Worse than that. He doesn't know the difference between a monopoly, a cartel or an oligopoly. I am willing to concede over 51% of a market, if the market is properly defined (100% of 'IBM PC' is not a market). Somehow, they still cannot name a business that had a monopoly without the force of government behind them.
businesses do not have police power ? what do you think the private security firms are ? hell, in the last decade, that even reached private ARMY scale. blackwater is better equipped than any united states army platoon. already many companies take care of 'security' in their holdings...
such naivete...
You are using Blackwater, in their capacity as a GOVERNMENT contractor, all of their "police powers" coming from the government, demanded from the government even, as an example? HA!
How the hell does this work? When at any point has a free market destroyed a monopoly?I think litigation and regulation are often what contrain a monopoly into failing.. If IBM could have just crushed Microsoft with goons when they realized their contract mistake, we'd have IBM Windows. If it weasn't for legal restrictions and regulation, Microsoft would never have beaten IBM..
Oil, telephone, rail, communications, steel.. these were all broken by regulations and trust busting.
I think you know very little of history and have not really thought you statements through.
Is competition too hard for you to get? We do not have that in regulated markets. We do in FREE markets.
Microsoft never had a monopoly and neither did IBM. Even with them, market forces overtook them before their show trials were over.
No, we had a big fancy politician talk about "trust busting" that carved out a bunch of sacred markets for certain corporations, enforced by the government.
BTW, this is a rare response from me to an AC, don't expect another.
When a monopoly grows big enough, it becomes the effective government. No support from formal government is required. Free market alone has no means to break down huge monopolies that have reached the stage of effective government. This stage of monopoly is impervious even to ridiculous amounts of internal incompetence which could bring down earlier stages quite easily. If you disagree, please tell me just one feature of the free market that is capable of bringing monopoly in this stage down that doesn't require existence of another monopoly of similar size and explain how this feature works while interacting with said monopoly.
Oh PLEASE stop with this business that the 'corporations' are really the government! (Some of the) People who own them can vote in elections, the shares don't vote for politicians.
In a truly free market, the government is not erecting barriers to competition. Even Standard Oil was getting competition back before they were 'broken up' (if you want to call it that) from companies out west. The phone company was ONLY a monopoly when the government made it a monopoly. If YOU want to argue, rather than lie, YOU show an example of a monopoly that survived without the government protecting it.
Nope. Government preserves monopolies and free markets destroy them. Dictators help preserve monopolies, the US government preserved the telephone monopoly, etc.
If the government, including dictators, stop preserving monopolies they go away.
The term "free market" is used to mean "competitive market" and is also used to mean "un-regulated market", despite the fact that few markets are both competitive and un-regulated. When someone uses the term "free market" with out clarifying which they mean, they are either confused, or they are trying to confuse you.
Exactly, just like in this article. Monopolies are preserved by government. Free markets destroy them.
Whatever. Can they spread this to a few other countries so *those* guys will stop hitting me up for an invitation to visit the USA it is fine by me./satire
That Big Foot, flying saucers, and ghosts aren't real either? I'm so disappointed!
Couldn't they have spent all this effort on trying to explain Snookie from 'Jersey Shore' instead? I'm confident we'd all be better off if they proved she didn't exist.
The copy of the tape was found in 2007. Have there been "various trials and news specials" in the last 3 years about an event that's 40 years old?
Huh? Not that I know of in the past 3 years. Other copies of the same tape have been in use for 40 years. I hope that eases your confusion. He got the post finished here.
From an older friend who was around then and later was in the military, including the National Guard:
The Guardsmen waited until being given an order to fire. That wait causes a delay.
This tape is not new, it has been around, used in various trials and news specials about the incident since 1970.
Probably on the off-chance that it discovers something while in a graveyard orbit. You never know what sort of crazy stuff happens when you just leave a camera running. Sure, the odds are pretty low, but the satellite's already in space, so why not?
Or some SciFi writer discovers it and the damsels appear, followed by the evil tentacled villains . . .
This story is an amazing coincidence. I discovered relativity before Einstein, but I never published my findings. Do you agree recognition is long overdue?
I stole Einstein's research, applied it to building a time machine, then went back in time and discovered it before him. I _still_ didn't get recognition and worse still, his research now claims that time travel is impossible so I can't try it again.
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Worse than that. He doesn't know the difference between a monopoly, a cartel or an oligopoly. I am willing to concede over 51% of a market, if the market is properly defined (100% of 'IBM PC' is not a market). Somehow, they still cannot name a business that had a monopoly without the force of government behind them.
Name *one* that stayed a monopoly without government protection.
businesses do not have police power ? what do you think the private security firms are ? hell, in the last decade, that even reached private ARMY scale. blackwater is better equipped than any united states army platoon. already many companies take care of 'security' in their holdings ...
such naivete ...
