BL> The falling prices merely mean that Japan has lost control of its RAM marke

PE> They didn't have control, and even if they did, so what? All that proves
PE> is that international competition is just as good as local competition.

BL> If what you say is true, everything would be the same price all over
BL> the world (allowing for tariffs and currency). It isn't. I can buy a
BL> half-price modem direct from the USA, for instance. I can buy any text
BL> book at half-price in the USA or Europe. I can buy half-price CD-ROMs.

BL> The reality is that cartels manipulate prices in various countries
BL> wherever they can for their own profit. It's called capitalism.

Poor old Bob, hasnt even noticed that the reason that applys to CDROMS,
books and modems is because of the unique laws that apply to those, its
got sweet fuck all to do with 'cartels'. You can in fact buy RAM, what we
happened to actually be discussing, at about the same price here as the US.

No wonder they gave him the bums rush out of any area that
had any need for any understanding of this very basic stuff.
@EOT:

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