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To: dhellman who wrote (57565)	10/7/2001 9:50:47 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

dhellman, That definition is quite wrong. Fascism dates back to the unification of the Italian states waaay back when they were all warring with others as independent city states. The Fasces or bundle of sticks was shown to be hard to break as a bundle, yet each stick was quite breakable standing alone. You can have a democratically elected fascist government that if fully humanitarian and not warlike. WW2 and the fascist goverment has tainted that concept and now the enlightened dictionary see all governments of national unity as bad. Remember Nazi is national socialism, yet we have many national soccialist governments in the world today that are not nazi. A dictatorship is a dictatorship. Both Italy and germany came under the rule of one man and were dictatorships(even though they kept a shadow of democracy with elections, like the former Soviet Union, another dictatorship). The funny thing is you can have a good dictatorship...it just means one man rule and as long as he does no illegal acts, murders, etc his country can be a member in good standing in the world. Many companies are dictatorships in the sense that one man rules them. AMD can be said to be a corporate dictatorship with a benevolent despot in charge, since no one can vote him out, although the vestige of SH control remains, it is ineffective. I do not see anyone suffering at AMD as a victim of Jerry's high handedness. Sure there are layoffs, but they are handled properly and humanely. Countries and corporations wage war but with companies the casualties are measured in $$ and not lives. The war against Intel is waged by competitive means and there are no terrorist acts or other illegal aspects to the way AMD is waging this war. Is AMD winning? In many ways AMD is winning. They have overrun 20-30% of the enemies territory and remain on the offensive with new fronts being opened as we speak. Will they win? Not likely, but they may be able to force a stalemate since it looks like Intel is unable to throw enough money down the rabbit hole to eliminate AMD since many players support AMD since they benefit from the war. These players remember what it was like before the war when they suffered under the dictatorship of Intel....ie they could not vote what CPU to use...there was but one. Bill