* chrisv peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Linonut wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/01/24/Mixup
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>> <name="jim allchin" voice="gravelly">
>> Iss juss business, son.
>> <gunshot/>
>> </name>
>>
> M$ is some evil bastards, ain't they?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton
"I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike
other men with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If
there is any presumption, it is the other way, against the holders of
power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has
to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to
corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost
always bad men."
Another instance:
"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few
hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get
control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power
corrupts absolutely."
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