The Fool wrote:
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>You have four choices for world dictator-world-emperor-overlord:
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>1 SUN CEO Scott McNealy
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>2 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
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>3 AOL TW chairman Ted Turner
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>4 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
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>Who do you choose?
>
Since you are too young, let me instruct you <evil grin>

There will _never_ be One Evil Overlord. The situation of One Evil
Overlord is too unstable, because the second after the Evil Overlord
smashes his enemies, 600 million of his Evil Minions will begin
individual conspiracies against him.

By the same token, more than three Evil Overlords can't coexist,
because the bigger will smash the smaller

Two is not stable either, because even a small advantage to one
of them is enough to overpower the other.

The stable configuration is a World split by _three_ Evil Overlords,
competing and allying with themselves, so that _always_ the
two smaller join forces against the bigger. That's because the
_second_ biggest knows that, when the _third_ is eliminated,
there will be nothing to prevent the _first_ to become the unique.

Read 1984, kid O:-)

Alberto Monteiro

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