[Info-vax] What is VMS?

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In article <ee77f547-3880-465f-8221-5f8f6878c5e1 at o9g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
>On Dec 28, 4:29=A0pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <9m1cclFsc... at mid.individual.net>, Bob Eager <news0... at eager.c=
>x> writes:
>> >On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:21:02 -0800, seasoned_geek wrote:
>>
>> >> On Dec 25, 2:07=A0pm, Bob Eager <news0... at eager.cx> wrote:
>> >>> It isn't.
>>
>> >> In the U.S. we have laws against price gouging and they fall under the
>> >> criminal fraud heading. =A0Selling an in-print book for above list pri=
>ce
>> >> qualifies as criminal fraud.
>>
>> >Sounds more like restraint of trade to me. That's the controlling US
>> >government for you.
>>
>> Right. =A0The gov't should keep its hands out of free enterprise.
>
>There was recently (a week or two ago) that a woman was killed by an
>elevator in NYC. The elevator suddenly shot up while the door was
>still open! Her torso was leaning into the elevator and from the waist
>down or so she was crushed between the car and the wall. The owner
>failed many gov't inspections. Now, you can say the gov't was
>incompetent to stop it. But imagine if there were never any
>inspections. There'd probably be many more such incidents without
>them. And if you still blame gov't, somebody has to do it! And who
>would that be?

That's your take.  Obvioulsy, that lamer government inspector was too busy
inspecting the wad of payola instead of the elevator.  If there are many of
these issues, the market will bear it out and people -- LAZY ASS PEOPLE --
will start to climb the safer stairs, perhaps lose some weight, and stave
off adult onset diabetes.



>Get gov't out of free enterprise? You mean repeal anti-trust legislation?

All but the truly CRIMINAL aspects of it.

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