The East India Company wasn't running amok though. Parliament granted it a charter which gave it a monopoly on trade in a big chunk of the world. The EIC then acted inside that charter which gave it more or less absolute power in the area the charter applied from the perspective of the UK government. If any other state quibbled with that absolute power, the EIC was empowered to raise armies and fight them.
Not only is this running amok, it's a government and a corporation conspiring to run amok together. The worst of both worlds.
I no fan of Apple, Google or Microsoft these days, but comparing them to the East India Company is a bit of stretch.
I didn't make that comparison. I don't consider Apple, Microsoft, or Google to qualify yet as having run amok. But put a money-mad psychopath in charge of any of them, and you've got a problem. The potential to run amok is there.
Gold only has value so long as people agree that it has value. In this way, it's just another fiat currency being uses as a substitute for things with actual value, such as food or tools.
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Except that he won't be able to source the parts.
No, they are greed machines with special privileges and protections, and no morals.
Natural selection.
It's the Apple parts which fail.
It's not brilliant or difficult to piss people off.
Never debate with a moron.
Five bucks says the Supreme Court will rule that bots, like corporations, are people.
Yet another American asserting his right to be uneducated and obnoxious.
Meanwhile, an NRA membership costs $40 per year.
Guaranteed to end with a Mexican standoff.
Well, except that his anecdote was probably true.
I did that for a while. It works, but it doesn't work perfectly, and it's not the best way to run Windows, laptop or no.
The East India Company wasn't running amok though. Parliament granted it a charter which gave it a monopoly on trade in a big chunk of the world. The EIC then acted inside that charter which gave it more or less absolute power in the area the charter applied from the perspective of the UK government. If any other state quibbled with that absolute power, the EIC was empowered to raise armies and fight them.
Not only is this running amok, it's a government and a corporation conspiring to run amok together. The worst of both worlds.
I no fan of Apple, Google or Microsoft these days, but comparing them to the East India Company is a bit of stretch.
I didn't make that comparison. I don't consider Apple, Microsoft, or Google to qualify yet as having run amok. But put a money-mad psychopath in charge of any of them, and you've got a problem. The potential to run amok is there.
As history has shown, there is little difference between huge governments run amok and huge corporations run amok. See: East India Company.
Gold only has value so long as people agree that it has value. In this way, it's just another fiat currency being uses as a substitute for things with actual value, such as food or tools.