Arby
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I mean what I say, and only forceful intervention by gangs of thugs can incite what you describe, a government properly constrained can allow no such thing.
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I've been waiting for this game since 2007
EDIT: I just noticed the release date in this image XD, I just wanted a good image with the logo

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Hill moved.
Hill contested.
Hill controlled.
Gained the lead.
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No, I did not misunderstand what I said, and I meant exactly that.
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banned for not catching Back to the Future and Futurama references
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Banned for going 88 mph in a 20mph school zone, setting fire to a public road, and becoming your own grandfather
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8/10 -2 for Ponies
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Pure, Laissez-faire Capitalism, a government existing solely for the protection of the rights of its citizens from others and itself.
I'd give a government like this 40 years before total collapse. Corporations feed on the rights of their workers if given the chance. In 40 years, working conditions and pay for the lower class would become unspeakably bad. Monopolies and corporate efficiency would cause widespread poverty beyond what America has ever known. The super rich would become so far reaching in power as to actually control all elements of government by the sheer corrupting power of money. The middle class would vanish overnight, replaced by a majorly unemployed and impoverished lower class. There would be a revolution against the corporations within 40 years, unseating CEOs just as Czars were unseated in the Russian Revolution.
Not that any form of government is totally stable, but what you proposed is like a goddamn time-bomb.
I'm going to break a part your points here. In a proper government, with its sole purpose for protection of rights, government and economy are separated, the state having no forceful influence over the property of its citizens, and in turn no exertion of economic influence over the force the state wields.No company can maintain a monopoly over nay industry without use of force, there can be no prevention of any competition with a market freed from force, it would simply be impossible.
Why would there be poverty? Anyone not satisfied with their wage is free to seek employment elsewhere, and higher wages are often a powerful incentive for employment, competition among business, were no competitor holds unjust advantage by threat of force, encourages ever improving quality for employees and consumers. Its foolish to think that companies would, at the first chance, send their employees, who have all agreed voluntarily to offer their services, either into a hellish sweatshop for pennies a day or onto the streets, when their competitor was openly free to offer far more favorable conditions and thus achieve massively more productive capacity than them, not to mention the repercussions of the sure to be unfavorable reaction the consumer market must have to such a company, at least not any company whose goal was to make profit and who did not have unlimited resources which would be an impossibility without government intervention.
by the sheer corrupting power of money.I find this particularly disturbing, and direct you here for a full, in-depth reply to this.
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Remember when we were at war with Eurasia Eastasia Eurasia?
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This song plays over a massive gun firing and recoiling as you walk across it, in space...
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7/10, had to look for a second to realize what it was
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Pure, Laissez-faire Capitalism, a government existing solely for the protection of the rights of its citizens from others and itself.
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10/10 I keep putting the money in but all she does is dance in place! hmph...umph, where is it?
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Speaking of getting downloaded versions onto the TV, why doesn't anyone ever make a torrent for accursed farms(I was going to say freeman's mind but I like all of Ross's work) I mean I would but my PC, and internet are crap.
I believe there've been several, go look for old BTG posts, I think you might find one in there
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banned because Gibberish is a real language
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7/10, soooo 2011 now though.
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AH!! AH! AH! MY HAIR!! OH MY GOD!! OH MY GOD!! AH! AH!! AH!! *stops, drops, rolls, and pats it out*
Oh man, I look like a Bond villain now.
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He finds an unlocked fire exit
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Remember those sweet, warm New England summers? Remember sipping lemonade underneath a shady tree? Remember when you hit that pedestrian with your car at the crosswalk and then just drove away? Pepperidge Farm remembers, but Pepperidge Farm ain't just gonna keep it to Pepperidge Farm's self free of charge. Maybe you go out and buy yourself some of these distinctive Milano cookies, maybe this whole thing disappears
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Banned for this being the year the history channel loses most of its programming after the 2012 shows aren't relevant any more
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The Sun! Yes! Yes! Yes! I'm outside! and NOT IN THE DESERT!! There's a tree! Its not even trying to eat me. Now, where am I? Wait? what was that? an arrow? Who's shooting arrows? Am I being attacked by Indians now? I STEPPED INTO A TIME MACHINE! Eh, whoever it is, their aim sucks and this thing has good knee padding. I can be their safety orange mechanical god. No, wait, I've seen this in movies, being an all powerful god over a primitive society isn't all it's cracked up to be, it just isn't. I should probably just find my way out of here, can't be any worse than Black Mesa...
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Freeman meets Gordon Frohman
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banned for breaking a loop
Your most anticipated game of 2012.
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Yeah Bioshock is probably next on my list, I actually hadn't kept up with its release date and thought it was still on for early 2012 and was really looking forward to playing it soon only to find out it had been pushed back.