So we have 2 scurrilous monopolists battling over sheep

Post #2,904 by Ashton 7/27/01 2:21:12 AM Reply	So we have 2 scurrilous monopolists battling over sheep instead of the one. I guess that's a kind of 'progress' - each imagines it 'owns' or ought to own, the molding of febrile minds towards Slot A or Slot B. I'm still waiting for Slots 3 thru n. As to this PopUp BS - only way to make that bulletproof is slip it into the BIOS. Wanna read your HD? Read US first - which gets (from me) an immediately returned system. The seller re-flashes that Trojan or eats the sale. Hmmm - maybe Award and Phoenix (if it still lives?) need some competition too: Free-BIOS Ltd: We restore your BIOS to operational condition, free of ugly commercial pollution.. $25 a pop? Can't this #^@@#%& bizness do Anything without filling every memory-cycle with another fucking Ad guaranteed to piss-off everyone? Murica 2001 - Buy 24/7 or Die. Ugly. And these machines have enabled this mindset to expand orders of magnitude. What atrocities await us in next 2-4 years? Ashton Are we smarter than maze-trained rats? OK - could we catch up then?
Post #2,920 by Simon_Jester 7/27/01 8:43:19 AM Reply	Hey don't knock it... It's sorta like AMD and Intel. Stainless steel traps breed stainless steel rats.
Post #3,060 by jb4 7/30/01 1:48:56 PM Reply	Re: So we have 2 scurrilous monopolists battling over sheep Aren't 2 monopolists better than one? jb4 (Resistance is not futile...)
Post #3,064 by addison 7/30/01 2:07:15 PM Reply	Errrr. I don't think you can have 2 monopolies.... Kinda by definition. :) (have to have differing markets) Addison
Post #3,090 by a6l6e6x 7/30/01 4:05:43 PM Reply	Re: Errrr. Sure you can. One has a monopoly in a market. They are monopolies in different markets. These companies all so happen to overlap in some markets e.g. both are IPSs where neither is a monopoly. Not by choice, however. Alex This is my sig. There's another almost like it, but this one is mine.
Post #3,091 by Ashton 7/30/01 4:10:23 PM Reply	You're right but.. One must take into account the fact that, in every Repo heart beats the mantra - If I spin this right, coerce the right folk far enough and - get away with it long enough to destroy the competition: I too can Own It All. Thus - yes, only One might be at the top of the razor blade technically: But every 'same order of magnitude' contender has Only One Goal. Left unscrutinized fir eine augenblicht: Well, we know. A. (Poor underdog MicroSoft VS Big Bad Blue, anyone? All that lugubrious free sympathy for young Billy and his horde .. and their date with destiny)
Post #3,252 by jb4 7/31/01 1:28:06 PM Reply	You can't have two monopolIES, but you can have... ...two or more monopolISTS. Monopolist is a state of mind, one that eschews the mantra (and myth) of "free market" in favor of "it's mine! It's ALL MINE!!! And I'll do WHATEVER IT TAKES to make it ALL MINE!!! The Ends justify the Means!" Hope that clarifies. jb4 (Resistance is not futile...)

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