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New Online Formats Gutted The Newspaper-ad Business. Why Pore Over Tiny Print Looking For A Job In The Want Ads When You Can Tap A Few Keywords Into Monster.com, Then Click Through And Apply? Why Pay A Steep Per-character Rate For A Classified When You Can Hawk A Whole Garage Full Of Used Stuff On Ebay Or Craigslist For Free?

Regardless Of How It's Done, Transaction Costs Will Continue To Plummet As Computers Get More Powerful. Low Transaction Costs Are A Wonderful Thing If You're In The Transaction Business. They're Wonderful For Consumers Too, Making It Cheaper And Easier To Buy Things And Creating New Things To Buy.

Anybody Who Can Afford A Box Of Business Cards Can Afford A Web Site. Any Company With An 800 Number Can Move Its Services To The Web For Peanuts By Comparison. The Extreme Case Of Corporate Promotion Is To Strip Away All Other Aspects Of Your Business And Sell Goods Or Services Via The Net Alone, As Amazon.com Has Done With Books.

Pressure Cookers Are Relatively Inexpensive, They're In Every Kitchen Store, Your Grandma Probably Had One, But A Lot Of People Don't. A Pressure Cooker Is Interesting Because By Pressurizing The Vessel, You're Able To Cook Much Hotter Than The Boiling Point Of Water, And Still Have Water Be Present.

A Person's Basic Humanity Is Not Governed By How He Or She Came Into This World, Or Whether Somebody Else Happens To Have The Same Dna.