>>But there is never just one fish. Remember when it was conventional wisdom that Wordstar had such a lock on WP that nobody else should even bother ? Or when about the most profitable thing you could do was own a railroad? Or monopolize the corn shipments from Alexandria to Rome? Or why should anyone both trying compete with Ashton Tate when DBase was the standard for the ages? Or how nobody ever got fired for buying IBM? I grant you the fish get bigger but that just means your enemies are bigger or meaner. And then somebody invents an exploding head harpoon and ... ( yeah, I know, mammal - work with me here ... )
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>That was then, this is now, and it seems to me that in this age of 'larger is better' and globality, we are edging ever closer to the time when one or very few companies control everything that matters.
But then there will be no more wars ... there will only be ... Rollerball !
( John-a-than, John-a-than, John-a-than ... )
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>I refuse to wade back through this morass in order to find your original statement. "I told you so" just isn't worth it
(and I could be wrong).
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Especially when it would be difficult to remember
what you told me so ... <s>
We have always been at war with Oceana !
Oo bla dee oubliette, life goes on. <g>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
