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Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:49:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Horst Lehner writes:
> <No greeting on request of Larry ;-), and to not err in the name ;-)=)>
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> > If you had a choice are you going to use the road that cares or the one that
> > doesn't?
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> Well, my response to this idea may apply less to the US than to Europe: We
> don't have enough space to build a CHOICE of roads to every destination.
But this is, in fact, false, in just about every case, except for the last
mile on each end.
Roads form a mesh and while there may not be space to build two parallel
roads which are exactly equivalent in distance, that is not necessary. It is
only necessary that more than one way to get from point A to point B exist,
and again, except for the endpoints this is generally true.
Faced with a choice of a longer, all autobahn way to visit you when I was in
Zurich, or using a shorter way that let me visit Rheinfall even though it
took longer, I chose the latter.
> So,
> what remains of my point probably is threefold:
> - There is some truth to the idea that each monopoly creates a
> less-than-optimum product
If it is a forced monopoly.
> - The question whether the monopoly is state-owned or privately
> held does not make much of a difference
Yes.
> - There are certain products (not too many of them, actually) that
> require a monopoly.
False. There are no natural monopolies. Monopolies only exist because there
are unnatural barriers to entry erected by governments for some antimarket
reason.
> Reasons for this could be: Resource limitations,
False, there are no limited resources under substitution. The market will
provide resources at the price point that people will take them, if allowed
to do so.
> equality of rights,
Not a valid reason to require a state forced monopoly
> and unability to make profits from something
> that is considered socially important
If there is no profit in it, it should not be done. Else you are saying it's
OK for the majority to vote for whatever bread or circuses it chooses to
without regard to cost.
> Can you agree to these?
See above
> My guess is I ordered them in decreasing larryness
Not sure what that means.
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> :wq
AAAAHHH! VI! ptui. EMACS uber alles.
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| (...) ...or corporations... (...) Thats vi please. VI will generally result in sh: VI: not found or something similar. As will EMACS (except if you use some inferior operating system, sold by some corporate monopoly 8?) Oh, OK, you could create a (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| <No greeting on request of Larry ;-), and to not err in the name ;-)=)> (...) Well, my response to this idea may apply less to the US than to Europe: We don't have enough space to build a CHOICE of roads to every destination. So, what remains of my (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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