| FaRmLaNd said: What a farce. People getting honored for supporting freedom when all the domestic legislation to combat the war on terror involved reducing the wests freedoms. If the "war" was an ideological one the west surely lost. |
Who cares about ideology. Read about the Security industry bubble that has occured since 9/11 (naomi klein). Its bigger than anything the IT 90's boom created and its making every rich politician very very rich.
Fear and all its associated xray scanners, guns and secuirity cameras have created a new booming industry, the biggest since the IT boom, and it will most likely continue as the green boom kicks in.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
