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...compared to the millions of VCRs out there. But by saving shows digitally to a hard drive--and offering features like Season Pass, which automatically records every episode of, say, Sex and the City--TiVo puts the VCR to shame. Trouble is, customers have been skittish about the subscription fee for TiVo service. So, to gain wider appeal, TiVo is expanding its satellite-TV offerings and teaming up with the superstar of home theater...
Churrascarias are essentially glorified Brazilian barbecues. When you sit down, a brief nod tells the staff you know the drill: all-you-can-eat for a $19 fee. Vast skewers of various kinds of meat are circulated throughout the evening, and diners can hail down passing rump steak and pork loin as if they were vacant taxis. The attentive waiters and waitresses slice the meat onto your plate and will continue to do so until you—very firmly—instruct them to cease and desist. It’s a competitive eating race—the winner...
...that’s why we no longer have the pay-as-you-exit fee arrangement...
...allowed to consume resources for free. It makes little sense to let polluters impose all sorts of costs on our economy by degrading our air, water, natural resources and public health, and then pass the bill onto taxpayers. In fact, the Superfund program used to levy a fee on the worst polluting companies to clean up the same sites that those companies had egregiously contaminated. This improved market incentives by ensuring that polluters did not get a free ride. But the Republicans in Congress let the fee expire in 1995, and now Bush is refusing to reauthorize it, even...
...there ways to protect children online short of shutting down chat rooms? Many Internet companies have decided that a reasonably effective method of weeding out sexual predators is to require chat room habitués to register - and pay. Users must cough up a subscription fee, along with a credit-card number and personal information that can then be used to trace the perpetrator of any future abuse. Indeed, Microsoft itself will in some nations - including the U.S., Japan and Canada - require such subscriptions of between $2 and $10 per month to gain access to MSN chat rooms...