Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> * chrisv peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> Linonut wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/01/24/Mixup
>>>
>>> <name="jim allchin" voice="gravelly">
>>> Iss juss business, son.
>>> <gunshot/>
>>> </name>
>>>
>> M$ is some evil bastards, ain't they?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton
>
> "I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike
> other men with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If
> there is any presumption, it is the other way, against the holders of
> power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has
> to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to
> corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost
> always bad men."
>
> Another instance:
>
> "And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few
> hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get
> control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power
> corrupts absolutely."
>
This is why we have a parliament, and a democractic voting process, and,
err, secret lobbying, and, err, loaded tendering...
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