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and coated with Himalayan sea salt transported from the mountains on the back of a Golden Yak

Coated? What kind of garbage are you slinging? We all know that the salt must have the individual cubes selected and hand placed by a salinammelier or they're just shit!

One who cares more about how her family and friends will judge his profession than what kind of person she’s on the date with.

Yay! Congress passed the Clear Skies Act*!!!!

*It guts air pollution regulations but don't look at the details, just cheer for the happy name which is all you're going to pay attention to anyway.

I know what you mean but by "research" I don't think they mean reading other people's reporting and then putting their own spin on it.

There are an incredible number of things that are available online now that you can get from home or your office. For example, it was only about 20 years ago when if you wanted to see the complete content of what was in a congressional bill you had to go or have someone go to the publications office at the state house or capitol to get it. If you wanted to find out who owned a particular piece of property you had to go to the bureau of records and deeds to look it up. Now I have the capability to do that sort of research right from where I'm sitting now. Those are just a couple of examples but the same goes for all kinds of business filings (e.g. filings with the multitude of state and federal regulatory agencies), legal filings (e.g. civil suits, liens against businesses) and so forth. In those days doing research meant spending a lot of time pounding the pavement to get to that information which just isn't necessary now.

It only costs $1 to subscribe and you can cancel at any time.

A bit of a tangent question here, but you're in the business so may have an answer.

In the dead tree newspaper era you could go to a newsstand and buy a single copy of any newspaper or magazine that they had. After buying it once or a few times you might decide to subscribe or you might not.

Why don't newspapers and periodicals follow this model with their online versions? The words "cancel anytime" would have seemed ludicrous in that past era. Can you imagine being a customer there who wanted to pick up a single edition and the man behind the counter said that you could only take it if you subscribed, but could cancel at anytime?

Today I wouldn't have a problem dropping a small amount of money in a one time payment to get access to a few days or a week's worth of a daily newspaper or a single edition's worth of magazine access tied to an emailed link or a specific device. I don't want to subscribe though.

It seems to me that from a revenue standpoint and for potential subscriber growth that it would be a better model to replicate that old way of doing things. Has the industry tried this to your knowledge?