On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:41:40 -0400
Matt Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 wrote:
> > "But the UN is a government--"
> > "No it isn't," Martin insisted, "It's a talking shop.
> > Started out as a treaty organization, turned into a bureaucrac
We're already on the edge of on-topic and this comment has the risk
of sending us spiraling off, but everyone really must immediately
stop whatever you're doing to go out and buy and read everything by
Charles Stross. You won't regret it.
As long as we're off-topic...
Stross is doing a signi
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 wrote:
> "But the UN is a government--"
> "No it isn't," Martin insisted, "It's a talking shop. Started
> out as a treaty organization, turned into a bureaucracy, then an escrow
> agent for various transnational trade and standards agreeme
...
"But the UN is a government--"
"No it isn't," Martin insisted, "It's a talking shop. Started
out as a treaty organization, turned into a bureaucracy, then an escrow
agent for various transnational trade and standards agreements. After
the Singularity, it was taken over b
