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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (357100)	11/5/2007 4:04:37 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576250

"That's creepy." Ever read any William Gibson? In his future, the influence of governments have waned quite a bit. Global corporations have the real power. They also have their own armies and spy agencies. And they battle in more than just the marketplace. A competitor has some key personnel working on a product that will blow your cash cow out of the water? Well, an assassination could be cheaper than new product development... Blackwater would fit right in that type of world.