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Tell your abusive husband about your "law" prohibiting coercion. Tell the "volunteers" that go to the retirement home that it's illegal.

wonder if this means more retailers will require membership to shop there in order to bypass the cash.

Ultimately no, although it will be funny to watch the lawsuits from people only hearing about this new law right now.

Philly already had a law banning cashless stores that was made in 1984.
The mayor was informed about this after passing this new law and he had no clue it was already a law.

The detail about the memberships however was not included in the prior law, and that law is still in effect.
So costco may claim they are membership only and are exempt, but they are only exempt from the 2019 law, the 1984 law still makes their membership only cashless business illegal.

But on the same turn, and I didn't know this until recently, apparently between 1984 and today there has only been ONE court case involving not accepting cash, and that was for a car rental company.
That case was settled so there was no judgement, but this new 2019 law wouldn't have come into play in that situation anyway.

Further reading: https://www.philly.com/business/philadelphia-cashless-store-ban-pennsylvania-amazon-20190216.html

There are others, but here is one: http://www.philly.com/philly/n...

How do you patrol a beat remotely? How do you conduct an orchestra remotely? How do you mug someone remotely?

Drone, robot, robot. Wait, that's about a robot getting mugged ;) But seriously, it's only a matter of time. Battle bots are a thing. With the right one, you could mug someone. Or perhaps just a robotic mobile gun with a hopper on top into which your victim deposits their valuables.

Not everyone has jobs programming. Most jobs have to be done in person.

Service industry jobs have to be done in person. You can't repair someone's washing machine remotely. Yet. But it is inevitable that just as cars are designed to be assembled by robots today, all kinds of things will be designed to be maintained by robots tomorrow. If your appliances were designed such that all the goodies could be accessed from the front of the machine and manipulated easily by robots, then they could conceivably be repaired first by telepresence, and later by an autonomous robot. A car designed to be assembled by robots could also be shipped to a central facility (ironically, probably on a train) and repaired by robots.

Democrats have been slowing down the confirmation process, so that Trump has many fewer people in place than other presidents at this point in their term.

Nope, actually, it's Trump's lack of nominees.

Good little lemming on blaming Democrats. Like for the embassy. You know, for the country that disinvited him.

Admittedly, it's within the rules and an aspect of Democratic resistance that is actually succeeding.

Kinda your own practice really.

Not exactly a success though.

That kind of ruling is what causes Civil Wars.

It's hurts the country but it does slow down Trump's agenda, and that's what matters most.

Actually, Trump's agenda of trying to put crazy shits in office is what's going to hurt the country.

Fortunately for him, his base is more concerned that heattacks the people who don't stand for the national anthem.

It's ok, he doesn't actually have any need to govern. He can just demand apologies.

But stuff like this never happens, right?

https://www.statesman.com/news...

http://www.philly.com/philly/n...

https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/01...

> Really. Is it that hard?

No, it's not. There are some examples out there. So if you're asking for information, here you go:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

http://www.philly.com/philly/n...

What is that hard though, is to understand why your comment got modded insightful.

If you're demanding no less than the full set of ads involved: it's natural to expect the tech firms involved would hold back, because the whole thing is very embarrassing for them.

> and certainly not any journalist's outright lies about this

Aha, herein lies a big part of the problem. Trump has convinced you that "the media" is the enemy, it's all fake news. That is one of the steps that autocrats take, to discredit a free and open press, to remove one of the points of accountability on them.

Hey, did you hear the one about the Marine who died in a bar fight ?

Sure, you may shoot a couple three, but do you think you can reload before the rest beat you into a grease stain?

(It's okay, I know the military brainwashed you to believe you're invincible. It's not your fault.)

What remains is a ban on Muslims who don't come from countries where Trump has current or hopes for future business interests.

Ok, I can kinda agree with you on that one. I have a real problem with the US-Saudi Petrodollar relationship. The memes for this pic practically write themselves: ( http://media.philly.com/images... ). But a real-estate guy like Trump should see that KBR-style reconstruction contracts in Libya at least could be a big business opportunity. So maybe he's asleep at the wheel on security AND business?

I'm pretty sure that notes with numerologically interesting serial numbers do get sold on auction sites for more than face value though.

Quick google search confirms

Tape worms? Below is an article. Some researchers say the claims are dubious and that ads or labels mentioning tape-worms don't necessarily mean the pills actually contained tape-worm eggs. It could be a lie. But the fact some co's openly advertised it itself suggests lax regulation.

http://www.philly.com/philly/b...

