Educate yourself before you speak. Yes, it's required by law. And if a CEO were to altruistically donate ANY percent of profits they can't figure on getting back in good publicity (for PR sake), that CEO would be fired, the company would face sharholder lawsuits and any that money would have to be paid back to shareholders. You're obviously not an investor.
http://www.bcorporation.net/why
Why B Corps Matter
When you support a B Corporation, you’re supporting a better way to do business. Governments and nonprofits are necessary but insufficient to solve today’s most pressing problems. Business is the most powerful force on the planet and can be a positive instrument for change.
Our vision is simple yet ambitious: to create a new sector of the economy which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. This sector will be comprised of a new type of corporation - the B Corporation - that meets rigorous and independent standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
As a result, individuals will have greater economic opportunity, society will move closer to achieving a positive environmental footprint, more people will be employed in great places to work, and we will have built stronger communities at home and across the world.
Why are B Corps necessary to achieve these goals?
B Corporations address two critical problems:
Current corporate law makes it difficult for businesses to take employee, community, and environmental interests into consideration when making decisions
The lack of transparent standards makes it difficult to tell the difference between a 'good company' and just good marketing
To address these issues, B Corporations' legal structure expands corporate accountability so they are required to make decisions that are good for society, not just their shareholders.
B Corporations' performance standards enable consumers to support businesses that align with their values, investors to drive capital to higher impact investments, and governments and multinational corporations to implement sustainable procurement policies.
And that's the change we seek.
Sure it is. why else would a "new type of corporation" (B Type) have to be formed to allow anything but total profiteering to be the motive. Oh, and I'm left wing, not right wing, Orwell.;-)
I love how one branch of the government is suing Google for privacy breach, while another is building a top secret domestic spy center (in Bluffdale Utah of all places), in absolute contempt of the US constitution. Is it that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing or does the government think only it has the right to spy on us? And isn't Google hooked up to the NSA? How does that work? Boggles my fragile little mind. Maybe the whole thing's just a publicity stunt to keep the American Idol crowd feeling secure that they don't have to think and everything's being handled by their altruistic big brother. The whole thing stinks of deciet and snake-like corporate/government incestuous fu**ing. Blech.
Why is it that every Asian/Indian that I see put in front of a jury gets the book thrown at them?
There was a Vietnamese guy who rear-ended another car and someone died and he was given over 20 years in prison. He was sober, his only fault was that he reacted a fraction of a second late on a nasty traffic situation.
Uh, actually the dumbass was offered a very light plea bargain and would have only had community service, but the genius decided to plead 'not guilty', which forced a jury trial that he lost. Where's the minority bias there? He could just be cleaning up after old people for a year instead of possible jail time and deportation. Here's my question to you...why do people come to this country from other countries and break the law, then whine when they "get the book thrown at them"?
What's going to happen is a near-future supervillan will gain access to all criminal DNA and clone a new race of super criminals. And I, for one, welcome our new DNA cloned, super felon overlords.
When the fake, corporate controlled news this week was saying "how could the unemployment rate possibly be going down and the private sector adding jobs when GDP growth is only 2%???" as if they don't know full well why. It's because the private sector has squeezed every drop of productivity out of every stressed out worker it possibly can and finally HAS to hire (at huge discounts from a few years ago, since you're desperate now). Since there's no labor organization, nobody can go to their boss as a one person union and demand less working hours (they'd laugh in your face), corporations go by different measures of productivity because they know you don't dare. Yeah, that's the reason the hiring doesn't exactly match GDP growth. It's a rotten arrangement and until everyone gets the anti-union sentiment they've had hammered into their brains by *massive* corporate propaganda campaigns for 40 years, this is how it's going to be, so wise up or deal.
Luckily the company I work at is privately owned and not subject to the torture of the merciless shareholder whip. That's really the problem with society overall. Corporate charters...and that's what is so confusing to people. They meet their CEO and he's such a nice guy and he cares about the environment and homeless people PERSONALLY, but in his INSTITUTIONAL ROLE, he's subject to INVESTOR LAWSUITS, if he doesn't operate like a psychopath and squeeze every drop of productivity out of everyone and every drop of profit out of anything at ANY COST. All externalities, like people, the environment, morals aside, he is BOUND BY LAW which is clearly spelled out in almost every corporate charter to do anything he can, screw anybody he has to, to get as much money as he can. If you don't get that, you don't understand how things work. Until the structure and mission of corporations are changed, you can whine all you want and nothing is ever going to change. GET IT? Seriously people stop being so pathetically naive. When it's profit first at any cost, problems ensue.
