Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:47:41AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:26:53PM -0400, Thomas Pomber wrote:
> > I was talking to this electrician who just relocated here to Canada
> > from Russia, and I was blown away when he told me that they didn't
> > brainwash their people in The Commie Days half as much as the US does
> > today. Yeah right, I said! But he said that they never had movies
> > where the Americans were depicted as ignorant morons like you guys do.
> > Anyway, to make a long story short, the guy's got a point.
>
> A good reason for this is that for the later half of the 20th century
> the U.S. stopped using physical force on its own people (or at least
> used less of it). Instead they decided on spending the money on public
> relations, and on technicalogical methods. So basically they got into
> bed with the entertainment industry to make sure that every little film
> and show had its little piece of propoganda.
Must be true. When I was in Europe and turned on the TV, I said:
"God, please let me get back to my land of 500 channels of fakeness."
Europe is America minus 10 years.
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