From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Thu Apr 15 10:28:22 2004 Subject: Re: [MiNT] Your details From: Petr Stehlik To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi In-Reply-To: <200404142104.24569.orn.hansen@swipnet.se> References: <001001c42097$61a65de0$45474cd5@blaszak> <200404142104.24569.orn.hansen@swipnet.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Message-Id: <1082015918.32655.15.camel@joy.sophics> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:58:38 +0200 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at sophics.cz Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joy@sophics.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de id i3F8SLO01229 On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 21:04, Örn Hansen wrote: > An example of the utopia for a company, here Electricity was built by the > government. The money came from the people, and the entire lines were > public. Then the lines were privatized, and one company gained all the > "wiring" ... owning the wiring, you control the sales. Same thing happened > to the telephone companies here. The result is, expensive electricity ... > for the people, uncountable riches for the king and his court. Sounds like you're talking about Czech Republic. Sorry, couldn't resist - we have the exact situation described above. Petr