Comments on: Cartel Again

by: Ravikiran Rao

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Whatever happened to Aadisht’s domain? It looks like he failed to renew it.

by: Aadisht

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I had renewed it, after which aadisht.net was back up again. I think the problem is with the nameservers, which I re-entered ten minutes ago. If the nameservers are correct this time around, aadisht.net should be back up in forty eight hours.

by: amit varma

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Alliteration would be nice, so what about Libertarian Lasagna. Well, ok, no. The problem with this is, whenever we get into an argument henceforth, leftists (or other opponents) who are being defeated by reason will find it easy to go ad hominem on us by saying, “Oh, but you’re just a bloody libertarian”, and soon it’ll become a pejorative. They’re always dying to label you, and here we go and label ourselves. I hope we don’t just end up preaching to the converted, incestuously linking madly to each other.

Also, there are so many different types of libertarians that there’s enough diversity here to fill a zoo (without cages). But the leftists will always build a straw man libertarian and attack that to get at us.

On the other hand, we’ll always have at least nine other readers. Hmmm …

(Another alliteration: Libertarian Lobby?)

by: Gaurav

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

there’s sunil joshi

by: Nitin

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yazad,

Here I go again:

Cartel is not the most appropriate word for this sinister group of individuals; Cabal is better.

Unless of course, blogging is only a front and what you are actually up to is getting together to fix prices or stifle competition in some industry.

by: Nitin

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Here's the wikipedia link for cabal

by: Ravages

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The free loaders?

by: MadMan

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

what you are actually up to is getting together to fix prices or stifle competition in some industry

Yazad, we have to silence him now. I think a couple of .45 shots to the head will do the trick.

by: Nitin

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

MadMan,

A few shots of tequila would suffice :-)
thanks

by: Ravikiran Rao

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

There’s also Ashish Hanwadikar. Then there is Seven Times Six, my erstwhile coblogger who has been unfairly maligned as a socialist, while all he does is support capitalism, but asks questions about the limits of its powers.

There’s also Nilakantthan R S, whose views tend more towards Nihilism and destruction of all life on earth.