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To: dave rose who wrote (445)	4/17/1998 1:01:00 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Respond to of 5853

Cato Institute recently issued MICROSOFT AND THE BROWSER WARS, another of their generally fine works on current issues. See cato.org Hardly surprising that the parasitic clowns in D.C. are using a fictitious issue to 1. Consolidate power 2. Abuse the confidence of their subjects 3. Run another shakedown

To: dave rose who wrote (445)	4/17/1998 2:08:00 PM
From: Dragonfly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

This is the thing about Ayn Rand: She does not know how to form a logical position. In all of her readings, I see conclusions, often based on events that happened to fictional characters, that we're supposed to adopt as Truths. Yet, she doesn't ever really provide a logical (IE: would stand up to analysis by a first year philosophy major) set of points to reach her conclusions. In other words, what is the difference between her writing and the Bible? The bible draws a lot of conclusions and many people believe it, but can you argue in a court of law that men should not be allowed to shave or to eat hamburgers because the bible forbids these things? There is no supporting evidence included in this statement. Are you sure she's not just twitching your emotions and so you're saying "Yeah, that feels true!" even though it may not be logical. Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for intent to monopolize; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for "unfair competition" or "restraint of trade"; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for "collusion" or "conspiracy." There is only one difference in the legal treatment accorded to a criminal or a businessman; the criminal's rights are protected much more securely and objectively than the businessman's. Dragonfly