From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-15 06:17:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:17:09 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3F3CDD55.8000609@noplace.com> References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> <3F3A39E6.1070803@noplace.com> <3F3B8DB8.1060004@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.a5.03.3c Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 15 Aug 2003 13:19:31 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41508 Date: 2003-08-15T13:19:31+00:00 List-Id: Its called the "Free Enterprise System" and it is neither illegal nor immoral. It works to allocate resources in the most efficient means possible. Nobody "designed" it. Its what people do when you leave them alone. Government regulation is needed to make sure that the rules get followed and the contest is "fair". After that, its like a football game. The guys with the better team win and the loosing team has to regroup and find out how to do it better next time. It creates enormous wealth that enables us all to live better lives. That doesn't sound like gangsters to me. Perhaps you don't like free enterprise, but nobody has a better system yet. MDC Georg Bauhaus wrote: > > If you make a superior product and out-compete other vendors, > what does this mean? Does it mean that these other vendors will > have to find a new job? Do we have to have it that way? > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================