Date:         Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:27:32 +0100
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Subject:      Re: Internet Radio Status Update
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I am sorry Dismuke but you obviously DO mean to be rude.  Your posts have 
been abusive and personal and now they are becoming incoherent.  I don't 
agree with Bob Olhsson, but I think he has argued his case effectively and 
courteously.

Steve Abrams (socialist)

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From: "Dismuke" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Internet Radio Status Update


> --- Bob Olhsson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Free Enterprise just
>> isn't a good enough
>> business model for these folks. Wouldn't it be nice
>> if Congress also put a
>> cap on our housing prices?
>>
>
>
> I have not had time to look though the many postings
> you have put up on the previous thread on this over
> the past weekend so I cringe to think of what might be
> in those.
>
> I am sorry, I do not mean to be rude, but the above
> statement is absurd and downright dishonest.
>
> FREE ENTERPRISE?
>
> You call a GOVERNMENT PANEL setting prices FREE
> ENTERPRISE?
>
> I am sorry, but that is something that is done under
> socialism/communism.
>
> You call an CARTEL of private corporations that have
> de-facto control over a government sanctioned MONOPOLY
> that the cartel's competitors have to go through in
> order to transact business and get paid an example of
> FREE ENTERPRISE?
>
> I am sorry, but that is actually an example of a
> varient of socialism known as fascism.
>
> Free enterprise is where the only role of government
> is to enforce legally binding contracts and allows the
> voluntary decisions of all of the many millions of
> players in the marketplace to determine how much all
> of the participants get paid and what sort of prices
> they are able to get away with charging.
>
> There is nothing free enterprise about this whole
> sordid mess.
>
> I don't know why you shill for such dasterdly people -
> but may the rest of your life be spent listening to
> nothing but the sort of music one finds on commercial
> FM radio.  You very richly deserve such a fate as that
> is exactly the consequences you have been asking for.