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  • #91
    Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
    Just like Waco


    Only this time the guys inside will win .
    No, we will use attack helocopters too
    I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
    - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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    • #92
      I wouldn't say that Gates' exploits. He is one of the luckiest motherfuggers on the planet. In capitalism, when someone invents or creates something that revolutionizes the way things are done, the money rolls in. I don't want to get into an argument about Windows here... but Gates brought a product to the marketplace that nobody else could provide. You can argue Mac all you want, but if they were really better, the vast majority of comps wouldn't be Windows based PC's.
      To us, it is the BEAST.

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      • #93
        dirty capitalist, Sava.
        urgh.NSFW

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        • #94
          i agree with Sava (surprise surprise)
          "Chegitz, still angry about the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991?
          You provide no source. You PROVIDE NOTHING! And yet you want to destroy capitalism.. you criminal..." - Fez

          "I was hoping for a Communist utopia that would last forever." - Imran Siddiqui

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          • #95
            Damn closet capitalists the lot of you. I swear, when the revolution comes....
            urgh.NSFW

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            • #96
              I think Apple came up with the idea for Windows.
              I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
              - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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              • #97
                Believe it or not Xerox came up with the first GUI though Apple quickly stole the idea and brought it to market first with their Mac. Windows was a poor runner up but it ran on IBM based machines so guess who was the big winner.
                Last edited by Dinner; May 27, 2003, 16:06.
                Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                • #98
                  just like the movie said it was.
                  urgh.NSFW

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                  • #99
                    As I recall Commedore also came up with a GUI for their Amiga machine but some how Amiga just didn't take off. It was to bad to since Amigas were way ahead of Apple and IBM on Graphics; for a while most graphic artists and computer animation guys were using Amigas.
                    Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                    • Originally posted by Sava
                      I wouldn't say that Gates' exploits. He is one of the luckiest motherfuggers on the planet. In capitalism, when someone invents or creates something that revolutionizes the way things are done, the money rolls in. I don't want to get into an argument about Windows here... but Gates brought a product to the marketplace that nobody else could provide. You can argue Mac all you want, but if they were really better, the vast majority of comps wouldn't be Windows based PC's.
                      Gates build his wealth as many (and possibly most) of the 50 biggest US fortunes. This demonstrates that the capitalism does not increase endlessly the wealth of people already rich; it consistently redistribute it all over the place. The same phenomenon is observed in Europe.

                      This is why I think that wealth is not the main problem for the society as it is in western countries, but that how the income is allocated is much more important. The example of abnormal remuneration of executives are so numerous that serious men as W. Buffet (nobody can suspect him to be an ennemy of the capitalism) have expressed deep concern.

                      Whatever is the talent of one person, somebody or something must remind them regularly that their own efficiency would be close to nothing if they were alone, and that they indirectly depends from many others working here or elsewhere to achieve anything valuable.

                      They should also be reminded that their performance depends for an enormous part of the fantastic achievements of the preceding generation, and that they have an obligation to tRansmit the heritage in good shape to their children.
                      Statistical anomaly.
                      The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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                      • Originally posted by Azazel
                        Damn closet capitalists the lot of you. I swear, when the revolution comes....
                        I'm not an extremist of any side. Capitalism is good, but shouldn't be the end all of a society. Communism... bad... capitalism... bad... mix the two... good.
                        To us, it is the BEAST.

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                        • "Mix the two?" These are economic systems, not gin and tonic.
                          Lime roots and treachery!
                          "Eventually you're left with a bunch of unmemorable posters like Cyclotron, pretending that they actually know anything about who they're debating pointless crap with." - Drake Tungsten

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                          • Gates and Buffet, the two richest men of the US have declared that they will not let their fortune to their children.

                            Is is not a nice example of the self-restraint that the capitalism is able to display when practized by responsible men ?
                            Statistical anomaly.
                            The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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                            • The children must be pissed, though...
                              Lime roots and treachery!
                              "Eventually you're left with a bunch of unmemorable posters like Cyclotron, pretending that they actually know anything about who they're debating pointless crap with." - Drake Tungsten

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                              • Originally posted by cyclotron7
                                "Mix the two?" These are economic systems, not gin and tonic.
                                both have aspects that can be combined and be beneficial to society
                                Last edited by Sava; May 27, 2003, 18:55.
                                To us, it is the BEAST.

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