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   From: candid@dontbother.invalid   
      
   Jim Gysin wrote:   
   > Frank Frank sent the following on 10/28/2009 3:24 AM:   
   >> Jim Gysin wrote:   
   >>> Frank Frank sent the following on 10/26/2009 12:47 AM:   
   >>>> Jim Gysin wrote:   
   >>>>> Frank Frank sent the following on 10/25/2009 7:03 AM:   
   >>>>>> No thanks to their monopoly. If one business isn't willing to   
   >>>>>> manufacture and sell wibbles, I should have the option of buying   
   >>>>>> wibbles from another business, really.   
   >>>>> Why?   
   >>>> It's called "capitalism". If you don't get it, then feel free to   
   >>>> move to China, Cuba, or North Korea.   
   >>> The last time I looked, capitalism was a voluntary arrangement on   
   >>> *both* sides.   
   >>   
   >> I don't disagree.   
   >   
   > And yet you advocate various forms of thuggery and theft to get what you   
   > want for a price that the seller would otherwise be unwilling to accept.   
      
   I do not.   
      
   If I fileshare an MGM movie, downloading a copy from John Q. Public,   
   that's not "thuggery and theft". That's a consensual free-market   
   transaction between me and John.   
      
   If MGM uses copyright law to forbid me and John from engaging in that   
   transaction, though, then THAT is thuggery, with government complicity   
   in the thuggery.   
      
   >> But you restraining trade by other businesses is not capitalism; it's   
   >> monopoly.   
   >   
   > I'm not restraining trade   
      
   Sure you are. See above.   
      
   >>> You may want to re-take your high school economics course.   
   >>> Unless you're still in grade school, in which case you may want to   
   >>> pay attention when you grow up and take econ in high school.   
   >>   
   >> Ad hominem argument duly noted.   
   >>   
   >> Get back to me when you have a *real* argument.   
   >   
   > Get back to me when you've taken or re-taken high school econ.   
      
   Ad hominem duly noted.   
      
   Get back to me when you have a *real* argument.   
      
   In the meantime, consider this site:   
      
   http://www.againstmonopoly.org/   
      
   The site's operators are both professional economists, with Ph.D.s in   
   the field.   
      
   I'd love to see their reaction if you tried the same ad-hom against THEM.   
      
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