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07/03/09
But no. People want to bitch about how evil the big corporations are but they don't want to deal with the sacrifice of going without the convenience of the goods and services that the big evil corporations provide.
It's like people who complain about how expensive cable TV is but they just keep buying it.
07/03/09
The only non-corporate organization powerful enough to keep track of corporations' actions are national governments.
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As for leaving out Roth, sorry but I am personally sick of Roth. Read too much of him in high school.
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As an outsider looking in, I became greatly confused by the "United" part of the states, what with the huge differences between each state in laws and policies.
I have always theorised that it will simply fragment into seperate states that co-exist in a similar manner to other small countries on continents, like in Europe and Africa.
But thats just my pet theory.
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California is much more powerful economically.
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I actually want the Monster Raving loony party in power!
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Last I checked, they were somewhat different.
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So it seems to be England with the problem of electing the racists, then. Not Scotland, Wales, or NI.
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England and Britain are not the same.
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Which historians are those? Amity Shlaes is about the only one I could imagine. And she is wacko.
07/02/09
Such a 50's-60's word.
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I say Chi-Coms, but only as a retro insult.
-Kle.
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I think Brits still say "Oriental", which makes me think only of rug stores that are forever going out of business.
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And here I thought my opinion of them couldn't get any lower.
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Google and Microsoft are far from the top end of corporate wealth and power. Large military supply organizations like General Dynamics (which actually exists), Raytheon, SNC Lavalin, Northrop Grummin, etc. Are probably the defacto strongest forces around. They're international and can do and build almost anything. Besides that, they supply arms and vehicles to the armed forces of the world.
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Microsoft (or Google) could buy GD, Lockheed, and Northrop and still have room to pick up, say, Citigroup. While the military-industrial complex might have interesting power (and influence at many levels of government), they are still public companies with a particular market cap and float - so they can be bought hook line and sinker.
Makes me think that maybe that is *precisely* what Google should do. Larry - want to do no evil? Buy the military industrial complex and *shut it down*.
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I would like to see more sci-fi scenarios that are from a non-American viewpoint. Almost everything in the genre (at least what I see) is very much based on the idea that America (or it's ideals) will endure forever. Where's the science fiction that portrays the possibilities of China becoming the dominant world power? Or even South America?
Orson Scott Card has written at least one short story dealing with a Soviet-conquered US, "A Thousand Deaths" in his "Maps in a Mirror" compilation. Granted, the political situation (puppet US government, with the Kremlin as the real power) is merely a backdrop for a story about the futility of capital punishment as a means of steering political thought. Still, an interesting read.
07/02/09
Even IF America, or the idea of America goes away, the idea of freedom and democracy (for the people, by the people) will NEVER go away. Once people get a taste of freedom, you won't be able to subdue it. The government may crack down on rights slowly, but enough checks are built into the system to swing it the other way eventually. If it gets to a point where those checks are gone, revolution will happen. The idea of freedom and democracy cannot be extinguished.
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In 200 years of American history, all we have seen is the erosion of the rights of men. The checks and balances of the constitution slow that erosion, but they cannot contain it.
Until we cast aside the idea of statism that Europe has embraced, and that our own government seeks to imitate (both parties are responsible, I'm not pointing fingers at our current administration) we will never again be free.
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I'd like to know what freedoms all Americans have lost and not about the loss of special privilege white men have lost.
The Past always seems like a better place to people who are scared of the Future.
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We at ROACH are happy to welcome you all as our new underlings. We are your new evil overlords.
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Knowing my luck I'll be the plucky young side kick that dies to show how serious your evil is.
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