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Why do I pay for road repairs on roads I don't drive on?

That sucks! Maybe they should make an option to take that and put it towards an iTunes gift certificate.

treadlightly: Because you CAN drive on them if your journey takes you there. Now, if you paid for road repairs on roads you couldn't drive on (like private roads for example) then that would be a different story. Get your analogies in order, sir.

treadlightly

You pay for road repairs so that emergency services can reach you when you need them.

You pay for road repairs so that delivery trucks can deliver the goods and foods that you need to live.

You pay for road repairs for the sake of the common good.

If you don't like contributing to the common good, move to the wilderness and don't call an ambulance if you or someone you love falls ill.

You cannot compare the problem at Cornell to paying for essentials like roads. A music service is not essential.

Why do I pay for road repairs on roads I don't drive on?

Roads are a necessity for our transportation system, Napster on the other hand, is not a necessity to a college education and students shouldn't be forced to pay for something in which some are excluded from using.

A great example of Liberal thought in action: the enlightened intelligentsia have made a decision for you "in your best interest". The Libertarian idea that personal choice is the best way would have kept this heavy-handed and short-sighted kind of action by the school at bay.

This November there is another choice:

http://www.lp.org/issues/platform/compare/

Cornell's press release is here:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/July04/NapsterTrial.ws.html

Note in part that it states:

"All but $25,000 of the cost of the pilot is coming from corporate sponsors. The balance will be paid from an unrestricted gifts fund in Cornell's Division of Student and Academic Services. In the fall of 2005, the Cornell Student Assembly will decide if the program should be continued, with the cost added to student activity fees."

I'm staff, so this service doesn't affect me one way or the other. I do think it stinks for Mac users and Windows users with iPods.

sucks going to cornell

go big green!

They were forced to do something. If they didn't they were liable for the illegal music downloads of the students using their network.

Want to bet Napster and/or Microsoft picked up most of the corporate sponsorship required. A look at the adds that bombard your computer as you use the service will tell all.

They coulda had iTunes for free as in beer. Someone somewhere got something for the Napster signup.

yeah, go big green!

The Libertarian idea that personal choice is the best way would have kept this heavy-handed and short-sighted kind of action by the school at bay.

Man, I get a tear in the eye when I read stuff like that. Decisions like the Cornell one remind me of what happens in some third world countries, and apparently, everywhere to a lesser extent. My knee-jerk reaction to things like this is ask myself WHY and HOW it was arrived at. Usually, some sort of scam or kickback is involved.

Sometimes these banal decisions are made by one person with some authority, influence or power, based on purely personal reasons such as: knowing the salesman / CEO, falling for a pitch (you're getting an unprecedented deal 'cause you're first), or similar.

My guess here is that it was purely a decision from a know-little imbecile or two. It reflects badly on Cornell.

Seems like the letter explains why Napster got the deal - the student assembly members got it free last year. Do they get it free again this year?

Why not let those that want it pay for it and the others use what they want?

Thought Cornell was a better school than this.

Treadlightly,

Becuase other people pay for the roads you drive on.

It's called infrastructure. Take a civics class. Taxes are not evil, repubicans are evil.

So stealing your money to build a road is okay as long as I let you drive on the road - so I guess I can steal your car if I give you a ride to your socialist party meetings.

Dear free marketeer,
Everytime someones talks about sharing basic resources you imagine them having "socialist party meetings"?

Oh no! the socialist commies are everywhere! They do secret party meetings and they plan to steal people's money to build roads and hospitals!

As far as all the political banter goes, I'm a conservative that is happy to pay taxes for infrastructure, defense, emergency services, etc. The road building analogy was a bad one. The sentiment of people knowing what's better for you than you do on the other hand is appropriate, especially when it concerns activities or services that have limitied impact or simply amount to a redistribution of resources.

Tracking back to Cornell, the student assembly made a poor choice to limit it's students with restricted services with the impetus to avoid lawsuits for *some* student's illegal activities. They are therefore redistributing the ongoing cost of the system to all to avoid a problem caused by a few. Hmmm... Oh yeah, and why don't you also crack down on illegal file swapping and start expelling guilty students as an example to others?

Why are folks always buying "insurance" from the Soprano's (uh, I mean Napster) instead of enforcing "the right thing to do"?

Maybe I'm missing something? Fortunately it isn't the Cornell student activity fee. My Powerbook scoffs at Napster and Cornell. Ha!

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