On: Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

[tgma]

> How can we not start looking at some of these organizations less as companies, and more as countries?

Because they are not. Similarities start and end right there.

[Diederich → tgma]

You are, of course, correct, I was obviously getting a bit carried away with hyperbole.

My deeper point is one of size. At some point, these companies start doing country-like things, at country-like scales.

In this particular example, I'm talking about activities that start to look like something you might called "Intelligence", and "counter-Intelligence", just as an example.

[chiph → tgma]

The Walmart sporting goods department is probably better armed than some countries..