WILL YOU STOP FUCKING AROUND WITH THE ATTRIBUTIONS

You end up with a hell of mess when someone quotes your shit.

James A. Donald wrote:
James A. Donald <jamesd at (no spam) echeque.com> wrote
Government investments and businesses usually
lose money, unless they are subsidized, or
competition forcibly suppressed,

Plenty of them make money without either.

Such as?

Most obviously with the govt operations providing transport services etc.

Amtrack costs the taxpayer several hundred dollars per passenger per trip.

Irrelevant to the profit plenty of other govt transport systems make.

What did you have in mind that makes money in the face of competition?

I gave you a list. you carefully deleted that from the quoting.

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:41:22 +1100, "Rod Speed"
rod.speed.aaa at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:

WILL YOU STOP FUCKING AROUND WITH THE ATTRIBUTIONS

You end up with a hell of mess when someone quotes your shit.

James A. Donald wrote:
James A. Donald <jamesd at (no spam) echeque.com> wrote
Government investments and businesses usually
lose money, unless they are subsidized, or
competition forcibly suppressed,

"Rod Speed"
Plenty of them make money without either.

James A. Donald:
Such as?

Rod Speed wrote
Most obviously with the govt operations providing transport
services etc.

James A. Donald:
Amtrack costs the taxpayer several hundred dollars per passenger
per trip.

Rod Speed wrote
Irrelevant to the profit plenty of other govt transport systems make.

Name one that is not a state enforced monopoly.

What did you have in mind that makes money in the face of competition?

I gave you a list. you carefully deleted that from the quoting.

You listed "government telcos" - but government telcos are state enforced monopolies,

and similarly for Giros.

Just as any art funded by the NEA is necessarily
repetitious rubbish, mindless aping what once
was daring innovation but is now mechanical
orthodoxy, the same applies with government
funded science and technology.
You might be interested in the government funded
efforts classified as Art and Technology. A lot of
it is right off-the-wall brilliant, and it is art!

James A. Donald:

I recommend Roissy's review of modern art
http://roissy.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/the-state-of
-art-in-america/

"*Anarcissie*"

But this is just another "I don't like it, so it isn't
art" rant.

Perhaps only a connoisseur can tell fine wine, but
anyone is qualified to detect sewage.

Here is some politically correct dog poop, for which the
artist was paid half a million dollars.
http://www.sanjose.com/underbelly/unbelly/Sanjose/Quetzy/quetzy.html

I am willing to sell my poop for a mere two hundred
thousand.  And for a mere extra one hundred thousand,
will have it bronzed.

Just as any art funded by the NEA is necessarily
repetitious rubbish, mindless aping what once
was daring innovation but is now mechanical
orthodoxy, the same applies with government
funded science and technology.

You might be interested in the government funded
efforts classified as Art and Technology. A lot of
it is right off-the-wall brilliant, and it is art!

I recommend Roissy's review of modern art
http://roissy.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/the-state-of
-art-in-america/

But this is just another "I don't like it, so it isn't
art" rant.

Just as any art funded by the NEA is necessarily
repetitious rubbish, mindless aping what once
was daring innovation but is now mechanical
orthodoxy, the same applies with government
funded science and technology.

You might be interested in the government funded
efforts classified as Art and Technology. A lot of
it is right off-the-wall brilliant, and it is art!

James A. Donald:
I recommend Roissy's review of modern art
http://roissy.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/the-state-of
-art-in-america/

"*Anarcissie*"
But this is just another "I don't like it, so it isn't art" rant.

Perhaps only a connoisseur can tell fine wine, but anyone is qualified to detect sewage.

Here is some politically correct dog poop, for which the artist was paid half a million dollars.
http://www.sanjose.com/underbelly/unbelly/Sanjose/Quetzy/quetzy.html

I am willing to sell my poop for a mere two hundred thousand.

And for a mere extra one hundred thousand, will have it bronzed.

On Nov 6, 8:50 pm, James A. Donald <jam... at (no spam) echeque.com> wrote:
Just as any art funded by the NEA is necessarily
repetitious rubbish, mindless aping what once
was daring innovation but is now mechanical
orthodoxy, the same applies with government
funded science and technology.
You might be interested in the government funded
efforts classified as Art and Technology. A lot of
it is right off-the-wall brilliant, and it is art!

James A. Donald:

I recommend Roissy's review of modern art
http://roissy.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/the-state-of
-art-in-america/

"*Anarcissie*"

But this is just another "I don't like it, so it isn't
art" rant.

Perhaps only a connoisseur can tell fine wine, but
anyone is qualified to detect sewage.

Here is some politically correct dog poop, for which the
artist was paid half a million dollars.
http://www.sanjose.com/underbelly/unbelly/Sanjose/Quetzy/quetzy.html

I am willing to sell my poop for a mere two hundred
thousand. And for a mere extra one hundred thousand,
will have it bronzed.

Don't bronze it. Do as others do and post it to Usenet.

Here is some politically correct dog poop, for which the artist was paid half a million dollars.
http://www.sanjose.com/underbelly/unbelly/Sanjose/Quetzy/quetzy.html

Not by any govt, fool.

Rod Speed wrote

James A. Donald wrote

Here is some politically correct dog poop, for
which the artist was paid half a million dollars.
http://www.sanjose.com/underbelly/unbelly/Sanjose/Quetzy/quetzy.html

Not by any govt, fool.

Look it up. A government bought his shit.