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Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers
An anonymous reader writes "DRAM makers are facing one of the worst downturns in their history and governments around the world are lining up to help companies through the mess. Taiwan, Germany and South Korea all appear poised to offer some assistance to their DRAM chip makers. The chip makers' problems are indicative of global woes. Easy lending terms and a bright view of the future prompted them to build too many new DRAM factories. Much of the new output was aimed at Microsoft's Windows Vista, which has higher memory requirements than XP."
It feels like I've been in a time slip (please God nobody reply and say "well it IS 2002 dumbass.")
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Face it, the powerful have abused the weak throughout history.
Yes, they have: typically by forming governments and abusing the power they've seized.
Democratic governments mitigate that.
Only sometimes, and only when the people are willing to resist their government. See Dred Scott v. Sanford, Korematsu v. United States and Kelo v. New London for three examples of an ostensibly democratic government doing things you claim it mitigates.
libertarianism necessarily results in extreme poverty and deprivation
Guess again. Prosperity correlates directly to the amount of freedom we have.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."