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I am surprised that neither of you have befallen downvotes as I had when I explained similar things.

Many will decry the connection between wealth and (largely) free markets, but hey, that's why I am -9.

Ah yes! -2! Let's outpace reddit down the website memory hole! I mean really people, this is basic economics.

I love the down-votes - this site is becoming more like reddit every day. I love the response too. Thanks. Rather mature and dignified.

The article argues that good situations resulted from government action. The reality is that while these situations are viewed as good, they are not neccessarily the best. Only whe…

Government getting the hell out of the way of people voluntarily interacting the marketplace is the best situation. For example: cable easements. Get rid of them. Get rid of all ea…

Monopolies only exist in two situations: 1. They supply the market demand perfectly. 2. Government forces them into that position directly or indirectly. There are no exceptions.

You mean the governments that constrain through force the market so that only a few monopolistic entities are present?

The only reason we don't have most metropolitan areas with gigabit fiber to the door is almost entirely teleco/cable easements. The day you stop government from mandating one compa…

I doubt any of us could accurately predict, understand, fully appreciate that which is RMS The Great. I mean, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S76pHIYx3ik .

Oh, I don't think he was saying that wasn't the case. I believe what he meant (perhaps I am projecting here) that because it continues to exist, and exist successfully, the idea of…

I am right there with you. Sometimes I need an energy drink to make one part of my brain catch up with the other, or it's a beer or two. Frankly, I would have never finished colleg…

You might be surprised at how hard a sell web presence is in some areas... sigh

It is quite unfortunate that NASA is entirely ignoring a SpaceX / Bigelow solution.

One step forward, fifty thousand steps back?

I wonder what could have been on it that would be so interesting to the heat?

Does anyone have any insight as to how they justify 2.5 million dollars per year in operating expenses?

It's "The End of History" all over again. It would seem that this post merely demonstrated the necessity of the IT department managing resources. (There are some good comments on t…