Marijuana possesion, can result in highly variable punishments depending on jurisdiction, meaning in some location it is treated about like a speeding ticket with a small fine, in others it may mean near maditory jail time, with potential alternatives like rehab or treatment / awareness programs. A decade or so ago a newphew of mine was in New Orleans during Mardi Gras and the passenger in his car had a personal use amount on him that he threw under the seat when the police ticketed them for a parking violation, searched the car and found the joint under the seat. As a result my newphew spent Mardi Gras weekend in jail in New Orleans, as a first offense he was given a suspended sentence which was removed from his record after a year with no other legal problems, and he had to take some sort of drug awareness class and check in with a probabtion officer.
For those not located in a more enlightened state with dispensaries, a forced treatment / awareness program could be a great way to find a new dealer. You want 3-4 emergency backup dealers living in a square state.
That's difficult. The US was set up to be a driving country, so a lot of people have to drive, whether they want to or not. Yeah, you can take a bus, but some routes would require multiple transfers. A stop at the grocery store for many would require a separate trip, kids/daycare, etc. EU is not set up like that at all. Most people in EU, by contrast, could easily bike to work. Yes, their gas is 8-9$ a gallon, but many don't own cars because they have a real choices, like good public transportation (that's been denied in the US) and just by virtue of a more compact geography, most of them live in cities, not far flung, sprawling suburbs. What I'm saying is that screwing with the cost of vehicle ownership in the US is a lot more like messing with food prices and other necessities. My suggestion would be to socialize auto insurance and require everyone to have it, much like medical care will be. Another solution that should be implemented in tandem is a real public transportation system to get people around these sprawling suburbs and into the cities where they work. Trains or such like. Sorry, but there's something immoral about private corporations making a huge profit from necessities. Cars are a necessity for many in the US. They're not a necessity for most in the EU.
If they were found alive, they'd just put them to work at Foxconn making iPads. The only reason Yeti has been left alone is its hands are too big to handle the little instruments.
That and because vigilantism incredibly cool, although I'm not sure the word vigilantism is cool...just vigilante. Clint Eastwood plays a fine vigilante. Men on film used to review vigilante films "A couple-a hot sweaty mens taking matters into their own hands and lookin' to each other for their strongth"
Police looking for an iPad? Must have been a special customer to get the police on the case for their iPad. And that much meth? Did they stumble into a CIA supply house? Can't imagine any dealer having that much....sounds government sized.
Slashdot seems to think the following is news worthy: The sun does things scientists know about and understand; ignorant people don't and jump to conclusions. Your increasingly sensational headlines make me hate you more and more every day slashdot.
Then maybe you'll stop posting pointless comments anonymously. If the sun only did things scientists understand, they wouldn't bother studying it. Just read Science sometime. Scientists are barely beginning to underand the earth and they live on it.
So much for Obama's promise of government transparency.
Romney will be no better either. Too bad it isn't practical to pull a Monty Brewster and check "None of the above." I want to write in Ron Paul, but he hasn't a chance of getting elected. He just isn't marketable enough for the drooling masses.:-(
Not marketable enough? You mean not desireable enough for the corporations who market the likes of Larry King to the drooling masses, to market him, because if he was, they'd be able to market Paul. The media in the US could get a literal monkey elected, if it was pro corporate enough. And by now it's hardly the drooling masses. To quote "How to get ahead in advertising" on marketing and the PR industry...."...if you breathe, it works on you...".
The war on terrorism has nothing to do with terrorism; the war on drugs has nothing to do with drugs. If we know, which we definitely do know, that the war on terror has nothing to do with terror, why should anybody be surprised that the body scanners are terribly ineffective for their purported use?
It's highly ironic that the "war on terror" has been undertaken by the biggest terrorist state in the world, for the sole purpose of terrorizing its domestic enemy (its citizens).
What a contemptible title to give someone in government. It assumes we're all in favor of having a government that's as inefficient, tyrannical and fascist as the average corporation.
This is a fascist corporation problem, of which Facebook is merely one of millions. If I worked for a communist institution for 8-12 hours per day, you'd probably call me a communist. So I guess we're all fascists, since even though we have the power to stop corporate tyranny, we allow them to continue operating the same lousy way. Although I'm not a genuis, like some of you seem to be, I've thought a lot about this and I think it can only be resolved with serious campaign finance reform...like go medieval on campaign/political contributions by corporations/business. If they continue to insist corporations are people, then we'd have to go medieval on the Supreme Court. What I know is that corporations have been getting the upper hand on actual people for years and it's about time they were knocked back a few hundred steps.
