[ale] OT: The Amazing WEB

[Joseph A Knapka]

Charles Shapiro wrote:
> 
> Peace.
> 
> Oog. I sometimes get tired of seeing Libertarianism characterized in
> this uninformed way.  The alternative to the "greed motive and
> unregulated capitalism" is to have some people with guns enforce their
> standards of behavior on others.  Free people engage in trade and try to
> better their circumstances. Slaves fight and claw to become free. The
> greed motive and unrestrained capitalism are the very things which give
> us the wealth to engage in the wonderous gift economy which is the Net.

And it also gave us Micro$oft.

> Greed is necessary. Get over it.

So's regulation, to some degree.

Cheers,
-- Joe
"I should like to close this book by sticking out any part of my neck
 which is not yet exposed, and making a few predictions about how the
 problem of quantum gravity will in the end be solved."
 --- Physicist Lee Smolin, "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity"

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