IBM Heads to Russia ~~opening its first development lab in Russia,

TheStreet.com ^ | 6/20/2006 1:36 PM EDT | Katie Dean

[M. Espinola]

IBM has a track record of profitable deals with tyrannical régimes.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just cause something shows up in print sowan't make it true....see this:

You can't handle the truth ( Seeking Jamil Hussein )

[M. Espinola]

"Just cause something shows up in print sowan't make it true....see this:"

Were they just having tea?

[Longinus]

You are against capitalism and free trade? You are not some sort of Bolshevik are you?

[M. Espinola]

The last post on this thread was 12/24/2006. You come on Free Republic a few days ago under yet another name and all of a sudden find this thread? Something is wrong with this picture and with you, Putin supporter. Sounds like a stalker or a troll or both

[Longinus]

You are correct - I am new so I did not realize this was an old article when I searched topics - exploring the search option.

Still, I find your hating of business to be disturbing - you remind me of the crazy lefties who scream that the Bush family was in bed with the Nazis because the grandfather of Bush had business dealings with Germany (Krupps? I think) and they use that as evidence to smear the name of the Bush family,

I think you could care less about IBM's business dealings though - I think you hate Russia so try and direct the conversation to smear IBM for doing business with them. That's fine - but be honest about it.

[M. Espinola]

Knock it off Gary. Your slanderous antics are not fooling anyone.

[Longinus]

Gary?

Is that the term you anti-business hippies use for us? LIke on Star Trek when those space hippies called Kirk a 'Herbert'.

Ease up on the space weed.

[M. Espinola]

We thought you secured a permanent position with Vlad, but it looks like you slithered onto another Kansas computer in order to worm your way back on FR after being booted.

[GSlob]

"...hating of business [to be] disturbing..."
The business of selling the rope... [the rest of that lenin's quote you ought to know without reminders] is hardly a regular business practice. Such practice one could hate while remaining a 200% free-market adherent.

[Longinus]

I am not from Kansas - the manure smell would bother me like the manure you shovel against IBM.

[Longinus]

Again you mention communist thought as if it matters - let me tell you something Red lover - Commies got everything wrong - Capitalisim did not sell the rope to hang itself - as China shows - Capitalisim has a corrosive effect on Marxist ideology - selling the Commies a better product only makes the Commies want not to be Commies.

So what is your beef with IBM? You chose politics over free commerce?

[GSlob]

Listen, kegebuchaya svoloch', who on earth are you to teach me about communism and "Red lovers"? I have seen them up close and in all flavors. Communism has nothing to do with economics, unless you are a marxist. It is pure, 200% sociology, i.e. way of life, human behavior, and not the red banners.

[Longinus]

So you accept the sociology of Marxism then for you to quote it as gospel? You have done that several times to posts to me already.

In any case - what is your problem with IBM doing business with whom it pleases? You gonna have big daddy govt step in?

[GSlob]

My sociology is non-marxist, and is anti-marxist. marxism is about the primacy of economics, and I hold the primacy of sociology. That's why I consider your statement about "capitalism" in either china or russia as utter nonsense.

[Longinus]

Yet here you are upset that IBM is not restricted in doing business.

[GSlob]

There are the types with whom business should not be done. When a partner of mine was thinking of locating the production on my patent in china, I told him to shove his china where the light does not shine, and to keep it there. For those who are not capable to see beyond their nose, some restrictions [like requirement for eyeglasses on the driver's license] are in order. Such drivers are dangerous not only to themselves [screw them, would serve them right], but to the others on the road as well.

[Longinus]

So you blame Ford Motors for Bonnie & Clyde?