This is essentially how Magnatune works. You pay $15 per month, can download and stream any amount of music from the Magnatune catalog and 50% of your monthly fee gets paid to artists in proportion to how much of their music you downloaded and streamed.
One issue with just using a public key everywhere is that the most common public key authentication protocols result in some degree of non-repudiability. This is desirable for signing in to a bank but not for potentially embarrassing sites. I guess the cryptographic community might already have an answer to this, though.
In Finland, your income tax rate only depends on your total yearly income. If you estimate your income too low and too much money gets withheld, it will be returned to you the next year. You can also adjust your estimate at any point during the year.
Try Sony Xperia U. I have the previous model Xperia ray and have been very happy with it. Great display (3.3 inch widescreen high-DPI), great camera, okay processor, would prefer more memory. It's so small that just about everyone mistakes it for a feature phone.
AbeBooks Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. AbeBooks, an online bookselling pioneer, was acquired in December 2008 and remains a stand-alone operation with headquarters in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and a European office in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Hyperbole, true, but it's equally silly to say that things just fine because it's the same situation in China and Korea. Why not compare to Japan where work permits are not tied to an employer and if you lose your job you generally have at least 3 months to look for a new one? Or many European countries with similar or better terms?
