The equivalent of the standing order in the internet age for the UK specifically
A standing order is still the right way to do this. Most bank accounts have online access and will let your customer setup the standing order online, without having to fill in a paper form.
This is an alternative solution and it will depend where you live as to how you will have to make it work.  I am in the UK and there are a number of ways that I can use to access my money from anywhere in the world without high transaction fees. Internet banking takes care of everything else. There are many basic services that the business should be offering but are not. This can easily increase sales by 100k per year. Due to old age of the owner, he refrains from doing so. I just want to make sure the business is in good standing on the books. "Why does the article, which refers to the 2006-2008 boom as a gilded age use the same time period as a basis for labor participation calculation? Should they not use a more wise approach and make the basis around 2005 or 2004 and then calculate the amount of labor participating in order to account for the ""false high"" of 2007? Maybe I missed something in my education but if a specific time counts as an anomaly, then it should not be the base calculation when deriving a hypothesis about that time period. For example wage growth between 2005 and 2007 increased x% but between 2007 and 2009 decreased 3x% so we are really in for it now. It should be the base period of 2005 shows a growth of x% to 2007 and from 2005 to 2009 shows a growth of only one tenth x%.   Of course this would make for much less sensationalist journalism and may not sell as many news stories as a sensationalist story would." You aren't paying for your internet buddy. You are paying for a portion of the services that your internet provider charges you for. However you are not paying for the infrastructure, electricity, utilities, security, and all the other things that are required in order for that ISP to be able to bring internet to your house. In what ways is SOPA seem a fitting retribution to the wrongdoing you're alleging? Also, can you prove harm from these sources hosting the copyrighted material? It seems that to **deserve** something the offense and response should fit one another. Yes, that is a problem. When you have ex-Goldman Sach's CEO's become Treasury Secretaries or Governors of NJ, they are bound to have influence that favors their older company.   Hence we need agencies like Elizabeth Warren's CPFB that audits and checks the govt.   However, my main point is that you cannot expect exchanges to self regulate so the min. HFT hold time of 5 secs imposed by exchange will likely not happen by the exchange on its own volition. You will need govt. law to impose it. As consumers, we need to demand licenses for content which state that they cannot be revoked unless there is a demonstrated violation of the terms of service. Those violations should have to be specifically enumerated and provided in writing to the licensee. Ask Boris Johnson. He's the know-it-all Brexpert.  I don't understand why there's so much confusion and disarray when you can simply ask the chief architect. Him and frog face have carefully researched answers to all of this and more.