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Cynical Half Formed Rant

Dec 14, 2007 14:35

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. cola sales are expected to fall 1 percent this year, and one industry expert says it's partly because Coke and Pepsi have put their legendary cola wars on ice.

But Coke's CEO Neville Isdell agreed with Sicher that cola makers need to rev up competition in order to spur demand for their brands.

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evil corporate evil anonymous February 11 2008, 12:42:00 UTC

I agree with your assessment of the flaws of capitalism completely; there is something warped about such a short-term perspective in such a high-powered social force. And it is an American model: Toyota, for instance, is thinking 100 years down the road.

I'm not sure it's going to be legally possible to limit the amount of advertising, though, since corporations are persons under the law and therefore enjoy the same rights as you and me. Which sucks, because they're some of the most annoying persons around.

To limit this right without abridging our own, we'd have to redefine the legal definition of a person. Now *that's* something I'm all for.

Snx for you job! anonymous March 22 2008, 17:57:34 UTC

Snx for you job!
It has very much helped me!

don't break the chain... ext_94791 April 11 2008, 12:14:31 UTC

As I don't know how otherwise to contact you, Matt, here I go...

...and it comes in the form of the quasi-chain letter: you, my friend, have been summarily tagged. Details at wordverter, the blog that bites. Go on, google it; you know you want to.

Greetings from Leuven, Belgium. Hope you're doing well.

Cool quote anonymous May 14 2008, 18:58:27 UTC

There is hardly a thing in the world that some man can not make a little
worse and sell a little cheaper.

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Accidents anonymous June 21 2008, 07:05:31 UTC

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