One glaring issue with corporations is the limited liability, which allows them to egregiously flout both laws and morals, especially when the profits from their business practices are much greater than the penalties.
I suspect the bad ones would be much better behaved if there were some sort of "three strikes" laws in effect or ones that prevented them from passing the costs along to customers when being fined.
The practical applications as well as the implications would need some serious thought but it's clear that "business as usual" is only working for the businesses.
The respect a corporation gets is based on what they deserve - some clearly have earned it, others not so much and a few, like some humans, should be destroyed.
A fundamental problem with (public?) corporations is the overemphasis, which has legal enforcement, on the profit motive. This engenders some awful and callous business practices, which wouldn't likely be "respected" if done by an individual.
(Overly?) restrictive rules have longed since been applied to foreignors. A colleague who's a Canadian citizen once had a problem at a border crossing with some messed up paperwork 15 years ago - even though he's now made over 100 crossings ( and dozens before that ), he still gets questioned EVERY time about the incident.
According to his version of the story, it was just a paperwork problem, no arguments with the guards and no arrest / search.
Seems pretty ridiculous to me.
Perspective is a matter of where you stand. Yes, Iranian justice sounds terrible but I'm not affected by it unless I GO THERE .
That's not necessarily true of US "justice" - especially since America seems to actively strong-arm other countries into playing by its rules.
We've had settlements and cities for a long time and the UHI effect, which is accounted for, doesn't explain the nighttime warming adequately, especially since most temps are measured at airports.
It's not just about oil - James Hansen has said that even if we burn ALL the conventional oil reserves, it won't get us to 450 ppm, which is where he guesses the tipping point is ( others disagree ).
But there are lots of unconventional sources and still a LOT of coal reserves - burning all that would get us into a runaway scencario, especially if it gets warm enough to release the Siberian methane stores.
So whatever technological revolution you forsee, it had better be 100% carbon-free or even carbon-negative.
Funny how the deniers like yourself are quick to talk about events in the past when it suits your agenda.
But when climatologists do the same, you're all quick to shout about how inaccurate the measurements could be, that we can't possibly be sure because climate is so complicated, etc.
Have a nice day under your bridge, troll.
There seems to be about 20 years of missing data; how about a more updated analysis.
And we're NOT overdue for an Ice Age, but, at most, somewhere past the midpoint of an interglacial period.
I'll restate my response to StarWreck - 2011 saw a strong La Niña cooling event so the fact that it so warm is quite surprising.
Another remarkable fact is that the nights are getting warmer - which was one of the early predictions of global warming / climate change.
Because the "no warming between 1998 and 2008" is inaccurate and misunderstood. The RATE of warming was a bit lower than the previous 2 decades, especially since the 1990s were dominated by El Niño events and 1998 was a peak of the rate of warming because of the STRONGEST El Niño EVER recorded.
After that, the ENSO events weren't as pronounced and were mostly La Niñas.
However, 2011, despite have a strong La Niña, still made it into the Top Ten warmest on record.
I was a pretty big kid back then and global cooling hypothesis was never under serious consideration by the majority of researchers. The blame for that falls on some misinformed journalists.
Global warming, otoh, was being considered as far back as the mid-50s, even though the average temp had been in a downward trend for over a decade.
Probably not many, maybe not any.
But I'm not sure they die much happier and their regrets are likely the same.
Reclusive lives, unsure if your friends really like you or just envy you, never quite certain who to trust, not being able to venture out without be bothered, assaulted, maligned and many of them have strained relations with their children, so I guess it's the lucky few who strike the right balance while they still young enough to enjoy it.
Impressive - modded down in about 10 minutes!! I believe that's a record in all my many years of Slashdotting:-) Which corporate-sucking slavedriver did I piss off this time?
Which is borne out by the experiences of this palliative care nurse; I can't say for certain that "I should have spent more time at the office", "I wish I'd been a better employee" or "I wanted to be company president" didn't make the list but none are in the top 5.
If they did have the manufacturing capacity elsewhere to compensate for the loss of output in Thailand, they'd probably claim increased labour costs and jack up the prices anyhow.
We can't win when there's this much consolidation in the market.
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Don't ever act as a counselor to someone on death row or dying of a terminal disease. You'll only depress them, well, to death.
One glaring issue with corporations is the limited liability, which allows them to egregiously flout both laws and morals, especially when the profits from their business practices are much greater than the penalties. I suspect the bad ones would be much better behaved if there were some sort of "three strikes" laws in effect or ones that prevented them from passing the costs along to customers when being fined. The practical applications as well as the implications would need some serious thought but it's clear that "business as usual" is only working for the businesses.
