__/ [ mlw ] on Monday 25 December 2006 16:18 \__
> ray wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 22:23:31 -0500, mlw wrote:
>>
>>> No monopoly has ever had 100 percent control, but has had "enough"
>>> control limit or eliminate viable competition while dictating pricing.
>>> That was the story with Standard Oil as well as Microsoft Corp.
>>>
>>>
>>> Microsoft, despite conviction sentencing being reduced to nothing under
>>> the current corrupt administration, has been proved and convicted of
>>> using their monopoly position to reduce or eliminate competition.
>>
>> I'm sure we'd have seen much better results under previous corrupt
>> administrations.
>
> I get kick out of clinton bashers, they accuse the administration of being
> corrupt, but all they have ever done with the vast investigatory resources
> of the U.S. government is to find that he had an affair with a consenting
> adult and tried not to let that be public knowledge, like 75%~80% of all
> other married men.
>
> Clinton was a great president by all measures.
The current administration makes Clinton look like mother Teresa. I know many
people who have been missing the 90's for a very long time (and not only
because of the bubble).
Let aside the gas emissions, the broken treaty with the Russians and, more
recently, censorship in newspapers and scientific papers (on environmental
issues in particular... the oil tycoons have intere$t$ and impact). It's
worrisome and sad to see how rationale can be superceded by one person's
(with group pressure) goals. It's neither democracy nor (healthy)
capitalism. It sometimes seems like a perfectly self-controlling and
supervising system can evolve to adopt concepts from totalitarian nations.
The paraellels in the IT industry is, of course, gradual changes to the law
that's perceive as illegitimate. Changing civilisation. One goalpost at a
time...
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