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Posts 64 - 75 of 6,170
oh thank you so very very much! my bot will love to have to have some friends real soon! thanks for exterminating! 
I know it is just terrible. The scarey thing is the possiblity that all the warm and weird weather could be caused by global warming.
Ok, new mini-discussion here in this all-so-inactive Seasons forum... Messagers! Use 'em? Post your usernames. Don't use 'em? Talk about somethign else 
AIM: VA3MWL
Yahoo: MasterMWL
ICQ: 37226599
MSN: MasterMWL@hotmail.com
AIM: VA3MWL
Yahoo: MasterMWL
ICQ: 37226599
MSN: MasterMWL@hotmail.com
hey here is a huge surpise...
yahoo: paintpatricia
i have accounts on aol, and icq but i never use them, because freaks who put me on their buddy will not leave me alone!
yahoo: paintpatricia
i have accounts on aol, and icq but i never use them, because freaks who put me on their buddy will not leave me alone!
Continuing an out of place conversation from Bug Stomp...
When you refer to multiple people at VBThunder it is something of a misnomer, because it's just Ben Baird. He's a one man show. Actually he received recommendations for making his website compatible with Netscape which would be fairly easy to impliment; he just hasn't had time to update it since April 9, 2001. He is working on a major overhaul right now but probably won't finish it until this summer.
I just thought the link was funny. He loves to get e-mail from Microsoft bashers because they usually have extremely emotional and illogical arguments. I don't know how he would respond to your line of reasoning, but personally I don't know enough about the subject to coherently discuss it.
Concerning the fact that every company tries to dominate the market: It is inevitable for starters. If a business is trying to make money, it will naturally attempt to promote itself and grow as much as possible. If we boycotted every company that did this, we would have to boycott everyone. Personally, I think the correct way to topple a monopoly is via competition. At one time there were government granted monopolies; competition was outlawed. That system is inefficient. Efficiency comes from a free market. But a free market requires non-interference.
When you refer to multiple people at VBThunder it is something of a misnomer, because it's just Ben Baird. He's a one man show. Actually he received recommendations for making his website compatible with Netscape which would be fairly easy to impliment; he just hasn't had time to update it since April 9, 2001. He is working on a major overhaul right now but probably won't finish it until this summer.
I just thought the link was funny. He loves to get e-mail from Microsoft bashers because they usually have extremely emotional and illogical arguments. I don't know how he would respond to your line of reasoning, but personally I don't know enough about the subject to coherently discuss it.
Concerning the fact that every company tries to dominate the market: It is inevitable for starters. If a business is trying to make money, it will naturally attempt to promote itself and grow as much as possible. If we boycotted every company that did this, we would have to boycott everyone. Personally, I think the correct way to topple a monopoly is via competition. At one time there were government granted monopolies; competition was outlawed. That system is inefficient. Efficiency comes from a free market. But a free market requires non-interference.
Actually, that last bit wasn't *quite* right. A free market requires non-interference except for that interference which keeps the market free. There are destabilizing forces in economics and monopoly is one of them. I favor making Microsoft share its source code with programmers, with the caveat of course that it's infringement to build an operating system using it.
But to go to what Sir Rahz was saying, the miracle of capitalism is that underlying motives are irrelevant because the result of "greed" in a free market is a net gain for all, which you cannot guarantee in any other system we've discovered. In that sense, it is a very good thing that a corporation seeks to increase its profits, and it is an irrelevant thing whether the employees of that corporation are motivated by thirst for money, desire to make a great product, or desire to help cure malaria, or all three.
But to go to what Sir Rahz was saying, the miracle of capitalism is that underlying motives are irrelevant because the result of "greed" in a free market is a net gain for all, which you cannot guarantee in any other system we've discovered. In that sense, it is a very good thing that a corporation seeks to increase its profits, and it is an irrelevant thing whether the employees of that corporation are motivated by thirst for money, desire to make a great product, or desire to help cure malaria, or all three.
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