Re: Excite Poll

2004-02-11 Thread Steve Miller
I am, the 12% pro-outsourcing response is much higher than I'd expect! on 2/11/04 11:55 AM, Bryan Caplan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not the least surprised by these results: http://poll.excite.com/poll/home.jsp?cat_id=1 -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason

Re: intellectual property

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Miller
Conversely, I could argue that all of the music I've ever downloaded from a P2P network was fair use, since it did not reduce royalties. Why? All I have to do is claim that I would have never purchased the music at the market price. on 9/5/03 3:08 PM, Steve Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: HEAVEN'S DOOR AFTER A YEAR - George J. Borjas

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Miller
I seem to remember Bart and Lisa Simpson arguing over whether or not two wrongs make a right. BTW, Homer agrees with you. ;-) Call me naive, but I'm on Lisa's side. I guess that's where I'd ultimately disagree with Magneto, too. on 9/5/03 3:19 PM, Aschwin de Wolf at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: HEAVEN'S DOOR AFTER A YEAR - George J. Borjas

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Miller
I would only pay the kid so far as he forced me to pay, and even then I would find a way to pay as little as possible. But I wouldn't deny my neighbor's right to own and maintain a lawn at his own expense. on 9/5/03 2:14 PM, alypius skinner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because *we,* the

Re: immigration's effect on per capita GDP

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Miller
That still avoids my distinction between rhetoric and policy. on 9/5/03 3:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 9/4/03 11:03:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: here I have to disagree with you Steve. :) The Republican party's ideology runs from classical

Re: intellectual property

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Miller
a contract between buyer and seller. I guess they now have EULAs and such with some media, but not others. on 9/5/03 3:56 PM, Fred Foldvary at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Steve Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another example: copying under fair use can reduce royalties. Suppose I buy Microsoft

Re: immigration's effect on per capita GDP

2003-09-04 Thread Steve Miller
on 9/4/03 8:26 AM, Aschwin de Wolf at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Illegals knowingly break federal law. Many libertarians say they only break laws that shouldn't exist anyway. But this made me wonder. The overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants do not have libertarians views (to put it mildly).

Re: immigration's effect on per capita GDP

2003-09-04 Thread Steve Miller
on 9/4/03 3:02 PM, alypius skinner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the implication here was so obvious it did not need to be spelled out, but I guess I was mistaken (jab, jab). Importing new voters from very unlibertarian political cultures will further diminish, if not eventually

Re: The Vote-Cost of Scandal

2003-06-03 Thread Steve Miller
Do I have to avoid a preference-based explanation? What if I dig up some evidence of trends in human behavior that support my claim? Maybe what angers voters is not the scandal, but hypocrisy. Someone who is perceived as liberal on social issues is less of a hypocrite for having an affair than

Re: The Vote-Cost of Scandal

2003-06-03 Thread Steve Miller
But at least I've explained away Packwood, Livingston, etc. ;-) on 6/3/03 12:23 AM, Bryan Caplan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Miller wrote: Maybe what angers voters is not the scandal, but hypocrisy. Someone who is perceived as liberal on social issues is less of a hypocrite