This nation started as the United States of America. Today, it's the United States of Microsoft, Wal-Mart, AOL/TimeWarner/CNN/KitchenSink, and HighPricedCorporateLawyers, with lawsuits and injustice for all. I don't want it to come to revolution, but if that is what is necessary to restore some sanity to the nation, so be it. Let the Revolution come.
Don't forget to mention the fact that when we declared the United States of America a nation under the current constitution, we kept charter-bearing corporations on a short leash by being severe to them if they were to break the agreement they had with the Government through the charter and not allowing them to interfere with political decisions through monetary donations or other things of the sort.
I fucking hate guns. They scare the living daylights out of me. But when they start outlawing software choice (and mark my words, they WILL), I WILL start blowing some heads off. This is supposed to be the land of freedom, not the land of "Hello Mr. Senator, here is a fat campaign donation... now about that new computerized voting system................"
I've already started to threaten to come to such things. As much as I hate pointing guns at people, it is sometimes necessary to survive. See, I live in an infantile little suburban town that is dominated by Republicans who're, incidentally, card-carrying NRA members. Additionally, a lot of these people make public declarations of killing people of the liberal mindset just for being liberal, and quite honestly, it has to be the primary reason I want to leave the US; things like that are scary and totally inappropriate for a country that boasts freedom and tolerance of other cultures. Moreover, if these people do start marking their own words and slaughtering liberals with.45 semi-autos and 12-gauge shotguns, there will be hell to pay.
Likewise, the same idea works here. If Microsoft and the US Government force bullshit systems down our throats, I can guarantee that I and many others will take physical, violent action against them.
What happened to 1790, folks? What happened to neutrality? What happened to corporations not being able to play with politics?
Hmm... the warp drive-like inventions part reminds me a little like Star Trek, Star Wars, BattleTech, or anything remotely similar. I'm not all too sure about the mechanics behind FTL (Faster Than Light) travel, but I guess it could theorhetically be possible. Sorry to go off topic here, but there was also a subset of the FTL engine's functions (in BattleTech, that is) that was used for packet networking across an expanse to another world; thus, establishing an instaneous network connection (imagine an OC48+ trunk that spans 50-odd light years) between the two. Take the distributed approach and bump it up to the scale of solar systems. I find it kind of interesting, really.
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Don't forget to mention the fact that when we declared the United States of America a nation under the current constitution, we kept charter-bearing corporations on a short leash by being severe to them if they were to break the agreement they had with the Government through the charter and not allowing them to interfere with political decisions through monetary donations or other things of the sort.
I've already started to threaten to come to such things. As much as I hate pointing guns at people, it is sometimes necessary to survive. See, I live in an infantile little suburban town that is dominated by Republicans who're, incidentally, card-carrying NRA members. Additionally, a lot of these people make public declarations of killing people of the liberal mindset just for being liberal, and quite honestly, it has to be the primary reason I want to leave the US; things like that are scary and totally inappropriate for a country that boasts freedom and tolerance of other cultures. Moreover, if these people do start marking their own words and slaughtering liberals with .45 semi-autos and 12-gauge shotguns, there will be hell to pay.
Likewise, the same idea works here. If Microsoft and the US Government force bullshit systems down our throats, I can guarantee that I and many others will take physical, violent action against them.
What happened to 1790, folks? What happened to neutrality? What happened to corporations not being able to play with politics?
Hmm... the warp drive-like inventions part reminds me a little like Star Trek, Star Wars, BattleTech, or anything remotely similar. I'm not all too sure about the mechanics behind FTL (Faster Than Light) travel, but I guess it could theorhetically be possible. Sorry to go off topic here, but there was also a subset of the FTL engine's functions (in BattleTech, that is) that was used for packet networking across an expanse to another world; thus, establishing an instaneous network connection (imagine an OC48+ trunk that spans 50-odd light years) between the two. Take the distributed approach and bump it up to the scale of solar systems. I find it kind of interesting, really.