David Honig wrote:
> >If we accept the concept of free market based on fair competition then a
> >consumer does have a right to expect one producer to not interfere with
> >their choice of going with another producer.
>
> So we ban advertising, whose sole purpose is to chose ME
> not THEM?
no, w
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
David Honig wrote:
> >Oh, Ignore that guy stabbing the supplier in the back with a knife while
> >he steals money out of his pocket and distracts the customer with flashy
> >lights and loud noises (and the occassional blackmail attempt).
>
> I don't think MS ever used violence, or the threat of i
Wednesday April 05 10:00 PM EDT
Online game backs away from privacy threat
John Borland, CNET News.com
Sony's popular online game EverQuest dodged a public relations bullet today, as a new
policy was rescinded
after some players had called it a potentially massive violation of th
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From: Tom Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> it's been amusing to follow these personal attacks. a few years ago,
> I've been branded as a nazi, now I'm a socialist - all by people I've
> never met and who haven't read anything by me but a couple mails. funny.
I'm sure others will po
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From: Tom Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Of course not. They wouldn't. Europe is largely socialist,
>
> ROTFL
>
> let me guess: you've never been to europe.
The whole world is largely socialist, not only Europe, it's just that the
percentage is larger in Europe than in the US
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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
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From: Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Because of University pressure, the Napster folks are redesigning their
> search engines to prefer local downloads over distant ones.
> That's easy with a central database service - are there practical ways to
> do it in a distributed d
I am not aware of any high-end data recovery outfits that use software
solutions. Everybody I know of in that space uses STM's. I believe it was
Peter Gutmann who publicized the fact that you can buy STM workstations that
ship with vacuum chucks for all popular platter sizes.
--Lucky Green <[EMAI
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From: David Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An interesting aside to this: If the average person isn't a little
> mentally deficient in this regard, how are the sales of books like
> "Word for Dummies" (or "Linux for Dummies" for that matter) and
> "Windows 98 for Dummies" expla
At 11:46 AM 06/04/00 +0200, Tom Vogt wrote:
>Reese wrote:
>> >get real. while there are no guns involved, and thus the word "force"
>> >might be debatable, the amount of choice available to a) end-users and
>> >b) resellers is far from what it would be in a theoretical free market.
>> >
>>
>> Del
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:56:47PM -0400, Lucky Green wrote:
> I am not aware of any high-end data recovery outfits that use software
> solutions. Everybody I know of in that space uses STM's. I believe it was
> Peter Gutmann who publicized the fact that you can buy STM workstations that
> ship wi
At 05:48 PM 06/04/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote:
>[Reese, don't make the
>mistake of believing that only the government is socialist; most people
>are - even those claiming to be capitalists will tell you that the state
>must do this and that.]
I see this as well, and get really upset at myself
At 10:52 AM -0400 4/6/00, Tom Vogt wrote:
>David Honig wrote:
>> >Oh, Ignore that guy stabbing the supplier in the back with a knife while
>> >he steals money out of his pocket and distracts the customer with flashy
>> >lights and loud noises (and the occassional blackmail attempt).
>>
>> I do
At 10:15 AM -0400 4/6/00, David Honig wrote:
>At 06:08 PM 4/5/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote:
>>
>>On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, David Honig wrote:
>>> News flash: the universe doesn't owe you the number
>>> of 'choices' you imagine you deserve.
>>
>>News flash: True enoug but premeditated predation is not ac
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