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I agree, but that's a constitutional nightmare....how about cutting it off after someone gets convicted of 24 counts of fraud and embezzlement from their "ministry"? Millions he bilked the poor and elderly out of with promises he never intended to keep, and that he used for a fleet of Rolls Royces, air conditioned dog houses, and to pay off mistresses for their silence instead of church work and the yearly vacations people paid for.

"If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it."

-old rolls royce quote

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I did not know the guy in the centre (Flea) was in this band. I remember him from Back to the Future III.

(He was the guy that Marty was supposed to drag race and crash into the Rolls Royce in 80s Hill Valley)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mme5vVMeot0

@MaxWilder Agreed. Philanthropy is bullshit, like driving a rolls royce, it's just to impress other rich fucks. Society cannot survive off hand outs from ruthless robber barons.

No denying it's a damm fine engine of basically equal performance (give or take by year). I just feel that in comparison it's a little more clinical and lacks quite the same character as the Rolls Royce (not that it lacks character!). For me it's not quite as elegant looking either (Let's face it the Daimler is a bit of a black block).

Then again I guess I'm a little biased by nationality (not a fan of nationalism at all but little things like this can still get under ones skin).

Do enlighten me: How do you think "dominant corporation(s) or collusion thereof [will] strongarm retailers?" That simply won't happen. Rather, there will be fewer barriers to entry for other widget manufacturers to enter the market, either independently or working for competing "dominant" corporations when they discover that it's more profitable to not be "paid off" but to compete in the market instead.

A dominant corporation cannot buy every possible competitor. That's absurd. And there will always multiple "dominant" corporations, and not just one, or one and a number of "start-ups." Where there is Coke, there will be Pepsi. Where there is Apple, there will be Samsung. In a free market, monopolies and cartels cannot exist except in the very short term and at an eventual loss (unless they have the primary monopoly of the government to back them up).

If there are patents, there's no free market. A free market, by definition, must exclude all patent, trademark, copyright, and other such IP law. So, you may have picked the worst example.

Free markets without patents is not a problem at all. Not for the market and not for consumers. Companies may just be more careful about spies. They certainly wouldn't be incentivized (like they are now) to spend $millions just to hold patents on products that are never produced, only to corner the market and "strongarm" competitors (like they do now).

Companies like Bed, Bath & Beyond have been trying to price upstarts out of the market for years, decades even! And they're still not able to get rid of competitors! Same can be said about Walmart. Many stores other than Walmart sell TVs, even at higher prices, and remain competitive. Other stores sell linens besides BB&B. So, you have a distorted view of how markets actually work. No one corporation can monopolize the sale of any goods or services. That's just incorrect (unless the government helps them to do so). It just doesn't happen.

There's no such thing as a "natural monopoly." Name one. In Texas, for example, there are competing utility providers, and people can choose which energy service to use. This is in contrast to CA, where most of us are forced to "choose" PG&E over zero other alternatives.

"Restriction of information/prevention of rational, informed consumers"

I'm sorry, but anyone who has been involved in business knows this is complete horseshit. If you have a better product/service (the only way to outdo the competition), you will let the customers/market know right away.

And there's no scale at which markets collapse. The same forces of the market apply to big, small, and medium businesses. There is no arbitrary size for which these forces do not apply. And keep in mind that without government granted privileges, corporations would be much smaller than they are now, because competition would make it easier for competitors to participate, thereby forcing a re-allocation of resources to accommodate the market's demands.

So, yes you most certainly "overstated" your case. All markets can be free, regardless of size. Whether it's a small farmer's market or Whole Foods. The same market forces apply. They all have to court voluntary customers through service, price, quality, etc. Again, anyone who has had to work with marketing will know this.

BTW, things like "price dumping" are circumvented all the time. Does Rolls Royce care that Hyundai sells cheaper cars? Does Mercedes care that a Prius is less expensive?

Target makes money because Walmart is cheaper, not in spite of it!
And everything Walmart sells, you'll find many other stores selling it, even though Walmart might sell it cheaper.
The local natural food store in my neighborhood sells, more or less, the same things as Whole Foods. None of your objections pose any real problems in the real world.

I don't see Walmart buying every other TV seller, or even trying to do this. Microsoft tried but, so what? They failed, because they could not buy every single competitor in the software world, could they?

Even in Somalia, to use @enoch's example, in the telecommunications industry (to pick one that saw growth), no one even remotely managed to do any of the things you say could happen. In 20 years, no corporation did any of these things. Why not?

Because they couldn't.

And did "dominant" corporations take over all small retailers and sellers? No way, not even close! They couldn't. Only regulations can really kill all small retailers (and they do it all the time). Your outrage is gravely misplaced. Do the countless bazaars and sellers of Turkey, India, or Thailand get taken over by "dominant" corporations?

Hint: No.

Only when government meddles, do the big corporations wipe out the little ones, and sometimes each other.

In any case, Coke will not eliminate Pepsi (or Sprite, or Dr. Pepper, or A&W), government or no government.

From the reports so far, it sounds like it was an issue with the Rolls Royce engines rather than the plane itself (not that that makes any difference when you're at 30,000ft). Hopefully they get the problem identified and fixed shortly... the A380 is an incredible bit of engineering and an amazing plane to fly on.

>> ^Payback:

Oddly enough, that's not a "mod". It's standard equipment on Rolls and optional on Bentley.


Indeed you are right!

http://videosift.com/video/Rolls-Royce-retractable-hood-ornament

>> ^ponceleon:

Last night on No Reservations, they showed a Rolls Royce with a retractile hood ornament so people wouldn't try to steal it...


Oddly enough, that's not a "mod". It's standard equipment on Rolls and optional on Bentley.