Greed is when you place making money above all else and don't care about the harm you do to others to achieve that. Problem is, publically traded corporations have a legal obligation to increase profits every legal way possible.
Problem is, you are totally wrong in a corporation's legal obligation. I've read the lawsuit someone used to bullshit you with. It actually says the exact opposite of your claim. Corporations have the obligation to pay dividends to shareholders based on profits, but have no government-enforced mandate to make those profits larger.
The corporation, or the majority shareholder in the case of Dodge v. Ford Motor Co., can't squander profits just because they want to. Especially in the Ford case, where Henry Ford also wanted to keep shareholders from getting a large sum of money that was going to be used to set up a competing car company.
Here is a link to the pdf of the decision. It's nine pages long, and doesn't take too long to read. http://www.businessentitiesonl...
I'm a white guy who spent a decade in Hawaii, with the military and after getting out. My wife was born and raised in Kaneohe, and is of Japanese descent. (Her father fought with the 442.) She clearly saw the discrimination that happened to whites there when she worked for local companies. She knew which companies I wouldn't get hired at when looking for work. We experienced it at restaurants where the Asian tourists where taken care of, while we sat there waiting forever for service.
Basically, I just want to verify the AC's account. Some might ignore it because it doesn't have a name tied to it.
I loved riding around Frisco when I was stationed in the area for a year. Rode over the Golden Gate bridge a couple times, rode up to Napa a few times too. I even rode down Lombard Street once. (Riding up the back side of that hill was murder.) Great city for bicycles.
2) 'Kilo' is the metric prefix for 1000, not 1024. There already was confusion between an OS's kilobyte and a storage manufacturer's kilobyte. Kibibyte is a lame hack to try to instill some semblance of binary order in a scenario where marketing will trump all such efforts.
Some of us remember when storage manufacturers still used the correct definition of kilobytes and megabytes. It has been a while though.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled ranting.
If money (or any object) is passed from one person to another, some people want their "fair share" of it. Even if, as you say, those people already had their fair share of it.
I've ignored them since the sleazy way they demoted Pluto from planetness. If they had done it properly I wouldn't be so rabid about it, but they had to manufacture the result.
You're selling the planet's names? That's a small inventory you have.
I am accepting bids for all the asteroids in orbit beyond the fourth planet. I'm still debating whether to charge based on mass, volume, or surface area.
They pay the same rates you do on the same types of income. It isn't their fault you put your extra income into alcohol/tobacco/entertainment/toys rather than an investment portfolio.
IF all you see is the otherside being the problem, you're part of the problem yourself. Until we get past (D) good, (R) bad (or visa versa) there will be no solution to the ongoing nightmare called "government".
Thankfully, more people are realizing this every day.
No. The correct word now is "rescue", not "adopt". I felt like slapping someone a couple weeks ago because she mentioned that her ugly mutts were "rescue dogs". She wasn't bragging or anything, just casually using that idiotic term.
I don't care if someone gets a free puppy from their neighbor, or buys a purebred for $1000, or adopts a dog from the pound. As long as they love and care for the animal. But stop trying to make it a moral crusade by claiming it's a "rescue", when all you did was drive to the dog pound and bought an ugly mutt from them.
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The following is my opinion.
Greed is when you place making money above all else and don't care about the harm you do to others to achieve that. Problem is, publically traded corporations have a legal obligation to increase profits every legal way possible.
Problem is, you are totally wrong in a corporation's legal obligation. I've read the lawsuit someone used to bullshit you with. It actually says the exact opposite of your claim. Corporations have the obligation to pay dividends to shareholders based on profits, but have no government-enforced mandate to make those profits larger.
The corporation, or the majority shareholder in the case of Dodge v. Ford Motor Co., can't squander profits just because they want to. Especially in the Ford case, where Henry Ford also wanted to keep shareholders from getting a large sum of money that was going to be used to set up a competing car company.
Here is a link to the pdf of the decision. It's nine pages long, and doesn't take too long to read.
http://www.businessentitiesonl...
