"With satellite systems already installed in planes, the simplest tweak would be to have airlines subscribe to the most basic and fairly inexpensive service offered by satellite companies, which includes the transmission of the GPS coordinates at regular intervals, for example every hour or every five minutes, or continuously in the case of distress".
"Make no mistake, if 15% of Apple's entire 500m or so iTunes users were to subscribe, the subscription market would be transformed, growing the total number of subscribers by 75 million," wrote the report's author, Mark Mulligan.
One way to explain them would be to say that they subscribed to a particular liberal idea: that there is often a discrepancy between public values and private tastes, but as long as these things are kept in separate compartments people have no obligation to justify their personal likes on political grounds.
In February, Netflix announced that Cubans with high-speed Internet connections and access to international payment methods would be able to subscribe to its popular film and TV show service.
A narrow, hawkish government would be unlikely to subscribe to the same peacemaking principles as the Obama administration and the departing Israeli government, which favor a process based on establishing a Palestinian state.
Or perhaps the Canadian taxpayer would be willing to subscribe to a new issue of convertible contingent debt issued by the likes of Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase – allowing them to assume a "first loss" position whenever the management of such entities makes very big mistakes (or worse).
In addition, it would be helpful to subscribe to the newsletters and text service of your favorite stores.
Every new event convinces the sceptics that monetary union is a folly to which Britain would be mad to subscribe.
Ever since the toilet paper subscription (and later, the paper towel one) started coming, I've wondered what it would be like to subscribe via Amazon to everything I get at Costco and never set foot in the place again, except to cash my check each year.
If it did, the government would be invited to subscribe around £5 billion because it owns 43% of the bank.
