Dear John, you wrote: (01)
On 7/5/2014 9:36 PM, Rich Cooper
wrote:
> All true, but when the elected
and the elected declare a constraint> (like
alcohol banned), guess what happens? (02)
JFS>It's all about the money. And international
corporations have more
of it than all the governments in the world put
together. Adam Smith
knew of the South Sea Bubble. All he did was
condemn it and hope such
things would go away: (03)
No, it's about force levied by governments against
free markets. From prohibition, slavery, war, the
DEA farce, the paranoid cold war, the new paranoid
Muslim war, and through all kinds of falsely
advertised horrors like global warming that
society wrinkles its nose at and asks legislators
to trample on peoples' fundamental (in the US,
constitutional) rights for because they fear
irrational things, want to control otherwise
rational people, and assert their authority to do
so that the world is full of many difficult
moments. (04)
As Jimmy Durante said, "why the hell can't
everyone leave everyone else the hell alone!" My
favorite quote. My father's favorite (bless his
departed soul) is what he called Cooper's law:
"people are no damn good!" (05)
-Rich (06)
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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On 7/5/2014 9:36 PM, Rich Cooper wrote:
> All true, but when the elected and the elected
declare a constraint
> (like alcohol banned), guess what happens? (09)
It's all about the money. And international
corporations have more
of it than all the governments in the world put
together. Adam Smith
knew of the South Sea Bubble. All he did was
condemn it and hope such
things would go away: (010)
Excerpt from
http://harvardmagazine.com/1999/05/damnd.html
> Adam Smith, born three years after the Bubble
burst, would write
> of "the knavery and extravagance" of the South
Sea Company and
> of "the negligence, profusion and malversation"
of its staff. (011)
But some people do everything they can to stomp on
"the invisible hand": (012)
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/06/apple-s
amsung-smartphone-patent-war.print (013)
Quotation by Steve Jobs at the end of that
article:
> "I have looked in the mirror every morning and
asked myself:
> 'If today were the last day of my life, would I
want to do what
> I am about to do today?'" Jobs said in a now
famous commencement
> speech he gave at Stanford University in 2005.
"And whenever
> the answer has been 'no' for too many days in a
row, I know I
> need to change something."
>
> After more than 1,000 days of litigation,
hopefully one morning
> soon executives at Samsung and Apple will look
at their reflection
> and, at long last, hit their limit of "no"s. (014)
Unfortunately, I wouldn't bet that they will.
They need to do some
reflection in a place where they do penance -- and
without a pardon.
Some executives come out as better human beings. (015)
John (016)
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