| Doug Henwood on 10 Feb 2001 20:08:20 -0000 |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> In Defense of the Free Ride |
cpaul wrote: >How the Best Price for Napster Downloads Might Actually Be Free > >By Robert X. Cringely > >http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010208.html > > > >When I visit New York City, I like to ride the subway. It is the fastest way >to get around town and stay out of the weather at the same time. The New >York City subway system is a remarkable engineering achievement, but there >is one aspect of it that I can't understand -- why they charge people money >to ride it. > >If, like me, you had literally grown up covering city council meetings for >bad newspapers, you'd know that just about every transit agency in America >claims that ticket sales cover only 10 to 15 percent of the actual cost of >providing their service. Not in NYC. Here, fares cover something like half of total expenses (including depreciation of capital) - and a lot more, if you just look at operating expenses. Doug _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold