a network form of power that stretches globally, made up of various elements, or nodes, the primary being supranational institutions, major capitalist corporations, and the dominant nation-states of today.
Hope lies in the smoldering rubble of Empires.
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Actually it is just a place ruled by an emperor. Sometimes they are used incorrectly e.g Red Empire in Eastern Europe, the Persian Empire e.t.c
It is often used now to define one country which forces other countries to serve it by force and oppresion, this I would not put as a correct term as it includes superpowers and would therefore make this term invalid.
Rome was the first true empire as the term came from the military title imperartor
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Word meaning "cool". Started on the east coast of England. You heard it here first.
"That t-shirt is just so empire!"
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Term used in Southeastern Michigan in place of "man," "dude," or "buddy."
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A shitty but very popular prime time soap opera on Fox that basically covers every black stereotype.
"I switched my disconnected cable bill to my baby's name so I could watch Empire tonite"
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A sexual position in which the male "conquers" the female by punching her in the face.
Dude she was great, but at the last second I gave her an empiric. Man she was out cold.
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Of, or relatining to evidence accepted by empiricism. The fallacy of believing that nothing exists except what is proven by scientific evidence, of which there is no scientific evidence to prove; an arbitrary decision to to narrow the bounds of reality to the bounds of the scientific method.
"A trillion years ago we were a civilization like any other. We believed in the transmittance of souls, the Virgin matrix, the infallibility of Pi Squared, looked upon prayer as a regenerative feedback to the Great Programmer, and so on and so forth. But then skeptics appeared, empiricists and accidentalists, and in nine centuries they came to the conclusion that There's No One Up There At All and consequently things happen not out of any higher plan or purpose, but--well, they just happen." --Stanislaw Lem, from "The Cyberiad"
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