What you are missing is....wrong about what? Wrong about the christian god? Wrong about zeus? Wrong about Jupiter Optimus Maximus? Wrong about the Hindu pantheon? Which one might I be wrong about?
But more to the point...I could be wrong about any of them, thats not what I am talking about. I am saying, in my own mind, there is nothing to doubt. Nothing to be wrong about.
Quite a convenient logical scaffolding you've built there, isn't it? You don't care about the question, therefore the question doesn't exist. First, I'm not arguing about the superiority of any religion's god. I know my beliefs are true by faith, and as a Presbyterian, I know that only God can change your mind, not me. To me, God is obvious because we are here. To an "atheist," their god is themselves or the unquestionable sovereignty of the state. As the philosopher said, "if god didn't exist, it would be necessary for people to invent him." It's human nature. Natural law. Truths that are "self evident." All this points to a sovereign being greater than ourselves.
If there is no god, then there is likewise no judgement. Justice cannot exist. The law is in vain. How can one live with that?
I suggest you amend your hypothesis to explain why religious people DO spend more time and money on prolonging life because... thats exactly what the data finds.
I have no idea where this data is coming from. I'm speaking only from my own experience in my church and other PCA congregations with whom I'm familiar. If you define "religious" as "not atheist", then yes, I can see your point. A catholic will prolong life to make sure they have their checklist of things done to make sure they don't go to purgatory. A muslim fears that god will be in a "bad mood" when they die, and will damn them to hell just for the fun of it. A communist fears that their legacy of serving the state will be tarnished, and will fight to stay alive as long as possible.
This is why I said you must be looking at false religions. True religion believes in victory over death, and the irresistible grace of God that will present us worthy to be in God's presence. Does that mean we should commit suicide or live recklessly to get into heaven sooner? Not at all. God expects us to work in this world for His purpose for as long as He intends, not one moment less.. or more.
I think that is a lot of it. Other studies have found that the groups who spend the most on healthcare at the end, and spend the most time in hospital beds prolonging life are... the religious people. Atheists are much more in line with doctors. Why?
I think you've been looking at false religions. In my experience, religious people believe they have victory over death, and don't fear it. In fact, keeping someone alive artificially is more of an affront to "God's Will" than anything else. Those who are the most afraid of death are those who would advocate suicide & euthanasia, because they want to get it over with. Religious people don't fear it, therefore they let nature take its course.
For me as an atheist, whats to doubt? If there is an afterlife, great....but a heaven one seems just as unlikely as a hell. We literally have nothing to worry about.
The very summary of this article is just assuming that the US has already thrown out the constitution and completed the transition to a communist dictatorship.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Tenth amendment to the US constitution.
The question is not "Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities?", it's "Can Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities?" The answer, according to our founding documents, is a resounding NO.
When an increase in government spending does not keep up with the increase in population and inflation than an increase is a decrease. Let me explain it to you simply. If one has $1,000 and decide to give it to a hundred people, than everyone get $10. The following year the number of people increase to 110 so to give everyone $10 one must increase the $1,000 to $1,100. Anything less is a decrease to everyone getting that money.
WOW! That, sir, is exactly the political double-talk and new math that our government overlords have used to justify the wanton destruction of the US and European economies! Kindly remove yourself from the political conversation, you complete tool.
Where in your "example" is this new set of 10 people doing anything to contribute to this simplified economy? If these new ten people have jobs, and pay the same taxes that the original 100 people paid, then THE AMOUNT OF TAX INCOME WOULD INCREASE WITHOUT HAVING TO RAISE TAXES AT ALL!!! It's called multiplication. Learn how to use it. It does not justify baseline budgeting, tax increases, or deficit spending. Unless, of course, it's just a new 10 people on the government dole, in which case it's just an example of how the welfare state is unsustainable.
Seriously. Does anyone actually believe this "auto-increasing budgets" garbage?
I'm trying Linux Mint out in a VM right now, but I'm probably not going to switch from Ubuntu just because there's no real reason to.
LXDE, however, is awesome. It's the default window manager for mint, and on top of being very snappy and having relatively good configuration options, it supports dockapps! I don't have to use some end-around tongue swallowing app to get my precious square apps to work anymore! I don't have to run some hacked version of windowmaker to get a modern desktop anymore!
Breaking that cycle requires real money to recruit better teachers, and the shitty schools usually have the LEAST money.
I agree with the rest of your post, but you miss the point entirely here. The problem isn't that poor schools aren't being funded. In fact, per-student costs in poorer districts is actually multiple times what it is in more affluent areas (if you want a citation, watch the documentary Cartel and count the luxary cars found in school admin parking lots in the "poor" school districts of NJ). The problem is that a tiny fraction of that function actually makes it into the classroom. Most of it goes to pensions and unions.
Tell your current company about the offer, and see if you get a counter-offer.
(and if they don't counter, you know how you're valued. Leave.)
You're basically threatening your boss. Even if he comes back with a more generous counteroffer, the relationship will be permanently damaged, especially in a small company where you have to work directly with the owner or CEO. I made this very mistake of trying to play hardball with an "at will" position, and watched as my responsibilities were slowly taken away until I was fired a few months later. I was left in a lurch and had to take a job paying far less.
When dealing with "at will" employment (as the vast majority of us do), it's best to make a decision and stick with it. Don't try and get a bidding war going with the guy currently signing your paycheck.
Sheesh people, this is a free market. If you don't like it, don't buy it. It's not like these are mandatory government issued computers or something. On top of that, it is still cheaper to build your own machine and be your own Original Equipment Manufacturer.
It is important to mention that throughout the US, tuition has gone up at least partially in a response to declining state funding.
Because no one has ever been able to run a successful school without giant government grants.
O wait...
(proud graduate of a private college paid for on my father's custodian's salary, all while he continued paying taxes to fund the state university's bloated tenure and pension systems.)
Government: We planned to increase the budget deficit by $4 trillion next few years, but now we're only increasing it by $2 trillion! We cut spending by $2 trillion dollars!
S&P: You still increased spending. You didn't cut anything. You still spend almost twice as much as you make. You are no longer credible.
Government: Traitors! Terrorists! Hostage takers! Can't you idiots in private industry do math?
Pathetic. Even the slashdot title of this article is complete rubbish.
1. Trying to get anything out of the non-paying 5 is about as effective as trying to squeeze blood from a stone. They don't have the money, that's why they aren't paying.
People in Somalia are in poverty. People in the Sudan "don't have the money." You're average US household who claims poverty absolutely does have the money to pay, and that ten bucks a month times many tens of millions does start to add up. When people become part of the suppliers of government revenue (however small), suddenly they are a lot more critical of how their money is spent, and this is a Good Thing.
2. The guy who's paying almost the entire bill has the ability to make the rules about who gets what
Come again? The rich "fat cats" that are demonized in the current class-warfare climate are households who make more than $200k per year. At that rate, you could blow a half-year's salary on one plate at an Obama fund raiser. The super-powers of political lobbies are not the small businesses who are considered "the rich," they are the corporate unions and political action groups. I'm not saying that the free-market advocates don't have their share of kickbacks, but at least on that side we get to duke it out ourselves. With all our money going directly to The Party, what choice do we ever have?
the rich benefit disproportionately from government services, they should pay their fair share for them.
So to you, "fair" is that out of 10 people, 1 person pays almost the entire bill, 4 people pay a little bit, and the remaining 5 pay nothing at all? On top of that, those non-paying 5 people are the ones consuming most of the benefits! This all seems "fair" to you?
You do realize that is exactly the opposite of what it was billed as, right? No new taxes! Keep your current plan if you like it! All our costs will go down!
Bald-faced lies.
If it's a tax, get congress to rewrite it as such and pass a new giant social welfare bill. Without that truth, I'll lean on the US constitution (hey, it got us out of slavery, didn't it?)
But the point is, nothing written in the constitution means anything any more, and hasn't for a long time. Every sentence and every clause has been violated and circumvented by a web of laws and rulings such that any citizen who points to the constitution in his defense is laughed out of court. In the legal profession, an appeal to the constitution is a huge inside joke. The sign of a rube. A target to be fleeced.
If the "personal mandate" of the health care law doesn't get declared unconstitutional, then I will agree with you. Until then, I still have hope.
US health care is broken, prices are skyrocketing and there's no end in sight. But let's get a few things straight:
1. PLEASE STOP comparing the United States to the UK, Israel, or even Canada. We are not these countries. We don't want to become these countries. There are large differences between our circumstances.
