Vitaliy wrote: > We don't need more regulation or oversight, we need more direct > responsibility. Private ownership combined with unlimited liability > ... While I agree in principle with this... How do you get to direct responsibility without regulation and oversight? Don't you think that people are smart enough to be able to separate the assets of the "directly responsible" company from the assets of the people/companies where the profits eventually end up, so that "unlimited liability" is in effect restricted to very little -- without good regulation and quite tight oversight? This isn't something futuristic, this is standard practice. Gerhard --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .