Online Services in general

INTRO Once again I have taken a side step out of my usual light-hearted reviews and stepped into a serious issue. With more and more youngsters using the internet, the idea of online relationships is becoming more and more accepted. It isn't just kids either, people of all ages are now looking for love on the net and this of course can be very risky indeed. But what is the best way to approach it and is it really a good possibility? This review focuses on raising awareness about online chatting, and particularly relationships. I hope to answer any questions people might have within the review. I would also like to say a few things before you ...

Back in 1968, the American bioethics professor Garrett Hardin wrote his famous and much-reprinted essay The Tragedy of the Commons as a contribution to debates then raging about economic freedom, regulation and population control. The gist of his argument was a hard-nosed economic observation about the way property held in common ownership must inevitably be abused. Imagine a country where a pastoral tribe grazes its flocks on land held in common: the incentive to add a sheep to your own flock is great because you get the whole selling price of that extra sheep; the penalty for adding a sheep is much smaller because the over-grazing that extra sheep causes will ...

Online services eh? Been around a bit haven't they? Not quite as long as the online itself, but certainly they've been knocking about long enough to warrant a discussion in Speakers corner. So what is an online service? Well Websters defines an online service as a service provided to, but not hither with or whereby excluding or including the provision of goods and or service to the public via the hinterweb. Actually it doesn't, I made that up. But an online service is a service designed to provide goods and or services via the web vis-a-vie online! Now I've been using the web since September '96. Back then it was quick, there ...