One reason why Mr Thaksin remains so popular is that he cracked down on the overlords.
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In the 17th century our British overlords didn't dream the colonies would become hotbeds of individual land-ownership.
Next the corporate overlords in Columbus, Ohio imposed a dress code: "business casual" instead of T shirts and shorts.
Overall, the fear of the monetary overlords is palpable as the study concludes by basically promising continued scrutiny and oversight.
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In that mock epic, the manacled, nearly naked Charlton Heston is rated an interesting specimen by a variety of simian overlords.
The antebellum masters may be gone, but in their place stand a new breed of overlords that are eerily suggestive of them.
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But in a land where religious and patriotic fervour abounds, Mr Saakashvili will not lose many votes by defying the outside world's cultural overlords.
And hey, if that's the case then maybe I'll lobby our Time Warner overlords to pick it up and let me try my hand.
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Of course, all the people in banking and finance, not to mention the overlords of the monetary system at the central banks, would absolutely hate it.
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But instead of an ominous sci-fi vision of a planet run by robot overlords, they envision a world that will be shaped, for better or worse, by us.
Forbes own Alex Knapp, first introduced to ZenRobotics to us in April 2011 in his Robot Overlords column and today, they are still talking CDN waste.
She developed a love-hate relationship with her distant corporate overlords.
Over the years, the gritty neighbourhood has bred talent from glam rocker Marc Bolan to members of metal overlords Iron Maiden and Def Leppard to Brit Award-winning rapper Plan B.
We've already seen cockroaches turned into unwitting puppets for human overlords, but never have we seen dominance quite so casual as with Brittany Ransom's recent Twitter Roach art project.
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Politicians from both sides have backed an international effort to publicise and preserve the old city of Famagusta, whose French, Venetian and Ottoman overlords all left their mark on its architecture.
As well as this congressionally-inspired scrutiny, the Bureau is hounded by watchdogs dispatched by its overlords at the Commerce Department, and by more overseers from the administration's Office of Management and Budget.
Today Anthony politely deflects the controversy ("me and Kevin, that's handled, that's settled, that's done and over with, " he says), but the National Basketball Association overlords do not like Anthony's attempted bus confrontation.
I, for one, welcome our future robot overlords.
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Ron Paul himself wants all the barriers to entry removed so small business can rise and grow without being attacked by the thousands of regulations and battalions of attorneys our corporate overlords would send forth.
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Plaything for our future robot overlords? (Let's hope it's not the last one.) The success of the mission will depend on a couple things, namely: how the return trip goes (it should make it back to California's Vandenberg Air Force Base via autopilot... sometime) and whether the thing can be re-launched quickly enough.
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Yes, we welcome our new Search Engine overlords and all that, so long as they've got our best interests at heart, but there's a certain irony in Google removing a backdoor exploit by using a backdoor of its own -- even one that (in this case) will email you to report what it's done.
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