Monopolies are very easy to create in an unregulated economy.
Nope. In an unregulated economy, the only way to make a monopoly is by offering your products or services at a better price than your competition. Rockefeller came close, and he did so by drastically reducing his costs *and* prices.
Even Smith acknowledged this fact.
Smith subscribed to a common misconception. That doesn't make him right.
She's an academic, since she was employed by several universities. She is NOT, however, an intellectual. She's not so much educated as exhaustively indoctrinated.
the amount of damage would be negligible compared to flying a large plane full of fuel into a structure.
That will never happen again, because people now know that "just do what the bad man says" is not a viable survival strategy. The shoe bomber and the underwear bomber were both thwarted by a swarm of the people they were trying to kill.
To bring down a murderous nut-cult, you have to do what the Brits did to the Thuggee. You have to infiltrate them, identify their leaders, and kill them. If the Brits had been worried about offending the peaceful worshippers of Kali, India would STILL be plagued by ritual murders today.
Just look at SFO or ORD on a busy holiday weekend. The useless TSA clowns make people stand in serpentine lines with hundreds of people all bunched up waiting to take off their shoes and belts and spread their legs for the obedience ritual. A perp could easily get to the center of that mass of people and do just as much damage as they could by crashing an airplane.
Maybe, and here's a concept, we can outfit piloted planes with systems to blow this lab environment victor out of the real skies.
Or maybe the fact that human beings can't stand the kind of acceleration levels that have no effect at all on computers will make this whole question moot.
File a lawsuit, ask for the money they stole plus $10M in punitive damages, and ask the court to let you depose Comcast's CEO, General Counsel, and chairman of the board. Their lawyers will pay you to go away.
Kid, you've been bitching at me about signing my posts long enough to know that I'm not going to stop, no matter how much you snivel about it. Get some serious professional help.
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Were you aware that the East India Company was granted a monopoly by the English crown?
Try again.
-jcr
Rockefeller who used worker gangs to shake down the competition into selling out
Bullshit. Rockefeller got competitors to sell out by showing them his books. Most of them saw that they didn't have a hope of matching his efficiency.
-jcr
Monopolies are very easy to create in an unregulated economy.
Nope. In an unregulated economy, the only way to make a monopoly is by offering your products or services at a better price than your competition. Rockefeller came close, and he did so by drastically reducing his costs *and* prices.
Even Smith acknowledged this fact.
Smith subscribed to a common misconception. That doesn't make him right.
-jcr
The only way competition exists in certain (most?) sectors is due to government protection.
That's a baldfaced lie.
-jcr
She's an academic, since she was employed by several universities. She is NOT, however, an intellectual. She's not so much educated as exhaustively indoctrinated.
-jcr
If we ever enact statues against hypocrisy in this country, she'll be doing 50 to life.
-jcr
I hope to God (or Goddess) that you know that what you're referring to is fiction
What's your next guess?
Note in particular, the section on how the Brits took them out.
-jcr
the amount of damage would be negligible compared to flying a large plane full of fuel into a structure.
That will never happen again, because people now know that "just do what the bad man says" is not a viable survival strategy. The shoe bomber and the underwear bomber were both thwarted by a swarm of the people they were trying to kill.
-jcr
To bring down a murderous nut-cult, you have to do what the Brits did to the Thuggee. You have to infiltrate them, identify their leaders, and kill them. If the Brits had been worried about offending the peaceful worshippers of Kali, India would STILL be plagued by ritual murders today.
-jcr
Just look at SFO or ORD on a busy holiday weekend. The useless TSA clowns make people stand in serpentine lines with hundreds of people all bunched up waiting to take off their shoes and belts and spread their legs for the obedience ritual. A perp could easily get to the center of that mass of people and do just as much damage as they could by crashing an airplane.
-jcr
If the drone can pull 20G turns, it's game over for the human pilot.
-jcr
Maybe, and here's a concept, we can outfit piloted planes with systems to blow this lab environment victor out of the real skies.
Or maybe the fact that human beings can't stand the kind of acceleration levels that have no effect at all on computers will make this whole question moot.
-jcr
Pretty sure that thermal imaging would be highly effective in detecting pants on fire.
-jcr
So, if they disagree with you, it's just because they don't know as much as you do about where their self-interest lies.
I'm curious: does your supercilious contempt for the people around you serve you well in your daily life?
-jcr
This is in contrast to the EU which is considerably more democratic.
That's a baldfaced lie. The European Parliament isn't even allowed to propose legislation.
-jcr
Perhaps you're unaware that the lords don't get to impose taxes.
-jcr
all experts and the majority of people with a higher education.
So, the peasants should just shut up and obey, comrade?
-jcr
And why would the EU with 450+ M people give such good deals to the UK ?
Because the UK is a huge market for them.
-jcr
these people really are too stupid to understand what's in their own best interests
Or maybe they understand better than you do, that it's a good thing to be able to vote out your legislators if they're fucking you over.
The UK has no manufacturing.
I'm sure that would be a great surprise to all the people in Derby making jet engines.
-jcr
File a lawsuit, ask for the money they stole plus $10M in punitive damages, and ask the court to let you depose Comcast's CEO, General Counsel, and chairman of the board. Their lawyers will pay you to go away.
-jcr
First order of business should be to sign all the free-trade deals that the EU was preventing. Canada, Australia, China, etc.
-jcr
Kid, you've been bitching at me about signing my posts long enough to know that I'm not going to stop, no matter how much you snivel about it. Get some serious professional help.
-jcr
I'm seeing anti-Clinton comments. What pro-Trump comments are you referring to?
-jcr
Interesting. I would have guessed they'd be paid on a piecework basis, rather than hourly.
BTW, would you mind posting those facts again?
-jcr