It's hard to get anything out of the trees without cutting them down and releasing the carbon dioxide. Also, trees are hard to grow on top of buildings.

It's OK-- most of the people commenting below didn't read the article either.

Starting today Seattle pedestrians can no longer pat their pockets and claim to have no cash

So now they will have cash? MAGIC!

Don't give them any ideas.

I'm all for sexism. Now, what are we going to do to reverse the trend of fewer and fewer males attending and graduating college? How about the lack of male veterinarians and elementary school teachers?

You just gave me a bunch of comparative figures, which shows me you STILL think life is a zero-sum game.

Well, considering the negative responses I can see in this discussion (he probably also makes millions in stock and bonuses, $1 million is a drop in the bucket, etc.) I imagine the applause of the general public isn't one of his motivations.

Who forced him? You said never.

And yes, this kind of bold thinking is rare. That's why success is business is almost as rare.

Yes. He returned $930,000 to the bottom line. How many of us do that? And he took a 20% pay hit. How many of us are willing to do that?

I don't even understand your comment. It's not even funny. A capitalist decided, on his own, without government interference, to increase pay.

Forget about the class warfare, OK? Even Bruce Springsteen would agree that as long as everyone is winning, it shouldn't matter if someone is winning more. There are few places in the USA where $70K/year is not a good salary. I doubt those high-fiving employees who just had their salaries doubled think it's a "publicity stunt".

Singlehandedly, he returned $930,000 to the bottom line of his company. Most of us can't make such a claim. But that only accounts for boosting about 25 people who were making $34K to $70K, so unless his company is quite small, I'm sure other strategies were employed. We'll see how effective those strategies are over the coming years. That will tell us if he's just a good guy, or a great CEO.

That's exactly what I've been arguing. I don't know in what kind of economy having a free option-- even a limited one-- could cause prices to go UP. At worst, they would stay the same, if the only people to use the free service were people who could honestly afford to pay nothing and therefore had no internet at all.

Except when this extra-judicial kind of accusation takes place, the accused normally gets a Kafkaesque review process, devoid of actual evidence other than the original claim, that usually ends up either with an expulsion or sanctions imposed to such a degree that the student is forced to leave.

In other words, it's not really on the record and the HuffingPaintPost is getting useless data.

They're not parsing HTTP in the kernel. HTTP.SYS is a listener.

No, Windows 2000 Professional was built on Windows 2000.

My media center said GRUB when I turned it on, so I thought we were back in 1999.