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From: Brent on 22 Oct 2009 15:51 On 2009-10-22, chrisv <chrisv(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > gpsman wrote in ><12fdab1a-eceb-4459-965f-7232fa79cb3c(a)e18g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> > > >>I expect the silence to be deafening. > > Well, in this (excellent) post, you used *far* too many big words for > the "Brent" cretin to even understand your points. It figures you'd team up with r.a.d's village idiot, gpstroll, who knows that he's been killfiled by me and just about everyone else in r.a.d. Much like you've likely been killfiled in cola. Oh BTW, that whole 'smart money' thing... in a free market, if there were a monopoly by virtual of a high cost business and one particular company pleasing customers so well it was the only one left... and that company decides to start acting like a monopoly and charges too far above the market price, it attracts people to offer something at a lower price. Or maybe someone else just has found a low cost way to make the same product without the huge investment. Even gpstroll would be 'smart' enough to invest in a process that made gasoline out of garbage for 12 cents a gallon absent big oil's influence over government.
From: gpsman on 22 Oct 2009 15:51 On Oct 22, 2:12 pm, Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVET...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > The 'build a better mouse trap' is limited to a few limited industries > in the USA. Most are now regulated to the point where favor with the > regulators, to have the regulations favor you and disfavor your > competition is how to get ahead. Why do *all* your assertions require vast conspiracies? Everything is accomplished surreptitiously, excluded from the public record, yet, somehow, you're aware of it, and "government" hasn't bothered with an assassination. You claim to work as an "engineer", yet have all day every day to spend online. It seems overwhelmingly and undeniably evident you are incredibly and willfully ignorant, and stupid to the degree you are completely absent any capacity for embarrassment. Even Bullis doesn't hold a candle to you. It is completely inconceivable that you are capable of attaining and maintaining any employment outside of a paternal relationship. Hey, you can offer evidence of that! How about a scan of your last pay stub or W-2...with the personal information obscured, of course. ----- - gpsman
From: chrisv on 22 Oct 2009 16:05 Brent wrote: >Oh BTW, that whole 'smart money' thing... in a free market, if there >were a monopoly by virtual of a high cost business and one particular >company pleasing customers so well it was the only one left... and that >company decides to start acting like a monopoly and charges too far >above the market price, it attracts people to offer something at a lower >price. Or maybe someone else just has found a low cost way to make the >same product without the huge investment. Oh BTW, simpleton, what you describe above certainly CAN happen, and those market forces USUALLY prevent out-of-whack markets like the desktop OS market. However SOMETIMES there are extraordinary "barriers to entry" into a market, and other factors, so that what you describe DOES NOT HAPPEN. What you describe HAS NOT HAPPENED in the desktop OS market, and it's NOT because Microsoft's products are a "better value" than everyone else's! Sheesh!
From: Brent on 22 Oct 2009 16:09 On 2009-10-22, chrisv <chrisv(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > Brent wrote: > >>Oh BTW, that whole 'smart money' thing... in a free market, if there >>were a monopoly by virtual of a high cost business and one particular >>company pleasing customers so well it was the only one left... and that >>company decides to start acting like a monopoly and charges too far >>above the market price, it attracts people to offer something at a lower >>price. Or maybe someone else just has found a low cost way to make the >>same product without the huge investment. > Oh BTW, simpleton, what you describe above certainly CAN happen, and > those market forces USUALLY prevent out-of-whack markets like the > desktop OS market. > However SOMETIMES there are extraordinary "barriers to entry" into a > market, and other factors, so that what you describe DOES NOT HAPPEN. > What you describe HAS NOT HAPPENED in the desktop OS market, and it's > NOT because Microsoft's products are a "better value" than everyone > else's! > > Sheesh! Obviously the wider discussion as well as intelligence continues to ellude you.
From: hancock4 on 22 Oct 2009 16:50
[repost] On Oct 22, 4:13 pm, Larry Sheldon <lfshel...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Prior to the late 1980s, A T & T had 100% of any market they had any of. Actually it varies quite a bit on how you define the marketplace. That definition is very important. That is, if you define the marketplace as merely communications, AT&T certainly did not have a monopoly, there were two way radios, mail, western union, etc. If you narrow to voice phones, AT&T still competed with private systems that large organizations used for in- house calls. Back in the1960s IBM competed against a variety of business machines that were quite sophisticated but not quite computers. For instance, many companies used high end NCR bookkeeping machines. |