Re: [ga] Policy for dealing with controversial TLDs

[RBHauptman@xxxxxxx]

Kidsearch, I just received 10 email messages from you today.  Do you  have 
OCD?
 
kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

I'm all for a free market. Thats why I say if a company wants a tld, let  
them start one. Nothing wrong with a free market. Currently what we have is  
nowhere near one.
 
Chris McElroy

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Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2005 7:44  AM
Subject: Re: [ga] Policy for dealing  with controversial TLDs



that the "free" market produced the robber barons (and other similar  
scoundrels) is another example of why the "free" market stinks.  
 
(I can see the flurry of emails defending these ill-begotten  scoundrels. let 
'em fly gentlemen let 'em fly..... )
 
_sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)   writes:

I  wrote:
> I believe many people have an interesting conception of  what a free market
> may be, few have a true understanding of  it.  What I have been hearing
> over the past several years  from many people on this list is the
> equivalent of the besmirching  of the so-called "robber barons" in what
> many 'capitalists' point  to as the Golden Age of the free market system.
> Carnegie and the  rest had their detractors in their day too.

Here's an excerpt from  an interesting article  at
http://www.city-journal.org/html/5_1_a2.html:

"In an age  bereft of political heroes, the entrepreneurs who forged
America's  industrial economy served as role models for the nation's  young.

The best of them exemplified virtues long treasured by  Americans: vision,
energy, perseverance, hard work, and character. Even  though most started
near the top, enough outsiders, like Gould,  Carnegie, and Vanderbilt,
climbed the slippery ladder of success to  preserve the American dream that
anyone could do so.

But still  these businessmen were vilified, at bottom perhaps because they
did  their work too well. So brilliantly did they exploit the open system
to  amass wealth and power that they forced radical changes in the rules  by
their excesses, even as they forged an industrial system that  produced
quality goods on a colossal scale at prices that declined  steadily for
more than 30 years.

E. H. Harriman, who by the time  of his death in 1909 controlled more
railroad mileage than anyone else  and had brought the industry into a new
era based on long hauls of  large volumes at low rates, pronounced the most
clear-sighted judgment  on himself and his fellow Robber Barons. During an
interview, he  startled a reporter by pulling out a sheet filled with data
on  improvements to the Union Pacific Railroad. "As he read from it,"  the
reporter later recalled, "I realized it was the apologia pro vita  sua."

"But the public assails and attacks you," said the reporter  when Harriman
had finished, "and impugns your motives and accuses you  of all sorts of
things. Doesn't the thanklessness of the job ever  embitter you?"

Harriman responded by slapping the sheet of  statistics with his hand.

"That," he said defiantly,  remains."

Ho, ho, ho! :-o

Sotiris  Sotiropoulos