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    Default What won't private industry take upon itself?

    It appears that some people here think that big government is only a detriment to big business. So let's make a list of things that private industry has relied on the government to make possible for them to exploit.

    Only 1 item per post please.

    * Space exploration
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    Space exploration is science.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Knux897 View Post
    Space exploration is science.
    What's your point. Without it our communication infrastructure would quite limited.
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    Responsibility? That has to be forced via regulation.
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    Space around the Earth is slowly being conquered by private enterprise

    And arguably the Iraq war is already fought by private companies
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crowheart View Post
    War.
    They already have.
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    Quote Originally Posted by EyeKhan View Post
    They already have.
    Huh?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crowheart View Post
    Huh?
    Oh, that's right. Blackwater and the like only do "security" work.
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    The retired ones we have on payroll prefer you call them independent consultants.
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    Electricity distribution infrastructure.
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    If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?

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    On that note, how many consumer product standards has the private industry been able to implement on their own? Its an honest question, I have no idea what the answer is.

    Take for example our regional AC power plugs. Or the bazillion different chargers for cellphones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EyeKhan View Post
    Oh, that's right. Blackwater and the like only do "security" work.
    Well, no..

    But they aren't in Iraq without the U.S. government's invasion.
    Their profits were tied to actions initiated by government.

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    Railway corridors.
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    If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?

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    Roads
    Aquiducts
    Viticulture
    Peace



    I'm not clear about the purpose of this thread. Is it to show that pure economic libertarianism is as stupid as pure socialism? You should just say so, and it's damned easy to support. To start with, almost any relatively pure ideology is disastrous.

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    Air traffic control
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    If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?

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    Genocide.
    "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

    "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

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    Gotta genocide somebody
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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    j00s?
    "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

    "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

    -- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.

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    That's so passé, darling
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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    Gays, then?
    "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

    "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

    -- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.

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    I foresee a lot of the same difficulties as with the mischlinge
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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    You're making this far too difficult. Let's just wipe out the Finnish and be done with it.
    "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

    "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

    -- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.

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    Blackwater will appreciate your hard-earned poker dollahs
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CitizenCain View Post
    You're making this far too difficult. Let's just wipe out the Finnish and be done with it.
    get rid of the fins and our ranking in education and health care goes up one.
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    "Finns"

    Also "Britons"; what is it with you and foreign nationals
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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    Havent you ever seen an American map of the world? "US" & "OTHER" is all thats on there...
    "Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink, because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nessus View Post
    "Finns"

    Also "Britons"; what is it with you and foreign nationals
    Sorry, I'm lazy and ignorant. Also, I prefer "Brits," if that's ok.
    The Rules
    Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
    Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
    Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)

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    Quote Originally Posted by EyeKhan View Post
    Sorry, I'm lazy and ignorant. Also, I prefer "Brits," if that's ok.
    As long as it's not 'Britts', we're good
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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