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Another View of the FCC and Spectrum Scarcity
Bob_Robertson writes "Tim Swanson on the Ludwig von Mises Institute site is asking, has the FCC put itself out of a job by allowing the 47-49 MHz, 2.4 GHZ and other "open spectrum" frequencies, thus focusing innovation and development into making fantastic use of limited resources? The basis of the FCC's existence is "scarcity", so what happens when there isn't any scarcity any more? LVMI has looked into the FCC before."
prefer to think of it as "reducing the workload."
Note to mods: I'm probably being sarcastic.
Free market, you're my hero! You've rescued pensions and defeated the evil of public water in South America, saved the airlines and the public schools here in the US and done countless acts of good around the world! Now that you have set your sights on the public airwaves, I'm sure we will all have gigabit wireless within a few months.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Oh, I see... there are fewer IPv6 addresses than grains of sand, except there are more. WTF?
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Wait—you're attempting to discredit an entire line of political and economic analysis by quoting an unrelated statement made by the emperor of Austria early in the last century? And pointing to the abysmal judgement of a political leader (an emperor, at that), as an argument for the virtues of top-down government control?
If only there were a "non-sequiturial, unintentionally ironic, ad hominem argument" moderation option.