On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, jim bell wrote:
At 10:59 AM 4/13/96 -0400, Black Unicorn wrote:
Still, governments are quite talented at making ratings schemes look voluntary when practically speaking they are not.
You know, it's amazing how you fail to ask and answer obvious questions when they arise! Why, exactly, should the government NEED to "make ratings schemes look voluntary when practically speaking they are not"?
(Snore) If you need me to explain this to you..... After all,
you would love to take the position that the government has this authority anyway. Is it possible you're just afraid to admit that the government(s) doesn't have this authority?
You have no idea what my position is, so you have to invent it. Really you grow quite boring. This begins to fall into pattern behavior.
system would collapse. At that point, there will be no government "threat" to regulate, because everybody will realize that the system is working just fine without regulation. Everyone will see an unregulated Internet, and nobody will see a powerful need to regulate it.
If you bothered to read what I said, you would notice that you just repeated it nearly exactly. --- My preferred and soon to be permanent e-mail address:unicorn@schloss.li "In fact, had Bancroft not existed, potestas scientiae in usu est Franklin might have had to invent him." in nihilum nil posse reverti 00B9289C28DC0E55 E16D5378B81E1C96 - Finger for Current Key Information Opp. Counsel: For all your expert testimony needs: jimbell@pacifier.com