easily-convertible currency Would you like that in dollars, rubles, yuan, yen, pounds sterling, Australian dollars, US jobs, university admissions, no-bid contracts, or members of Congress?
As of this post(excluding Iraqi dinars): 15 million USD = 379.977708 million Russian rubles 15 million USD = 112.819279 million Chinese yuan 15 million USD = 1.72651934 billion Japanese yen 15 million USD = 7.4940048 million British pounds 15 million USD = 17.8507676 million Australian dollars
As much as I believe those responsible for the Enron disaster are a danger to society, they can be neutralized simply by prohibiting them from being directors of companies ever again. Well, you do have a point, just that after Ken Lay received the Aspen Pardon(dying before sentencing), neutralization went out the window.
So if I start posting goatse, hot grits, ascii depictions of parrots and genetalia and I get modded down... People can still see it, but it is tagged. Now if your posts were deleted, and you were banned with any (given) personal information revealed on all your posts- that would only leave the private entity excuse. By the way, you forgot Poland,...In Soviet Russia, and the other memes.
What happens when two people have conflicting rights The law takes care of that one nicely. After that, it's money.
How would everyone have answered if a right wing person took control of the room screaming and yelling? Depends on if they're from Seattle, if their rant discusses the Middle East, and/or hold some position in a Right Wing Media Network. However, they announce enough of their position on their (usually closed in) medium of choice that they limit their screaming and yelling to their bully pulpit.
Not that I wouldn't mind seeing Charlie Johnson (or someone of similar political bent) try to disrupt something and receive what the law allows in full view of the public - it's that they stick to where they have message control.
The right-wing groups already have plenty of opposition trying to disrupt them.
Or what about if this guy then suddenly produced a weapon and assassinated Senator Kerry? While it cannot be discounted, the likeliness (in this part of the world) is slim. Even though he may be from Yale, and perhaps the Skull & Bones, he hasn't done much to stir up anything beyond just the usual background noise.
To think of it, it's being dressed up as an incident of a moonbat that fired his rage in the wrong direction.
Steve's Salary: $1...... Having your CEO cost less than your annual paperclip budget: priceless ...seeing the reaction when tax code catches up to him in the form of unescapable taxes: Epic.
Some things are meant to be business-friendly, the Club for Avarice complains about the rest.
Think of it as the parody of Ms. Malkin and the rest of the closed minded Pajamas Media group with a pinch of rabid supporters of LGF. Add a parody of the "No Surrender" shirt, and you have the complete picture.
"Legally speaking" is never all that matters. Money is all that matters. That's what the Goldmans thought. Fixed that for you, applicable both to Fred "Curse it if I'm not getting the cut" Goldman, or Nintendo.
It must be hell for the pilot when both Larry and Sergei want to have a go at holding the controls at the same time, and one of them wants to land the plane on the runway already but the other wants to have another go at flying around the tower in homage to the Cessna days from MS flight simulator V.1.2. Not only would they be renting the space, but they might inadvertently become a part of it.
This expense is most likely not being paid out of their personal pockets, but by Google.
As a shareholder, I see this as an egregious waste of company money. Sure their time is valuable, but so is my investment.
I am sick of corporate executives who act like little kings. Like the Tyco execs company-funded baachus birthday party for a wife / orgy in (Athens?), it is hard for me to see the value of supporting these execs excessive lifestyle choices and to see their contribution to the company's future success outweighing personal advancing, parasitic decisions.
Thanks for designing a great search engine, you've been well rewarded, you are irresponsible, and there's the door. At least we know where they'll be should they follow Ken Lay of Enron up to Snowmass. Until then, you can only hope that the thunder is taken out of their hands soon, and not due to someone else being the same way.
...unless you add that to Sarbanes-Oxley.
Hey, you want to fire them, all you have to do is buy 51% of the shares. That will run you about eighty-one billion dollars. Let us know when you're ready to put your money where your mouth is. There is the nice thing called regulation that not only sticks a penalty to them that they can't escape, but they can't pass on. Something like a worldwide CGT that applies even if they do business here with a front company.
That idea, "I want to try and become like them", is still firmly an American idea. The vinegar-pissers would be more at home in a country with socialist influences, like my Netherlands. Much as I tend to like it here, the attitude that people who made it big somehow should don't deserve it is not conducive to entrepeneurialism (not sure that's a word, but you know what I mean). In fact, it's leading to an emigration wave of even mildly financially successful people. Maybe the folks behind Jante Law were on to something.
I also find myself occasionally thinking "It's not fair", but I have a functioning brain, so I get over it. Probably not the best investment they can make, and it's showy, but hey, it's their money and they worked for it. Then they can just build their own field, and not waste taxpayer resources. The field could be demolished for housing and office space for not-so-exclusionary entities, similar to Building 26 of NCR.
