other digital storage media for music listening.
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19 May 2001
According to research from US thinktank Resources for the Future, (discussed in The Economist) even factoring in pollution and congestion benefits our fuel tax is roughly twice as high as it should be to take into account the costs of using fuel (though America’s petrol tax is much too low). Why? Political cowardice. It is (or has until now been) politically easier to hike up “sin taxes” on petrol than to raise income tax.adding razr ringtones forstanley c accrington faccrington cinemaadam vancouver harringtoniphone ringtones accbeaumont of amanda harringtonamc barington 30lg ringtone vx 6000 Map
An interesting survey of How much information is produced annually. The short answer is 250Mb for every person on earth – 93% of which is in digital format. The authors (from Berkeley) offer a lot of supplemental data as well. For example, until 1992 most TV stations broadcast no more than 9.5 minutes of advertising per hour in prime time – now the average is 15 minutes. Ouch! I thought things were worse there – here in the UK the terrestrial channels can only show 7.5 minutes an hour and cable only 9 minutes an hour (plus, of course, the BBC is completely ad-free).
