Segmentation fault.

While your suggestion of removing workplace legislation could potentially help the economy, it comes at an unreasonable cost to human beings. The problem is, at some point, that most jobs become dangerous either physically or psychologically. Then people would have a choice to either work at a dangerous job or to not work at all, with all the consequences that follow from that. That is why the people of the world have historically supported such laws protecting workers.

Like a true ideal gas, a true free market is an impossibility. No country has ever had one; no country ever will. It is only useful as a simplified model for making some limited predictions.

I would have no problem with this if people were actually given the choice of whether to sign up for a pay-as-you-drive plan, but as it stands, this hurts consumer choice without any real benefits. It is unlikely that people will really drive less, because they still need to get to their jobs and to stores that are miles away from their homes. If we want people to drive less, we should be investing in mass-transit systems which will help them do that, thereby increasing consumer choice rather than decreasing it.

I don't know, but at this rate, Google Gears is completely useless for me. I've just begun to use a local mail and calendar client (which I guess is better practice anyway).