Here's something that bugs me: these guys are a corporation, an international corporation. If they have the right to levy taxes, what stops any other international corporation with a monopoly from taxing us?
Well, Hindi (practitioners of Hindu) use mantras (a series of words, repeated as rhythmically as possible) in meditation to perform various effects, one of which is healing. While Hindi believe that this is because they are balancing the flow of life through their bodies, they have also noted that the vibrations seem to be crucial in distributing the energies. So then the short answer to your question is yes, some humans have indeed clued in to this. The Hindi have been doing this since the beginning of their culture, some thousands of years ago.
Even though it is possible that the news stories could be interpreted in that fashion, I really don't think that it is a likely ocurence. As we all should know, the American branches of Japanese video game companies are not independent enough to continue production of a console that the "mother branch" sees as a lost cause. Because of the recent slide of Japan's economy, it would be much more expensive to produce Dreamcast units here in the States than in Japan. It would be stupid for Sega to develop a game here for the same reason, yet producing a game in Japan and then being forced to translate it to American to be able to sell it at all is ineficcient. Overall, this thought is just the desperate grabbing-at-strings of a desperate mind.
Why Sega of America denied the rumors is a much simpler question to answer (fortunately). Sega of Japan is not in America, so why would Americans care what they think? Much better to have the Americans spoken to by their local mouthpiece, SoA.
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Here's something that bugs me: these guys are a corporation, an international corporation. If they have the right to levy taxes, what stops any other international corporation with a monopoly from taxing us?
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Well, Hindi (practitioners of Hindu) use mantras (a series of words, repeated as rhythmically as possible) in meditation to perform various effects, one of which is healing. While Hindi believe that this is because they are balancing the flow of life through their bodies, they have also noted that the vibrations seem to be crucial in distributing the energies. So then the short answer to your question is yes, some humans have indeed clued in to this. The Hindi have been doing this since the beginning of their culture, some thousands of years ago.
Even though it is possible that the news stories could be interpreted in that fashion, I really don't think that it is a likely ocurence. As we all should know, the American branches of Japanese video game companies are not independent enough to continue production of a console that the "mother branch" sees as a lost cause. Because of the recent slide of Japan's economy, it would be much more expensive to produce Dreamcast units here in the States than in Japan. It would be stupid for Sega to develop a game here for the same reason, yet producing a game in Japan and then being forced to translate it to American to be able to sell it at all is ineficcient. Overall, this thought is just the desperate grabbing-at-strings of a desperate mind.
Why Sega of America denied the rumors is a much simpler question to answer (fortunately). Sega of Japan is not in America, so why would Americans care what they think? Much better to have the Americans spoken to by their local mouthpiece, SoA.
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