and 2) I don't see that the right to rebuttal was taken away, not even on the kid's own web site. Plus the council and school can actually issue press releases and have people take notice.
This was someone ruling over their petty school fiefdom, and that, unfortunately, isn't limited to the UK or the US.
You're assuming rationality and the small business owner knows what a certificate is. Even $20 can seem like a bad expense when it seems they are spending it for hot air. Try explaining certs to someone with no concept of any of that sometime.
This is called false duality, false dichotomy, or false choice, and it's the fallacy that RULES our political landscape right now. It was also McCarthy's favorite fantasy.
If you dig into tax abatements and laws in certain states it turns out the state tax rate for a lot of companies receiving abatements and incentives are actually negative. Some states give out tax refunds in certain situations no matter whether the tax was paid or not.
the corporate tax rate trolling in media is one of the most misleading arguments ever.
The tax rate for huge number (including some of the biggest) corporations in the US right now is already 0%. The bigger you are more likely you can employ 1x10^56 lawyers to get you out of each and every obligation.
Again, it's ass backwards... but that is what it is like right now because our government is controlled.
I really appreciate your comment, but I cringe at the "maximize shareholder value" meme.
The top 1% of the country owns WAY more than 50% of the stocks. The biggest shareholders are the CEO/executive class themselves. When you say "maximize shareholder value" it implies that they are doing it for "everyone" (or the 401k, normal investor, index fund investor) and I think the it's misleading. At the end of the day they are doing it for themselves and its just another selfish motive.
We also treat the "shareholder value" meme as if it was handed down by Moses on stone tablets, too. It's a legal construct and is based on legal precedence. If we actually had the political will we could add requirements to corporate charters that gave them more responsibility. At one point in the past (pre railroad barons) they were actually there!
which gets you back to discussion on the broken patent system. Another reason why we say it is broken is because it artificially inflates market prices and prevents the decimation of technology that was previously only available to the richest few.
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But they get excited for the next ipad, so we have that.
Sorry... with a story like this it's just too much of a temptation to let the karma burn.
That's just a communist attitude right there..
Next you'll be saying that they shouldn't be taught how to become good corporate citizens.
Buy more! Buy more now.
Can you be more specific?
you assume the Chineese give a shit that people will die.
There isn't good evidence for that assumption, IMHO.
With the Food Desert problem in places like Detroit, a food drop might not be that far fetched.
What a coincidence! American schools love to serve salmonella.
I don't see how her choice of meal impacts her right to speak about it.
Again... the school always had a right to rebuttal.
We only have free speech at the pleasure of our corporate overlords.
So what.
1) We all deal with that in one form or another.
and 2) I don't see that the right to rebuttal was taken away, not even on the kid's own web site. Plus the council and school can actually issue press releases and have people take notice.
This was someone ruling over their petty school fiefdom, and that, unfortunately, isn't limited to the UK or the US.
no. embarrassing a petty member of the school bureaucracy.
Petty dictators.
Roger Waters' write accurate songs.
These colors don't run, asshole.
I am going to run you over in my ford truck.
I hope they make enough money from the Microsoft Zombies, because they won't get anyone else seriously buying or talking up the phone.
You're assuming rationality and the small business owner knows what a certificate is. Even $20 can seem like a bad expense when it seems they are spending it for hot air. Try explaining certs to someone with no concept of any of that sometime.
Actually, I've heard plenty of bad word-of-mouth reviews from regular users on Windows phone too, the most prevalent complaint being that it is slow.
You are an extremist by definition.
China uses capitalism as a communist tool. Yes, they are capitalist but not in the way you are thinking.
This is called false duality, false dichotomy, or false choice, and it's the fallacy that RULES our political landscape right now. It was also McCarthy's favorite fantasy.
If you dig into tax abatements and laws in certain states it turns out the state tax rate for a lot of companies receiving abatements and incentives are actually negative. Some states give out tax refunds in certain situations no matter whether the tax was paid or not.
the corporate tax rate trolling in media is one of the most misleading arguments ever.
The tax rate for huge number (including some of the biggest) corporations in the US right now is already 0%. The bigger you are more likely you can employ 1x10^56 lawyers to get you out of each and every obligation.
Again, it's ass backwards... but that is what it is like right now because our government is controlled.
I really appreciate your comment, but I cringe at the "maximize shareholder value" meme.
The top 1% of the country owns WAY more than 50% of the stocks. The biggest shareholders are the CEO/executive class themselves. When you say "maximize shareholder value" it implies that they are doing it for "everyone" (or the 401k, normal investor, index fund investor) and I think the it's misleading. At the end of the day they are doing it for themselves and its just another selfish motive.
We also treat the "shareholder value" meme as if it was handed down by Moses on stone tablets, too. It's a legal construct and is based on legal precedence. If we actually had the political will we could add requirements to corporate charters that gave them more responsibility. At one point in the past (pre railroad barons) they were actually there!
Because the only healthy response to our world right now is to laugh at it.
huh? I wasn't paying attention.
Perhaps if big Pharma was actually honest that would merit a story.
SOP.
oh shit.
which gets you back to discussion on the broken patent system. Another reason why we say it is broken is because it artificially inflates market prices and prevents the decimation of technology that was previously only available to the richest few.