Yeah they'll be real nice while they're restraining your wrists (and ankles, if you're black), they'll help you into the car, help you with any paperwork at the station, help you incriminate yourself, help you feel comfortable not contacting an attorney. Nice and helpful; that's their style.
For me, it's not true about feeling more pain; if anything I'd say less. I can eat much spicier food than most, but that took years of conditioning with ever spicier food (finally working up to 5 star Korean), bar be it from me if Mythbusters covered this. My boss is a redhead and so is my one coworker (yeah, it's a bit weird); I asked them about this and they report the same things. Working in IT doesn't really expose us to much pain though OUCH MY FINGERS FROM ALL THIS TYPING!!! Here's a study you might see running across the AP newswire "Report: Redheads are confirmed to have redder hair than Africans"
There couldn't be anything *less* capitalistic than going to the moon, but it's defineitly par for the course in American captialism and it totally fits Gingrich as a politician. Public money is dumped into NASA so the dullards can watch elites fly to the moon and back (oooh, ahhhhh), but the whole thing is really a scam to publicly fund high tech R&D, then hand the fruits of the R&D to corporations so they can make a profit. In America, risk is socialized and profit is privatized. There's your mix of capitalism and socilaism. Perfect harmony, right?
I completely respect people's privacy, but when they insist on SO MUCH and total privacy, it even makes me wonder what they're up to. Personally, I use the "do not track" feature on firefox, which is probably useless and per the WSJ article on privacy, I added the Ghostery and Better Privacy add-ons to Firefox...they're supposed to further help. I'm not sure what I'd be doing to require a botnet or a truly anonymous proxy. Even when I thought about growing my own pot, I just used my regular browser and emailed friends about it over gmail. Probably not real bright. I'd like to know what you're all up to that requires such anonymity.
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Educate yourself before you speak. Yes, it's required by law. And if a CEO were to altruistically donate ANY percent of profits they can't figure on getting back in good publicity (for PR sake), that CEO would be fired, the company would face sharholder lawsuits and any that money would have to be paid back to shareholders. You're obviously not an investor. http://www.bcorporation.net/why Why B Corps Matter When you support a B Corporation, you’re supporting a better way to do business. Governments and nonprofits are necessary but insufficient to solve today’s most pressing problems. Business is the most powerful force on the planet and can be a positive instrument for change. Our vision is simple yet ambitious: to create a new sector of the economy which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. This sector will be comprised of a new type of corporation - the B Corporation - that meets rigorous and independent standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. As a result, individuals will have greater economic opportunity, society will move closer to achieving a positive environmental footprint, more people will be employed in great places to work, and we will have built stronger communities at home and across the world. Why are B Corps necessary to achieve these goals? B Corporations address two critical problems: Current corporate law makes it difficult for businesses to take employee, community, and environmental interests into consideration when making decisions The lack of transparent standards makes it difficult to tell the difference between a 'good company' and just good marketing To address these issues, B Corporations' legal structure expands corporate accountability so they are required to make decisions that are good for society, not just their shareholders. B Corporations' performance standards enable consumers to support businesses that align with their values, investors to drive capital to higher impact investments, and governments and multinational corporations to implement sustainable procurement policies. And that's the change we seek.
Sure it is. why else would a "new type of corporation" (B Type) have to be formed to allow anything but total profiteering to be the motive. Oh, and I'm left wing, not right wing, Orwell. ;-)
I love how one branch of the government is suing Google for privacy breach, while another is building a top secret domestic spy center (in Bluffdale Utah of all places), in absolute contempt of the US constitution. Is it that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing or does the government think only it has the right to spy on us? And isn't Google hooked up to the NSA? How does that work? Boggles my fragile little mind. Maybe the whole thing's just a publicity stunt to keep the American Idol crowd feeling secure that they don't have to think and everything's being handled by their altruistic big brother. The whole thing stinks of deciet and snake-like corporate/government incestuous fu**ing. Blech.
Why is it that every Asian/Indian that I see put in front of a jury gets the book thrown at them?
There was a Vietnamese guy who rear-ended another car and someone died and he was given over 20 years in prison. He was sober, his only fault was that he reacted a fraction of a second late on a nasty traffic situation.
