In the First 4 Seasons (The Austrian Broadcasting station ORF did not broadcast more :-(( ) Quark mentions a lot of that rules, so I think we should collect them and look for eventual numbering mismatches.
(To Phil Ferrand: If I have spellt or translated (from Grerman) the Title of this Conversation wrong, please correct it!)

Here one rule I have found:

7.) Behold Your Ears open. ("Blasphemie", I don't know the English title, it was the Episode where a Bajoran priest wants to forbid Keiko to teach science about the Wormhole.)

The episode sounds like "In The Hands Of The Prophets".
First rule was "Once you have their money, never give it back".
32 and 33 were "Peace is good for business" and "War is good for business" (I think they were 32 and 33). There was also "Treat people in your debt like family, exploit them", but I can't remember the number.

Nit. It's the Rules of Acquisition.

"Here all, trust nothing"

Here's a link to the complete Rules of Acquisition -- there's also a link to a version containing rules from non-canon sources (i.e. the novels).

A note: Rule #112 is omitted from the list, and it's one of my favorites: "Never have sex with the boss's sister."

Another note: on the non-canon version, #113 is omitted as well. I can't remember where I heard this, but I believe that Rule 113 is "Always have sex with the boss."

But....that rule doesn't make sense...considering...up until the end of
DS9, there were no female Ferengi employers or
employess.

That rule is in "Legends of the Ferengi" by Ira Behr and Robert Wolfe. Not bad reading if anyone is interested.

Did they ever say what the last half of the rule which starts with "Sleep can interfere with...." is?

Rene -- use your imagination! ;-)

Eww...now I can't get that image out of my head!
Thank you!

There are _non-Ferengi_ females who are employed by Ferengi, though, and it appears that they are quite familiar with Rule #113.

But since the Rules are intended primarily for Ferengi, I'd guess that Rule #113 is meant to apply to Ferengi males employed by non-Ferengi females.

It wouldn't be "Sleep can interfere with making profit," now, would it?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Ferengi males employed by Ferengi males, perhaps? What's the problem? (This is hinted at in the "Legends of the Ferengi" by the way.)

Yeah, that's what I thought. In any case, it does say always... :-)

I'm not sure this is the right place to post this, but I couldn't find a more pertinent section. Other, wiser people can move this to a more appropriate thread if they see fit.

I just noticed this as I was flipping through a textbook for a class of mine. The book is Race, Class, and Gender in the United States. In an article called "Smells Like Racism" that is about discrimination against Asians, it says:
"To many, the Indian persona is that of a greedy, unethical, cheap immigrant...in the program Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, an alien race called the Firengi (Hindi for foreigner) are proprietors and sleazy entrepreneurs who take advantage of any opportunity for wealth, regardless of the moral cost."

And no, I didn't spell Ferengi wrong; in the article it has an 'i' instead of an 'e.' I just thought this was an interesting charge the author is levelling. Maybe this topic has been brought up before, but I just found it a little surprising.

Wow, that's interesting. Of course, the notion that the name of that race was derived from a Hindi word doesn't mean the person who came up with it was comparing the alien race with the race(s) known to use the language from which that word is derived. It could be incidental. For example, one comic book artist I know created a demonic-looking character called the Eudaemon. His arch-nemesis was a character called Mordare. Mordare was gangly and skeletal, with white skin, and a skull-like face. He had a pointed head like a KKK hood, and on his forhead was an upside-down ankh. He told me "Mordare" means "murderer" in Sweedish. Does this mean he was comparing this character to Swedes? No. He just looked for a name, and found a cool place from which to derive one that is probably incidental.

There are only so many words available, anyway. Did the writer even know Hindi?

I don't think that the Ferengi are based on Indian immigrants. Since the Ferengi are despisable by today standards, everybody sees their favourite dislike group in them, I think. (They always remind me of typical capitalists of today society.)

I agree, of course. the notion that the name of that race was derived from a Hindi word doesn't mean the person who came up with it was comparing the alien race with the race(s) known to use the language from which that word is derived. --Luigi
Another example to go with yours, Luigi, are the Daleks. In Czech (I think; help me out here, Emily) "dalek" means "death." Was Terry Nation comparing Czech people to killer pepperpots? I don't think so.

The other example this article gives is The Simpsons: "...one of the characters is a South Asian owner of a convenience store. In one episode, in an effort to make a sale, he says, 'I'll sell you expired baby food for a nickel off.' Both this and the DS9 are supposed to be examples of subversive stereotyping of Asians. The article wants Americans to acknowledge that there is stereotyping of Asians in the culture, but I think they could have found better examples.

"Ferengi" comes from the Arabian word for "Franks" (the French, from the age of crusades and before, not the conspiracy!) and became the general term for western foreigners in Africa and Arabia.