Is that like neglecting how many of these "hate crimes" are reported false and the person lied?? You ever hear about any of those? Yeah, me neither................
 

... independent ones, and independent journalists.

So this was a headline neglecting to mention her white nationalism. If Facebook asks a black person whether the headline is misleading, they're generally going to get a very different answer from a white person. Also, does Facebook actually know if it's asking a black person?

Here's the Philly article:
http://www.philly.com/philly/b...

Here's the version from bleeding heart liberal progressive magazine, Sports Illustrated:
http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/12/...

It's notable that Google has hired/funded Full Fact, a facts-only organisation in the UK I can personally vouch for.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article...

He was labeled anti-black for reasons I have yet to be able to find.

Donald Trump violated the civil rights act by refusing to rent homes to black people.

* http://www.nytimes.com/times-i...
* http://new.www.huffingtonpost....
* http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
* http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

Trump continued to refuse to rent homes to black people three years after Justice Department ruling on the matter sides against Trump.

* http://www.nytimes.com/1978/03...
* http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10...

Trump ordered blacks to leave casino floor whenever him or wife arrives on property.

* http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

1991 book written by Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino President quotes Trump as saying:

"I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day⦠. I think the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It's not anything they can control."

* http://articles.philly.com/199...

Trump built a casino in black majority city and breaks promise to mayor about hiring locals, refrains to hire the minorities and opting to staff the casino with almost exclusively all Caucasian employees.

* http://www.nydailynews.com/arc...

Trump was asked about replacing TSA's 'heebeejabis' with veterans, responded with:

"We're looking at it"

* http://www.npr.org/2016/06/30/...
* http://www.businessinsider.com...
* http://time.com/4039658/trump-...

Trump responded to accusations of racism by hiring a former aid for Joseph McCarthy to sue the government for half a billion dollars.

* http://www.salon.com/2011/04/2...

Trump kept books of Hitler Speeches by his bed.

* http://www.businessinsider.com...
* http://forward.com/the-assimil...
* http://www.gq.com/story/donald...

Trump's campaign photoshopped a white model black.

* http://www.huffington

Okian Warrior, off the top of your head, answer me right now:

Do you think that one/third of US Uranium reserves were actually physically sent to Russia?

I do not.

Why - is it important?

Because of what you wrote:

Sold 1/3 of our Uranium reserves to Russia

Sure seems like you're implying she actually sold US National reserves of Uranium, isn't it?

Since what actually happened was that Uranium One, a Canadian Company, was bought out by a Russian-state owned one, all it means is that they have legal title to Uranium in the US, which still has to be sold in the US, which means...what exactly?

Really, give us 3 bad things that Russia can now do.

(I'm not mentioning that a Russian bank paid Clinton $500,000 for a speech right before the deal, because she says there was no conflict of interest.)

Funny how if you add up all of Trumps indiscretions, they don't even total one of Hillary's speaker fees.

Well, let's see, an illegal loan of 3.5 million dollars from his father is a great deal more than 500,000, so you're lying again without even challenging on your account of Hillary, you're lying. And that you started this by complaining about name-calling from liberals? What are you doing? Trying to practice dementia so you can get money from the VA?

Okian Warrior, I know you've admitted to being a troll, but you can stop anytime. Just click log out and never log in again.

You started out just stalling, misleading people a little until you could figure out how to make it all legit.

In this case, "misleading people" meant putting their health at risk - either from lack of necessary treatment, or causing them to get unnecessary treatment. That right there overrides any right you have to stall. Protecting people's lives is the top priority - the whole reason the company even existed was because it promised to help prolong people's lives.

Come clean, explain that the test results aren't coming back as accurate as in early trials, and ask/beg for more time to figure out why the difference and to try to correct it. A slight delay is acceptable because you need time for the statistics to solidify enough for a 95% or 99% confidence interval (idiots who claim they "knew all along" notwithstanding - there are always a few of these people holding every possible position, so some of them are always "right" just by pure chance, not because they actually knew anything). But once your collected stats reach that confidence interval, you need to act to protect lives, even if it means admitting your product doesn't seem to work and that the investors may have wasted their money.

