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    Can The Companies That Own Your Genes Be Stopped?

    Fictional Companies That Destroy the World
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    06/04/09

    In reply to Can The Companies That Own Your Genes Be Stopped?
    Actually, I can think of dozens of people that should recieve injunctions against using their genetic material...
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/04/09

    In reply to Can The Companies That Own Your Genes Be Stopped?
    Fuck em. I got my genes off Rapidshare anyways so good luck guys.
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    Image of Dayburner Dayburner
    06/04/09

    In reply to Can The Companies That Own Your Genes Be Stopped?
    Yet another good reason to kill all lawyers.
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    Image of Ghede Ghede
    06/04/09

    @Dayburner: Nope. Lawyers will get us out of this mess. Kill all business men.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    06/04/09

    In reply to Can The Companies That Own Your Genes Be Stopped?
    Ohohoho, my DNA is triple helixed and therefore I am unique.


    *is hunted down by game hunters*

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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/11/08

    In reply to Fictional Companies That Destroy the World
    Lexcorp?
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    Image of Habits Habits
    11/11/08

    In reply to Fictional Companies That Destroy the World
    Does it count if it's an accident? Black Mesa could totally be on the list if it does. They set some expert-level world-destroying off in the Half Life games.
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    Image of B B
    11/11/08

    @Habits: Aperture Science?
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    11/11/08

    In reply to Fictional Companies That Destroy the World
    No Slusho / Tagruato, either.
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    Image of SeeingI SeeingI
    11/11/08

    In reply to Fictional Companies That Destroy the World
    Don't forget Spectacular Optical, the friendly folks who sponsor Videodrome. Long live the new flesh!
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/11/08

    @SeeingI: I just watched that the other day. Great flic. Really begging for a sequel.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    11/11/08

    In reply to Fictional Companies That Destroy the World
    I'm SURE that Massive Dynamic (Fringe) is behind all the strange happenings, so they should definitely be on the list....
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    Image of sega8800 sega8800
    11/11/08

    In reply to Fictional Companies That Destroy the World
    what about Black Water? they seems to be capable of doing all that.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/11/08

    @sega8800: The sad thing is, you're probably not kidding. Besides, it would have been funnier with Haliburton.
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    Image of RBeetlea RBeetlea
    11/11/08

    In reply to Fictional Companies That Destroy the World
    What about Shinra? Those douchebags experiment on people all the time, and wage war on foreign countries, even though they're supposed to be a corporation.
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    Image of kragshot kragshot
    11/12/08

    @Angryrider:


    Midgar isn't Earth; none of the Final Fantasy worlds are our world.


    Good try though.

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    Image of FightingChance FightingChance
    11/12/08

    @kragshot: Wellll... if I remember correctly, there is a throw-away incident in Final Fantasy VII where archeologists are unearthing what appears to be a Grumman F-14 Tomcat from the ground, which I would assume is a reference to past.
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    Image of Tiber Tiber
    11/12/08

    @FightingChance: Never played the game, but according to this video I found, Sephiroth's Super Nova attack destroys Pluto, a moon of Saturn, and Jupiter before making the sun go super nova, which then burns up Mercury, Jupiter, and Midgar. Granted, these attacks seem to happen in an alternate universe that has no consequences besides doing numerical damage to our heroes, but the planet names are rather interesting.


    Besides, the article doesn't specify which planet gets destroyed, it just said "the companies that have taken down planets or destroyed humanity".

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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    11/12/08

    @Tiber: You, sir, have won the internets.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/11/08

    In reply to Fictional Companies That Destroy the World
    no love for Blue Sun?

    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/11/08

    @goldfarb: You Browncoats. Dont you know the war is over and y'all lost. I thank my lucky stars every day for the Alliance and Blue Sun. They provide for me an' you.
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    11/11/08

    @OW-Holmes: I'm not sure you want to be in this bar on V-day.
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