I'm a white guy who spent a decade in Hawaii, with the military and after getting out. My wife was born and raised in Kaneohe, and is of Japanese descent. (Her father fought with the 442.) She clearly saw the discrimination that happened to whites there when she worked for local companies. She knew which companies I wouldn't get hired at when looking for work. We experienced it at restaurants where the Asian tourists where taken care of, while we sat there waiting forever for service.
Basically, I just want to verify the AC's account. Some might ignore it because it doesn't have a name tied to it.
Bill Cosby tried to tell the black kids that, more or less, and the black community practically lynched him for it.
They don't want to change their behavior. They want everyone to adjust to it, and give them money.
Ohh. I heard that multimeter bites are nasti.
I think you're confusing the kids.
I loved riding around Frisco when I was stationed in the area for a year. Rode over the Golden Gate bridge a couple times, rode up to Napa a few times too. I even rode down Lombard Street once. (Riding up the back side of that hill was murder.) Great city for bicycles.
2) 'Kilo' is the metric prefix for 1000, not 1024. There already was confusion between an OS's kilobyte and a storage manufacturer's kilobyte. Kibibyte is a lame hack to try to instill some semblance of binary order in a scenario where marketing will trump all such efforts.
Some of us remember when storage manufacturers still used the correct definition of kilobytes and megabytes. It has been a while though.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled ranting.
Thank you, you are most considerate. :^)
If money (or any object) is passed from one person to another, some people want their "fair share" of it. Even if, as you say, those people already had their fair share of it.
The Quote of the Day below is currently:
When it is incorrect, it is, at least *authoritatively* incorrect. -- Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy
I've ignored them since the sleazy way they demoted Pluto from planetness. If they had done it properly I wouldn't be so rabid about it, but they had to manufacture the result.
Fuck them and the asteroid they rode in on.
George, you are so insightful, why are you posting anonymously?
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Note: I call all ACs George.
Because America was an unpopulated wilderness 500 years ago?
Perhaps you meant something other than the OP said: New groups of people make new names for places that supersede what the previous occupants used.
You're selling the planet's names? That's a small inventory you have.
I am accepting bids for all the asteroids in orbit beyond the fourth planet. I'm still debating whether to charge based on mass, volume, or surface area.
You are disputing that people are born with no morals?
What innate morals did you have as an infant?
Oh god, not this ill-informed tripe again.
They pay the same rates you do on the same types of income. It isn't their fault you put your extra income into alcohol/tobacco/entertainment/toys rather than an investment portfolio.
When I change my car's oil, I just dump the old oil into the stream next to my house.*
Where my share of AC's retirement fund?
*Note: I'm kidding.
I don't know. I think that title should go to the people who claim your underwear is freely viewable by the public once you leave your front door.
IF all you see is the otherside being the problem, you're part of the problem yourself. Until we get past (D) good, (R) bad (or visa versa) there will be no solution to the ongoing nightmare called "government".
Thankfully, more people are realizing this every day.
I can see one that makes sense in an "And they all lived happily ever after." sort of way.
But, yeah, the other two are not very sensible in relation to this thread.
I should get my wife's wheelchair out of the trunk and do that one day. :)
I don't use "most" until it's about 2/3 or 3/4 of the whole. 51% is not "most" in any meaningful way, and 60% is still short of it for my support.
If I don't believe in God, what logical reason is there for me to not kill another human being? Other than punishment if I'm caught and convicted?
If I do believe in God, and follow the Commandment not to kill, am I worse than a person who doesn't do either?
Frankly, as someone who is not religious but doesn't dispute the possibility of one or more gods, you statement is very confusing.
Mom! Stop posting that on /..
Cripes, I make one comment on some soap, and you can't let me forget it.
"adopt some dogs from an animal shelter"
No. The correct word now is "rescue", not "adopt". I felt like slapping someone a couple weeks ago because she mentioned that her ugly mutts were "rescue dogs". She wasn't bragging or anything, just casually using that idiotic term.
I don't care if someone gets a free puppy from their neighbor, or buys a purebred for $1000, or adopts a dog from the pound. As long as they love and care for the animal. But stop trying to make it a moral crusade by claiming it's a "rescue", when all you did was drive to the dog pound and bought an ugly mutt from them.