2. PLEASE STOP thinking that health care is some kind of right. It's not. It's not your responsibility to make sure I'm healthy.
3. PLEASE STOP forgetting that these are the United States. It's very arguable that the more wealthy states might have the right and ability to implement universal health care or even single payer, but it is very unconstitutional for the federal government to do this. Our laws protect us from the government.
4. PLEASE REMEMBER that even after the passage of the US's landmark health care bill, a) the largest corporations had to be granted waivers to keep their costs manageable, and b) health care costs have continued to rise, and at an accelerated pace.
The real sin is that health care in the US is not practically affordable by the individual. So far, no one on either side has even suggested doing anything about that.
I've got an idea: instead of fudging the regulations in order to keep old reactors running on ancient technology, why don't we build new nuclear reactors like we haven't done decades! What a concept!
Here here. It took a few hours to get used to vimperator, but now I can't live without it. Full navigation of websites without using the mouse is a cool thing, and the ctrl-i command to open up a gvim window on an edit box is awesome when preparing forum, trac, or wiki posts. Instant "y" command for copying the current URL, "p" to open the URL or search term currently in the clipboard, and lots of other useful shortcuts.
In my browser, the URL is tucked in a small line down at the bottom, there if I need it but otherwise out of mind. If that's the way chome is headed with its UI, then I think it's a Good Thing.
This bizarre notion we have in this country that all companies must always be earning more and more every year than before and always growing and profits must be more than any other company is unsustainable. It does no good for society and is the wrong way to go about things.
Incorrect.
Think about it: there are more people on earth today than there were yesterday. Therefore, in order for a company to retain their current market share, they must constantly grow their customer base. Simply said, from a business standpoint, if you're not growing, you're dying.
It's not cutthroat capitalism, it's just a basic fact that will remain true as long as the world population continues to grow.
Google took a novel and quite aggressive approach to developing a key component of Android -- the Bionic Library. That library, a type of C Library, is used by all application developers who need to access the core functions of the Linux operating system. Google essentially copied hundreds of files of Linux code that were never meant to be used as is by application developers, "cleaned" those files using a non-standard and questionable technical process, and then declared that the code was no longer subject to the GPLv2
That "technical process" looks like it refers to an automated filter that it ran the standard Linux header files through, resulting in part of the API for the non-GPL Bionic Library used in application development. One reading of copyright law could determine that the Bionic Library is a direct derivative of the Linux Kernel and therefore must be GPLv2 and open source. This library is essential for Android application development, therefore it would become legally impossible to develop a closed-source Android app.
Personally, my reading of GPLv2 tells me that simply including GPLv2 header files does not mean that your application must also be GPLv2 (otherwise a large part of the embedded market simply wouldn't exist). So I'm marking this one down as FUD.
Just like the 2-party political system, which is a joke, you guys over in the States need to get over your long-held belief that regulation is bad.
Later in your post you admit to being an American living in Europe, yet you refer to us as "you guys." Sounds like you need to make up your mind. I looked into dual citizenship with Hungary a short while back, and it really boils down to a) paying twice as much in taxes and b) not being truly trusted by either government, thus limiting your employment possibilities. If you want to burn your US passport and renounce your citizenship, that's your right to do so. But to keep it in your pocket as a backup plan when civil unrest in Europe gets really bad again (as it always does), all the while bashing the US, is just plain hypocrisy.
Regulation in the EU generally *protects* the consumer and their privacy and prevents monopolistic business practices. In the US, practically everyone believes in the invisible hand of the free market. The problem is the invisible hand is stealing from consumers pockets and stuffing the pockets of corporations. The invisible hand is NOT working in YOUR favor, it's working in favor of the corporations.
You need to remove some of your prejudice and realize that what's good for corporations is good for people. I work for a corporation. Just about everyone I know works for a corporation. Where do you work? The government? And you're somehow arguing that this is less susceptible to corruption and greed? Don't make me laugh! Here in the US, giant corporations that becomes greedy and fraudulent (like Enron) will eventually fail, go bankrupt, and ultimately GO AWAY. Not so with giant corrupt organizations like the EPA, Fannie Mae, or labor unions. Their existence is woven into law, meaning they will NEVER GO AWAY.
You're pointing out the fundamental flaw in European-style socialism: corporations are always bad and governments are always good. In fact, quite the opposite is usually true.
