Yeah, actually that idea makes more sense to me. The poor people and immigrants would wind up in the cheap, run down high rises in the suburbs at the periphery of the city while the rich stay in the Old Paris.

The Puppeteers own it all in the end. This whole galaxy is merely a single market for them.

"But I *really* would like to see them banned from personal investment for an appropriate number of years."

Yes, I've seen that optional rule.

They sort of did something like that:

Which in turn will ultimately be owned by General Products.

They should do a parody with all the fictitious corporations found in science fiction books, films and video games:

No, I did too.

One of my personal faves of Idle's is his FCC song.

Welcome to Walmart: I love you.

Yep, I suppose that's depressingly reassuring. No matter what happens, there'll always be advertising.

Yeah, I saw bits of Renaissance in promo trailers a few years a back.

Actually I'm not so sure he's working for Weyland-Yutani because he's got an Omni Consumer Products logo on his baseball cap. Bet he has a Tyrell Corporation Jacket hanging in the back of the control cabin someplace too. Ancillary merchandising, that turns us all into unwitting advertisers for companies, exists in the…

Yes, regulations could change and Paris could one day become unrecognizable. But I suppose if we were making this into a movie, we'd have to retain some features of the current Paris to make it recognizable to the audience.

If it's something that doesn't skwik straight guys out just a little bit, I'd say it's false equivalence:

What about the historic catacombs of Paris though? I realize these don't spread throughout the whole, huge city but aren't there some areas where digging down indiscriminantly will destroy historical sites?

If you read through all the replies to my first comment, you're not the first to tell me something like that.

If folks like me weren't here to "spoil" it what would the rest of you have to talk about? It would be just "Heh! She's all hot 'n stuff!"

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're not the first to tell me something like that.