Posts by ijoyner

Remember being a monopoly is not illegal - it's your behaviour using the power of monopoly. Conversely even if you don't have a monopoly unethical behaviour should be dealt with. I own my letter box. People who send me things pay...

Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse Nonsense. Inkling 106 posts - I don't know if as detailed and thought out as this one. Anonymouse 3,838 posts - I suspect drivel just like this. Give the counter argument why you think it's...

HP got its innovative stack designs from Burroughs, where the ideas of stacks and Reverse-Polish Notation (RPN) was introduced by Bob Barton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Barton Thus HP and Woz have a lineage to...

A couple of "Thoughts of the Day" from a guru in Rishikesh (where the Beatles went) have come to me in the last two days which are relevant: "EFFICIENCY MEANS, MORE OUTPUT WITH LESS INPUT, IN TERMS OF TIME, ENERGY AND...

The following excerpt is from The Philosopher's Zone: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopher...07/1923237.htm Alan Saunders: John, let's turn to the modern case for the free market, and this turns on an intellectual construct called the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Orlando But the US as a whole competes with other nations. It is like saying members of a sports team cooperate. Yes they do, but they do so because as a team they can better compete against other teams...

Quote: Originally Posted by Newtron Can you give some big-deal examples of where cooperation clearly yielded better results than competition? Like stuff on the scale of the wealth of nations, and not little hippie co-ops? Sure. The...

Quote: Originally Posted by Newtron Can you give some big-deal examples of where cooperation clearly yielded better results than competition? Like stuff on the scale of the wealth of nations, and not little hippie co-ops? You are...

Quote: Originally Posted by Newtron Wrong. They believe that their current strategy will yield the highest amount of profit over time. Why is that hard for you to believe? Do you think that maximizing total profits is somehow a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Haggar But now that Apple had made their decision, isn't it the Mac user's duty to support and defend that decision and pretend that the past never happened? Following on the natural selection theme... it's...