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What you are missing is....wrong about what? Wrong about the christian god? Wrong about zeus? Wrong about Jupiter Optimus Maximus? Wrong about the Hindu pantheon? Which one might I be wrong about?
But more to the point...I could be wrong about any of them, thats not what I am talking about. I am saying, in my own mind, there is nothing to doubt. Nothing to be wrong about.
Quite a convenient logical scaffolding you've built there, isn't it? You don't care about the question, therefore the question doesn't exist. First, I'm not arguing about the superiority of any religion's god. I know my beliefs are true by faith, and as a Presbyterian, I know that only God can change your mind, not me. To me, God is obvious because we are here. To an "atheist," their god is themselves or the unquestionable sovereignty of the state. As the philosopher said, "if god didn't exist, it would be necessary for people to invent him." It's human nature. Natural law. Truths that are "self evident." All this points to a sovereign being greater than ourselves.
If there is no god, then there is likewise no judgement. Justice cannot exist. The law is in vain. How can one live with that?
I suggest you amend your hypothesis to explain why religious people DO spend more time and money on prolonging life because... thats exactly what the data finds.
I have no idea where this data is coming from. I'm speaking only from my own experience in my church and other PCA congregations with whom I'm familiar. If you define "religious" as "not atheist", then yes, I can see your point. A catholic will prolong life to make sure they have their checklist of things done to make sure they don't go to purgatory. A muslim fears that god will be in a "bad mood" when they die, and will damn them to hell just for the fun of it. A communist fears that their legacy of serving the state will be tarnished, and will fight to stay alive as long as possible.
This is why I said you must be looking at false religions. True religion believes in victory over death, and the irresistible grace of God that will present us worthy to be in God's presence. Does that mean we should commit suicide or live recklessly to get into heaven sooner? Not at all. God expects us to work in this world for His purpose for as long as He intends, not one moment less.. or more.
I think that is a lot of it. Other studies have found that the groups who spend the most on healthcare at the end, and spend the most time in hospital beds prolonging life are... the religious people. Atheists are much more in line with doctors. Why?
I think you've been looking at false religions. In my experience, religious people believe they have victory over death, and don't fear it. In fact, keeping someone alive artificially is more of an affront to "God's Will" than anything else. Those who are the most afraid of death are those who would advocate suicide & euthanasia, because they want to get it over with. Religious people don't fear it, therefore they let nature take its course.
For me as an atheist, whats to doubt? If there is an afterlife, great....but a heaven one seems just as unlikely as a hell. We literally have nothing to worry about.
Unless you're wrong, of course.
is it the Stop Online Privacy Act?
Paul, is that you?
The very summary of this article is just assuming that the US has already thrown out the constitution and completed the transition to a communist dictatorship.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Tenth amendment to the US constitution.
The question is not "Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities?", it's "Can Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities?" The answer, according to our founding documents, is a resounding NO.
When an increase in government spending does not keep up with the increase in population and inflation than an increase is a decrease. Let me explain it to you simply. If one has $1,000 and decide to give it to a hundred people, than everyone get $10. The following year the number of people increase to 110 so to give everyone $10 one must increase the $1,000 to $1,100. Anything less is a decrease to everyone getting that money.
WOW! That, sir, is exactly the political double-talk and new math that our government overlords have used to justify the wanton destruction of the US and European economies! Kindly remove yourself from the political conversation, you complete tool.
Where in your "example" is this new set of 10 people doing anything to contribute to this simplified economy? If these new ten people have jobs, and pay the same taxes that the original 100 people paid, then THE AMOUNT OF TAX INCOME WOULD INCREASE WITHOUT HAVING TO RAISE TAXES AT ALL!!! It's called multiplication. Learn how to use it. It does not justify baseline budgeting, tax increases, or deficit spending. Unless, of course, it's just a new 10 people on the government dole, in which case it's just an example of how the welfare state is unsustainable.
Seriously. Does anyone actually believe this "auto-increasing budgets" garbage?
I'm trying Linux Mint out in a VM right now, but I'm probably not going to switch from Ubuntu just because there's no real reason to.
LXDE, however, is awesome. It's the default window manager for mint, and on top of being very snappy and having relatively good configuration options, it supports dockapps! I don't have to use some end-around tongue swallowing app to get my precious square apps to work anymore! I don't have to run some hacked version of windowmaker to get a modern desktop anymore!
