Comments on: More “Government Coersion = Freedom” Arguments http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/07/more_government.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: chad http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/07/more_government.html/comment-page-1#comment-1562 chad Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:23:27 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/07/more_government.html#comment-1562 <p>I agree with you completely. I am from South Dakota and live in a town with one liquor store, which the city owns. Since it is the only store in town they hike the prices up as much as they want (the prices are consistantly much higher than neighboring towns with multiple liquor stores). The thing I really don't understand is this, the city won't allow another business to sell liquor. How can this be justified, or even legal?</p> I agree with you completely. I am from South Dakota and live in a town with one liquor store, which the city owns. Since it is the only store in town they hike the prices up as much as they want (the prices are consistantly much higher than neighboring towns with multiple liquor stores). The thing I really don’t understand is this, the city won’t allow another business to sell liquor. How can this be justified, or even legal?

]]> By: Jack Benway http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/07/more_government.html/comment-page-1#comment-1561 Jack Benway Mon, 01 Aug 2005 08:06:57 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/07/more_government.html#comment-1561 <p>Coyote, this is a brilliant post.</p> <p>Here in Tucson, the University of Arizona owns a chunk of the broadband spectrum. It doesn't use it, although it leases it to Sprint for its (no longer accepting new customers) wireless broadband service. There is talk among University circles that the UA should begin to offer commercial broadband service using their chunk of the spectrum in order to offset network costs at the UA. </p> <p>I can't imagine anything more doomed to fail. Instead of the current situation where they cannot figure out how to juggle the books to maintain campus network infrastructure, they'll be stuck with a money-pit commercial venture costing more than the network infrastructure they hope to bolster. Public universities do not know how to handle money, and they certainly don't understand how to run a profit-oriented business.</p> Coyote, this is a brilliant post.

Here in Tucson, the University of Arizona owns a chunk of the broadband spectrum. It doesn’t use it, although it leases it to Sprint for its (no longer accepting new customers) wireless broadband service. There is talk among University circles that the UA should begin to offer commercial broadband service using their chunk of the spectrum in order to offset network costs at the UA.

I can’t imagine anything more doomed to fail. Instead of the current situation where they cannot figure out how to juggle the books to maintain campus network infrastructure, they’ll be stuck with a money-pit commercial venture costing more than the network infrastructure they hope to bolster. Public universities do not know how to handle money, and they certainly don’t understand how to run a profit-oriented business.

]]> By: Mark Horn http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/07/more_government.html/comment-page-1#comment-1560 Mark Horn Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:05:39 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/07/more_government.html#comment-1560 <p>I wish that I'd had this article a couple of months ago. One of my favorite computer geek sites is http://slashdot.org. But it's difficult to get a handle on what the "average" slashdotter thinks. The average slashdotter is opposed to monopolies (like Microsoft) but likes even bigger monopolies (like the government). The average slashdotter likes things that are free (as in "gratis" as well as "freedom") but wants the goverment to control more than private enterprise. </p> <p>Anyway, I would have liked to link to your article when I got into a discussion(1) about municiple broadband. I would have linked to it in hopes that it could explain more clearly than my limited attempts.</p> <p>(1) http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=151228&cid=12686838</p> I wish that I’d had this article a couple of months ago. One of my favorite computer geek sites is http://slashdot.org. But it’s difficult to get a handle on what the “average” slashdotter thinks. The average slashdotter is opposed to monopolies (like Microsoft) but likes even bigger monopolies (like the government). The average slashdotter likes things that are free (as in “gratis” as well as “freedom”) but wants the goverment to control more than private enterprise.

Anyway, I would have liked to link to your article when I got into a discussion(1) about municiple broadband. I would have linked to it in hopes that it could explain more clearly than my limited attempts.

(1) http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=151228&cid=12686838

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