Research almost always results in failure. Edison tested over 6000 materials as a filament for a light bulb, and every one of them failed before he stumbled upon one that worked for an acceptably long period of time. But for some reason popular culture sees failure as something shameful, rather than an inevitable and necessary part of the learning process. It's resulted in a government populated by professional liars who (almost) never admit their failures - because we tend to vote for the people who claim they've never failed, when all they are is better at hiding their past failures (usually by pushing the blame onto others). Eliminate the negative stigma associated with failure, and something like Theranos becomes a non-story of an un-notable startup which failed early, instead of a multi-billion dollar scandal putting over a million lives at risk.

If gun owners would accept any accountability at all, I'd agree that there were some issues, but there is absolutely no acceptance that guns are a problem. You probably can't even admit that a pistol grip makes killing lots of people easier (there is a reason the militaries developed this grip--and it wasn't for show). You probably also deny what I've seen war surgeons report over and over: high power assault rifles are much worse. High speed rounds will absolutely pulverize a whole regions of the body. http://articles.philly.com/201...

I also don't see why gun owner ship should be easier than car ownership. Why not prove proficiency, residence, and insurance? If there were some accountability it would be different. But there isn't. Especially with legally purchased fire arms being used in crimes so often it's not even real that this isn't required. Look at Bloomberg's work on this on trying to keep guns out of the hands of criminals in NYC only to have other states sell them to criminals. Look at the fast and furious sting where they had to let guns walk because there was no law that they would bring them in under. It's just outrageous that we literally have laws designed to keep Mexican drug cartels supplied with arms because it makes the gun makers so much money.

I also fail to see the purpose of the AR-15 type high power assault rifles outside of a war zone. I'm not alone in this. Professionals (retired military generals) agree that the M-4/M-16 knockoffs have no place outside the military. I agree with them. I don't want to live in a war zone.

“I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day . I think the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.“

Source: http://articles.philly.com/199...

Trump was asked about the book this quote was from during a 1997 playboy interview, and stated that what the book said was "Probably true", which in Trumpian means "Yeah, but I won't full on admit it"

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07...

You're cordially invited to start an ISP. Preferably where the likes of Comcast have a monopoly. Please do.

Google already did. To wonderful results...

Recall that about 6 months after the Oklahoma City bombing, train tracks were sabotaged in this country, which derailed and crashed a train. The perpetrators left a note at the scene, but AFAICT were never caught.

And note that we're currently putting the fire out in a train crash somewhere in the Texas Panhandle, but the cause hasn't yet been determined. (Meaning: we should keep an eye on this, it might be a terrorist attack.)

Lots of US infrastructure is wide open and vulnerable to terrorist attack, yet we spend enormous effort on security theatre at the airports. Our governments implement a massive spying apparatus with the excuse that it combats terrorism, but they don't bother to infiltrate groups that are likely to do it.

And the people they manage to catch with surveillance are sad losers who couldn't manage to pull off the attack without FBI urging and guidance.

We do security theatre very well in this country.

Just 'sayin.

AWS is HIPPA-compliant, which is why the company in TFA is able to use them at all.

Your data is no less secure at AWS, than in any Internet-connected hospital — though that in itself is not saying much.

If you can not store it yourself, trusting a company like CareMonkey, whose entire business model is predicated on the security of customers' data, probably, makes more sense, than trusting someone, for whom it is but a side-show. Such companies may still experience a problem — nothing is safe — but they are less likely to.

And if you worry about government, well, to the delight of Statists, our "democratically controlled" "strong government" already has access to your medical history. And will get more, when the "single-payer" system, so beloved by those same Statists, replaces the designed to fail — and failing — Obamacare.

Sure it is.

Bic lighters have been blamed for several deaths and several injuries over the years too. The link above was in regards specifically to Bic lighters from 1979 to 1984.

AI just got voted into the Hall of Fame earlier this week. That's an advancement of AI.

...it asserts that the extinctions followed the impact.

"The Alvarezes have argued that all 13 species of dinosaurs living in North America at the time of the asteroid's impact suddenly went extinct," Rigby said. "We now have evidence that at least 11 survived the asteroid collision. At the most, two species of dinosaurs went extinct - and we have some doubts about whether even that occurred."

There are places that allow you to be buried in a pet cemetery. Cheaper.

My sister will green bury people along with their pets @ Eloise Woods.

There are places that allow you to be buried in a pet cemetery. Cheaper.

