How can you be soft on crime by legalizing something? If it's legal it's not a crime. The bill isn't about shorter sentences for those convicted of the current laws.
Were you on the board? How are you so privy to the financials of a defunct non-public company? A lack of market is far from the only reason a company can go under. Hell, 3D Realms had a huge market for Duke Nukem Forever and went bankrupt spending money on the project. From what I hear, the followup group delivered a mediocre game that's only useful as a reminder of how great Duke 3D was. Mismanagement has killed many a company that had a market.
Why would you have a near-critical mass in a nuclear bomb? Isn't the purpose of the standard explosives to shove two globs of roughl half that mass together suddenly? A dirty bomb almost certainly wouldn't be near critical even altogether, as its purpose is to disperse the radioactive material. You really think someone's sticking a slightly less than critical mass of fissile material in a crate somewhere and slapping a FedEx label on it?
What abuot stopping US citizens within the US who hadn't left the country at random road checkpoints to "confirm they are US citizens" and have the drug dogs sniff their cars without reasonable suspicion? Yes, this happens in Texas. No, it's not constitutional.
Damn it. Now we're going to have to read about a neutron emitter getting a pot growing warrant or someone using bitcoins to pay for a neutron emitter or something.
I doubt any company will be found to have failed from unionization alone. An unreasonable union can be an additional stone tied to a sinking company's neck. GM is a good example. The healthcare costs for retirees (just retirees, not even the active workers too) were at one point a larger outlay for GM than the GDP of some smaller first-world countries. Sure, when things went well and their cars sold well, they could handle it. When rough times came, the UAW was another tough variable in a stew of tough variables and the company went bankrupt for a combination of reasons.
Don't forget, it was not only double-digit inflation. It was double-digit inflation despite double-digit mortgage rates (and for a while even a double-digit Prime Rate).
The company in question did exist, and I thin kthe company itself still does (Building Technologies). I am not trolling. I do believe IIRC they were union at that location at least from the start. In fact, I know that company at that location was because they bought that plant from Atlantic Building Systems (I think that's the same Atlantic Building Systems anyway) and it was unionized already under Atlantic.
That particular union local was silly and the workers priced themselves out of their jobs. The company declared bankruptcy and reorganized with a non-union plant in a different state replacing the Missouri plant after they celeared their debts. At the same time, though, the workers did have safer working conditions and better health insurance partly because of the union, too. It's unfortunate the union never did anything about the pigeons, though, because it turns out several guys who worked in the factory have COPD in part from inhaling the pigeon dropping fumes. It's also unfortunate the guys wouldn't go for a multi-year contract and always decided to strike a few weeks after Christmas, when the home heating bills were really high.
A union or a union local is just like any group formed by people. They can serve their original purpose, or they can run amok and cause problems. A good union is a good thing. A bad union is a bad thing, for the company and the workers.
I'm not denying anything. I know there's some oppression in the US. It's the nature of power. It wants to oppress. Thankfully, though, we're still doing a better job in the US than many other places limiting oppression these days.
I agree except the "server you're hosting on"... "edit right there". You should probably have a staging server if you actually care about your site. Put a little Athlon XP in the corner with CentOS on it (because that's what your hosting probably is) or some other Linux flavor and edit it there, view it through Apache and the browser, then upload from there to the production server (preferably using scp).
Building Technologies closed their Hannibal, Missouri plant which was unionized and paid well above the local norms, and regoranized into a different company before opening a non-union plant somewhere in Georgia. This was in the late 1980s. My father was one of the people laid off after 13 years. There's one example. It's an anecdote, but you asked for examples and not statistics.
Who made this specifically about the Nazis? You don't think Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung, or Josef Stalin were in charge of industry? You don't think Gaddahfi is now?
