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Forum: Politics 12-14-2005, 03:49 PM
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Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

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Property rights exist to prevent and resolve conflicts over scarce resources. Ideas are not scarce. My "taking" of "your" idea does not prevent you from using that idea.

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Forum: Politics 12-13-2005, 06:15 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 366
Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

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Just because an exploitative company is involved with the government does not mean the government is the place from which they derive their coercive power.

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While that's...
Forum: Politics 12-13-2005, 06:13 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 366
Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

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You have got to be kidding me. Without governments, what would we have? just other governments. To think that corporate governance of people's actions and the world's resources is not...
Forum: Politics 12-13-2005, 04:09 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 366
Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

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Like I said before, reread the ENTIRE thread, and what I wrote. One out of context quote only shows a desire not to understand what I said. What I wrote in that post was that business...
Forum: Politics 12-13-2005, 10:18 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 366
Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

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Reread the thread, I am not going to to come up with a "counterexample" or, for that matter, in any way defend a position I have not even put forth. "bring it?" reread the thread.

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Forum: Politics 12-12-2005, 11:05 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 366
Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

On the IP debate, it seems that lumping patent and copyright together is a mistake.

First, note the difference in their enforcement.

To enforce a copyright, the rightholder must prove that...
Forum: Politics 12-12-2005, 10:47 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 366
Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

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Hey, I'm open to counterexamples. Bring it.

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An Example won't cut it. Reread the whole thread and you should have a better idea of what I think.

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Forum: Politics 12-12-2005, 05:50 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 366
Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

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Well, I must be wrong... after all, you did assert that I was.

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Hey, I'm open to counterexamples. Bring it.
Forum: Politics 12-12-2005, 03:43 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 366
Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

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Government and Business cannot opperate without one another. When Businesses opperate without a strong Govenment to hold them in check, you have things like US steal in Gary Indiana or...
Forum: Politics 12-12-2005, 10:43 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 366
Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

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I haven't expressed an opinion as to what should be limited, but, since we're using analogies without too much weight to make points, saying there different is more like saying electricity...
Forum: Politics 12-11-2005, 09:59 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 366
Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

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There may be a difference between violent power and nonviolent power insofar as one is violent, but the difference between market power and political power (I assume what you mean by...
Forum: Politics 12-11-2005, 05:55 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 366
Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

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The statement that no monopoly has emerged or practiced predatory pricing without the aid of the government I find to be, not only a claim that monopolies and predatory pricing don't...
Forum: Politics 12-11-2005, 01:28 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 366
Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

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d) Many firms. This is foolish. If by definition you are a monopoly when you provide a product that no competitor produces, every inventor or newly differentiated product would make one a...
Forum: Politics 12-11-2005, 12:08 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 366
Posted By tylerdurden
Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?

Some of my previous writings in this forum about antitrust:

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Antitrust laws invariably harm consumers.

They are not used against monopolies, because monopolies derrive their market...
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