Now if only dokapps.org would come back...
MOD PARENT UP! Just when I think I've lost all faith in /., guys like d3ac0n remind me of individualistic spirit that used to make this place great...
Breaking that cycle requires real money to recruit better teachers, and the shitty schools usually have the LEAST money.
I agree with the rest of your post, but you miss the point entirely here. The problem isn't that poor schools aren't being funded. In fact, per-student costs in poorer districts is actually multiple times what it is in more affluent areas (if you want a citation, watch the documentary Cartel and count the luxary cars found in school admin parking lots in the "poor" school districts of NJ). The problem is that a tiny fraction of that function actually makes it into the classroom. Most of it goes to pensions and unions.
Never ever do this:
Tell your current company about the offer, and see if you get a counter-offer.
(and if they don't counter, you know how you're valued. Leave.)
You're basically threatening your boss. Even if he comes back with a more generous counteroffer, the relationship will be permanently damaged, especially in a small company where you have to work directly with the owner or CEO. I made this very mistake of trying to play hardball with an "at will" position, and watched as my responsibilities were slowly taken away until I was fired a few months later. I was left in a lurch and had to take a job paying far less.
When dealing with "at will" employment (as the vast majority of us do), it's best to make a decision and stick with it. Don't try and get a bidding war going with the guy currently signing your paycheck.
Not Found /pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.0.4.tar.bz2 was not found on this server.
The requested URL
In the process of getting up?
For some reason the links on the homepage appear to be broken.
You can still browse to the repos by going to http://git.kernel.org/
Sheesh people, this is a free market. If you don't like it, don't buy it. It's not like these are mandatory government issued computers or something. On top of that, it is still cheaper to build your own machine and be your own Original Equipment Manufacturer.
This is a non-story.
It is important to mention that throughout the US, tuition has gone up at least partially in a response to declining state funding.
Because no one has ever been able to run a successful school without giant government grants.
O wait...
(proud graduate of a private college paid for on my father's custodian's salary, all while he continued paying taxes to fund the state university's bloated tenure and pension systems.)
Government: We planned to increase the budget deficit by $4 trillion next few years, but now we're only increasing it by $2 trillion! We cut spending by $2 trillion dollars!
S&P: You still increased spending. You didn't cut anything. You still spend almost twice as much as you make. You are no longer credible.
Government: Traitors! Terrorists! Hostage takers! Can't you idiots in private industry do math?
Pathetic. Even the slashdot title of this article is complete rubbish.
1. Trying to get anything out of the non-paying 5 is about as effective as trying to squeeze blood from a stone. They don't have the money, that's why they aren't paying.
People in Somalia are in poverty. People in the Sudan "don't have the money." You're average US household who claims poverty absolutely does have the money to pay, and that ten bucks a month times many tens of millions does start to add up. When people become part of the suppliers of government revenue (however small), suddenly they are a lot more critical of how their money is spent, and this is a Good Thing.
2. The guy who's paying almost the entire bill has the ability to make the rules about who gets what
Come again? The rich "fat cats" that are demonized in the current class-warfare climate are households who make more than $200k per year. At that rate, you could blow a half-year's salary on one plate at an Obama fund raiser. The super-powers of political lobbies are not the small businesses who are considered "the rich," they are the corporate unions and political action groups. I'm not saying that the free-market advocates don't have their share of kickbacks, but at least on that side we get to duke it out ourselves. With all our money going directly to The Party, what choice do we ever have?
the rich benefit disproportionately from government services, they should pay their fair share for them.
So to you, "fair" is that out of 10 people, 1 person pays almost the entire bill, 4 people pay a little bit, and the remaining 5 pay nothing at all? On top of that, those non-paying 5 people are the ones consuming most of the benefits! This all seems "fair" to you?
another dissenting opinion modded down by those that think overrated == I_disagree .
It's a tax. Congress can levy taxes.
You do realize that is exactly the opposite of what it was billed as, right? No new taxes! Keep your current plan if you like it! All our costs will go down!
Bald-faced lies.
If it's a tax, get congress to rewrite it as such and pass a new giant social welfare bill. Without that truth, I'll lean on the US constitution (hey, it got us out of slavery, didn't it?)
But the point is, nothing written in the constitution means anything any more, and hasn't for a long time.
