#!/usr/bin/perl
while (<>){
    s/Imperial Senate/Security Council/;
    s/Emperor/White House/;
    s/this battle station/the pentagon/;
    s/regional governors/the generals/;
    s/Old Republic/United Nations/;
    s/local systems/regional competitors/;
    s/TARKIN/WOLFOWITZ;
    s/TAGGE/POWELL;
    print;
}

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TARKIN: The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
TAGGE: That's impossible! How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?
TARKIN: The regional governors now have direct control over territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.

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Re: s/TARKIN/WOLFOWITZ
by Solo (Deacon) on Feb 28, 2003 at 01:50 UTC
    Were I a teacher, I should be happy that students were trying to apply the wisdom of the classics to the modern world.

    But I'm not a teacher and the poster should have used a HEREDOC or __DATA__ section for the text.

    •--

    --Solo

    --
    There are a lot of command ships. Keep your distance though, Chewie, but don't look like you're trying to keep your distance. (Chewie barks a question.) I don't know. Fly casual.
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Re: s/TARKIN/WOLFOWITZ
by sschneid (Deacon) on Feb 27, 2003 at 20:15 UTC
    Ignoring everything else, this won't even compile. Check: 
    s/TARKIN/WOLFOWITZ;
s/TAGGE/POWELL;

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    are clearly in need of closing slashes.
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Re: s/TARKIN/WOLFOWITZ
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 27, 2003 at 10:08 UTC

    There is nothing special about this code. It is a just a political statement and not a very enlightening one at that. This section is not about political statements, it's about Perl (albeit a strange use for Perl). While deleting posts is a very slippery route if you're going to do it, this is as good as any.

    Just because you agree with his message doesn't mean it should not be reaped.

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      Just because you agree with his message doesn't mean it should not be reaped.

      This is true, but just because you don't agree with his message doesn't mean it should be reaped. Perl is for perl, poetry comments on whatever the poet wishes. Though I don't consider the merit of this particular code high, it's still poetry in perl (even though it doesn't compile :-/)

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Re: s/TARKIN/WOLFOWITZ
by djantzen (Priest) on Feb 27, 2003 at 02:35 UTC

    As troubled as I am about American foreign policy, this sort of inflamatory rhetoric, posted anonymously no less, really doesn't belong here.

    "The dead do not recognize context" -- Kai, Lexx
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        I can think of many, many possible subjects of poetry that would be reaped immediately, so the observation that it's supposed to be poetic gives very little solid justification for this kind of thing. If the poem in some way reflected the complexity of current world events (or perhaps if it were more interesting code) then I could see its worth, however, a simple-minded comparison of the US to "the Empire" is nothing but a troll, and we've seen quite enough of those recently.

        "The dead do not recognize context" -- Kai, Lexx
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Re: s/TARKIN/WOLFOWITZ
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 27, 2003 at 23:10 UTC
    You know this is posted by some stupid hippy because they didn't even use strict;
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