Re: A.M.D. to Split Into Two Operations

Robert Myers wrote:
> On Oct 13, 8:05 pm, Del Cecchi` <dcecchinos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> If you claim the free market system is so bad that it needs to be done
>> away with, then surely you have an idea of what it should be replaced
>> with.  Anarchy, totalitarianism, dictator****p of the proletariat?  If
>> you can't come up with anything, consider that perhaps the free market
>> system, like democracy, is the best of a bad lot.
>>
> Who ever said the free market is so bad it has to be done away with?
> For one thing, there is not now nor has there ever been a free market
> anywhere.

This is the sentence that led me to believe that: "I'll be happy just to 
trash markets and those who wor****p them."

Perhaps I took this too literally.
> 
> What needs to be done away with is the justification of rapacious
> behavior based on a total shuck.  Whoever it is gets to keep his half
> billion because there are laws to protect him.  Personally, I think
> there's something wrong with a system like that.  It doesn't matter
> what I think, but if things get bad enough, people who tend more to
> act than to talk will get into the fray.  We got very close in the
> Great Depression, and we're probably going to get very close again.
> Only time will tell.
> 
> In the meantime, I have a Milton Friedman voodoo doll that I stick
> pins in every night.
> 
>>
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>>
>> I haven't abused you. On the contrary I have gone out of my way to be
>> courteous and professional.
>>
> Indeed, you have, as always.
> 
>> On the other hand, there is nothing about any system that can force
>> everyone to be kind and understanding all the time, although I try very
>> hard.  (and they aren't "my" free markets)
>>
>> I still don't understand what your real issue is?  Is it just a scream
>> of primal rage at the success of x86?
>>
> If there is ever an expression of primal rage from me, you don't want
> to be anywhere nearby.

OK so I exaggerated.  a little.
> 
> I quoted a New York Times blogger about an AMD financial deal.  As
> usual, I got bashed, because I said something the local yahoos don't
> want to hear.  If there is a primal scream, it is about being
> patronized by people with a very limited view of just about
> everything.
> 
> As it happens, what the amdroids here take to be good news about AMD
> is just more bankers and consultants collecting fees.  No wonder the
> world is run by idiots.
> 
> We got off on IBM's role in propping up x86 because of the number of
> IBM'ers here and the uniformity of their claims.  They are not
> disinterested observers.
> 
> Robert.