On 4/10/2011 6:20 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:59:40 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>
>> A better explanation might be "if it costs somebody money but you didn't
>> pay for it, you're being sold".
>
> That's the best way to look at it I've seen. :)
>
> Jim

GPS strikes me as a counter-example.  It costs somebody (the US military 
/ government) a lot of money.  I didn't pay for it except by the most 
circuitous reasoning (not being a US citizen).  I don't see how I'm 
being sold by it or for it.  Now I do have to pay for a GPS receiver but 
there isn't as far as I know any component in that cost for building and 
running the satellite network, ground stations etc.

To every generalisation there is at least one obvious and irrefutable 
counter-example - even this one.

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