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Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970 That doesn't seem to be working. Depends where you are I guess as well. I can understand your viewpoint living in the US, where the corruption index is 7.1/10. I live in the nordics, where i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970 And a government-protected one! That's my point. I see it very clearly. You seem to be the one pointing to examples of government-supported and protected crony capitalism …
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Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970 Yes. Of course it was. Minimally it was started from the Fed created housing bubble. But there were other interventions and distortions as well. Not the least of which is the crisis prolonging …
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Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970 Sorry if I understand the history and economics better than your government-school education gave you. Are you saying that the current financial crisis started with government intervention…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil They do that now. Ever heard of telecoms? Tell me that texting magically "deserved" to be raised in price simultaneously across all carriers. Tell me that the "only possible step" they co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970 Your characterization aside, I don't see a problem. If a company doesn't want to sell their product to another or put conditions on the sale of that product, they should be free to do that. No …
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Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970 So the bottom line here is that Intel said they would not sell their processors to some companies that also bought processors from a competitor. Is that basically it? Yes. Basically a …
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Quote: I'm not familiar enough with the instance you're referring to to be able to comment on it. My bad, I left out the name of the other company: AMD. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/08/intel-tentatively-settles-ftc-…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970 If you take human nature's bad sides into account, you'd see that creating an entity that is given a monopoly in the use of force will turn out badly. It very often does, but it doesn't have…
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Quote: So less successful competitors can use the State to hamstring their more successful competitors. Hmm. So you are saying that all the antitrust lawsuits pushed by governments against uncompetitive practices of companies in a c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970 More free and prosperous. Hah. Just as blind an ideological view as the communist had. You're only forgetting the nasty sides of human nature just like the communists did. If you…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970 Actually it is the State that creates monopolies. Generally speaking monopolies cannot and do not last without State protection. I'm not sure what you're referring to in r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970 Well sorta. It's really using the government to gouge taxpayers. But this is my central point. It is the government and its power to tax (steal) that is being used. Reduce or eliminate that pow…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970 I assume that you presume a) that's the only way to get those things, and b) that the State does theme best. ... Yeah. I'll bet the correlation isn't what you think though. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Here's a question to ask yourself: At the time of the iPhone 5 rollout, how many senior executives at Apple were unaware of the deficiencies of the new maps app? Given the answer to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by AnalogJack tundra, your post is entirely without merit. Tallest, made a completely valid point and that was that a single word response "touché" to someone else's post criticising TS, is just the 'big…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil That's because it wasn't. It was pretty much entirely fabricated. Maps, at launch, was FAR better than Google Maps at launch. Except aren't we comparing the competitive landscap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by thataveragejoe This is kind of a random and pointless 'test'. In fact it's not really a test at all. CDMA for a long time has generally been considered superior in terms of voice quality. (One of it's few a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ClemyNX You think that central europe did that? Maybe I don't realize it. I don't know where it came from, but a lot of politicians have progressively changed the goals of the EU from being a reunion o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by stike vomit You are damn right it isn't all black and white. What you say above is correct. But also ask who was responsible for allowing countries to join the Euro zone who's finances were clearly u…