User: humpmonkey

Re:Take this seriously, folks

On: Senate Judiciary Committee On Digital Music

How in the world does Napster make music a non-scarce good? Napster doesn't create music, it's only a means of distribution. Napster or not, music still has to be created by a limited population of musicians and songwriters. Take away these people's means of supporting themselves and you'll see just how scarce music can become.
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Re:Flip side of coin.

On: The Cathedral And The Bizarre

It's called division of labor and it is the reason that you have the wealth and the spare time to post to Slashdot rather than churning your own butter.
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Re:Awesome site!

On: India Plans Moon Mission In 2005

Quantity has nothing to do with it. The reason you buy less Ws is because they are more expensive for you relative to your income. One reason that they are more expensive relative to your income is because of the tax. The fact that I choose to buy lots of widgets is completely irrelevant.
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Re:Who in their right mind would BUY an XBox anywa

On: Bungie Software Bought By Microsoft

Ok, I'll bite:

1. Whatever
2. Some of us would rather have the coolest toys than wage a jihad against Microsoft.
3. It's interesting that you just said that the intended audience would never buy a Microsoft because of religious preferences, but here you make the opposite argument that the intended audience (including yourself, apparently) already plays games on a Microsoft platform.
4. And Sony had nothing to do with Sega or Nintendo. Games sell consoles, not names.

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