I don't mean CCTV as an acronym for closed-circuit television or as a cable operator. I mean CCTV as in the state-controlled Chinese news agency. "CCTV" is the badge they dispkay on their broadcasts. I've been watching Al-Jazerra, CCTV, CNN International, CBC, BBC, NHK, Deutsche-Welle, French24, UK Channel 4, All Africa, and GeoTV for years. Nobody's arrested me yet.
Don't sweat it. Nigeria already has Internet access. Just teach Grandma that she's not really inheriting "$500,000,000 dollars US currenzy if you only gives me your banking deetails".
I get CCTV over the air in Houston, Texas. Are you saying that Chinese state television's English-language channel is being edited by the US government?
You mean state-sponsered murder by states in which the state and industry are already fully merged? Yeah, I think "private interests" includes a dictator murdering people so he keeps his mansions just as much as Nike mistreating people and the governments looking the other way so long as Nike kicks back some of the profits.
How do you think corporations are chartered and regulated, if not by governments? The powers corporations have taken for granted are in fact granted... by the governments. Corporations are beholden by law to their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders first and foremost. They are protected from any punishments other than fines by governments. You can't jail or dissolve a corporation, only fine it or jail its officers. Therefore, the governments, including the US government (and some would say especially) have made it mandatory from a simple reading of corporate law to pollute the air, water, and ground if cleanups and fines when caught are cheaper than not polluting. It is mandatory to violate workers' rights if it is more profitable than enforcing workers' rights. It is necessary to lay people off then hire lower-skilled workers if it makes a buck.
If you want better corporations, quit giving them extra powers through extra powers of central governments. Start letting the states, who charter them, more power to regulate them. The US government has given the coprorations powers the states that chartered them never intended, and it's time the states and the people were heard.
I'm not against making a buck, or ten billion bucks. I'm for doing so responsibly and being held to the same standards of law as a small business.
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How can you be soft on crime by legalizing something? If it's legal it's not a crime. The bill isn't about shorter sentences for those convicted of the current laws.
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Were you on the board? How are you so privy to the financials of a defunct non-public company? A lack of market is far from the only reason a company can go under. Hell, 3D Realms had a huge market for Duke Nukem Forever and went bankrupt spending money on the project. From what I hear, the followup group delivered a mediocre game that's only useful as a reminder of how great Duke 3D was. Mismanagement has killed many a company that had a market.
Why would you have a near-critical mass in a nuclear bomb? Isn't the purpose of the standard explosives to shove two globs of roughl half that mass together suddenly? A dirty bomb almost certainly wouldn't be near critical even altogether, as its purpose is to disperse the radioactive material. You really think someone's sticking a slightly less than critical mass of fissile material in a crate somewhere and slapping a FedEx label on it?
I bet that wasn't built by a high school student.
What abuot stopping US citizens within the US who hadn't left the country at random road checkpoints to "confirm they are US citizens" and have the drug dogs sniff their cars without reasonable suspicion? Yes, this happens in Texas. No, it's not constitutional.
Free as in cats.
Damn it. Now we're going to have to read about a neutron emitter getting a pot growing warrant or someone using bitcoins to pay for a neutron emitter or something.
Fusion is hard. It can be done, but if it was easy it'd be a net power source. ;-)
Look at GM. They make cars. They went bankrupt. Guess what... It's not because nobody was buying cars.
I doubt any company will be found to have failed from unionization alone. An unreasonable union can be an additional stone tied to a sinking company's neck. GM is a good example. The healthcare costs for retirees (just retirees, not even the active workers too) were at one point a larger outlay for GM than the GDP of some smaller first-world countries. Sure, when things went well and their cars sold well, they could handle it. When rough times came, the UAW was another tough variable in a stew of tough variables and the company went bankrupt for a combination of reasons.
Don't forget, it was not only double-digit inflation. It was double-digit inflation despite double-digit mortgage rates (and for a while even a double-digit Prime Rate).
