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The reason this makes sense in Alaska is that a lot of places aren't accessible to the fire service - if your cabin out in the woods with no road burns down the fire service can't get a ladder truck there so why are you paying?

This used to be the policy with private fire services in most cities - until somebody realised that the house of a poor person with no insurance burning could start a fire that could destroy the city - so it makes sense to put out that fire, in the same way that it makes sense to give people free vaccinations against TB if they are going to cough next to you on the subway.

Interesting that the police are still covered by commie taxes - if the firemen wanted protection they should have paid the annual police tax, or got a better deal from a private security firm, or just bought their own guns.

5% saving with better aerodynamics - at huge cost in changing every runway, taxiway, jetbridge, hanger and terminal to handle the new shape/size/layout

65% saving from new engine design based on unobtanium

Presumably the library already has the ISBN of the books it is getting rid of.

They could pull out the ones worth >$1 after checking on Amazon and then package and ship them - but thats probably not cost effective for a library employee and getting little old ladies to spend the day packaging and shipping isn't what they volunteered for.

They could get in some minimum wage temp labor to do this once a year - but that's not really the libraries core business. It would be like having police patrol cars pick up cans by the side of the freeway for the 5c recycling (now theres a business model)

Most bookshops do, in fact since Amazon/abebooks/etc most used bookstores do <50% of their business through the door. They make their money on Amazon, others don't even bother with the store anymore - they buy job lots of books put them in cheap warehouse space and sell them for 1c making money on the s+h

This guys trawls library sales, thrift stores etc. Library sales are normally run for charity and everything is 50c, the librarians have already selected the books to go into the sale so there isn't much chance of a $100 book being found. The aim of 'friends of the library' group of little old lady volunteers isn't really to invest $1000s in high tech to make a little more money.

It's actually of benefit - there is a book out there that I want but it's hidden in a library or garage sale in a city 1000mi away. This guy makes it available for me to buy at a price I set on Amazon - rather than the book ending up in the trash and me not having what I want.

You've obviously never cut your hands to shreds working on cheap metal cases repairing peoples PCs.

True for the US with a big supply of uranium in a (relatively) friendly country to the north.

Different for say India that has lots of Thorium, no Uranium and doesn't want to go begging to Russia or spend hard currency in Canada.

> take ww.com away from me .... I'd be fairly confident about the outcome.

Unless of course you were a foreigner, especially an Libyan one then the outcome might not be so confidence inspiring.