Uh, actually the dumbass was offered a very light plea bargain and would have only had community service, but the genius decided to plead 'not guilty', which forced a jury trial that he lost. Where's the minority bias there? He could just be cleaning up after old people for a year instead of possible jail time and deportation. Here's my question to you...why do people come to this country from other countries and break the law, then whine when they "get the book thrown at them"?
What's going to happen is a near-future supervillan will gain access to all criminal DNA and clone a new race of super criminals. And I, for one, welcome our new DNA cloned, super felon overlords.
Yeah that's two out of two million.
When the fake, corporate controlled news this week was saying "how could the unemployment rate possibly be going down and the private sector adding jobs when GDP growth is only 2%???" as if they don't know full well why. It's because the private sector has squeezed every drop of productivity out of every stressed out worker it possibly can and finally HAS to hire (at huge discounts from a few years ago, since you're desperate now). Since there's no labor organization, nobody can go to their boss as a one person union and demand less working hours (they'd laugh in your face), corporations go by different measures of productivity because they know you don't dare. Yeah, that's the reason the hiring doesn't exactly match GDP growth. It's a rotten arrangement and until everyone gets the anti-union sentiment they've had hammered into their brains by *massive* corporate propaganda campaigns for 40 years, this is how it's going to be, so wise up or deal. Luckily the company I work at is privately owned and not subject to the torture of the merciless shareholder whip. That's really the problem with society overall. Corporate charters...and that's what is so confusing to people. They meet their CEO and he's such a nice guy and he cares about the environment and homeless people PERSONALLY, but in his INSTITUTIONAL ROLE, he's subject to INVESTOR LAWSUITS, if he doesn't operate like a psychopath and squeeze every drop of productivity out of everyone and every drop of profit out of anything at ANY COST. All externalities, like people, the environment, morals aside, he is BOUND BY LAW which is clearly spelled out in almost every corporate charter to do anything he can, screw anybody he has to, to get as much money as he can. If you don't get that, you don't understand how things work. Until the structure and mission of corporations are changed, you can whine all you want and nothing is ever going to change. GET IT? Seriously people stop being so pathetically naive. When it's profit first at any cost, problems ensue.
Marijuana possesion, can result in highly variable punishments depending on jurisdiction, meaning in some location it is treated about like a speeding ticket with a small fine, in others it may mean near maditory jail time, with potential alternatives like rehab or treatment / awareness programs. A decade or so ago a newphew of mine was in New Orleans during Mardi Gras and the passenger in his car had a personal use amount on him that he threw under the seat when the police ticketed them for a parking violation, searched the car and found the joint under the seat. As a result my newphew spent Mardi Gras weekend in jail in New Orleans, as a first offense he was given a suspended sentence which was removed from his record after a year with no other legal problems, and he had to take some sort of drug awareness class and check in with a probabtion officer.
For those not located in a more enlightened state with dispensaries, a forced treatment / awareness program could be a great way to find a new dealer. You want 3-4 emergency backup dealers living in a square state.
Yeah, the Gladys Kravitz of 2012 would see the value, too.
That's difficult. The US was set up to be a driving country, so a lot of people have to drive, whether they want to or not. Yeah, you can take a bus, but some routes would require multiple transfers. A stop at the grocery store for many would require a separate trip, kids/daycare, etc. EU is not set up like that at all. Most people in EU, by contrast, could easily bike to work. Yes, their gas is 8-9$ a gallon, but many don't own cars because they have a real choices, like good public transportation (that's been denied in the US) and just by virtue of a more compact geography, most of them live in cities, not far flung, sprawling suburbs. What I'm saying is that screwing with the cost of vehicle ownership in the US is a lot more like messing with food prices and other necessities. My suggestion would be to socialize auto insurance and require everyone to have it, much like medical care will be. Another solution that should be implemented in tandem is a real public transportation system to get people around these sprawling suburbs and into the cities where they work. Trains or such like. Sorry, but there's something immoral about private corporations making a huge profit from necessities. Cars are a necessity for many in the US. They're not a necessity for most in the EU.
If they were found alive, they'd just put them to work at Foxconn making iPads. The only reason Yeti has been left alone is its hands are too big to handle the little instruments.
As evil as it is, this is why vigilantism exists.
That and because vigilantism incredibly cool, although I'm not sure the word vigilantism is cool...just vigilante. Clint Eastwood plays a fine vigilante. Men on film used to review vigilante films "A couple-a hot sweaty mens taking matters into their own hands and lookin' to each other for their strongth"
That 70cents you will make back in a few minutes working. The data they will have forever.