The company in question did exist, and I thin kthe company itself still does (Building Technologies). I am not trolling. I do believe IIRC they were union at that location at least from the start. In fact, I know that company at that location was because they bought that plant from Atlantic Building Systems (I think that's the same Atlantic Building Systems anyway) and it was unionized already under Atlantic.
That particular union local was silly and the workers priced themselves out of their jobs. The company declared bankruptcy and reorganized with a non-union plant in a different state replacing the Missouri plant after they celeared their debts. At the same time, though, the workers did have safer working conditions and better health insurance partly because of the union, too. It's unfortunate the union never did anything about the pigeons, though, because it turns out several guys who worked in the factory have COPD in part from inhaling the pigeon dropping fumes. It's also unfortunate the guys wouldn't go for a multi-year contract and always decided to strike a few weeks after Christmas, when the home heating bills were really high.
A union or a union local is just like any group formed by people. They can serve their original purpose, or they can run amok and cause problems. A good union is a good thing. A bad union is a bad thing, for the company and the workers.
I'm not denying anything. I know there's some oppression in the US. It's the nature of power. It wants to oppress. Thankfully, though, we're still doing a better job in the US than many other places limiting oppression these days.
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I agree except the "server you're hosting on" ... "edit right there". You should probably have a staging server if you actually care about your site. Put a little Athlon XP in the corner with CentOS on it (because that's what your hosting probably is) or some other Linux flavor and edit it there, view it through Apache and the browser, then upload from there to the production server (preferably using scp).
Building Technologies closed their Hannibal, Missouri plant which was unionized and paid well above the local norms, and regoranized into a different company before opening a non-union plant somewhere in Georgia. This was in the late 1980s. My father was one of the people laid off after 13 years. There's one example. It's an anecdote, but you asked for examples and not statistics.
I'd lay off the one who works when sick. One employee out three days is better than all my employees out three days each.
Who made this specifically about the Nazis? You don't think Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung, or Josef Stalin were in charge of industry? You don't think Gaddahfi is now?
I don't mean CCTV as an acronym for closed-circuit television or as a cable operator. I mean CCTV as in the state-controlled Chinese news agency. "CCTV" is the badge they dispkay on their broadcasts. I've been watching Al-Jazerra, CCTV, CNN International, CBC, BBC, NHK, Deutsche-Welle, French24, UK Channel 4, All Africa, and GeoTV for years. Nobody's arrested me yet.
Don't sweat it. Nigeria already has Internet access. Just teach Grandma that she's not really inheriting "$500,000,000 dollars US currenzy if you only gives me your banking deetails".
I get CCTV over the air in Houston, Texas. Are you saying that Chinese state television's English-language channel is being edited by the US government?
Repression isn't binary. The US has been, at moments, somewhat repressive. It's much less repressive by comparison than many other countries, though.
You mean state-sponsered murder by states in which the state and industry are already fully merged? Yeah, I think "private interests" includes a dictator murdering people so he keeps his mansions just as much as Nike mistreating people and the governments looking the other way so long as Nike kicks back some of the profits.
How do you think corporations are chartered and regulated, if not by governments? The powers corporations have taken for granted are in fact granted... by the governments. Corporations are beholden by law to their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders first and foremost. They are protected from any punishments other than fines by governments. You can't jail or dissolve a corporation, only fine it or jail its officers. Therefore, the governments, including the US government (and some would say especially) have made it mandatory from a simple reading of corporate law to pollute the air, water, and ground if cleanups and fines when caught are cheaper than not polluting. It is mandatory to violate workers' rights if it is more profitable than enforcing workers' rights. It is necessary to lay people off then hire lower-skilled workers if it makes a buck.
If you want better corporations, quit giving them extra powers through extra powers of central governments. Start letting the states, who charter them, more power to regulate them. The US government has given the coprorations powers the states that chartered them never intended, and it's time the states and the people were heard.
I'm not against making a buck, or ten billion bucks. I'm for doing so responsibly and being held to the same standards of law as a small business.