gvw@etive.ed.ac.uk (MOBY) (11/21/88)
In article <8811181946.AA01289@snark.UUCP> eric@snark.UUCP writes: > > (some more irrelevant Daiell-bashing here...) > >Nevertheless, he has hold of a basic moral truth that you, with all your >sophistication, are still evading. There is no 'public money'; there is >only stolen or extorted private money, 1) Untrue. There is *only* public money; all private accumulations of money large enough to fund something like highways are the result of theft, made legitimate by the thieves' writing the rules. >I agree that nation- and world-wide data highways are a good idea. I am >therefore confident that the free market will build them, and drive the cost >of use down to a triviality. 2) Like American hospitals? 3) None of this is relevant to this group, so I apologize to those who are tired of reading political polemics instead of interesting speculations. I just believe in equal air time... All flames to me, please. Greg