Medical records are sheer gold for identity fraud http://www.wsj.com/articles/ho...

Stolen medical records can be used for medical insurance fraud and taking out loans in your name. If you don't pay up, they send debt collectors after you. They are paid by commission so don't care if they debt is legit. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem... http://www.philly.com/philly/b... http://www.startribune.com/cri... http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news...

What to do if they send a debt collector after you http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa...

Shit IT security by health providers is a big problem http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/1... http://www.wsj.com/articles/an... http://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/17...

So is doctors collecting information about you they don't need like your SSN which staff can sell to identity thieves http://www.forbes.com/sites/la...

Another way to make money is to make excessive bail requirements in possible
collusion with bail bondsmen.

TL;DR - bail should be set by the circumstances of the person's ability to pay and
the nature of them being a flight risk, NOT the nature of the crime.

Now the "I'm sorry but it got long" part:

Bail from the eighth amendment to the Constitution of the United States:
"Excessive bail shall not be required"

Excessive is when it's greater than the amount necessary to bring the offender to trial. From Wikipidia:
"In Stack v. Boyle, 342 U.S. 1 (1951), the Court found that a defendant's bail cannot be set higher than an amount that is reasonably likely to ensure the defendant's presence at the trial" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Judges are starting to agree: http://blog.simplejustice.us/2...

But some are still hungry for HUMONGOUS bail to avoid looking soft on crime when BAIL HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CRIME.

Man kills cop: 3 million dollars
http://www.philly.com/philly/n...

Man kills man: 2 million dollars
http://www.bellinghamherald.co...

Cop kills man: 1.5 million:
http://abc7chicago.com/news/ja...

The US DoJ ought to take a long hard look at how our nation's Courts are handing out large bail
requirements --unconstitutionally-- to make it look like they're "tough on crime."

In fact, the people being granted bail are innocent until proven guilty, AND
the amount of the bail is only supposed to ensure they show up for trial.

We need a lot of reform in the criminal justice system. Hopefully the DoJ won't whitewash
bail while they look at the other methods that "the justice system" screws the people.

Full disclosure: I've never been arrested, offered bail, denied bail, nor am personally
part of the legal / "justice" system.

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Vouchers will get students out of failing public schools, like, Newark, Chicago, etc. and give them a chance to break the cycle of poverty.

School vouchers are a scam to keep the prisons full. If you hear someone talk about "school reform", run for the hills. They're famous flim-flammers.

The school "privatization" movement is one of the biggest scandals of the 21st century. Charter schools fail. They exist to funnel money upward, not to educate kids.

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/1...

http://www.philly.com/philly/b...

http://www.eschatonblog.com/20...

20 years ago, a football coach for the Dallas Cowboys was arrested for trying to bring a gun on an airplane. So it was illegal then, and now (as it should be).

See http://www.philly.com/philly/b...

Riyadh al-Adhadh is not some random raghead insurgent whom Laura suddenly decided to fund. He was the primary focus of her film 'My Country, My Country', so little surprise that she was in contact with him and supported him. He was jailed for months on false terrorism charges, and apparently still served as Baghdad Provincial Council Chairman last year.

Evidently she knew him better than the whole bunch of all-seing, all-scanning, all-collecting, "we need to listen to your granny or we can't catch the terrorists" three letter agencies together. We should all sit down and weep in despair, if this wire transfer is still the reason for the ongoing harassment Laura on every single flight.

I don't have examples, I don't work in the loan business. I have mainstream media articles:

http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/0...

https://news.google.com/newspa...

http://articles.philly.com/201...

The reasons stated include increased student debt as one of the issues, and short credit histories. However, these are people who would have got loans before either the big garbage loan bubble or the crash, from my read of the article. In general, they are not BAD credit risks, just not completely pristine.

The "environmentalists" didn't kill the nuke industry - it did itself in a long time ago.

http://articles.philly.com/198...

I think the more interesting story is undercover drug unit goes and terrorizes numerous drug dealers for illegal profit. But I guess that story is already months old. http://articles.philly.com/201...

It's old news but in PA they ruled setting auto insurance rates by gender wasn't 'fair' so PA made starting insurance rates the same for everybody.

linky

End result? Women's rates when up and men's went down...totally what they were going for I'm sure

You could even buy them new books, computers, teacher's salaries, decent heating systems, lunch.

Why the number of things a student could more likely benefit from is just amazing!

