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Paul wrote:

TheGZeus wrote:Also, as I said, there's more than one means to the same end. You can get to the same situation without the government being involved.

You can have government grants without government?

Don't be rude.
That's a means.
Not an end.

If you didn't read my entire post, don't reply to it.

What does that have to do with the price of tea? You suggesting that before they became states, there were no governments involved with them? :lol: The so-called "robber barons" arose out of government grants of land and money to railroad companies, etc. Serfdom, of course, is purely a fe...

If you go too small in governmental/regulatory power you're back to robber barons, sharecropping, surfdom and boom/bubble and bust economics. You have that backwards...those things you list are/were caused by government; if you "go too small in governmental/regulatory power", you solve th...

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I don't buy the "corporations are evil" thing spouted by many people (not necessarily you). Corporations can be bad in the same way that individuals can be bad. Corporations by themselves are simply organizational and legal structures for how groups of people can work together; they are i...

Huh? Why? Completely cut off, no chance. It was 2 years ago, its possible I just noticed I'd lost at 6 moves, and played longer, or it may have been 12 moves... Sorry, I just find it hard to imagine a resignworthy position after 12 moves, unless you were playing on a small board (9x9). Yeah, 2 year...