Really? I get downvoted for providing an alternative that the Milton Friedman crowd doesn't like?

I tried to correct that with some upvotes. :)

Unfortunately HN (and other sites, not unique to this one) doesn't have a way to enforce distinctions between down-voting due to:

1. respectful disagreement 2. writer is crackpot 3. writer is troll 4. voter himself is being juvenile 5. typo 6. cosmic rays 7. cat sat on keyboard

Actually maybe there's a startup idea in there: deliver a product/service/tech that DOES enable reliable disambiguation between those cases!

Heh, I was about to say that Slashdot already does something like this, but I am pretty sure they aren't covering cases 6 and 7. Cosmic rays and keyboard cats...now there's a startup problem I can sink my teeth into. Thanks. :)