The respect a corporation gets is based on what they deserve - some clearly have earned it, others not so much and a few, like some humans, should be destroyed. A fundamental problem with (public?) corporations is the overemphasis, which has legal enforcement, on the profit motive. This engenders some awful and callous business practices, which wouldn't likely be "respected" if done by an individual.
(Overly?) restrictive rules have longed since been applied to foreignors. A colleague who's a Canadian citizen once had a problem at a border crossing with some messed up paperwork 15 years ago - even though he's now made over 100 crossings ( and dozens before that ), he still gets questioned EVERY time about the incident. According to his version of the story, it was just a paperwork problem, no arguments with the guards and no arrest / search. Seems pretty ridiculous to me.
Perspective is a matter of where you stand. Yes, Iranian justice sounds terrible but I'm not affected by it unless I GO THERE . That's not necessarily true of US "justice" - especially since America seems to actively strong-arm other countries into playing by its rules.
Not to mention that they were complicit in the rendition of another of their citizens into the hands of Syrian torturers.
We've had settlements and cities for a long time and the UHI effect, which is accounted for, doesn't explain the nighttime warming adequately, especially since most temps are measured at airports.
It's not just about oil - James Hansen has said that even if we burn ALL the conventional oil reserves, it won't get us to 450 ppm, which is where he guesses the tipping point is ( others disagree ). But there are lots of unconventional sources and still a LOT of coal reserves - burning all that would get us into a runaway scencario, especially if it gets warm enough to release the Siberian methane stores. So whatever technological revolution you forsee, it had better be 100% carbon-free or even carbon-negative.
Funny how the deniers like yourself are quick to talk about events in the past when it suits your agenda.
But when climatologists do the same, you're all quick to shout about how inaccurate the measurements could be, that we can't possibly be sure because climate is so complicated, etc.
Have a nice day under your bridge, troll.
So much for the Ten Commandments. Just as well - I find it impossible to not covet my neighbour's ass.
I get the feeling you didn't read the summary under that cluttered graphic
There seems to be about 20 years of missing data; how about a more updated analysis.
And we're NOT overdue for an Ice Age, but, at most, somewhere past the midpoint of an interglacial period.
I'll restate my response to StarWreck - 2011 saw a strong La Niña cooling event so the fact that it so warm is quite surprising.
Another remarkable fact is that the nights are getting warmer - which was one of the early predictions of global warming / climate change.
We do not inherit the Earth from our parents but borrow it from our children
Because the "no warming between 1998 and 2008" is inaccurate and misunderstood. The RATE of warming was a bit lower than the previous 2 decades, especially since the 1990s were dominated by El Niño events and 1998 was a peak of the rate of warming because of the STRONGEST El Niño EVER recorded.
After that, the ENSO events weren't as pronounced and were mostly La Niñas.
However, 2011, despite have a strong La Niña, still made it into the Top Ten warmest on record.
Buddy, you're are on the wrong site, if you need this explained to you. Are you, perchance, related to Seth at UserFriendly?
I was a pretty big kid back then and global cooling hypothesis was never under serious consideration by the majority of researchers. The blame for that falls on some misinformed journalists. Global warming, otoh, was being considered as far back as the mid-50s, even though the average temp had been in a downward trend for over a decade.
Yup,*whoosh* indeed :-)
Was this too subtle? It wasn't my intent to make anyone look foolish.
No, we don't need more Big Government looking over the shoulders of our job creators. The market will take care of itself if left alone.
John Smith? Around here we prefer to call him Anonymous Coward.
Probably not many, maybe not any.
But I'm not sure they die much happier and their regrets are likely the same.
Reclusive lives, unsure if your friends really like you or just envy you, never quite certain who to trust, not being able to venture out without be bothered, assaulted, maligned and many of them have strained relations with their children, so I guess it's the lucky few who strike the right balance while they still young enough to enjoy it.
Impressive - modded down in about 10 minutes!! I believe that's a record in all my many years of Slashdotting :-) Which corporate-sucking slavedriver did I piss off this time?
Didn't mean to imply that I work in palliative care ( although I know several who do); I just forgot the damn link http://exposingthetruth.info/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying/
Which is borne out by the experiences of this palliative care nurse; I can't say for certain that "I should have spent more time at the office", "I wish I'd been a better employee" or "I wanted to be company president" didn't make the list but none are in the top 5.
If they did have the manufacturing capacity elsewhere to compensate for the loss of output in Thailand, they'd probably claim increased labour costs and jack up the prices anyhow. We can't win when there's this much consolidation in the market.