[conspire] Piping, redirection and shellscipts: 3/5/2025 7pm Eastern Standard time

[Ron]

Steve Litt wrote on 2025-03-10 16:42:

> By your definition the following are rent seekers:
> 
> * Salesmen: But just try to move your product without them.
> 
> * Stock brokers: But without a market, nothing would sell.
> 
> * Ebay: But without it buyers and sellers would never meet.

You missed where I specifically mentioned this:

> they're often providers of a service, linking buyers and sellers who
> are separated spatially and / or temporally.


> * Domainers: We provide a market for domains that otherwise would
> have been taken by some dweeb sitting in mommy's basement.

That's more an admission of guilt than a ringing endorsement: "If I 
didn't do it, someone else would."


The registries do love it - they make vaguely worded rules about it, 
sell lots of extra domains, and their dispute resolution fees are 
thousands of dollars for delicious double-dipping to fix the problem 
they encouraged.