Every sentence and every clause has been violated and circumvented by a web of laws and rulings such that any citizen who points to the constitution in his defense is laughed out of court. In the legal profession, an appeal to the constitution is a huge inside joke. The sign of a rube. A target to be fleeced.
If the "personal mandate" of the health care law doesn't get declared unconstitutional, then I will agree with you. Until then, I still have hope.
US health care is broken, prices are skyrocketing and there's no end in sight. But let's get a few things straight:
The real sin is that health care in the US is not practically affordable by the individual. So far, no one on either side has even suggested doing anything about that.
I've got an idea: instead of fudging the regulations in order to keep old reactors running on ancient technology, why don't we build new nuclear reactors like we haven't done decades! What a concept!
is the apostrophe
Here here. It took a few hours to get used to vimperator, but now I can't live without it. Full navigation of websites without using the mouse is a cool thing, and the ctrl-i command to open up a gvim window on an edit box is awesome when preparing forum, trac, or wiki posts. Instant "y" command for copying the current URL, "p" to open the URL or search term currently in the clipboard, and lots of other useful shortcuts.
In my browser, the URL is tucked in a small line down at the bottom, there if I need it but otherwise out of mind. If that's the way chome is headed with its UI, then I think it's a Good Thing.
This bizarre notion we have in this country that all companies must always be earning more and more every year than before and always growing and profits must be more than any other company is unsustainable. It does no good for society and is the wrong way to go about things.
Incorrect.
Think about it: there are more people on earth today than there were yesterday. Therefore, in order for a company to retain their current market share, they must constantly grow their customer base. Simply said, from a business standpoint, if you're not growing, you're dying.
It's not cutthroat capitalism, it's just a basic fact that will remain true as long as the world population continues to grow.
From TFA:
Google took a novel and quite aggressive approach to developing a key component of Android -- the Bionic Library. That library, a type of C Library, is used by all application developers who need to access the core functions of the Linux operating system. Google essentially copied hundreds of files of Linux code that were never meant to be used as is by application developers, "cleaned" those files using a non-standard and questionable technical process, and then declared that the code was no longer subject to the GPLv2
That "technical process" looks like it refers to an automated filter that it ran the standard Linux header files through, resulting in part of the API for the non-GPL Bionic Library used in application development. One reading of copyright law could determine that the Bionic Library is a direct derivative of the Linux Kernel and therefore must be GPLv2 and open source. This library is essential for Android application development, therefore it would become legally impossible to develop a closed-source Android app.
Personally, my reading of GPLv2 tells me that simply including GPLv2 header files does not mean that your application must also be GPLv2 (otherwise a large part of the embedded market simply wouldn't exist). So I'm marking this one down as FUD.
Just like the 2-party political system, which is a joke, you guys over in the States need to get over your long-held belief that regulation is bad.
Later in your post you admit to being an American living in Europe, yet you refer to us as "you guys." Sounds like you need to make up your mind. I looked into dual citizenship with Hungary a short while back, and it really boils down to a) paying twice as much in taxes and b) not being truly trusted by either government, thus limiting your employment possibilities. If you want to burn your US passport and renounce your citizenship, that's your right to do so. But to keep it in your pocket as a backup plan when civil unrest in Europe gets really bad again (as it always does), all the while bashing the US, is just plain hypocrisy.
Regulation in the EU generally *protects* the consumer and their privacy and prevents monopolistic business practices. In the US, practically everyone believes in the invisible hand of the free market. The problem is the invisible hand is stealing from consumers pockets and stuffing the pockets of corporations. The invisible hand is NOT working in YOUR favor, it's working in favor of the corporations.
You need to remove some of your prejudice and realize that what's good for corporations is good for people. I work for a corporation. Just about everyone I know works for a corporation. Where do you work? The government? And you're somehow arguing that this is less susceptible to corruption and greed? Don't make me laugh! Here in the US, giant corporations that becomes greedy and fraudulent (like Enron) will eventually fail, go bankrupt, and ultimately GO AWAY. Not so with giant corrupt organizations like the EPA, Fannie Mae, or labor unions. Their existence is woven into law, meaning they will NEVER GO AWAY.
You're pointing out the fundamental flaw in European-style socialism: corporations are always bad and governments are always good. In fact, quite the opposite is usually true.