Zimbabwe

Randy Jonasz rjonasz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 21 18:14:49 UTC 2006


On 9/21/06, Lorie Lanktree <LLanktree-BI68pzi1WsjYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]On Behalf Of
> Christopher Browne
> Sent: 21-Sep-06 12:45 PM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Zimbabwe
>
>
> On 9/21/06, Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Teddy David Mills wrote:
> <snip>
> > > In short, this is causing an almost collapse of the Internet in
> Zimbabwe."
>
> > Did anyone catch the reference to _LEGAL_ Internet service providers?
> > I wonder what the illegal/underground ones are doing?
> <snip>
> Black markets tend to arise when the "public" markets break down due
> to regulations that enforce uneconomic behaviours.  The Soviet Union
> saw the phenomenon for a number of reasons; when they did heavy
> price-fixing, things squeezed to black markets in several directions:
> <snip>
>
> Exactly!!
> Once we get the government regulations out of the drug market the black
> market in cocaine and heroin will magicly go away.

Ah yes, I'm all for coding on cocaine.  Is that Xtreme Programing
taken to the, well, extreme?

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