Re: [ARSCLIST] Internet Radio Status Update

[Scott Phillips <scottp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 I have to agree with you, Steve. I'm somewhere in between on the issue,
and don't mind a courteous discourse between people of differing views.
It throws the situation into sharper relief, not a bad thing. I can see
elements of both 'sides' that are worthy of considered thought. However,
it is one thing to be 'positive' in your viewpoint, another to flame.
There may be places for that, but this isn't one of them..... 

...perhaps it is time to agree to disagree.....

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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Internet Radio Status Update

I am sorry Dismuke but you obviously DO mean to be rude.  Your posts
have been abusive and personal and now they are becoming incoherent.  I
don't agree with Bob Olhsson, but I think he has argued his case
effectively and courteously.

Steve Abrams (socialist)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dismuke" <dismukemail@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Internet Radio Status Update


> --- Bob Olhsson <olh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Free Enterprise just
>> isn't a good enough
>> business model for these folks. Wouldn't it be nice
>> if Congress also put a
>> cap on our housing prices?
>>
>
>
> I have not had time to look though the many postings
> you have put up on the previous thread on this over
> the past weekend so I cringe to think of what might be
> in those.
>
> I am sorry, I do not mean to be rude, but the above
> statement is absurd and downright dishonest.
>
> FREE ENTERPRISE?
>
> You call a GOVERNMENT PANEL setting prices FREE
> ENTERPRISE?
>
> I am sorry, but that is something that is done under
> socialism/communism.
>
> You call an CARTEL of private corporations that have
> de-facto control over a government sanctioned MONOPOLY
> that the cartel's competitors have to go through in
> order to transact business and get paid an example of
> FREE ENTERPRISE?
>
> I am sorry, but that is actually an example of a
> varient of socialism known as fascism.
>
> Free enterprise is where the only role of government
> is to enforce legally binding contracts and allows the
> voluntary decisions of all of the many millions of
> players in the marketplace to determine how much all
> of the participants get paid and what sort of prices
> they are able to get away with charging.
>
> There is nothing free enterprise about this whole
> sordid mess.
>
> I don't know why you shill for such dasterdly people -
> but may the rest of your life be spent listening to
> nothing but the sort of music one finds on commercial
> FM radio.  You very richly deserve such a fate as that
> is exactly the consequences you have been asking for.