[OT] Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] RME is no more

Russell Hanaghan hanaghan at starband.net
Sun Dec 12 04:24:31 EST 2004


Dave Phillips wrote:

> Greetings:
>
>  I'd like to put this thread in a coffin and drive in the last nail:

GReat big democratic ditto's to this!!!!! 

Enuf already...sheesh!

>
>    USians opining about socialism is as ludicrous as USians opining 
> about democracy.
>
>  Now, if you wanna know about corporate plutocracies, *that* we can 
> discuss better than anyone else on this planet.
>
>  "You are a slave, Neo."
>
> Best,
>
> dp
>
>
>
> Shayne O'Connor wrote:
>
>>> That's not to say we should be naive about market forces, but 
>>> there's no need to wheel out tired old truisms in their defence. I 
>>> do uphold your right to be horribly misled, however. ;-)
>>>   
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>>
>> the basic, underlying flaw with capitalism and the "free" market is that
>> it cannot sustain itself - we will start to see this more and more as
>> governments privatise more and more social services and utilities ...
>> after all, there is only so much you can charge for, say, the price of a
>> phone call ... and once you've hit the ceiling of how much you can
>> charge, then there's only so far you can cut back your services ....
>> actually, someone should tell this to tesltra ...
>>
>> i love it when these lists get woefully off-topic :)
>>
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