my own mail was a bit confusing as well, but i would like to make one more small point: while the individuals working in giant corporate entities may very well be misguided rather than evil, i feel safe in saying that virtually all corporations are evil entities. once a company gets fairly sizeable, it begins to act pretty darned darth vaderish, aggressively destroying smaller companies, using their vast amounts of money to invest in similar darth vaderish companies, shipping out work to countries where you are allowed to pay employees absurdly low wages and often literally work them to death...
um... eh... I feel I should point out that not all giant corporate entities are evil, darth vaderish entities. Some invent quite cool and useful things, such as the Walkman, the CD, MD, and even though the have record labels, are so un-evil that they only sign middle-of-the-road dirge, like Celine Dion and Jamiriquai...ah...I'm kinda defeating my own argument here. Michael, Sticking up for the MAN 'cause he's met him and he was quite nice actually. Oh, and I think the notion of Stuart and co. coming to London and 'torching a few huts and stealing a goose' sounded bizarrely plausible _________________________________________________ Michael Barrett, Broadcast R & D, Advanced Technology Division, SONY Broadcast & Professional, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG22 4SB, England. E-mail: Michael.Barrett@adv.sonybpe.com Tel: +44 (0)1256 483501, Fax: +44 (0)1256 810950 "On a 9 to 5 lemon, looking for the lime" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+