Leased medallions are a tax, bought ones are an investment, I'd have thought a free marketeer like yourself would prefer the latter. As I said earlier, imagine it more like owning a shop on a busy street.

You idiot.

At least look at the links I gave before rambling off down your predetermined path.

Oh noes $NewEnemy "represents a new and previously unimaginable threat to our existence and must be stopped by any means possible".

There's a reason kamikaze planes didn't have wheels on them, and it's not only because they weren't needed. See if you can figure out that riddle.

Hardly, just that people can cut corners and make a living in the interim.

http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... Does that mean "forever ignorant"?

We can't possibly risk doing anything about this threat to humanity as it may slightly interfere with the generation of the imaginary tokens we use as a medium of exchange.

That's a rock solid backup strategy. Good luck.

It's funny how "legally binding" can be so perfidious.

You can get 500 speedboats and all those weapons plus 500 dedicated kamikaze troops for £1000 dollars? I don't know when you were frozen, Dr Evil, but that's not a lot of money these days.

The thing about wargames is your suicide troops don't ask any questions. This doesn't happen very often in real life.

I and others have explained this in the thread, over provision is incredibly unproductive, people try to make a career out of it and fail, sit around doing nothing and losing money, under provision brings transportation to a standstill.

They don't he's wrong. You might as well say buying a shop on Broadway is a tax, they are paying for the right to operate the cab, usually buying it from an existing driver.

One of the things that is often overlooked is that the market can only sustain so many taxis, while everyone rages at the cost of the medallions constituting a barrier to entry (is the cost of buying a shop a barrier to entry?). If the number of drivers isn't regulated then there will be booms and busts in provision where the number of drivers will go up as people buy in, then there are too many drivers so some are going to go bust from sitting around doing nothing (wasting petrol and taking up space while they do). When there are fewer drivers you can't get a taxi (and if prices are unregulated the cost will rise horribly). Basically regulation is necessary or the whole system will become a clusterfuck.

Or stealing the drones which are probably much more valuable. Besides that the obvious fail points which spring to mind are noise pollution and safety when landing. It won't take many dead cats before people start to have reservations about this kind of craziness.

So far

I'm too busy googling "alien conspiracies" and "chemtrails" so much good information for those willing to do the research! Do you know if he straps on my hat should be tin foil as well or will a rubber band do?