My wife just rolls her eyes and shakes her head when I tell her there are corporations like this in the world. She just thinks it's all a big conspiracy theory. "No corporation could be THAT powerful," is her logic.
This kind of thing started with the freakin' Hanseatic League. RAND is but the latest - and most successful - incarnation of such a monster. Any corporation that is so powerful that it can actually drive, not merely influence, government decisions is too powerful for any democracy.

We used to have a cat that would look at you just like this one is.
That "I could eat you, but I couldn't be bothered right now" look.

Boy, and to think my wife grouses at me when I have to get up in the middle of the night to have a whiz!

I'm wondering who kicked the s**t out of him. Or is this mugshot from the previous DUI/theft booking?

*BUUUUURP!!*

"Come ON, get the lead out! Are we gonna run, or are we gonna sit here and bark all freakin' day?!"

Low Spark of High-heeled Boys - Traffic

Nice ideas, but they look absolutely unusable as furniture.
Kind of like the haute couture "fashion" you see - absolutely unwearable anywhere other than a runway.

Except agriculture is about raising plants, of course.

Funny, that's what techno makes me want to do, too.

Is that a banana in your pocket...

Ow! Man, that's gotta hurt!

Wow! These guys are better at hiding than my dog at bath time!