More likely, part of the reason Chi. lost the Olymipic bid had something to do with an honor's student getting hit on the side of the head with a railroad tie (as captured and shown on CNN and youtube.
There are people out of control in Chicago right now and I have to say I can't blame the IOC for not wanting to go there. Along with the traffic issues and overwhelming government corruption there are too many problems for Chicago to have an Olympics in the near future.
you can't "lockup" a corporation, but there is the corporate death penalty.
When was the last time you heard someone say we should revoke a corporate charter? With the bad corporate actors we have out there why isn't there more talk of this?
God damn it! Wanting curbs on corporate power != to communism! Also capitalism doesn't necessarily equal corporations. There is a heck of a lot of capitalism that occurs in the small and micro sized businesses of the U.S... so much so that %75 or more of jobs in this country are in small businesses depending on how how you define it.
If you are pro-capitalism go to your local Chinese restaurant that is run by a family or Bob's dry cleaner next door... that's where capitalism REALLY takes place in the USA.
There is nothing wrong with corporations having rights. What I have a problem with is that have equal legal rights as human beings. Then factor in the fact that they don't die or have an expiration date and that they can amass huge amounts of power through money and their footprint and they essentially have *more* rights than a normal human being.
I'll bite on this one.... I think that you have a massively revisionist view of history, but even putting that aside go back and look at how much power corporations had before the 1800s. The founding fathers massively distrusted corporations due to their experience with the East India Company. The Boston Tea Party was as much a protest against the East India Company as it was the British Government (the East India Company was the proxy of the British Government in the colonies). They knew first hand the damage corporations could do and they believed the corporate charters should be handed out for limited periods of time with limited scope. We didn't have the immortal corporation in this country until the 19th century.
I don't necessarily advocate that we go back to the originally founding father's ideas about corporations, however I do think we need at the very least to think about revoking charters of corporations that are bad actors in society. I also think corporate person hood needs to removed from our society completely.
You're missing a really big item on your list (no reason, conscience, morality, and guilt)... corporations don't have the restriction of *death.* When people amass huge amounts of power at the very least they are going to die someday and that power will dissipate. Corporations are essentially immortal. Remember that scene in the Highlander when he shows his girlfriend all those priceless artifacts? It's the same idea.
Corporations should not be treated like people because they don't operate under the same constraints as people. As a matter of fact the lack of accountability that the Limited Liability Corporation structure gives individuals is a great enabler of evil. People do things behind the shield of the corporate structure they would NEVER do otherwise. We need to go back to the founding father's concept of corporations and move away to what it morphed into during the 1800s big railway era.
I am not in the business, but lower the $20m to $2m and you can probably "electrify" a couple more rural areas. People making $2m shouldn't be starving and we are getting more people on the grid.
The parent post would actually make sense if Apple and AT&T didn't enforce a false monopoly on the market. This is another reason that exclusivity deals should be illegal.
The secret no one is supposed to talk about is that "management" is where all the money is going. Whether it is government, health care, education, telecommunications, insurance... you name it. All the money is going to the middle men who don't know how do anything but push papers and write contracts. There is no value added by these people at all. The health care industry is just full of people working in "business" areas. When I lived in Indianapolis an office I went to when I was sick had I think 3 doctors and about 12 people working in the office in various positions. Health insurance companies are chock full of people who know almost nothing but are making huge checks. Public school districts have huge multi-story "administration" buildings full of people who don't teach. That's where all the money is going... start hiring people who actually know some stuff and actually contribute to the bottom line and we'll start to move in the right direction again.
The infantry stands And holds out its hands The marshal's binoculars focus and skyward they train They're searching the yonder blue They look out for number two The heraldry of the pencil rain
Yeah. "Pebbles" is probably inaccurate. I find it hard to believe the hypothesis that there are storms on this planet where redheaded female pre-historic babies with pony tails fall out of the sky.
I heard about this but I wasn't going to install it yet. I don't use a lot of I.E. stuff, but what I do is Javascript intensive, so now that I know that your don't like it at Microsoft I have now installed it. Thanks for the heads up... since you don't like it there must be a reason to give it a look.
I don't know about you, but there are certain indications you can pick up on when people are talking about something that gives them away as being total idiots. One of these is conflating the terms "freeware" and "open source." When this is done you can feel free to turn your brain off for the rest of the statement because the person obviously doesn't know what they are talking about. Try listening to someone in the MSM talk about open source and you'll pick up on similar idiotic statements.
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My interpretation of "Hotel California" has always been as a particular and unusual vision of Hell.
I guess cloud computing fits in that.
Just so you know, people at American airports don't treat *Americans* very well either.
More likely, part of the reason Chi. lost the Olymipic bid had something to do with an honor's student getting hit on the side of the head with a railroad tie (as captured and shown on CNN and youtube.
There are people out of control in Chicago right now and I have to say I can't blame the IOC for not wanting to go there. Along with the traffic issues and overwhelming government corruption there are too many problems for Chicago to have an Olympics in the near future.
