On 05 Feb 2005 11:31:00 -0500, Lewis Perin wrote:

> Gactimus > writes:
>
>> [...theft...]
>>
>> Tea for example, was stolen from India during the height of British
>> colonialism. And let's not forget the Opium Wars, where the British Empire
>> simply took over the opium trade in the far East. The first drug lords.
>
> Not exactly. Tea was stolen by the British, who brought it to India
> so they could grow it there and wouldn't have to pay the Chinese
> monopoly prices for it. (Not that the Brits necessarily objected to
> *charging* monopoly prices.)

That sounds an awful lot like Microsoft after all.

--
Derek

There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty.
Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed.