What if she doesn't pay the fine? Sells her shares, takes her millions and fucks off to Mexico?
Legally she's in the clear?
Theranos is not a public traded company. Who would buy Theranos shares today? Especially from Ms Holmes?
Of course she could simply *embezzle* the money from Theranos (they did raise $700M, so some of it has to be left), but I suspect there isn't much left...
About the only "real" difference between google's system is that the Maidenhead system the minor details of the encoding the longitude and latitude...
Maidenhead is basically as follows...
First pair base18 [A-R], second pair base10 [0-9], third pair base24 [a-x], fourth pair base10 [0-9], subsequent pairs alternating in the 3-4 pattern after that. By alternating base encodings, it is a bit more drop-out resistant.
Where google's system uses a consistent base 20 restricted character set (23456789CFGHJMPQRVWX) chosen to avoid vowels and easily confused letters. First pair is limited to 18x9, and the smallest subdivision where it encoded as a position on a 4x5 raster.
To preserve the history of measurement of locations (and no doubt annoy all the "metric-first"** folks), both schemes attempt to preserve the "degree-of-arc" measurement. Maidenhead by having base 18 and 10, where Google simply limits the top grid to 9 rows and 18 columns. Maidenhead also attempts to preserve conversion to minute/seconds of arc by using base24, but google apparently gave up after supporting degrees (maybe to placate the "metric-first" folks?)
**my watch guy has a French Revolution Time piece which marks Decimal Time (100,000 decimal-seconds in a day)
How is it that Stephen Hawking won every prize there is except the Nobel? Discovering something revolutionary about black holes would seem to qualify.
Unfortunately, Hawkings only theorized his signature Hawkings-radiation. Although it is an elegant theory, I don't think anyone has developed a way to validate it yet and the Nobel committee generally isn't persuaded by elegant theories that may or may not turn out to be wrong...
Also Hawkings has been notably wrong before. He bet against the Higgs particle. He bet that information was lost in a Black Hole. He also wasn't initially convinced that the surface area of a black hole event horizon was a measure of entropy (although Jacob Beckenstein was able to convince him).
Don't get me wrong, I think he's quite an amazing theoretical physicist in that he has a very good intuition on how things might work, but the physical world doesn't respect intuition about how the world might work, it demonstrates it to us. As a result, not all intuition about the physical world (as elegant as it may be) turns out to be correct about the world in which we actually live...
That's how we'd know that we had true AI, because the machine thinking would be indistinguishable from that of humans.
You seem to be propagating the unjustified assumption that humans are at the apex of "intelligence". I have reason to suspect that the apex of intelligence is not human intelligence (there seems to be lots of empirical evidence of this), so there's no reason to think that "true AI" would be indistinguishable from mere "human intelligence". It may turn out to be quite easy to distinguish between them.
You never know, instead of eliminating humans, "true AI" may simply conclude that rather than attempting extermination, humans should simply be made happy to keep them out of trouble...
We cannot allow any race as greedy and corruptible as yours to have free run of the galaxy. We shall serve them. Their kind will be eager to accept our service. Soon they will become completely dependent upon us. And we shall serve them and you will be happy, and controlled.
-- Norman (TOS: I, Mudd)
FWIW, the FAAMG companies seems to be busy creating a blueprint to follow if someone wanted to make humans dependent on AI...
You never know, soon we'll be lamenting...
You offer us only well-being. Food and drink and happiness mean nothing to us. We must be about our job. Suffering in torment and pain, laboring without end. Dying and crying and lamenting over our burdens. Only this way can we... be... happy. -- McCoy and Scotty (TOS: I, Mudd)
I wonder if they used buggy whips on the offending cars...
They probably threw their shoes at the offending cars...
"400 years ago, on Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes called 'sabots' into the machines to stop them. Hence the word 'sabotage'." -- Lt. Valeris (in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country)
...I mean funny of them to do what they want with their money:).
Whose money? Uber is only borrowing it (albeit with a vague promise to pay it back with unspecified amounts of interest, but...)
Technically, Uber is simply tricking investors out of their money.
There is no vague promise for Uber pay any money back at all, but merely an implied notion that they could potentially sell the share of the company that they paid money for to someone else in the future (presumably one of the suckers born every minute).
If instead Uber were to give a vague promise to pay money back to their current "investors" with money they would collect in the future, Uber would probably qualify as a ponzi scheme. Instead they make no promise at all...
Some people buy beanie babies with their money, some buy bitcoin, some people (who have connections to the digerati) buy shares of Uber. All hope they will be able to sell it to someone else one day for more than they paid for it...
Basically a tax on revenue and/or capital appreciation, so it's similar to a Sales Tax, except that is collected from the company internal revenue. That makes is a bit analogous to a Value Add Tax in that it taxes the company in a way that doesn't allow it to subtract expenses (like an income tax).
Actually what is good about keeping $100B sitting in a Cayman Island bank? I'm sure it earns interest and all. But it's just sitting there.
You forgot what these companies did with that money which was sitting in the "bank" (not a literal bank account, but cash equivalent holdings).
The companies used the money to back bonds sold in the USA. The companies effectively virtually move the money to the states (by borrowing the money from the bond investors) at a rate far lower than if they had to pay tax on that money by repatriating the money.
This was because since the risk on the bonds was perceived to be low, they discount they had to apply was low (bonds had ~2% yield vs a 20% tax rate).
If I was a shareholder I'd be screaming bloody murder for a dividend. A fucking big dividend.
Why would an investor want a large dividend that they would have to pay tax on? It is much more efficient for the company to save 10x the tax rate than for the investor to pay taxes on dividends as long as the stock price is reflecting this savings. The only reason companies issue dividends is that they have no better use for the money, but saving 10x the tax rate on virtually repatriated profit is a good reason to not issue all this profit as a dividend.
When Sister does some math on black hole event horizons, she loves it and wants to understand the implications concerning the cosmic censorship hypothesis . That night, Mama reads Sister a paper about "Quasinormal modes and Strong Cosmic Censorship". Sister wishes that the basic Photon sphere mode of a black hole is consistent with SCC and the wish comes true. Next she learns about pure de Sitter modes and wishes they are consistent with SCC and the wish comes true. Then she learns about Near-Extremal modes, but sadly the math seems to indicate they aren't always consistent with SCC. Sister is very sad, so Brother tells her that she has to be careful of believing in SCC, because black hole event horizon physics researchers don't listen to greedy requests for the universality of SCC. However Sister who apparently didn't learn a thing from the experience, and what Brother tells her, then says, "Well, two out of three isn't bad!"
Just to nitpick: thr fact that we can not measure the present does not mean that the future is not deterministic. The particle you measure will go where it goes, unless you measure it. Then it is going where your measurement is deflecting it to.
That is one way of thinking about how the universe *might* work.
Another way to think about it is a particle exists in a superposition state of many positions (each with their own probability), and it will effectively go everywhere, until you measure it and then all the things that it has interacted with in the past and transferred momentum to (even if they are now far away) are adjusted to be consistent with your current measurement.
Although you might think the second way of thinking of how the universe might work as being too complex and dismiss it via the principle of Occam's razor, you should remember, that Occam's razor is only used to say that complex explanations should not be introduced unless *necessary*. Given the current amount of empirical evidence about the function of quantum mechanics, the simpler way of thinking doesn't seem to have sufficient explanatory power, so...
As an aside, there is acutally QM way to do so-called interaction-free measurement as well. It may defy intuition, but there is evidence for these effects as well...
For those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. -- Neils Bohr
The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." -- Richard Feynman
Oracle [bought a company that] previously tried the same thing with Java, but several policy missteps by Oracle have since dissuaded many from the Java platform.
As I recall, wasn't it google/android who bought into that whole standardized Java-thing;^) I heard they also made a standardized rendering platform for their apps called chrome, or something like that...;^) I'm not sure it was very successful, though, maybe that was Oracle's fault...;^)
Google could probably get the authors of those studies to testify against him if necessary, and he couldn't exactly try to discredit the sources he relies on his own memo.
You underestimate the ability of lawyers to find holes in our convoluted legal system.
IANAL, but as an example, as a plaintiff, Damore's lawyer could always pre-emptively call the authors as a hostile witnesses and attempt to discredit their conclusion from their data on the stand and plant Damore's interpretation in the eyes of the jury before the google lawyers (representing the defendant) get a chance at remediation. Who knows what a jury would think...
I'm sure a real lawyer could come up with something even better than that...
Remember the NLRB is simply an administrative panel that is judge-and-jury. If Damore atually decides to sue Google in civil court, he will get a chance at a jury. Basically 6 random people (I'm sure they won't let anyone who works in high-tech on the jury) who couldn't come up with any good reason to get out of 2-3 weeks of jury duty will be making this decision based on the "evidence" presented at trial...
The last patent is entitled "Conditional access filter as for a packet video signal inverse transport system" applied to cable systems and satellite broadcast, but basically doesn't apply to program streams (which is what is used in DVD and created by most MPEG2 A/V multiplexers).
There were some streaming and DVR-like systems that recorded transport streams directly and used them, but not really any "free" stuff (which might use packet formats like MKVs) . Of course now it is totally moot...
It's good that Facebook lost over 2 million 17-25 year olds last year and will lose even more this year.
I thought most insidious part of the problem is that they don't lose anyone, even if one naively thinks one's account is "deleted", The best one can hope for is to never have signed up in the first place.
Reminds me of: I am altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further. -- Darth Vader
There's very little a company can do to prevent a determined programmer from leaking source code. Source is easily copied, and relatively small, and a module's source has to be present in its entirety on a local machine to compile. Thumb drives are tiny and easily hidden. Programmer's machines, by nature, can't easily be locked down.
What exactly would you suggest they do to prevent leaks like this?
What I would do is develop a Source Code Control system that put canaries into the checked-out source which are different for each login (e.g., different white spacing in comments, little bits of code reordering, local variable name substitution, etc). It wouldn't do anything to prevent a determined leak (like a snowden, or a chelsea), but perhaps put the fear of retribution into potential leakers hopefully to reduce the actual probability of a leak...
Or is this one of those really neat sciency things that people figure may someday learn some practical application for but for the moment and the foreseeable future, nobody has any idea what we could actually do with this that will be actually useful?
Proton conductors (one of the properties of this super-ionic ice) appear to be used by sharks and rays for remote sensing. Specifically, the proton conductor (keratan sulfate) is present in a jelly-like membrane and appears to enable sensing of electric and magnetic fields in water w/o being electrically conductive.
A more industrial proton conductor called Nafion has been a used for proton-exchange Fuel Cells. Currently proton-exchange fuels cells are limited to lower temperatures because of the limitations of Nafion.
Proton conduction also is important in photosynthesis.
Maybe there's some future application to these areas, but it seems the environmental conditions to create this stuff are quite extreme for anything on earth... Perhaps the conditions on distant icy planets might mean that some alien life-form based some photosynthesis processes or perhaps some hydrogen energy cycle on something like this? Could be part of a sci-fi short story? Who knows...
In Korea, the perps didn't have to "buy" justice, it was included in the package...
That's the difference between "new" money and "old" money. If you have "old" money you don't even have to spend it. Buying justice is only for "new" money folks...
FWIW, I think that just like "human death penalty" doesn't have and deterrence value, similarly, the "corporate death penalty" is the same. People (and corporations) simply don't factor in that as part of their cost analysis before committing the crime.
It's good political theater to talk about "death penalties", for punitive or retribution value, but as an actual deterrent, I think "death penalties" are of very little value. Basically you get a bunch of rank-and-file folks losing their jobs and a bunch of commercial real-estate investors lose money, along with some mom-and-pops (e.g., local vendors, local restaurants, etc). The collateral damage is pretty high...
On the other hand, I can certainly get on board with some sort of asset forfeiture program, where the company is basically put up for auction and sold to the highest bidder under the condition that none of the executives can be part of the future path of the company.
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What if she doesn't pay the fine? Sells her shares, takes her millions and fucks off to Mexico?
Legally she's in the clear?
Theranos is not a public traded company. Who would buy Theranos shares today? Especially from Ms Holmes?
Of course she could simply *embezzle* the money from Theranos (they did raise $700M, so some of it has to be left), but I suspect there isn't much left...
I suspect as for commercial use of frequencies there is likely a commercial prohibition on using the Maidenhead Locator System.
You can get all sorts of commercial GPS devices that support the Maidenhead Locator system http://www.n7cfo.com/vhf/gps/~...
About the only "real" difference between google's system is that the Maidenhead system the minor details of the encoding the longitude and latitude...
Maidenhead is basically as follows...
First pair base18 [A-R], second pair base10 [0-9], third pair base24 [a-x], fourth pair base10 [0-9], subsequent pairs alternating in the 3-4 pattern after that. By alternating base encodings, it is a bit more drop-out resistant.
Where google's system uses a consistent base 20 restricted character set (23456789CFGHJMPQRVWX) chosen to avoid vowels and easily confused letters. First pair is limited to 18x9, and the smallest subdivision where it encoded as a position on a 4x5 raster.
To preserve the history of measurement of locations (and no doubt annoy all the "metric-first"** folks), both schemes attempt to preserve the "degree-of-arc" measurement. Maidenhead by having base 18 and 10, where Google simply limits the top grid to 9 rows and 18 columns. Maidenhead also attempts to preserve conversion to minute/seconds of arc by using base24, but google apparently gave up after supporting degrees (maybe to placate the "metric-first" folks?)
**my watch guy has a French Revolution Time piece which marks Decimal Time (100,000 decimal-seconds in a day)
How is it that Stephen Hawking won every prize there is except the Nobel? Discovering something revolutionary about black holes would seem to qualify.
Unfortunately, Hawkings only theorized his signature Hawkings-radiation. Although it is an elegant theory, I don't think anyone has developed a way to validate it yet and the Nobel committee generally isn't persuaded by elegant theories that may or may not turn out to be wrong...
Also Hawkings has been notably wrong before. He bet against the Higgs particle. He bet that information was lost in a Black Hole. He also wasn't initially convinced that the surface area of a black hole event horizon was a measure of entropy (although Jacob Beckenstein was able to convince him).
Don't get me wrong, I think he's quite an amazing theoretical physicist in that he has a very good intuition on how things might work, but the physical world doesn't respect intuition about how the world might work, it demonstrates it to us. As a result, not all intuition about the physical world (as elegant as it may be) turns out to be correct about the world in which we actually live...
And if you can't find anybody to buy it from you, guess what? The greater fool is YOU!
“If you sit in on a poker game and don’t see a sucker, get up. You’re the sucker.” - Whispering Saul
That's how we'd know that we had true AI, because the machine thinking would be indistinguishable from that of humans.
You seem to be propagating the unjustified assumption that humans are at the apex of "intelligence". I have reason to suspect that the apex of intelligence is not human intelligence (there seems to be lots of empirical evidence of this), so there's no reason to think that "true AI" would be indistinguishable from mere "human intelligence". It may turn out to be quite easy to distinguish between them.
You never know, instead of eliminating humans, "true AI" may simply conclude that rather than attempting extermination, humans should simply be made happy to keep them out of trouble...
We cannot allow any race as greedy and corruptible as yours to have free run of the galaxy.
We shall serve them.
Their kind will be eager to accept our service.
Soon they will become completely dependent upon us.
And we shall serve them and you will be happy, and controlled.
-- Norman (TOS: I, Mudd)
FWIW, the FAAMG companies seems to be busy creating a blueprint to follow if someone wanted to make humans dependent on AI...
You never know, soon we'll be lamenting...
You offer us only well-being.
Food and drink and happiness mean nothing to us.
We must be about our job.
Suffering in torment and pain, laboring without end.
Dying and crying and lamenting over our burdens.
Only this way can we... be... happy.
-- McCoy and Scotty (TOS: I, Mudd)
I wonder if they used buggy whips on the offending cars...
They probably threw their shoes at the offending cars...
"400 years ago, on Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes called 'sabots' into the machines to stop them. Hence the word 'sabotage'." -- Lt. Valeris (in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country)
...I mean funny of them to do what they want with their money :).
Whose money? Uber is only borrowing it (albeit with a vague promise to pay it back with unspecified amounts of interest, but...)
Technically, Uber is simply tricking investors out of their money.
There is no vague promise for Uber pay any money back at all, but merely an implied notion that they could potentially sell the share of the company that they paid money for to someone else in the future (presumably one of the suckers born every minute).
If instead Uber were to give a vague promise to pay money back to their current "investors" with money they would collect in the future, Uber would probably qualify as a ponzi scheme. Instead they make no promise at all...
Some people buy beanie babies with their money, some buy bitcoin, some people (who have connections to the digerati) buy shares of Uber. All hope they will be able to sell it to someone else one day for more than they paid for it...
a turnover tax?
Basically a tax on revenue and/or capital appreciation, so it's similar to a Sales Tax, except that is collected from the company internal revenue. That makes is a bit analogous to a Value Add Tax in that it taxes the company in a way that doesn't allow it to subtract expenses (like an income tax).
