Harry Pollard wrote:[snip]
Thanks for reading carefully, Ray. I wish Chris did.
In the flood of Harry's postings with subject lines that are unrelated to the msg content, I don't read each one. Now I went back in the archive and saw that I actually had missed the posting where Harry stated that <<If the tribe had looked to a longer life, I'm sure they would never have let him go.>>
Anyway, it's rather inconsistent that Harry makes this distinction about a TV show but not about real-life issues such as FT. If the world's people look to a longer life, I'm sure they would never choose FT. (And real referendum votes in CH confirm this -- in other places, people don't even have a choice..).
Chris
I think the closest thing to a free market any of us has seen may be e-Bray (as in the noise a donkey is supposed to make). e-Bray is not a bad place to buy Beenie Babies, but, for expensive stuff, e-Bray is like a magnet for frauds.
And, of course, however perfect the "free exchange" is Harry-like on e-Bray, there's the infrastructure of e-Bray itself, which makes money on everything, no matter the outcome for individual buyers and sellers. Harry, how would your perfect markets get buy without any infrastructure, unless they are at most as sophisticated as the markets in the ungovernable territories of NorthEast Pakistan aparently are? I presume you would not be averse to the people having the freedom to buy and sell ground-to-air personal anti-aircraft missiles?
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Different topic:
I saw the new biographical film about Louis Kahn today. People in India think he was a guru, and people in Bangaladesh think he is the father of their democracy. Unfortunately, some of his buildings in Balgaladesh looked to me like abstract architectural renderings of vailed women's faces - hopefully that is a wrong impression from the film.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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