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Re: Network Theory Can Explain US Credit Crunch

2307 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:27:58 -0000

If we wish to enjoy the benefits of a free market system, we need to act responsibly, The free market system is not a license to steal. These executives apparently did. Because they abused the system and financially hurt many people and companies, the unintended consequence will be more regulation.

However, as as been learned from financial collapses in the past, certain well-conceived regulations help the system function, because it keeps the system in a state of equilibrium.

Thus, the Glass-Steagall Act erect walls between banking and insurance industry, which would have made the "innovations" that AIG created impossible. Many now undoubtably wish that the Glass-Steagall Act was not so unwisely gutted in 1999.

But regulations will now be put into place to prevent a recurrance of this problem, but the damage has been done, already.

All those who pushed for de-regulation have created much needless sufferring, that is only about to begin.

The effort to steal $700,000,000,000.00 will just increase the backlash against those who have created this problem and are also about to benefit from this theft.

Those on the far right who scream the accussation of "Class Warefare" every time someone proposes a law with even a little equity in it (like a slightly less regressive tax code) have not seen anything yet.

Hallalejuah!

Re: Bandwidth Cap Hysteria & the Alternative

2307 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:12:05 -0000

Adam:

Metered pricing is fine, as long as there exists a robust enough market in bandwidth so that there is the opportunity for competition to exist.

My belief is that the hassle of watching your bandwidth is high enough that even those who would never approach the metered limit would prefer un metered service

Of course, the devil is in the details. The metering must be content neutral, with respect to content and protocols used.

There will develop hybrid plans, I would think, which would be metered with respect to peak hours, and unmetered for off peak hours, very much like cell phone plans are now.

Re: Liberals Abandoning the First Amendment, Part 4: Banning Books in Virginia

2307 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:19:23 -0000

Hmmm...Can't find any rel examples of liberals censoring anything, so the attempt here is to try to paint a libraries donation policy, which would preclude them from accepting donations of political tracts (from either the right OR the left) as censorship???

Seems farfetched, and very very stretched.

Good work liberals everywhere--you are giving Adam nothing to use as an example of censorship, so he has had to dig this deep!