Re: [ga] New TLD White Paper released

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 10:26 [=GMT-0500], John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D. wrote:

> What rule is there that says the government cannot open a refreshment stand
> inside a national park, even if there are food vendors situated nearby
> outside the park?  More accurately, if I sell hot dogs outside of the
> entrance to Yellowstone, then what principle gives me first dibs on any hot
> dog concession that the government might decide to run inside Yellowstone?
> Why would the government owe me that?

I do not know. I do know I would vote against such a government and for
one that refrains from selling hot dogs (or licenses for the hot dog
business) completely. State intervention in business is not favoured much
anywhere today, is it? I think they tried that in Eastern Europe for some
40 years. The US did not have to throw out bombs there to change that type
of government. It didn't work. People found out by themselves.

The main problem with a government hot dog agency is that they have such
advantages and resources that they will likely put others out of business.
Some call that unfair competition. Of course, civil servants have little
incentive to keep making tasty hot dogs if the competition is more
expensive, for reasons mentioned already, or much further away or put into
prison or send to camps in Alaska. At a certain stage the hot dogs (by
then commonly known as bush coughs) will be so horrible, that people will
get disgusted. And they will not merely stop buying and eating them. They
will turn against those who kept the weird hot dog system in place.

It is a matter of time.

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