[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

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In article <jbjja6$o2p$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiclothesvax.de> wrote:
>
>(snip on socialism)
>
>> More precisely, it also owns such things which are elsewhere run at a
>> profit.  Government-owned things in the US are usually things which
>> wouldn't make a profit if they were privatized. 
>
>The Seattle electric utility is city owned, though in many places
>it is a regulated monopoly.  Presumably it could make a profit,
>but being city owned, the city gets the profit, if any.
>
>More usual, water and sewer services are city owned.

Water and sewer are not city owned in my town.  The town forced wells off
about 20 years ago so that their cronies could pipe cess in and out of our
homes.  I haven't had a drink from my own kitchen tap in 20 years.  It's
just too foul smelling and over chlorinated and over fluoridated for human
consumption.  It even smells foul when showering.



>I have known places with competition for garbage services.

There are half a dozen or more private carriers in my town.  I have been
through 3 in the past year.  Worked down to about $60/quarter to have the
trash hauled away.



>Water, sewer, and electrical distribution is not very 
>efficient if you allow for multiple companies with competition
>between them, as the distribution costs dominate.  (Lots of

3 different electrical co.s here too and 2 cable co.s.

Point is, competition has driven my services down.  However, my taxes, and
I get nothing for them, keep going up.  Maybe we need competing goverments?



>wires and pipes.)  Not quite as bad for garbage trucks.
>
>Roads also work better as government run, though a regulated
>monopoly could also work.  

You've never driven on the NJ or PA turnpikes, have you?  Over-priced toll 
roads engineered to crack suspensions.  I believe they are in cahoots with
the tire and shock manufactures and the ASE ladden service centers.



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