Comment Re:How fucking tasteless (Score 1) 341
Your first example is stretching the concept beyond the breaking point, and your others are only a little better.
Your first example is stretching the concept beyond the breaking point, and your others are only a little better.
That's a mildly interesting corner case
"U.S murdered"
No. Killing the enemy is not murder.
... just waiting for someone to quote Team America.
... not really - under the GP's rules, you'd be out of line with that.
"The 'invisible hand' (rich land owners with huge water rights in this case)..."
Sorry, you're misusing terminology. The "invisible hand" is the effect of the market - of people freely competing to efficiently allocate resources between alternative uses. When you instead refer to "owners with huge water rights", you're outside the market: "water rights" are a government largesse, not a market.
"I'm for just straight up taxing everything.
tax & spend - the environment is just an excuse
You're victim-blaming here. The invisible hand barely had a hand in what's been happening.
The "virtual water" concept is unnecessary just to improve on real-water scarcity. Just price real-water properly.
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" What is the incentive for the BBC to spin
To try to stay relevant - to try to justify their tax-income.
Yes, but it lets government bureaucrats play-act like they're entrepreneurs and brave businessguys and such.
"I think everyone already knew it was possible to print something that looks like a jet engine."
No word on whether the thing was ever powered up, or is simply a neat toy.
"will have to cite what regulations could possibly have been preventing Ma Bell from providing better service"
But it's not even that: regulations prevent innovation directly - that's just one of their indirect & unintended effects. When regulated as a public utility, the company is to some extent protected from competition (and thus the need to innovate and improve service).
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