Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cox.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: drak0nian@yahoo.com (Paul Drake) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.marketplace,comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.oracle.tools,comp.databases.theory,linux.redhat.install Subject: Re: Expanded Oracle DBA Site Date: 22 Apr 2003 23:56:50 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 47 Message-ID: <1ac7c7b3.0304222256.312972be@posting.google.com> References: <157A4D97A88D7143B80E43C1B000B6E83D00FB@comail1.comanage.net> <157A4D97A88D7143B80E43C1B000B6E83D5087@comail1.comanage.net> <91884734.0304071407.40d1be83@posting.google.com> <91884734.0304221547.39f053ec@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.208.113.200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1051081010 14782 127.0.0.1 (23 Apr 2003 06:56:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Apr 2003 06:56:50 GMT Xref: core-easynews comp.databases.oracle.marketplace:124703 comp.databases.oracle.misc:96821 comp.databases.oracle.server:184168 comp.databases.oracle.tools:58564 comp.databases.theory:25940 linux.redhat.install:100615 X-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:57:51 MST (news.easynews.com) joel-garry@home.com (Joel Garry) wrote in message news:<91884734.0304221547.39f053ec@posting.google.com>... > Links are notoriously unstable (just look at my link page :-O ). > There is value to redundant electronic copies in a distributed system, > and in fact, that is a major feature of the web. > > And of course, as we've all seen by now, it isn't Mr. Rogers' > copyright. Any copyright holder must vigorously defend their rights > or lose them, so we all lose out in the name of potential excess > profit. The legal system is simply too far behind current technology, > and is going the wrong way. > > jg wtf is "potential excess profit". please explain. you've got to be kidding. excess profit. yeah - and a certain part of my anatomy is *excessively* long. at least "that's what she said". right. you may be entirely on with every other sentance in the entire post - but - you lose me there. there is no such thing as excess profit. if some poor sod was willing to pay an amount in a transaction - that is what it was worth to that individual. subjectively, there may seem to be something excessive - but objectively, the transaction occurred. this will quickly descend further into drivel, but profit is a short-term phenomena, which after a sufficient number of participants have entered a market - competition will have driven the margins (and profit) towards zero - to where investors will have received better returns by having a passbook stampted at a savings and loan - and invested elsewhere. and that kind of economic theory depends upon the supposition that people are well informed and are making rational decisions - and usenet is no place for that. in the long run - barring a monopoly that something like the DMCA can enfore - profit tends toward zero. $18 (USD) per CD (plus tax) does not result in excess profit. it results in profit - but it also results in people saying "fsck the recording industry - I won't buy any more CDs". As fewer purchases are made as a rational response to a usurpary rate, the monopolist loses both revenue and profit - but no "excess" profit is made or lost. Paul