The average Russian is not really any different from the average American or the average Italian or anyone else. That is to say, they don't care at all about outside information. There is always a minority interested in engaging the world, intellectually, economically, etc, and certainly the size of this minority varies from place to place. However, I have seen nothing in my travels to indicate the the average Ivan 6-pack gives a toss about what the BBC or some blog has to say about Russian elections, or some other issue.
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Both sides have some problems in this debate. The baby bells, and other service providers have a valid complaint against any government using its coercive power to take over their business. People shouldn't be forced to pay for broad-band service any more than they should be forced to pay for sparkling new sports stadiums.
However, when the baby bells cooperate with the locals on making these laws regarding broad-band, they like to slip in a clause about making it illegal to provide free service. This is clearly a mercantilistic attempt to use government power to head-off any competition. There is a legitimate threat from ad-hoc wireless networks, and the established ISP's don't want to compete.
and evil always follows. No exceptions. Why create a monopoly to provide broadband service? What if the monopoly provider decides to disallow all "insensitive content"? If you want an internet that is filtered by the federales, go to China and see how they get along with it.
Actually, it would seem like the dictation in this instance is from the german government, telling people that they must pay for for popular books in order to support the less demanded specialty books.
Price fixing does not circumvent the laws of supply and demand.
If Germany and Austria truly benefited from having small bookstores around, they would not need special government help to survive. The 'benefit' in this case is not to consumers, but to the small bookstore owners, at the expense of everyone who buys books.
Welfare for the small book store at the expense of everyone else. By restricting competition, the entire book buying market is impoverished. If people are truly demanding the varied specialized books the government is supposedly protecting, why should they need special welfare from the government?
If people demand the products that the small stores are selling, they will continue to buy it. Forcing prices to be abnormally high by restricting competition impoverishes everyone to promote the welfare of the few.
Everyone is missing the most important part of this development. What will this do to the economy of nigeria? What about the farmers who will be able to sell less food because food will last longer? This evil technology should be banned by the nigerian government. Let the proles rise!
Are you seriously saying this is all because he is not WHITE? I totally agree that he should have legal representation, being a US citizen. However, to say this has ANYTHING to do with race is beyond supid.
The same reasons why video is in-admissable in court apply here. And heck while were at it, its also the same reason why lie-detectors are not trsuted in court either.
The reason is that technology is the devil's fiddle.
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The average Russian is not really any different from the average American or the average Italian or anyone else. That is to say, they don't care at all about outside information. There is always a minority interested in engaging the world, intellectually, economically, etc, and certainly the size of this minority varies from place to place. However, I have seen nothing in my travels to indicate the the average Ivan 6-pack gives a toss about what the BBC or some blog has to say about Russian elections, or some other issue.
Diversity is inherently good.
As long as the co-ops don't loot existing infrastructure in the process, and operate on a purely voluntary basis, this would be a brilliant solution.
Both sides have some problems in this debate. The baby bells, and other service providers have a valid complaint against any government using its coercive power to take over their business. People shouldn't be forced to pay for broad-band service any more than they should be forced to pay for sparkling new sports stadiums. However, when the baby bells cooperate with the locals on making these laws regarding broad-band, they like to slip in a clause about making it illegal to provide free service. This is clearly a mercantilistic attempt to use government power to head-off any competition. There is a legitimate threat from ad-hoc wireless networks, and the established ISP's don't want to compete.
and evil always follows. No exceptions. Why create a monopoly to provide broadband service? What if the monopoly provider decides to disallow all "insensitive content"? If you want an internet that is filtered by the federales, go to China and see how they get along with it.
[sarcasm] We all know that the popular candidate or party is the best one! [/sarcasm]
Actually, it would seem like the dictation in this instance is from the german government, telling people that they must pay for for popular books in order to support the less demanded specialty books. Price fixing does not circumvent the laws of supply and demand.
If Germany and Austria truly benefited from having small bookstores around, they would not need special government help to survive. The 'benefit' in this case is not to consumers, but to the small bookstore owners, at the expense of everyone who buys books.
Welfare for the small book store at the expense of everyone else. By restricting competition, the entire book buying market is impoverished. If people are truly demanding the varied specialized books the government is supposedly protecting, why should they need special welfare from the government?
If people demand the products that the small stores are selling, they will continue to buy it. Forcing prices to be abnormally high by restricting competition impoverishes everyone to promote the welfare of the few.
Everyone is missing the most important part of this development. What will this do to the economy of nigeria? What about the farmers who will be able to sell less food because food will last longer? This evil technology should be banned by the nigerian government. Let the proles rise!
Are you seriously saying this is all because he is not WHITE? I totally agree that he should have legal representation, being a US citizen. However, to say this has ANYTHING to do with race is beyond supid.
The same reasons why video is in-admissable in court apply here. And heck while were at it, its also the same reason why lie-detectors are not trsuted in court either. The reason is that technology is the devil's fiddle.