Re: corporate vs. state

2004-03-25 Thread Frog
Harmon Seaver wrote:

>  If a "voluntary association" injures me, 

Associations - corporate or otherwise - are abstract, intangible entities.  They don't 
perform actions.  People do.

>  each and every person involved in it should be liable. 

If a member of a club, to which you belong, commits an act of violence, are you liable 
for that act?




Re: Press Coverage, Snarky Media Personalities, and War

2003-03-02 Thread Frog
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 04:16:37 +0100 (CET), Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Given that a hit job by Russian mafia ran for about 5 k$ not so very long
>> ago, the apparent immunity to mayhem by so many who've been begging for it
>> for a oh so long time restores my faith into fundamental niceness of the
>> average monkey.
>
>Alternate hypothesis could be that there are so many such vermins that
>taking them out this way would be about as effective as taking out ants
>with a BB gun (though it'd be surely a nice way to kill the afternoon).

Two words: volume discount