Yes, and meanwhile a school in Philadelphia has to make do with a $160 budget, while they're debating blowing $100k per school for this system. Also keep in mind that the costs mentioned cover only the installation costs. Because this system requires a dedicated connection to the police, I assume they'll need to pay for a dedicated line, as well as the yearly maintenance costs and costs associated with false alarms.

That organization has embodied weaponized identity politics to such an extent that an article quoting them non-ironically deserves dismissal.

http://articles.philly.com/200...

read that...
Most civil rights leaders are good people. But Jessi Jackson and Al Sharpton are crooks. Sharpton should literally be in prison. Those 2 have done more to harm the black community than any other modern political leader.

Comcast recently bragged about hiring a new executive to help fix customer service complaints.
http://articles.philly.com/201...

"Complain about our service, lose your job" should be their new ad campaign. I can see it on bus signage.

Already being done. These links all reference the same facility. Each has some unique info:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/01/1549209/using-flywheels-to-meet-peak-power-grid-demands/
http://articles.philly.com/2013-06-22/business/40121214_1_grid-operator-small-power-plant-pjm-interconnection/
http://www.andhranews.net/Business/2013/Beacon-Power-LLC-Begins-Commercial-Operation-38321.htm/

At least the LAPD nominally works for the people. A murderous stalker doesn't.

Except of course when that murderous stalker works for the LAPD (or another police department): http://www.philly.com/philly/n...

They certainly have violations, which are below misdemeanors. Thats what speeding tickets and parking violations are. By making it specifically a violation, with a maximum fine of $1, supercedes any general application of higher charges.

Not my idea - got it from this beat up a flag burner law.

Or it indicates that you or the source of that information is utterly full of shit. Sounds like an urban myth, to me.

Here you go.

Jerry Levey, a 6-foot-6, balding, mustachioed New Jersey volunteer fireman who wears his keys jingling on his belt, drinks Budweiser and crushes the cans when he finishes, stared dumbstruck at Mark Newman.

Mark Newman, a 6-foot-6, balding, mustachioed New Jersey volunteer fireman who wears his keys jingling on his belt, drinks Budweiser and crushes the cans when he finishes, stared dumbstruck at Jerry Levey.

The men were identical in almost every visible respect. [...]

For example, why do Newman and Levey have similar styles of dress, opinions and IQs? Is their shared taste for Budweiser inborn, the result of upbringing or mere coincidence? Was their passion for 3 a.m. takeout Chinese food determined in their childhood homes, or by chromosomes? [...]

Both men remember that, growing up in different households, in towns 65 miles apart, they were fascinated by fire trucks and firefighters.

Both became volunteer firemen but say they still yearn to be full-time firefighters.

When they met, Levey made his living installing fire-suppression equipment, such as sprinklers.

Newman made his living installing fire alarms.

Previously, Levey had worked for a lawn-chemical company; Newman installed lawn sprinklers.

"Before that," Newman said, "we both worked for supermarkets, both worked at gas stations, and he went to college for forestry, and I worked directly in the field, as a tree surgeon." [...]

People are often astonished to hear about the New Jersey twins' almost eerie similarities - and more astonished to learn that such striking similarities are the rule, not the exception, among the 100 sets of twins in the Minnesota study.

why would you want to opt out of social security?

Because the returns are abysmal compared to the stock market.

you plan to die young, or work til your 90?

Or, you're not stupid with money.

this is the same nonsense dreck you "shrink the gov til you can drown it in a bathtub" types always put up.
you need a course in basic civics concerning government (i suggest starting at governmentisgood.com).

Ah, yes, let's ask government-worshiping leftists what they think.

and oh, btw, if you dont pay your mortgage, the bank gets the guys with guns to come kick you out.

You make a voluntary contract with the bank and if you renege on your side they have the right to use the courts to enforce the contract. Works both ways:

http://articles.philly.com/201...

A big part of the purpose of government in a civilized society is to enforce contracts. You'd think reading "governmentisgood" would help you understand that.

http://mobile.philly.com/news/...

Here ya go. Happened a couple days ago. Patiant came into a hospital and started shooting. It was a gun-free zone but one of the doctors had his gun anyway and killed the guy.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...

And also there you go. A group of people stood up against a branch of the federal government for something they believe in. No shots were fired, but they were prepared to. The BLM backed off.

Obviously these aren't the only ones. But they should satisfy your criteria.

