No. A mafia makes you pay "protection" from the things they'll do to you if you don't pay. A government makes pay taxes for a very real threat of what other nations and people within your nation will do without that security they provide. They also build roads and bridges and fire departments, water towers and plumbing, and other things necessary for a civilized world.

Something cursed about this comment

The "final" thing was never true though. Wholey based on an off the cuff remark by one engineer.

Don't be naive. Every corpo that size has entire departments dedicated to branding and sales. It's not about cultural sensitivity, it's about what sells.

It's because 9 is a registered six offender

In some eastern Asian cultures four is considered an unlucky number, similar to 13 in western cultures. Same reason OnePlus went 3-3t-5

If you would read it, it's for increased chip production. Hardware, not software

The irony in that typo is palpable. Some real KenM energy

Consider the Portuguese manowar, which is a colony organism

The expression you're looking for is "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" Not that it matters, it's all water under the fridge anyway, mostly a moo point.

They swear allegiance to the federal constitution, the governor, and the president. With the president being CIC and having power over the governor and the constitution having power overall. So in theory, the governor cannot give you orders that defy the president, and not even the president can give force you to comply with an unlawful order. It would take some serious stones to defy orders though

By that definition my company toyota Corolla is a valid military target. My brother in Christ Google the definition of "civilian". Literally anyone or anything not government related qualifies. These ships have "relations" with almost every country, that's how international commerce works you dumbass.