Before ADSL was available and affordable, I did have ISDN at my place.
It was charged by the minute, so I could not leave the data always on.
I set up an always on Linux box at my apartment with a PCI ISDN adapter. A voice mail application answered calls on one of the 4 ISDN phone numbers.
I modified this voice mail application to accept a PIN code to open PPP on the other B-channel to the ISP and read back the dynamic assigned IP on the phone. This was something I could not do with a single analog phone line and a modem.
This was not the reason to get the ISDN, but this was the first time I could remotely access my systems at home at will. Not that I needed to that much, but I could.
Flip side of the welfare state is the heavy tax burden.
Heavily progressive income tax makes it harder for individuals to accumulate capital for enterprenial endeavours, be it their own or investing in others'. This limits early stage investments and growth.
Also, there are limited incentives in investing in careers and productivity as net income is surprisingly similar in lowest 10% and highest 10% income earners.
How about automatically created anonymous user accounts and ability to later merge into a regular user account with username and password.
An anonymous account would essentially identify a single browser and enable server side storage required for full application functionality.
Should the user later feel like the registration is worth the trouble after all, he could merge one or multiple anonymous accounts into a single regular account.
One thing to think about in advance could be to prepare for merging data from multiple accounts.
I think Amazon shopping cart did something along these lines?
I modified this voice mail application to accept a PIN code to open PPP on the other B-channel to the ISP and read back the dynamic assigned IP on the phone. This was something I could not do with a single analog phone line and a modem.
This was not the reason to get the ISDN, but this was the first time I could remotely access my systems at home at will. Not that I needed to that much, but I could.