Now if there was a bill that would shut Google out of it and do just that...
Important lesson for left-wingers: It's not about how hard you work. It's about what you actually accomplish. Important lesson for (extreme) right-wingers: Starting a business does not imbue you with the power of $DEITY and you will be reminded of it should you forget.
But taking into consideration the brat packs of the 80's, 90's and present day, the internet bubble, and subsequent and continuing recession. Corrected it for you;)
If you think getting into MIT as an American is hard think how much harder it is for foreign students. I have a friend who went to MIT and she was the only person in the whole country in her year who managed to get in. There's a part of having your own difficult-to-get-into universities that you have already?
Universal admissions for citizens and a redirection from existing pork would help solve that "admissions problem". An alternative is to strip the name from the degree and ensure no identifiers can be passed on beyond the university other than you passing in a specific subject of study (e.g. you'd not be able to say where, but the university that gave it would be able to step up and vouch for it- but could not in any way go beyond that by naming where).
Do you think Google's accountants are crooked? I'll just wait to hear them showing up in Aspen in that 767.
It is also notable that corporate taxes are little more than proxy taxes on individuals. They are part of the cost of doing business, like the price of landing strips, and are passed on to customers through the price of goods and services. That does not give them godlike powers over society.
When the door was effectively being (slowly) shut in the 1980's and Something about a "Generation of Greed" were the effective start of this. Not some standard "libertarian" excuse.
If there is no practical way up, something will take its place.
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As of this post(excluding Iraqi dinars):
15 million USD = 379.977708 million Russian rubles
15 million USD = 112.819279 million Chinese yuan
15 million USD = 1.72651934 billion Japanese yen
15 million USD = 7.4940048 million British pounds
15 million USD = 17.8507676 million Australian dollars
Not that I wouldn't mind seeing Charlie Johnson (or someone of similar political bent) try to disrupt something and receive what the law allows in full view of the public - it's that they stick to where they have message control.
The right-wing groups already have plenty of opposition trying to disrupt them. Or what about if this guy then suddenly produced a weapon and assassinated Senator Kerry? While it cannot be discounted, the likeliness (in this part of the world) is slim. Even though he may be from Yale, and perhaps the Skull & Bones, he hasn't done much to stir up anything beyond just the usual background noise.
To think of it, it's being dressed up as an incident of a moonbat that fired his rage in the wrong direction.
Having your CEO cost less than your annual paperclip budget: priceless ...seeing the reaction when tax code catches up to him in the form of unescapable taxes: Epic.
Some things are meant to be business-friendly, the Club for Avarice complains about the rest.
Think of it as the parody of Ms. Malkin and the rest of the closed minded Pajamas Media group with a pinch of rabid supporters of LGF. Add a parody of the "No Surrender" shirt, and you have the complete picture.
Fixed that for you, applicable both to Fred "Curse it if I'm not getting the cut" Goldman, or Nintendo.
Not like Comcast would n
Now why do we keep on wanting to sell ourselves out to these places again? Oh, wait- it's to escape regulation.
As a shareholder, I see this as an egregious waste of company money. Sure their time is valuable, but so is my investment.
I am sick of corporate executives who act like little kings. Like the Tyco execs company-funded baachus birthday party for a wife / orgy in (Athens?), it is hard for me to see the value of supporting these execs excessive lifestyle choices and to see their contribution to the company's future success outweighing personal advancing, parasitic decisions.
Thanks for designing a great search engine, you've been well rewarded, you are irresponsible, and there's the door. At least we know where they'll be should they follow Ken Lay of Enron up to Snowmass. Until then, you can only hope that the thunder is taken out of their hands soon, and not due to someone else being the same way.
Y'know, it only takes a single regulation to kill that advantage, and prevent another HP takeover.
Since those two worshippers of avarice have structured it to have 66% in their holdings of 10:1 shares, you as a class A shareholder can do nothing.
Now if there was a bill that would shut Google out of it and do just that...
...which comes back to Google in the form of laws allowing them to act like they're $DEITY.
They'd make Al Gore look saintly clean given their record on China.
Universal admissions for citizens and a redirection from existing pork would help solve that "admissions problem". An alternative is to strip the name from the degree and ensure no identifiers can be passed on beyond the university other than you passing in a specific subject of study (e.g. you'd not be able to say where, but the university that gave it would be able to step up and vouch for it- but could not in any way go beyond that by naming where).
That can be fixed, w/o the need of international students....
When the door was effectively being (slowly) shut in the 1980's and Something about a "Generation of Greed" were the effective start of this. Not some standard "libertarian" excuse.
If there is no practical way up, something will take its place.