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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
That is just stupid. You can say the same about bread and circus,
How so? Was there a dependency created by the bread that the circus took advantage of?

Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
the Romans did,
Is this related to the bread and the circus? Did the Romans give free bread to the people so that they went to the circus and got hooked on the violence? I guess that is quite immoral too. But how does that refute my point?

Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
or the ISO standard,
Which ISO standard? Ah, you must mean the 29500 ISO standard (better known as Office Open XML). Yes, I can see how the way that format came to be called an ISO standard could be compared to the way the mafia works as well. That was rather callous I would say.

http://grokdoc.net/index.php/Dirty_Tricks_history

But, again, how does that refute my point?

Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
or bicycles with inflatable rubber tires.
Well, I really give up on this one. Please enlighten me.
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