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Also, Pepsi wishes to replace Coke at McDonald's.
by mabbo 13y ago
Also, Pepsi wishes to replace Coke at McDonald's.
- pitnips 13y agoMore like Boeing wants to replace Airbus (if US airlines strictly used Airbus) in the US.
- reuwsaat 13y agoMore like Google wants to replace Halliburton.
- reuwsaat 13y agoConfused about downvote? SpaceX is a start-up in Silicon Valley. Google is a start-up in Silicon Valley. Russia is providing a commercial service in an established industry with huge start-up costs to the US Governement. Halliburton is providing a commercial service in an established industry with huge start-up costs to the US Governement. SpaceX has a founder whose background is not in this industry. Google has founders whose backgrounds are not in the business of providing Government services. Russia is very much in the business of providing government services. Halliburton is very much in the business of providing government services. Seems like a solid analogy.
- kelseyfrancis 13y ago>SpaceX is a start-up in Silicon Valley. SpaceX is based in Los Angeles.
- muyuu 13y agoIf Airbus was a nation with a rogue government.
- waps 13y agoNow if we could only get Airbus to, say, invade France, my investment in Boeing would start paying off.
- mahouse 13y agoNot much roguer than the US.
- gottasayit 13y agoPlease. Look at what's happening in the Ukraine. Can you see the US invading Mexico or Canada and keeping the territory because our President was a megalomaniac? Even when we do invade somewhere to take out someone like UBL, Saddam Hussein, or Noriega; when we're done we clean up, rebuild some infrastructure, and leave. No other nation on earth in history has restricted the wars it fights in such a principled way, rather than using them as excuses to just take more territory.
- lmm 13y agoYou should check your history. The US kept the Philippines until they revolted hard enough to stick. It keeps Puerto Rico to this day.
- mahouse 13y agoThe US never leave, they leave a puppet leader and ensure the new regime that is set in that country will always obey the "US standards of quality".
- logfromblammo 13y agoMusk's move seems suspiciously like the sort of thing I would say during a game of Settlers of Catan to go from appearing to be in 3rd place to winning on my turn. He's suggesting that it would be safer for the person with the most visible points to not trade with the person apparently in second place. And oh, how convenient! I have just the resources you need, and I'm certainly not a threat to your supremacy [on your turn].