You are using Blackwater, in their capacity as a GOVERNMENT contractor, all of their "police powers" coming from the government, demanded from the government even, as an example? HA!
How the hell does this work? When at any point has a free market destroyed a monopoly?I think litigation and regulation are often what contrain a monopoly into failing.. If IBM could have just crushed Microsoft with goons when they realized their contract mistake, we'd have IBM Windows. If it weasn't for legal restrictions and regulation, Microsoft would never have beaten IBM..
Oil, telephone, rail, communications, steel.. these were all broken by regulations and trust busting.
I think you know very little of history and have not really thought you statements through.
Is competition too hard for you to get? We do not have that in regulated markets. We do in FREE markets.
Microsoft never had a monopoly and neither did IBM. Even with them, market forces overtook them before their show trials were over.
No, we had a big fancy politician talk about "trust busting" that carved out a bunch of sacred markets for certain corporations, enforced by the government. BTW, this is a rare response from me to an AC, don't expect another.
When a monopoly grows big enough, it becomes the effective government. No support from formal government is required. Free market alone has no means to break down huge monopolies that have reached the stage of effective government. This stage of monopoly is impervious even to ridiculous amounts of internal incompetence which could bring down earlier stages quite easily. If you disagree, please tell me just one feature of the free market that is capable of bringing monopoly in this stage down that doesn't require existence of another monopoly of similar size and explain how this feature works while interacting with said monopoly.
Oh PLEASE stop with this business that the 'corporations' are really the government! (Some of the) People who own them can vote in elections, the shares don't vote for politicians. In a truly free market, the government is not erecting barriers to competition. Even Standard Oil was getting competition back before they were 'broken up' (if you want to call it that) from companies out west. The phone company was ONLY a monopoly when the government made it a monopoly. If YOU want to argue, rather than lie, YOU show an example of a monopoly that survived without the government protecting it.
a genetically modified shark with a laser on its head!
Nope. Government preserves monopolies and free markets destroy them. Dictators help preserve monopolies, the US government preserved the telephone monopoly, etc. If the government, including dictators, stop preserving monopolies they go away.
The term "free market" is used to mean "competitive market" and is also used to mean "un-regulated market", despite the fact that few markets are both competitive and un-regulated. When someone uses the term "free market" with out clarifying which they mean, they are either confused, or they are trying to confuse you.
Exactly, just like in this article. Monopolies are preserved by government. Free markets destroy them.
Whatever. Can they spread this to a few other countries so *those* guys will stop hitting me up for an invitation to visit the USA it is fine by me. /satire
The "red phone" was just the covers on their iPhones. Michelle upgraded them to something from Prada.
You left out the swamp gas.
North Koreans with a surplus Chinese sub!
The counter attack began at Niagara Falls.
I'm pretty sure I was cutting and pasting and cropping and rotating images on uVAXen a couple of years before this.
So you are outing yourself as part of the conspiracy?
The world's biggest killer, dihydrogen monoxide, is known in ultra-secret circles as a key ingredient in doctoring images.
Well it makes a lot more sense when you realize the high desert is actually covered in swampland.
Exactly! These lame excuses by the government keeping the truth a secret (lol)
Sounds like a clever mixing of genre "swamp gas, move along, nothing to see here" and you are not going to trick me with it!
That Big Foot, flying saucers, and ghosts aren't real either? I'm so disappointed!
Couldn't they have spent all this effort on trying to explain Snookie from 'Jersey Shore' instead? I'm confident we'd all be better off if they proved she didn't exist.
I always giggle at her name.
The copy of the tape was found in 2007. Have there been "various trials and news specials" in the last 3 years about an event that's 40 years old?
Huh? Not that I know of in the past 3 years. Other copies of the same tape have been in use for 40 years. I hope that eases your confusion. He got the post finished here.
Neither. The article says he would sell pictures to the FBI after events. Freelance photographer.
Looks like the FBI fired first.
In the article it says that photographer was free-lance and sold photos to the FBI after events, not an FBI employee.
He is working on a blog post about it now.
Probably on the off-chance that it discovers something while in a graveyard orbit. You never know what sort of crazy stuff happens when you just leave a camera running. Sure, the odds are pretty low, but the satellite's already in space, so why not?
Or some SciFi writer discovers it and the damsels appear, followed by the evil tentacled villains . . .
"We have been running out of space since the 1970s and the situation has become increasingly desperate in the last few years."
I wish my problems allowed for 40 years of procrastination!
I think those are metric years. They are different than our years.
This story is an amazing coincidence. I discovered relativity before Einstein, but I never published my findings. Do you agree recognition is long overdue?
I stole Einstein's research, applied it to building a time machine, then went back in time and discovered it before him. I _still_ didn't get recognition and worse still, his research now claims that time travel is impossible so I can't try it again.
I went back in time and posted before you, even made sure it was farther upthread than your post.