At 10:15 AM -0400 4/6/00, David Honig wrote:
>At 06:08 PM 4/5/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote:
>>
>>On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, David Honig wrote:
>>> News flash: the universe doesn't owe you the number
>>> of 'choices' you imagine you deserve.
>>
>>News flash: True enoug but premeditated predation is not acceptable
>>either in a free market either.
>
>Any business behavior *not* including the use of force
>is permitted. And how can you stop other behaviors,
>except through (implicit) use of force?
>
>Surely intel can crush the graphics market, by giving
>away their graphics chip with every cpu. Surely ms
>can package whatever it wants in its 4 color shrink wrapped
>boxes. Its not pretty, but its prettier than state intervention.
>
>Business is predation, so is organic life, and premeditation
>only means you're thinking about it, instead of stumbling
>upon your food, or waiting for the tides to stream it past
>your filters.
Remember that you are dealing in this discussion with Jim Choate's
Interpretation of Reality, which generally bears little resemblance
to ordinary notions of history, constitutional law, electromagnetism,
etc. According to Choatenomics, those who try to drive competitors
out of business are practicing "predation," which in Choatenomics is
illegal. The fact that the Sherman Antitrust Act nor any later acts
has any language about "trying to drive competitors out of business"
should be a clue that Choatenomics is nonoverlapping with reality as
the rest of us know it.
--Tim May
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