tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post4653533986380052052..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Two Excellent PostsGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-64157802512772672912008-02-10T10:25:00.000-06:002008-02-10T10:25:00.000-06:00I think you meant "Dutch" government official, not...I think you meant "Dutch" government official, not "Danish".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-70570559285546478852008-02-07T18:27:00.000-06:002008-02-07T18:27:00.000-06:00"to ensure that a proper education is as widely-av..."to ensure that a proper education is as widely-available as possible is to abolish public education"<BR/><BR/>Sounds like a swell idea to me, Gus!Vigilishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05051789616490005367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-18006578610955103112008-02-07T13:53:00.000-06:002008-02-07T13:53:00.000-06:00And the best way to ensure that a proper education...And the best way to ensure that a proper education is as widely-available as possible is to abolish public education -- which offers abysmal quality while destroying possible competitors by being "free".Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-19811228036914464772008-02-07T11:58:00.000-06:002008-02-07T11:58:00.000-06:00"They are not even *aware* that it is wrong and se..."They are not even *aware* that it is wrong and self-destructive."<BR/><BR/>Dollars to donuts, Google's execs really would not care, either. It seems idealism remains uncommon in human nature except as applicable to lowered physical effort and self gratification. Can we say *bonuses*?<BR/><BR/>Galileo blogs is correct, better education could help (if not limited to the elite).Vigilishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05051789616490005367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-1445478749392253262008-02-07T10:56:00.000-06:002008-02-07T10:56:00.000-06:00Coreyo,Thanks for the info.My translation: Google'...Coreyo,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the info.<BR/><BR/>My translation: Google's new potential customer base (for just mail) stands to expand by however many Yahoo accounts there presently are -- if they don't screw it up by running to Nanny.<BR/><BR/>GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-2856900853442616102008-02-07T10:53:00.000-06:002008-02-07T10:53:00.000-06:00GB,You're quite welcome.And thank you for remindin...GB,<BR/><BR/>You're quite welcome.<BR/><BR/>And thank you for reminding me in a roundabout way of a recent proposal being considered by Congress to make colleges start <A HREF="http://instapundit.com/archives2/015038.php" REL="nofollow">doling out their feed corn</A> -- I mean endowment money.<BR/><BR/>The chickens for those colleges are coming home to roost.<BR/><BR/>GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-8919552361258195442008-02-07T10:45:00.000-06:002008-02-07T10:45:00.000-06:00Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail actually have a much large...Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail actually have a much larger market share than Gmail. However, gmail is slowly growing while Yahoo and Hotmail are remaining stagnant. <BR/><BR/>source:<BR/>http://www.enquiro.com/analytics/mail-marketshare.pngcoreyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490726687066047455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-66154423671070622842008-02-07T09:42:00.000-06:002008-02-07T09:42:00.000-06:00Thank you for highlighting my post, Gus.As for you...Thank you for highlighting my post, Gus.<BR/><BR/>As for your conclusion about the viability of the merger (if it is allowed to happen), I agree completely. Google doesn't even need to use government to defeat Microsoft in this area. That makes their knee-jerk appeal to government to stop the merger all the more revolting.<BR/><BR/>Interestingly, an episode like this concretizes for me the importance of the ideas that are taught in classrooms. What if Bill Gates or the young founders of Google had been taught a proper history of American business? What if, in their economic classes, they had been given a proper understanding of antitrust? What if, in their history or law classes, they had been taught the proper meaning of America's Constitution?<BR/><BR/>More fundamentally, what if in philosophy class they had been taught a proper understanding of capitalism, along with all the requisites that validate it?<BR/><BR/>Instead, they are taught the conventional nonsense. The result is that in all likelihood they do not even *see* that what they are doing is not good business practice. They are not even *aware* that it is wrong and self-destructive.Galileo Blogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592692929747610846noreply@blogger.com