After takin' a swig o' grog, Homer belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> The "West" is now
> little more than a single corporate super-state. Witness travesties such
> as Phorm; the DMCA; ACTA and a slew of other violations of our rights,
> all designed solely to benefit corporations, in direct contradiction to
> the will of the people whom the government is supposed to represent.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to the slough of multi-billion-dollar bailouts
that reward corporate executives for being wasteful incompetent
schmucks.
> Ballmer is a more honest representation of Microsoft; a used-car
> salesman in a cheesy suit, performing an even cheesier vaudeville act in
> a desperate attempt to make a rusty Buick seem like a Rolls Royce.
>
> Not that he needs to worry about making the sale, as his gang of thugs
> has made sure he's the only dealer in town, but the charade keeps the
> customers so mesmerised that they don't question the rust, otherwise
> they might start considering the only other alternative of building
> their own cars. Even then, Ballmer has a plan "B", which is to patent
> ever aspect of a car, so no one can build their own without having to
> pay him a fee anyway. Of course he didn't /actually/ invent the car, nor
> any of it's components - he just got his goons to muscle-in on those who
> /did/, or failing that, lie and pretend it was his idea anyway.
> Naturally the law doesn't intervene, since they're on the payroll.
>
> It's quite a racket, isn't it?
Deafening.
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* knghtbrd does the ET thing
<knghtbrd> anybody got a speak-n-spell?
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