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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dayriser, post: 881643, member: 21610&quot;]Okay, here we go again. I didn&#039;t say what he did was right, I said give the guy a break because he didn&#039;t use a picture that would have gained him monetarily. It would have made virtually no difference in the price he would get for the coin, which is how I know that he was not trying to scam someone. And it is not fraud to use a stock picture.&nbsp; His mistake was not to specifically say it was a stock picture. And, of course, the picture was not his to use without asking.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;And if you ever want to sit and discuss Atlas Shrugged with me, I am all for it. Best book of fiction I have ever read, by far. In fact, I might be the only person on the planet that has read all 50+ pages of Galt&#039;s speech everytime I have read the book. I will read it for a fifth time this year. I considered it a life-changing book. With that context, I will tell you again, a company that has the cash to pay for a 14 billion dollar cleanup had the cash to make the rig safe, and had the cash to hire its own inspectors to check out every single rig in operation. The government oversight is precisely the problem in my view. Goverment requirements can be met with the right kind of leverage in the right places or the right amounts of money donated to the right places. A large part of Atlas Shrugged has largely to do with JUST THIS KIND OF GOVERNMENT MEDDLING, and I would expect you to be a cynic in such cases. So unless you are suggesting that BP was sabatoged by some lackey or mooch, then I have to lump them in with companies that are, in fact, irresponsible, and run by the Jim Taggart&#039;s of the world. The heroes from the book would be running the smaller, lesser known operations, and would be safer and more efficient than the government required, with or without government oversight, all the while finding better ways to bring the oil out... If you will remember, every industrial disaster in the book, and there were MANY, were caused by the moochers and their ilk... It was the very reason I made the post I made.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Regards</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>B[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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