^ Touche (whatever that means).....Never heard of Tesco before though..

Touche was one the original names we came up with for the Nintendo DS.

The Nintendo "Touche."

Touche is a French word meaning "touched." It is a fencing term meaning that you've been hit with the sword and you admit defeat. Funny that the word for defeat in fencing is French.

Anyways, we didn't think we wanted our system meaning "defeat" so we though about "Nitro" so we could score some points for illiteration, but it didn't seem to describe the system well.

Finally we went with "DS" to simply mean "Dual Screen"


By the way, everything I wrote in this post is complete BS.

Tesco is a Supermarket from Britain, it's the leading one here and the third largest retailer in the world behind Walmart and some French retailer, Walmart's ASDA can't compete over here. They expanded ridiculousy fast, and now have like 30% or over market share here. Their advertising does make them seem less like and evil corporate money vacuum IMO.

Wal-Mart destroys the value of anything, and at the same time enslaves Africans and destroys the trade union ability of its workers, paying them dirt cheap wages and making them stay in store for long hours. They give their employees dog tags which detect if they try and leave the store during their shifts...

If you want to see if a company is evil, look at its profits.

Companies are like dogs: They don't have the sentience required to be evil.

They can behave badly if they aren't trained properly, which is what government regulations, consumer advocates, and trade unions are supposed to be for.

Unfortunately, governments don't have the cahones these days to regulate large businesses in a globalized market, advertising is an effective counter to consumer advocacy groups, and giants like Wal-Mart crush unions with impunity, so the dog is free to track mud around the house and pee wherever it likes.

Well the bigger the company you are the more shit you can get away with... so you end up doing more shit. So there is a fairly good reason, but unless we want to limit the free market economy in some ways... like actually enforcing some laws on big companies that's what is going to happen.

It's just what happens, if Wal-mart goes down, another will just take it's place. I mean Wal-mart itself started off as a small mom and pop chain.

It ain't wal-marts fault.  It's our fault that we don't push the government to push on wal-mart because people like to buy cheap ass stuff at Wal-mart.