I love all the armchair central planners on here. Hasn't it ever occurred to you lot that it might be somewhat pretentious to claim to know what travel other people should be encouraged to use and forced to pay for. On that thought, I doubt a bunch of politicians and bureaucrats spending other people's money are going to find a good solution.

Wow I've never heard of a more thoughtful solution. A new tax!!! Ohhh.

Surely if people chose the school their children went to this would be hardly an issue. Would be even less of an issue if they paid directly as well.

Wow, its a fast language to code in alright. I can find 51,500,000 programs already!!1

You, as an individual, do not. Society as a whole? Of course it does.

Why?

One of those people who sees free markets everywhere, then blames any problem on them.

The problem is that one person's choice may cause other people fail. This is the point which usually is forgotten.

Isn't that a problem with any system?

So what's the answer? :)

A few thoughts on the matter: Weren't telephones around the world linked up privately? If they were subsidized, how much?

Also a global internet is going to be more profitable than closed networks, wasn't AOL a closed network at one point? And I think I've heard of other ones that completely failed.

To be quite frank, I really don't care about mind games about how stuff might have happened, or how stuff might happen in an alternate universe :D Especially if something like the internet is a logical conclusion of having computers that connect to each other.

(Btw, when people say big-L Libertarians, they 99% of the time mean people from the Libertarian party. Though, I have seen even people like Jesse Ventura think that means anarcho-libertarian, or anarcho-captalist.)

So yea yea you won't take me seriously (which accounts for the tone of my comment) but no one can prove either way if the internet would exist if there just so happened to be some libertarian society so I would advocate voluntarism rather than coercion (anyone can test out for themselves if something is coercive or not, e.g. trying to not pay taxes).

I think I've heard of that organization before, they send their employees off around the world to rape...and stuff?

25.3% aren't

When people had such a low opinion of their fellow man that they essentially thought he was a retard, incapable of surviving without the wise overlords in government.