On Wednesday 01 May 2002 06:35 pm, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2 May 2002 00:52:47 +0300
>
> Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 21:45, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > I too agree. If I buy a car and drive it till it is rust, I can remove
> > > engine transmission, seats and what ever else is salvageable and sell
> > > them individually. They were part of an integral package to begin with,
> > > but I still can sell off the pieces. Heck, I could sell of the pieces
> > > two days after I bought it brand new, and put some other engine in it.
> > > What makes Windows so special? M$ is as arrogant as any company ever in
> > > existance. My $.02
> >
> > Not quite.  Back in the 18th and 19th centuries there was the East India
> > Company, which successfully colonised most of the Indian subcontinent,
> > and was only absorbed into the British Empire after a mutiny of its
> > native soldiers resutled in unspeakable carnage. Presumably the moral is
> > that Microsoft should merge with the American government to create MSUSA.
> >
> > Sir Robin
>
> not long ago i posted something like "it's not hard to imagine
> US turning into an empire anymore" .. i was talking about something like
> that..
>
> was i THAT smoked? ;oP
>
> Damian
No, but the whole thing is scaring me. Serfdom was not a good thing and still 
isn't.  I would never want to be a drone bee either.  But it does seem like 
corporate America is buying independent America.  Stay vigilante and write 
your congressmen.  Maybe linux will save us from ourselves too.
-- 
Dennis M. linux user #180842

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