Hmmm. While it's easy and reasonable to call these externalities, I suspect a good case could be made that they are not, since they affect the principals, as well as everyone else... I'm confused by the reference to archaic, structured balloons... d/ ps. "Creative misunderstanding is also a convenient refuge." -- dcrocker On 2/22/2010 12:24 PM, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
On Feb 22, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
On 2/22/2010 9:35 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
I have been wondering about that too--the Internet may be the only artifact of human existence that is generally border insensitive (with exceptions we don't need to enumerate).
Pollution.
Global warming.
Nuclear fallout.
Externalities are the last refuge of the dirigistes." -- Friedrich Hayek
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