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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (321589)	1/18/2007 2:29:11 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574275

"That's funny. I made no such argument, but you have." Sure you have. Indirectly at least. You pronounce that there must be shortages and you use an example where, apparently, people refused to shift resources because they couldn't jack up the prices. What John and I were saying is that resources get shifted to help alleviate the problem without a major profit motive. That is how things work in my experience. Now true, you can theorize that even more supplies would be made available in a freer market, but that hasn't been shown to be true. Maybe you can run an experiment somewhere, but until that is done, it is, at best, a guess. The aftermath of a disaster isn't a normal market. The normal rules don't apply. People, at least the ones I know, are more charitable than your model assumes. That might not be true in NC, in which case they need to change the law because there are too many selfish bastards, but it is true in the places I know. John has attested to his experiences. As far as my doubt of Shorty's claims of doing business, it doesn't make sense. And to get it to make sense you have to have highly contrived circumstances that are dubious, at best. So I am skeptical. If he actually does business that way, then he is doing as a protest, not because it makes business sense. Which he has the freedom to do, I won't dispute that. But it is hard to believe he stays in business doing things that way, I can't imagine his customer's taking being jerked around because of someone's political beliefs. I know I wouldn't be happy if one of my suppliers or contractors limited or endangered my business for that reason. Given Shorty's history of openly speculating about other posters sexual orientation, sexuality, smearing their families and other pretty obnoxious behavior, he deserves what ridicule anyone heaps on his head.