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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:48:52 +0100 (CET)
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Subject: Re: CryoNet #32398
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One market fundalism: various business corporations receive an anti-monopoly 
lawsuit, but the federal government itself still buys their products for a long 
time, because they depend on them. For e.g., there are public libraries 
supported by the government who are lending e-books which often require a 
platform of commercial software from a major seller already under regulation by 
an anti-monopoly lawsuit. In absence of cheap deals from price competition, this
causes rather unfair conditions: various consumers get criminalized by 
copying/using/dealing such commercial software when its licenses are not being 
paid in line with the law. Various other computer users, including corporations 
like telecommunications providers, jump on the trust bandwagon which is 
eliminating competition, because governments require and favorize their products
and services anyways.


In the cryonics movement itself, there's a sort of attitude which favors control
over globalization. Have all the major cryonics organizations worked feverishly
to translate their pages into twenty different languages by something better 
than a common translation software and another bunch of marginal resources? Are 
people discussing the usage of the word cryonaut over the word patient in 
international legal terms suitable for translations? Has the concept of a bigger
cryonics facility in America more importance than sufficiently equipped 
cryonics facilities in five different continents, all of them together for less 
the price of funding? It's no shame to bring those questions into the actual 
debate.

David Stodolsky wrote in part:
> Only about 12% of the World's population are within the formal  
> economy. The rest are excluded from even considering suspension. The  
> current economic collapse, resulting from market fundamentalism, and  
> the resulting transformed expectations of consumers has also removed  
> large numbers of persons from potential membership in cryonics  
> organizations.



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