Again, equating money with your worth as an individual or "success."
It's the meme of the last 30 years and it's total bullshit. We've got plenty of billionaires in the U.S. that nobody will give a shit about after they've been dead for 10 years. Yeah.. that's real success.
Come on... are you paying attention to the world at all.
The ideas of avoiding the appearance of impropriety and conflict of interest have gone right out the window. Just look at the Supreme Court and Congress. None of them obviously heard about it either.
Going through the motions of questioning a real estate deal like this seems rather quaint and rather cute, and it's sure to amount to nothing at all. When you are in the elite you can buy your way out.
My personal belief is *any* public policy that favors huge corporations over small business is a job killer. It's not the huge corporations that are creating the jobs and it never will be again unless the U.S. goes to 3rd world status and people start taking jobs for $1 an hour.
That means patents. It means tax law and abatement. That been big money lobbying.
This may be true, but like I say about the Republican party: they need to control their idiots... or at least say that they're not with them.
They need to be speaking up LOUDLY and letting everyone know they don't approve of this type of mind control crap. They need to let everyone know that they DON'T stand with Westbrough or any of the people calling for open hate.
And it really bothers *ME* how certain pro-corporate slashdotters are CEO worshipers and act like the "shareholder value" meme dropped from the sky from God and never even question if it is real. So let's just call it even, shall we?
I am actually been waiting to buy one as an addition to my Asus Iconia. The Iconia is much too nice to carry to work every day and great for travel. I want to use something with a smaller price point for day-to-day work.
I don't agree with everything that Michael Moore says, but on CNN one time he had a very important point.
When GM was doing well it was making something like $14 billion a year. Yet they were still laying off workers. What is so wrong with making $13 billion a year and keeping the workers, especially those that gave a significant part of their lives to that company.
There is no incentive for a corporation to treat its workers with respect. The unions gave that incentive but their own decadence has greatly ruined their own power. Couple that with the fact when you put in huge golden parachutes and pay millions of dollars to upper management a year there is no incentive for them to care if the enterprise is even there after they are gone. If a huge cluster-fsck.
It's almost an irrelevant question as the real reasoning behind it means that a CEO can put more money in his/her pocket. The entire decision process is about how much money they can get their fat greedy paws on RIGHT NOW. The fact that it could all fall down tomorrow doesn't come into the equation. This is yet another corporate culture problem.
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Conflating the two causes an intellectually dishonest debate. Period.
Replace the CEOs with H1bs and you'll get better results.
Again, equating money with your worth as an individual or "success."
It's the meme of the last 30 years and it's total bullshit. We've got plenty of billionaires in the U.S. that nobody will give a shit about after they've been dead for 10 years. Yeah.. that's real success.
Are you talking about the RNC?
Come on... are you paying attention to the world at all.
The ideas of avoiding the appearance of impropriety and conflict of interest have gone right out the window. Just look at the Supreme Court and Congress. None of them obviously heard about it either.
Going through the motions of questioning a real estate deal like this seems rather quaint and rather cute, and it's sure to amount to nothing at all. When you are in the elite you can buy your way out.
You mean this isn't happening with all his other properties?
Apply fanboys must be slackin'.
Someone else take his ex girlfriend. Do not want.
Imagine that happening in the good ol' USA!
Shocking!
The Doctor has picked her up by now.
There's your next companion.. right there. Moffatt.. that's a freebee.
My personal belief is *any* public policy that favors huge corporations over small business is a job killer. It's not the huge corporations that are creating the jobs and it never will be again unless the U.S. goes to 3rd world status and people start taking jobs for $1 an hour.
That means patents. It means tax law and abatement. That been big money lobbying.
You can list all day.
remember the book "Is Elvis Alive?"
It was a book of nothing but questions, just like this.
This may be true, but like I say about the Republican party: they need to control their idiots... or at least say that they're not with them.
They need to be speaking up LOUDLY and letting everyone know they don't approve of this type of mind control crap. They need to let everyone know that they DON'T stand with Westbrough or any of the people calling for open hate.
When they don't they lose credibility.
They only way they are mutually exclusive if you believe the bible is a literal, 100% true document.
However, I don't even believe the pope believes that the bible is literal anymore.
If it is the the Baptists are all going to hell because they like their pork sandwiches.
Seriously though... reading the bible as literal pulls all of its power out of it... and really silly to boot.
And everyone that has used one SAP's systems, but it will be a death by confusion.
It's the "silly" field that causes Microsoft fanbois to keep talking about one button mice over 20 years later...
Gamera is REALLY NEAT.
Gamera is FULL OF MEAT.
We all love you, GAMERA!
Did he put his picture on top of the letter with a big H2 headline "And appeal from Jimmy Wales"?
And it really bothers *ME* how certain pro-corporate slashdotters are CEO worshipers and act like the "shareholder value" meme dropped from the sky from God and never even question if it is real. So let's just call it even, shall we?
When they helped the company earn that $14 B, I don't think charity is a word that applies.
I am actually been waiting to buy one as an addition to my Asus Iconia. The Iconia is much too nice to carry to work every day and great for travel. I want to use something with a smaller price point for day-to-day work.
I don't agree with everything that Michael Moore says, but on CNN one time he had a very important point.
When GM was doing well it was making something like $14 billion a year. Yet they were still laying off workers. What is so wrong with making $13 billion a year and keeping the workers, especially those that gave a significant part of their lives to that company.
There is no incentive for a corporation to treat its workers with respect. The unions gave that incentive but their own decadence has greatly ruined their own power. Couple that with the fact when you put in huge golden parachutes and pay millions of dollars to upper management a year there is no incentive for them to care if the enterprise is even there after they are gone. If a huge cluster-fsck.
"Not making good profits" another corporate-speak, purposefully weakly defined term.
500% is not good profits for some of these people...
It's almost an irrelevant question as the real reasoning behind it means that a CEO can put more money in his/her pocket. The entire decision process is about how much money they can get their fat greedy paws on RIGHT NOW. The fact that it could all fall down tomorrow doesn't come into the equation. This is yet another corporate culture problem.
Erin Burnett?
You should be laughing.
That wasn't a "failed" product, it was a prototype.
Be fair... jessh.