Hey, if you're building iPads, that's a week's worth of work!
Police looking for an iPad? Must have been a special customer to get the police on the case for their iPad. And that much meth? Did they stumble into a CIA supply house? Can't imagine any dealer having that much....sounds government sized.
Slashdot seems to think the following is news worthy: The sun does things scientists know about and understand; ignorant people don't and jump to conclusions. Your increasingly sensational headlines make me hate you more and more every day slashdot.
Then maybe you'll stop posting pointless comments anonymously. If the sun only did things scientists understand, they wouldn't bother studying it. Just read Science sometime. Scientists are barely beginning to underand the earth and they live on it.
So much for Obama's promise of government transparency.
Romney will be no better either. Too bad it isn't practical to pull a Monty Brewster and check "None of the above." I want to write in Ron Paul, but he hasn't a chance of getting elected. He just isn't marketable enough for the drooling masses. :-(
Not marketable enough? You mean not desireable enough for the corporations who market the likes of Larry King to the drooling masses, to market him, because if he was, they'd be able to market Paul. The media in the US could get a literal monkey elected, if it was pro corporate enough. And by now it's hardly the drooling masses. To quote "How to get ahead in advertising" on marketing and the PR industry...."...if you breathe, it works on you...".
The war on terrorism has nothing to do with terrorism; the war on drugs has nothing to do with drugs. If we know, which we definitely do know, that the war on terror has nothing to do with terror, why should anybody be surprised that the body scanners are terribly ineffective for their purported use? It's highly ironic that the "war on terror" has been undertaken by the biggest terrorist state in the world, for the sole purpose of terrorizing its domestic enemy (its citizens).
What a contemptible title to give someone in government. It assumes we're all in favor of having a government that's as inefficient, tyrannical and fascist as the average corporation.
Now all Coke/Pepsi has to do is remove the toxic sugar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM and it'll be perfect. ;-)
Not to mention jury trials are expensive, so if somebody gets off the hook forcing one, it's just another rich guy buying his way through the system.
This is a fascist corporation problem, of which Facebook is merely one of millions. If I worked for a communist institution for 8-12 hours per day, you'd probably call me a communist. So I guess we're all fascists, since even though we have the power to stop corporate tyranny, we allow them to continue operating the same lousy way. Although I'm not a genuis, like some of you seem to be, I've thought a lot about this and I think it can only be resolved with serious campaign finance reform...like go medieval on campaign/political contributions by corporations/business. If they continue to insist corporations are people, then we'd have to go medieval on the Supreme Court. What I know is that corporations have been getting the upper hand on actual people for years and it's about time they were knocked back a few hundred steps.
Yeah they'll be real nice while they're restraining your wrists (and ankles, if you're black), they'll help you into the car, help you with any paperwork at the station, help you incriminate yourself, help you feel comfortable not contacting an attorney. Nice and helpful; that's their style.
For me, it's not true about feeling more pain; if anything I'd say less. I can eat much spicier food than most, but that took years of conditioning with ever spicier food (finally working up to 5 star Korean), bar be it from me if Mythbusters covered this. My boss is a redhead and so is my one coworker (yeah, it's a bit weird); I asked them about this and they report the same things. Working in IT doesn't really expose us to much pain though OUCH MY FINGERS FROM ALL THIS TYPING!!! Here's a study you might see running across the AP newswire "Report: Redheads are confirmed to have redder hair than Africans"
There couldn't be anything *less* capitalistic than going to the moon, but it's defineitly par for the course in American captialism and it totally fits Gingrich as a politician. Public money is dumped into NASA so the dullards can watch elites fly to the moon and back (oooh, ahhhhh), but the whole thing is really a scam to publicly fund high tech R&D, then hand the fruits of the R&D to corporations so they can make a profit. In America, risk is socialized and profit is privatized. There's your mix of capitalism and socilaism. Perfect harmony, right?
I completely respect people's privacy, but when they insist on SO MUCH and total privacy, it even makes me wonder what they're up to. Personally, I use the "do not track" feature on firefox, which is probably useless and per the WSJ article on privacy, I added the Ghostery and Better Privacy add-ons to Firefox...they're supposed to further help. I'm not sure what I'd be doing to require a botnet or a truly anonymous proxy. Even when I thought about growing my own pot, I just used my regular browser and emailed friends about it over gmail. Probably not real bright. I'd like to know what you're all up to that requires such anonymity.