Re: Crypto-Anarchy/Anarcho-Capitalist Errors in Understanding

2000-04-24 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: David J. Brunell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The key concepts are force and fraud. Neither should be initiated from one > human entity to another. By "human entity" I mean person, corporation, or > government. Why are force and fraud wrong? Because it is against man's > na

Re: Crypto-Anarchy/Anarcho-Capitalist Errors in

2000-04-12 Thread Petro
>Tom Vogt wrote: >> >> but all this is hypothetical, since I'm not talking about industrial >> power of 1900 or 1940, but of corporate power in 2000, and especially of >> the years yet to come. > >Ok, so give us some documentation. How many people did Bill Gates & Co kill >and what are the details

Re: Crypto-Anarchy/Anarcho-Capitalist Errors in Understanding

2000-04-07 Thread David Honig
At 04:47 PM 4/6/00 +0200, Tom Vogt wrote: >David Honig wrote: >> > protection of patent monopolies, >> >> Individual inventors get patents, what extra rights do >> corps get? > >patent portfolios. a long time ago, in a country not very far away (i.e. >the US of A) patents were rare and only grant

Re: Crypto-Anarchy/Anarcho-Capitalist Errors in Understanding

2000-04-06 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Economics doesn't recognise rights, that's politics. Don't confuse the > two. Just like Tom Vogt believes that being a Nazi prevents one from being a socialist, you fail to understand that politics is a subset of economics, the one where

Re: Crypto-Anarchy/Anarcho-Capitalist Errors in Understanding

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Vogt
David Honig wrote: > > protection of patent monopolies, > > Individual inventors get patents, what extra rights do > corps get? patent portfolios. a long time ago, in a country not very far away (i.e. the US of A) patents were rare and only granted after extensive examination for really worthy i

Re: Crypto-Anarchy/Anarcho-Capitalist Errors in Understanding

2000-04-05 Thread Tom Vogt
David Honig wrote: > >Microsoft broke every one of these. They have gone out of their way to > >reduce the ability of competition to come to market. > > Do you think you have to buy your competition a billboard > for 'equal access'? Must your salespeople > refer customers to competitors if they

Re: Crypto-Anarchy/Anarcho-Capitalist Errors in Understanding

2000-04-05 Thread David Honig
At 08:01 AM 4/5/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote: >Microsoft broke every one of these. They have gone out of their way to >reduce the ability of competition to come to market. Do you think you have to buy your competition a billboard for 'equal access'? Must your salespeople refer customers to compet