Actually what is good about keeping $100B sitting in a Cayman Island bank? I'm sure it earns interest and all. But it's just sitting there.
You forgot what these companies did with that money which was sitting in the "bank" (not a literal bank account, but cash equivalent holdings).
The companies used the money to back bonds sold in the USA. The companies effectively virtually move the money to the states (by borrowing the money from the bond investors) at a rate far lower than if they had to pay tax on that money by repatriating the money.
This was because since the risk on the bonds was perceived to be low, they discount they had to apply was low (bonds had ~2% yield vs a 20% tax rate).
If I was a shareholder I'd be screaming bloody murder for a dividend. A fucking big dividend.
Why would an investor want a large dividend that they would have to pay tax on? It is much more efficient for the company to save 10x the tax rate than for the investor to pay taxes on dividends as long as the stock price is reflecting this savings. The only reason companies issue dividends is that they have no better use for the money, but saving 10x the tax rate on virtually repatriated profit is a good reason to not issue all this profit as a dividend.
Berenstein Bears and the black hole!
The Berenstain Bears and the Wishing Star (the strong cosmic censorship edition)
When Sister does some math on black hole event horizons, she loves it and wants to understand the implications concerning the cosmic censorship hypothesis . That night, Mama reads Sister a paper about "Quasinormal modes and Strong Cosmic Censorship". Sister wishes that the basic Photon sphere mode of a black hole is consistent with SCC and the wish comes true. Next she learns about pure de Sitter modes and wishes they are consistent with SCC and the wish comes true. Then she learns about Near-Extremal modes, but sadly the math seems to indicate they aren't always consistent with SCC. Sister is very sad, so Brother tells her that she has to be careful of believing in SCC, because black hole event horizon physics researchers don't listen to greedy requests for the universality of SCC. However Sister who apparently didn't learn a thing from the experience, and what Brother tells her, then says, "Well, two out of three isn't bad!"
Just to nitpick: thr fact that we can not measure the present does not mean that the future is not deterministic.
The particle you measure will go where it goes, unless you measure it. Then it is going where your measurement is deflecting it to.
That is one way of thinking about how the universe *might* work.
Another way to think about it is a particle exists in a superposition state of many positions (each with their own probability), and it will effectively go everywhere, until you measure it and then all the things that it has interacted with in the past and transferred momentum to (even if they are now far away) are adjusted to be consistent with your current measurement.
Although you might think the second way of thinking of how the universe might work as being too complex and dismiss it via the principle of Occam's razor, you should remember, that Occam's razor is only used to say that complex explanations should not be introduced unless *necessary*. Given the current amount of empirical evidence about the function of quantum mechanics, the simpler way of thinking doesn't seem to have sufficient explanatory power, so...
As an aside, there is acutally QM way to do so-called interaction-free measurement as well. It may defy intuition, but there is evidence for these effects as well...
For those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. -- Neils Bohr
The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." -- Richard Feynman
Oracle [bought a company that] previously tried the same thing with Java, but several policy missteps by Oracle have since dissuaded many from the Java platform.
As I recall, wasn't it google/android who bought into that whole standardized Java-thing ;^) ;^) ;^)
I heard they also made a standardized rendering platform for their apps called chrome, or something like that...
I'm not sure it was very successful, though, maybe that was Oracle's fault...
(...ducking to avoid the backlash...)
Google could probably get the authors of those studies to testify against him if necessary, and he couldn't exactly try to discredit the sources he relies on his own memo.
You underestimate the ability of lawyers to find holes in our convoluted legal system.
IANAL, but as an example, as a plaintiff, Damore's lawyer could always pre-emptively call the authors as a hostile witnesses and attempt to discredit their conclusion from their data on the stand and plant Damore's interpretation in the eyes of the jury before the google lawyers (representing the defendant) get a chance at remediation. Who knows what a jury would think...
I'm sure a real lawyer could come up with something even better than that...
Remember the NLRB is simply an administrative panel that is judge-and-jury. If Damore atually decides to sue Google in civil court, he will get a chance at a jury. Basically 6 random people (I'm sure they won't let anyone who works in high-tech on the jury) who couldn't come up with any good reason to get out of 2-3 weeks of jury duty will be making this decision based on the "evidence" presented at trial...