Government has a monopoly on violence? In theory. In practice....

Legally, the government does have a monopoly on violence. This is the principle of government almost everywhere in the world.

Check the history of opposition to labor rights. Lots of corporate violence there. Corporate behavior overseas has a long and (undertold) storied history of hired thugs, violence and the threat of it all over this planet.

Unions have a history of violence as well. Never heard of the Haymarket Square Massacre of 1886? The Colorado labor war of 1903 and 1904? Most of the claims of employer violence against strikers were actually local police and militia called in. Today, violence by labor unions is cannot be prosecuted by our government, in spite of all the violence perpetrated by labor unions these days. How is that an improvement?

The politicization of the IRS should be the biggest scandal ever. How many other institutions are being used to pursue a political agenda instead of their true function?

Maybe because the politicization of the IRS is a fake scandal that even Newsmax and Fox News aren't covering anymore?

Seriously, it turned out that the IRS was actually covering Liberal Groups more than the Tea Party groups, something we would have known earlier except the GOP intentionally limited the audit to GOP groups. Oh, and the IRS is required by law to "harass" (read: investigate) Non-Profits in order to prevent the very thing that the GOP is freaking out about -- rich people like the Koch Brothers using fake non profits as a political machine. Note that the GOP isn't freaking out about people doing this, they're freaking out that they might be caught.

In other words, the real scandal is that the IRS somehow DIDN'T notice the Koch Brothers are breaking several dozen federal laws by astroturfing tea party "chartiies" in order to push anti-science, anti-climate change, and anti-worker agendas across the entire US.

All of this is due to the guy handling most of the GOP's fake scandals, Darrel Issa. He's got his thumbs in pretty much every fake scandal plaguing the Obama administration, in something that has come to be known as the Paula Jones Technique - make up fake scandals or inflate existing ones in hopes that your opponent (in this case, President Obama's Administration) can't do anything but react to the scandals.

Chevron has a sizable industrial accident in a community.

At least we agree on this. :)

They take losses in it (insurance likely covers direct losses) and lose a contractor.

If Chevron was a privately owned little mom-and-pop operation and the "contractor" was their son-in-law I'd have some sympathy. But, in this case, it's hard to imagine that anyone with any real decision making power (that is, responsibility) suffered at all. Somehow I doubt the CEO of Chevron will put a picture of the deceased contractor's family on his desk as a permanent reminder to never let something like this happen again: for a company that size, a few human lives here and there are merely the cost of doing business.

I'm sure that wherever damages did occur, Chevron is on the hook and is likely paying up.

With a fire that burned for four days and the loss of life I'm pretty sure that the local government provided some services somewhere along the line.

The nearby residents had zero damages and weren't owed a thing.

I have a young nephew who, when he gets mad, runs around swinging his arms randomly hoping to "accidentally" hit someone. I suppose technically there's nothing wrong with his behavior because he's not guaranteed to succeed in hitting anyone and, even if he does, it's not "intentional". But real life isn't quite so simple and black and white: there's also this notion of negligent activity that puts others at risk.

Chevron is not getting off cheap or abdicating responsibility through a pizza giveaway.

Last year the CEO of Chevron got about $30 million in compensation. In a standard 2,000 hour work year (50 weeks at 40 hours/week), that works out to $15,000/hour or $250/minute (there was time when I thought lawyers who charged $250/hour had it good). Now, Chevron apparently gave away about 100 pizzas at a cost of $12 or so per pizza - for a total cost of about $1,200. So this pizza give-away is equivalent to just a bit less that 5 minutes of the CEO's time.

The situation is comparable to having a tall tree in your yard that falls over on your car. You don't owe your neighbor a pizza, but maybe you buy him dinner anyway just for giving him the jitters.

A better analogy would be that cut down a tree on your property without taking adequate safety precautions and it all goes horribly wrong and falls on a fedex delivery person who was trying to deliver a package to your house and your neigbor tries to give the delivery person CPR but the delivery person dies in your neighbor's arms - not too mention the tree almost fell on your neighbor's house which might have killed your neighbor's family. So you give your neighbor just one single penny to compensate for the distress and risk you caused - and walk away self-righteously feeling that you've given your neighbor far more compensation than your neighbor actually deserved.

http://articles.philly.com/201...

A sufficiently motivated takeover coalition with sufficient capital can defeat any gimmick.

My original statement stands.