[quote=Chypmunk]Ok. Fair Cop. I made that up :blush:[/quote]

[quote=Chypmunk]Did you know that the Barbecue was actually the seventeenth attempt at mass marketing a device for outdoor cooking, all previous sixteen (including the extremely rarely spoken of barbegee) having failed dismally.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]More than they have in centralized economies, by several orders of magnitude.[/quote]

[quote=Iroquois][quote=Yoda]Nah. It doesn't depend on that much at all. People without capital still have access to demonstrably cheaper and better goods.[/quote]

how much access, though[/quote]

[quote=matt72582][quote=Stirchley]Just watched [i]Dalton Trumbo[/i], which is a true story of one screenwriter who was blacklisted. Excellent movie.[/quote]

Did you see "The Front" starring Woody Allen?[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]Nah. It doesn't depend on that much at all. People without capital still have access to demonstrably cheaper and better goods.[/quote]

[quote=Iroquois]depends on whether or not you're one of the lucky sumbitches who's got any capital, but whatever[/quote]

[quote=Sedai]RE: Capitalism

Still the best system we have for a free society, as flawed as it is.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]When I come back here after a long hiatus I think to myself how the old saying that you can't go home is bulls***.[/quote]

[quote=matt72582]TCM -- movies written by Hollywood 10 on Tuesday... (some on-demand)[/quote]

[quote=Tacitus]As my friend John never tires of telling me, no man is an island. Except Fred Madagascar.

Seriously, he never tires of telling me this. Never. Never ever.[/quote]