Comment Re:Epic waste (Score 1) 475
stop...i meant politics in the general sense...getting big by making licensing deal with IBM using an CPM close is not my idea of innovative.
That is not politics, but business. He had a window of opportunity and missed it. What the hell does Microsoft have to do with it anyway? It wasn't even in the OS business at the time. They already had their deal with IBM.
Which is why i specifically mentioned Lord Russel which entered cabinet in the middle of the crisis, you can't deny that his acts was in reality the biggest Laissez faire experiment in the world.
Actually, yes, I can. Lets try a thought experiment: the people in North Korea get all their goods from the government. Suppose that government decides to stop feeding their population tomorrow, and they begin to starve, predictably since all the other restrictions that come with a planned communist economy are still in place.
Would you call THAT the new 'biggest Laissez faire experiment in the world'?
But i brough this up because you moved the goal post, apparently
What would India 'impeeded UC' from doing? Leaking the poisonous gas? I think you are confusing a government staffed with flawed, ordinary men with some kind of a god. The USSR was no laissez faire and nobody 'impeeded' Chernobyl from melting down.
It sucks, but accidents do happen.
Yeeaeh...thats what we call a false dichotomy.
Well, we have a cutting edge social scientist here then! Which is this new form of social production that is neither guided by the profit motive or central planning? Please do tell.