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Re: So why don't US citizens get this?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Sun Jul 27 10:52:28 2008

Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:51:57 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20080727104213.6b24e043.darcy@druid.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:29:38 -0500 (CDT)
> Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
>>> The key thing in that definition is the lack of government  
>>> intervention in its various forms. That's D'Arcy's point. Where there  
>>> is government subsidy, regulation, or other intervention, it cannot be  
>>> described as a free market.
>> Actually, it could...  but you have to understand the situation better.
> 
> Ah.  I didn't realize that I just didn't understand the situation as
> well as you.  Thanks for setting me straight.
> 
> If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?
> Four.  Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
>    Abraham Lincoln

You don';t watch television much do you.  Especially the "news".

We are well past "1984".
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