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Um, I am not sure if you know the identity behind the new Kallisti aini, but, if I were you I would play nice.  She is being civil and has brought up several valid points.

If RAW and the Mgt. wanted everyone to play nice to them, would they really be using the nomen of the aini collective for that purpose?

Aztec plusses: an apparent shortage of hypocrisy.  (I say 'apparent' because, having only received history as filtered through their destruction, I don't know what the leaders actually claimed.  If the bit with the provacateurs upthread is accurate, that gets nullified.)

Aztec minuses: being at least as bloodyminded as the average human culture, and in some ways more so.

How does that work?

Motors and gears and AA batteries.

8)

I need a diagram, or atleast alcohol, to run with that.

Nono.  That's for the internal combustion model.  Will a tetragrammaton and some souls do?

(Jehovah's Witnesses are easily convinced to relenquish them.)

I didn't say AINI = YUO

I said AINI PWNS YUO ALL

capisce?

8)

Won't she run out of chessmen before she runs out of people to put them in?

I didn't want anyone temped to turn Grey & explain to me what an internet service provider was.  it was in their best interests, really.

LMNO
-looking out for others since two minutes ago

An Internet Service Provider is a type of mollusc, similar to a whelk but with doubled genitalia.

there's  teleporter down the hall, but watch out for the carnivorous polygons that have infested this section.

take this shotgun. good luck...

Where'd all the polygons go?  All I can see is a few vertexes scattered like crumbs or rendering flaws.

[Government has always been controlled by religion, industrialist or militarists. The benefits to the people of a particular form of government is merely a side product, more extensive in some countries, less extensive in others... Personally, Ill take the industrialists]

19.) It is not the politicians, but the businessmen who control our society... Government has always been controlled by religion, industrialist or militarists. The benefits to the people of a particular form of government is merely a side product, more extensive in some countries, less extensive in others... Personally, Ill take the industrialists.

One advantage to the industrialists is that they don't care if you succeed,
while often the religious and militarists want you to fail.

That assumes that you are not competing with the industrialists.  (And, if
you're not a consumer wageslave, you probably are.).  Situations that cause
most new small businesses to fail quickly are beneficial to established
large businesses, f'rinstance.

what the HELL is going on?

Nothing whatsoever.

The scent of charred flesh is merely a hallucination, we assure you.

So is the oddly deserted aspect of the neighbourhood.

And be sure to vote National Socialist in 2012.  Your new neighbours will.

I wouldn't worr about that.  When I went as Rasputin for halloween, I put the Seal of Protection on my back that I got from the Necronomicon

Old Abdul will love to hear that once again someone fell for that "Seal of Protection" prank.
I hope you like tentacles..

He's still alive?  I thought he died after the 1024th orgasm when the Invisible Things ate him.

Hey, it's not a prank, though.  The seal of protection really does work.

It stops the transmission of a couple diseases that can be transmitted from primate to tentacle demon.

hmm so ashcroft quit... dandy i guess.

If you liked Ashcroft, you're gonna LOVE Gonzales.

Our nightmare, Thy kingdom come, on Earth as on Mars, we will be done.

Just in case anyone thought that they'd stepped into a nicer book.

And they don't expect trouble ramming the fuck through the Senate, they say.

(Trouble?  What trouble?  Since whatsinsname had a plane crash, even the fucking Democrats do what the neocons ask.)

Delusion, did you come up with the term CIF? i like it a lot, it seems like a good description of the way things are in america.


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Industrial Feudalism (unqualified, if I recall correctly) was first sighted by me in Desolation Road (by Ian MacDonald.)

.  Pure feudalism, theocracy, hierarchy, democracy, republicanism, militarism, lottery, and some communist sects come to mind, though theocracy has not been implemented in recorded human history.

the taliban was a theocracy. i'm sure there have been others., in fact i'm pretty sure iran is democratic theocracy(that is, it has a democratic(elected by popular vote of citizens) element which quti eremsebles western deomcracy models which is subservant to the dominant council.

Where was Allah when the US bombed Afghanistan?  Where was Quetzalcoatl when the Spaniards took Tenochtitlan?  Where was JHVH when the Romans took Jerusalem and various flavours of rampaging nomads took Rome?  Where was Wotan when Berlin fell?  Where was the dialectic of history when they took out a loan to build a Mao button factory in Beijing?

The gods were, at most, giving little suggestions ("Hey, I'm on your side, so what if these guys have a few centuries industrial edge on you, you'll win...  SUCKER!") or too busy punishing them for being disobedient to bother running the damn countries.

They may *call* themselves theocracies.  But when push comes to shove, the
priests seem to make the decisions...

btu no, while i liks eomse aspects of soem the forms of anarchism i've seen, i dont; think any system with the name of anrchiy or wahtever would workl. in fact, sorry to say it this way but it's the stupidest thin g i;ve ever heard. i knew an otherwise inteligent man who argued with me rather badly over the ridculaous notion that non central government system knwon as syndicalism, was anarchism. except anarchy Init's TrueForm, is oppsoed to all cooperative systems, except possibly outright slavery. but hen again that's nto qutie anarchism either.

generally, i have the prejudice that that people callign themselves anarchist are either the type of people that get all worked up and break stuff for fun (or angst as it were) or the type of fool that think the plmbers are simpyl going to fix everyone's plumbign because it needs to be done.

At some point, the former fools get it politely explained to them that "the system" didn't build the fragile object they are eyeing, and that the builders are considering a little breakage of their own, and the latter fools break down and fix their own damned plumbing.  At least, so I would hope...

and so anarchy sucks. and doesn't work. because people like me , and peopel liek you. and people like my neighbor who between her two kids and her full time job, doesn't have time to sit in on the realistically 100 hour a week meetings that would realistically nbe needed to coem to a consensus agreement on everything, in order to avoid tyranny at all costs, at the cost of becoming a tyranny in and of itself.

Consensi are overrated - one needs a clear-cut dividing line between "this must be agreed to by all in open council" and "they're my toys and I'll eat them if I want to.".

in fact he whoel anarchist ideal(on the brighter side of it) has really coem to erode my own ideals as i wander into teh opposite there off in contemplation of a somewhere that works without teh corruption seen ni both elected and absolute or near asbolute power structures.

That's not the Anerican way, you terrorist wanna be. Give me your GPS and I'll have one of your National Guard's jets strafe your house.

Whatcha got against Erics, pansy-ass?

Melnibone was doomed anyhowe.

Bush keeps saying he has a "mandate" which sounds kinda gay to me...you know, man date.

Someone oughta point that out to him.

He DOES have a Mandate.  Ashcroft gave it to him as an example of "Filth" just before retiring.  It had a semen stain on it.

Bush put off reading it until one of his secret service men kindly explained to him that he was reasonably certain that it had pictures.


He then went looking, but has not been able to find it, for it is now in the secret pocket under Jenna's lingerie drawer.

Never mind.

I will try again in two years, and my software will be better.

TGRR,
Shame, failure, and degradation.

Mass-mailing worm disguised as a critical update for Windows CE, eh?

Sheeit.  I was expecting at least a nukebomb.  Or Floridia declaring for Badnarik.

I think anarchy might work short term, but it wouldn't last. Ideally it would be a situation where a balance of power exists between all people. But eventually individuals and groups would build power, and essentially become governments. I guess a group of people could impose anarchy by always killing the developing rulers off, but they'd have to have no interest in ruling...

Which is why one should always select one's rulers against their will.