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Posted 16 June 2012 - 07:41 PM
Forget the hampster wheel
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Posted 17 June 2012 - 05:02 AM
My reply to the media one is, really? Greater government regulation over media?
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Posted 17 June 2012 - 06:09 AM
I am making this watch.
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Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.
Also people with big noses aren't jews, they're just french
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Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.
Also people with big noses aren't jews, they're just french
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#1765
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Posted 17 June 2012 - 06:15 AM
Shinrei, on 17 June 2012 - 05:02 AM, said:
My reply to the media one is, really? Greater government regulation over media?
Sure, in the same sense that a lifeguard "regulates" a swimming pool, so the big kids don't drown the little ones.
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
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Posted 17 June 2012 - 06:25 AM
All I know is that if I have a daughter one day and she wants to become like Lady Gaga or Kirsten Stewart more than she wants to be like Zoe Washburne, then I have failed and I'm giving up on humanity...
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Posted 17 June 2012 - 07:00 AM
worrywort, on 17 June 2012 - 06:15 AM, said:
Shinrei, on 17 June 2012 - 05:02 AM, said:
My reply to the media one is, really? Greater government regulation over media?
Sure, in the same sense that a lifeguard "regulates" a swimming pool, so the big kids don't drown the little ones.
Like how the government makes it illegal to undercut the post office? If you come up with a business model that would allow customers to send mail and packages cheaper than Uncle Sam, you get shut down and pay penalties. The government doesn't like competition, so the idea of them making things 'fair' is laughable.
You’ve never heard of the Silanda? … It’s the ship that made the Warren of Telas run in less than 12 parsecs.
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Posted 17 June 2012 - 07:35 AM
That would make a fine argument if I didn't think the government role in mail delivery -- including certain guarantees that a private company wouldn't be beholden to, not dissimilar from the public education guarantee -- absolutely warrants limiting that competition to survive. It would be even finer if I thought individual tangentially related examples were proof of sweeping claims. As it stands, however, I find in both of these examples that government regulation is far preferable to private self-"regulation".
Also I find that
Also I find that
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Posted 17 June 2012 - 08:26 AM
People vote with their dollars even more so than they bother to vote with their...votes. These companies didn't get big because they were doing things people didn't like.
I realize it's a "tangental" example. Tell me then, how would regulating media create better media? And, what are these of which you speak?
(Doing this on the pictures thread is kind of fun...)
I realize it's a "tangental" example. Tell me then, how would regulating media create better media? And, what are these
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guarantees that a private company wouldn't be beholden to
(Doing this on the pictures thread is kind of fun...)
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 03:44 AM
The voting with your dollar argument doesn't sway me. People "vote" against their best interests all the time, in the booth and with their money. Nickelback have a multi-platinum album, Benny Hinn is a multi-millionaire faith healer, and Strom Thurmond existed. BTW, maybe Nickelback would still be a success without Clear Channel, but they certainly wouldn't have the advantage of total radio dominance that propelled them there through sheer repetition. The radio industry should be to the record industry what the free press is to the government, but instead it's their Pravda. Trust-busting and collusion-deterring are very much in the interest of the people, and capitalism requires that non-commercial referee. Laissez-faire capitalism ISN'T capitalism, by the nature of the beast.
As far as the USPS goes, it's dirt cheap, picks up and delivers to the vast majority of households (and in fact USPS has contracts with FedEX and UPS because they have much harder times delivering in rural areas, and they absolutely will not deliver to PO Boxes at all -- I think the last figure I read was that USPS handles ~30% of their packages at some point their delivery). I'm not suggesting it's perfect, or that it will or should last forever, but I certainly prefer it -- warts and all -- to its private counterparts, since its bottom line isn't merely profit, and I'd ultimately rather see it improved than scrapped.
Sword-billed hummingbird:
As far as the USPS goes, it's dirt cheap, picks up and delivers to the vast majority of households (and in fact USPS has contracts with FedEX and UPS because they have much harder times delivering in rural areas, and they absolutely will not deliver to PO Boxes at all -- I think the last figure I read was that USPS handles ~30% of their packages at some point their delivery). I'm not suggesting it's perfect, or that it will or should last forever, but I certainly prefer it -- warts and all -- to its private counterparts, since its bottom line isn't merely profit, and I'd ultimately rather see it improved than scrapped.
Sword-billed hummingbird:
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 04:33 AM
In the words of a certain ragamuffin named Karsa: Too Many Words.
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bla bla bla
Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.
Also people with big noses aren't jews, they're just french
EDIT: We has editted so mucj that5 we're not quite sure... also, leave britney alone.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
bla bla bla
Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.
Also people with big noses aren't jews, they're just french
EDIT: We has editted so mucj that5 we're not quite sure... also, leave britney alone.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 06:07 AM
Tiste Simeon, on 17 June 2012 - 06:25 AM, said:
All I know is that if I have a daughter one day and she wants to become like Lady Gaga or Kirsten Stewart more than she wants to be like Zoe Washburne, then I have failed and I'm giving up on humanity...
Damn right!
Suck it Errant!
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 07:54 AM
AIJ - I would watch the heck out of a film that had Gandalf + shotgun...
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 08:16 PM
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. … So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants. Bertrand Russell
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Posted 19 June 2012 - 09:34 PM
I really hope this Hobbit one is a troll and not someone for reals...
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