Thanks much, AC. You just made Slashdot illegal in Germany.
you can't "lockup" a corporation, but there is the corporate death penalty.
When was the last time you heard someone say we should revoke a corporate charter? With the bad corporate actors we have out there why isn't there more talk of this?
But because of the Limited Liability nature of corporate structure they don't act like persons even if they are made of people.
If you don't limit the rights of corporations (and I mean LIMIT not ELIMINATE) they essentially have more rights than persons do.
God damn it! Wanting curbs on corporate power != to communism! Also capitalism doesn't necessarily equal corporations. There is a heck of a lot of capitalism that occurs in the small and micro sized businesses of the U.S... so much so that %75 or more of jobs in this country are in small businesses depending on how how you define it.
If you are pro-capitalism go to your local Chinese restaurant that is run by a family or Bob's dry cleaner next door... that's where capitalism REALLY takes place in the USA.
There is nothing wrong with corporations having rights. What I have a problem with is that have equal legal rights as human beings. Then factor in the fact that they don't die or have an expiration date and that they can amass huge amounts of power through money and their footprint and they essentially have *more* rights than a normal human being.
I'll bite on this one.... I think that you have a massively revisionist view of history, but even putting that aside go back and look at how much power corporations had before the 1800s. The founding fathers massively distrusted corporations due to their experience with the East India Company. The Boston Tea Party was as much a protest against the East India Company as it was the British Government (the East India Company was the proxy of the British Government in the colonies). They knew first hand the damage corporations could do and they believed the corporate charters should be handed out for limited periods of time with limited scope. We didn't have the immortal corporation in this country until the 19th century.
I don't necessarily advocate that we go back to the originally founding father's ideas about corporations, however I do think we need at the very least to think about revoking charters of corporations that are bad actors in society. I also think corporate person hood needs to removed from our society completely.
You're missing a really big item on your list (no reason, conscience, morality, and guilt)... corporations don't have the restriction of *death.* When people amass huge amounts of power at the very least they are going to die someday and that power will dissipate. Corporations are essentially immortal. Remember that scene in the Highlander when he shows his girlfriend all those priceless artifacts? It's the same idea.
Corporations should not be treated like people because they don't operate under the same constraints as people. As a matter of fact the lack of accountability that the Limited Liability Corporation structure gives individuals is a great enabler of evil. People do things behind the shield of the corporate structure they would NEVER do otherwise. We need to go back to the founding father's concept of corporations and move away to what it morphed into during the 1800s big railway era.
I am not in the business, but lower the $20m to $2m and you can probably "electrify" a couple more rural areas. People making $2m shouldn't be starving and we are getting more people on the grid.
The parent post would actually make sense if Apple and AT&T didn't enforce a false monopoly on the market. This is another reason that exclusivity deals should be illegal.
The secret no one is supposed to talk about is that "management" is where all the money is going. Whether it is government, health care, education, telecommunications, insurance... you name it. All the money is going to the middle men who don't know how do anything but push papers and write contracts. There is no value added by these people at all. The health care industry is just full of people working in "business" areas. When I lived in Indianapolis an office I went to when I was sick had I think 3 doctors and about 12 people working in the office in various positions. Health insurance companies are chock full of people who know almost nothing but are making huge checks. Public school districts have huge multi-story "administration" buildings full of people who don't teach. That's where all the money is going... start hiring people who actually know some stuff and actually contribute to the bottom line and we'll start to move in the right direction again.
No, I am Sparticus!
The infantry stands
And holds out its hands
The marshal's binoculars focus and skyward they train
They're searching the yonder blue
They look out for number two
The heraldry of the pencil rain
Yeah. "Pebbles" is probably inaccurate. I find it hard to believe the hypothesis that there are storms on this planet where redheaded female pre-historic babies with pony tails fall out of the sky.
link to a reproduction of the JT press release
from Jack Thompson wikipedia article:
>though as of September 19, 2009 he has stated he intends to resume practicing law as of October 1st as he was 'never disbarred'.
uh... looks like we need a goodluckwiththat tag, too.
I agree.
Send kayne West to space... for GOOD!
yes. ain't cost cutting great!
You're forgetting that the savings would be immediately put back into executive salaries.
It could also be a dead end in development.
You mean like Windows ME?
well.. the system works from THEIR point of view. What more do you want?
I heard about this but I wasn't going to install it yet. I don't use a lot of I.E. stuff, but what I do is Javascript intensive, so now that I know that your don't like it at Microsoft I have now installed it. Thanks for the heads up... since you don't like it there must be a reason to give it a look.
I don't know about you, but there are certain indications you can pick up on when people are talking about something that gives them away as being total idiots. One of these is conflating the terms "freeware" and "open source." When this is done you can feel free to turn your brain off for the rest of the statement because the person obviously doesn't know what they are talking about. Try listening to someone in the MSM talk about open source and you'll pick up on similar idiotic statements.