OFF TOPIC - The IOC sucks.

[Puke]

as much as we tout capitalism, the US was basically a socialist state through much of the Last century. as dingy as he way, old ronny ray-gun pretty much dismantled the wellfare-state, and 30s era government subsidies to things like state construction projects and agriculture have been tapering off since.. oh, the fifties?

from what I understand (which aint much) Canada and the UK are mostly socialist, especially with regards to medicine.

now communism.. well, it works well enough on COMMUNES for hippies and crystal huggers and such, where they only have to deal with 50 to 100 people or so. but if someone can come up with any usefull contribution that that batch ever made to anything, i will be impressed. as soon as you apply it to governments, what a mess.

which reminds me, is anyone on this board from Hong Kong? how are they doing now? I recall talking to a guy in HK on battlenet the night before it was being handed back over to China. He was not terribly happy about the whole thing.