-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:17:17PM -0700, petro wrote:
Even if they do (which I haven't heard of, but I could be wrong), the trend right now is more corporate power, less governmental power. As I said before, we are already seeing this trend, what with corporations able to circumvent countries' environmental codes and whatnot. It will only get worse.
Then you aren't paying attention.
Corporations have *NO* power over you that doesn't come from the barrel of a government gun.
That's like saying that the person with the power in a police department is the street cop, because he's the one doing the actual arrest.
The one calling the shots is the one to be afraid of.
No. The one *shooting* is the one to be afraid of.
Without governments Companies (not corporations, corporations are inherently creatures of the state) would have to do their bullying directly and that would severely cut into the bottom line.
I'm sure the companies could do bullying themselves for far less than they contribute to candidates in order to have the bullying done for them. - -- Nathan Saper (natedog@well.com) | http://www.well.com/user/natedog/ GnuPG (ElGamal/DSA): 0x9AD0F382 | PGP 2.x (RSA): 0x386C4B91 Standard PGP & PGP/MIME OK | AOL Instant Messenger: linuxfu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE57kKA2FWyBZrQ84IRAlsIAKCG6C1BqamrbNZmu1xdyIRDtuaz/ACeJgfa zNqSreUBqBlM8YwmqXtMamQ= =Wjeb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----