Next they'll tell us twins are not exactly the same person.
Too late, they've already told us a person might not be exactly the same person (aka Vanishing twin syndrome)...
FWIW, the "interesting" video codec patents expired many years ago. You can peruse them here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The last patent is entitled "Conditional access filter as for a packet video signal inverse transport system" applied to cable systems and satellite broadcast, but basically doesn't apply to program streams (which is what is used in DVD and created by most MPEG2 A/V multiplexers).
There were some streaming and DVR-like systems that recorded transport streams directly and used them, but not really any "free" stuff (which might use packet formats like MKVs) . Of course now it is totally moot...
...and shut his own phone down.
It's good that Facebook lost over 2 million 17-25 year olds last year and will lose even more this year.
I thought most insidious part of the problem is that they don't lose anyone, even if one naively thinks one's account is "deleted", The best one can hope for is to never have signed up in the first place.
Reminds me of: I am altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further. -- Darth Vader
In WWII there was a plan to make enormous aircraft carriers out of Pykrete, a mix of wood pulp and ice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There was also the better known Spruce Goose made using Duramold (a plywood like material)...
Are you familiar with the Chinese Room argument?
There's very little a company can do to prevent a determined programmer from leaking source code. Source is easily copied, and relatively small, and a module's source has to be present in its entirety on a local machine to compile. Thumb drives are tiny and easily hidden. Programmer's machines, by nature, can't easily be locked down.
What exactly would you suggest they do to prevent leaks like this?
What I would do is develop a Source Code Control system that put canaries into the checked-out source which are different for each login (e.g., different white spacing in comments, little bits of code reordering, local variable name substitution, etc). It wouldn't do anything to prevent a determined leak (like a snowden, or a chelsea), but perhaps put the fear of retribution into potential leakers hopefully to reduce the actual probability of a leak...
Or is this one of those really neat sciency things that people figure may someday learn some practical application for but for the moment and the foreseeable future, nobody has any idea what we could actually do with this that will be actually useful?
Proton conductors (one of the properties of this super-ionic ice) appear to be used by sharks and rays for remote sensing. Specifically, the proton conductor (keratan sulfate) is present in a jelly-like membrane and appears to enable sensing of electric and magnetic fields in water w/o being electrically conductive.
A more industrial proton conductor called Nafion has been a used for proton-exchange Fuel Cells. Currently proton-exchange fuels cells are limited to lower temperatures because of the limitations of Nafion.
Proton conduction also is important in photosynthesis.
Maybe there's some future application to these areas, but it seems the environmental conditions to create this stuff are quite extreme for anything on earth... Perhaps the conditions on distant icy planets might mean that some alien life-form based some photosynthesis processes or perhaps some hydrogen energy cycle on something like this? Could be part of a sci-fi short story? Who knows...
Did the core of stage 1 land successfully?
Watching the public video feed of the barge, it appears that they cut it after a bunch of smoke @T+8:52, so I'm guessing no...
We have Tribbles.
Words of wisdom...
The only thing that I can figure out is that they're born pregnant... which seems to be quite a timesaver.
And, from my observations if seems they're bisexual, reproducing at will. And brother, have they got a lot of will.
All we have to do is quit feeding them. We quit feeding them, they stop breeding!
In Korea, the perps didn't have to "buy" justice, it was included in the package...
That's the difference between "new" money and "old" money. If you have "old" money you don't even have to spend it. Buying justice is only for "new" money folks...
Martians respond; stop dumping your trash on us!
But if instead, they send a Lykan Hypersport, maybe they wouldn't be thinking of it as trash? Just a thought ;^)
FWIW, I think that just like "human death penalty" doesn't have and deterrence value, similarly, the "corporate death penalty" is the same. People (and corporations) simply don't factor in that as part of their cost analysis before committing the crime.
It's good political theater to talk about "death penalties", for punitive or retribution value, but as an actual deterrent, I think "death penalties" are of very little value. Basically you get a bunch of rank-and-file folks losing their jobs and a bunch of commercial real-estate investors lose money, along with some mom-and-pops (e.g., local vendors, local restaurants, etc). The collateral damage is pretty high...
On the other hand, I can certainly get on board with some sort of asset forfeiture program, where the company is basically put up for auction and sold to the highest bidder under the condition that none of the executives can be part of the future path of the company.