(In any sensible jurisdiction, there would be a few other obligations too - like not paying the shareholders if the employees are not paid adequately to survive).
If the company survives, it will be required to pay its employees. If it goes bankrupt, there is a specified order in which people are to be repaid, and shareholders are dead last and will not receive a dime (businesses don't go bankrupt if they don't have liabilities exceeding assets, and therefore all assets are exhausted before all the creditors are paid).
Um, who is this "they" that you speak of? Are you referring to a very large number of unconnected people, each with only a limited stake in the company and other things to do with their time and money?
Without a larger economy, your homestead is unlikely to do better than support you in a very basic and quite shaky standard of living. However, cutting yourself off from the outside world like that would get you off Slashdot.
Since shareholders can't control the board of directors they have no effectively no responsibility for the fraudulent actions of the corporation?
Fundamentally, mostly. Any money I've invested in a corporation can go away if it goes bankrupt. (I've had that happen to me. Possibly I should have gone for a more shotgun strategy with risky investments.) That's enough incentive for most people.
In order to accept greater responsibility, I'd have to have some actual real control on the board, which I don't have, and the ability to find crimes the corporation was committing. Since this is impossible, I'm not going to invest because I could lose everything I've got, not just a few tens of thousands of dollars. The risk is too high.
And there goes the economy, as it becomes exceedingly difficult to raise capital for new enterprises.
Let's get specific. I own some 3M stock, and have corresponding votes in company elections. Suppose I decide that a board member, call him Joe, needs to go. My votes are insignificant by themselves. Shares held by mutual funds are almost certain to vote as the board recommends, which likely means voting for Joe. Most individual shareholders aren't going to know why Joe should go.
To accomplish anything, I'd have to run a major and probably multinational ad campaign to unseat Joe. I don't have the time or money to do that.
It's much simpler to sell the stock, and I will if I think the company isn't going to be clean. My mother was quite successful by picking more or less local companies that had reputations for treating their employees and customers well, and I'm following her example.
Since she was a fairly young blonde woman, I'm expecting a bad law to come out of this. I don't know her eye color, but if it was blue it would be a near-certainty.
Yeah, young children playing with toy guns are extremely dangerous, and anyone armed in the vicinity should shoot them.
Michael Brown is a really bad example for BLM, and they shouldn't mention him. There are other cases where the police officer shows up, shoots an unarmed child, and is not held accountable.
If police were imprisoned for a long time for shooting people who presented no actual danger, people would be more willing to accept Michael Brown as a justified case.
In the US, premeditated murder is normally considered more serious than spur-of-the-moment murder, Many crimes depend on the intention for their severity and definition. The idea is that accidents happen, and crime is performed, and the two aren't necessarily the same.
Hate crime laws in the US are for harsher sentences for crimes that are apparently meant to terrorize members of particular groups. Hate crimes, in the US, are basically criminal acts of terrorism.
The plan is that, if the operator thinks it's a drill, the operator issues the drill message, and if the operator thinks it's real the operator issues the real message. Two different responses to two different things. What we want to train the operator to do is to do one thing if it is a drill and a slightly different thing if it isn't. Having a slightly different message won't harm the drill and might be an additional check if no yo-yo decides to describe it as not a drill when it is.
If they guy was kept in a job he was seriously unsuited for, fire the supervisor or whoever made the personnel decision. There had to be a way to shuffle him off to other duties somewhere. Firing the guy who made the mistake accomplishes little, except to make people more reluctant to issue actual warnings.
Alternatively, you could conclude that they expect battlefield communications to be noisy and difficult to understand at times (more likely most of the time). If one word that isn't a command gets through, you want it not to be interpreted as a command word.
how come the closest things we have to longer term monopolies in the U.S. are all the result of government laws and regulations
The ones that come to mind, like electrical power companies, are natural monopolies that have therefore been regulated, not monopolies that have been created by regulation. I'm sure there's a few of those, but you have the causation wrong on most regulated monopolies.
but we don't have any monopolies which aren't being enforced by government regulation
Microsoft comes immediately to mind. Coming up with turkeys like Vista and Windows 8 and Windows 10 doesn't really cost them market share, showing that the desktop OS business is a monopoly not created by regulation.
"Good" and "evil" aren't absolutes. We can point to examples of good things and evil things, but there's a lot of things that are iffy or have both good and evil consequences. "Good" people do interfere with others, as needed. People are neither all good nor all evil.
Philosophers are not soley recruited form sociopaths.
Diophantine equations are basically algebra that works only on integers. They have nothing to do with trig.
Dark matter fills some holes in our models of the Universe. It explains galactic rotation curves, anomalous gravitational lensing, and some issues with the Big Bang that I barely understand (apparently, the Universe would be different in some ways if all the mass in the Universe was normal matter). I've heard of nothing about very small low-frequency gravitational waves doing any lensing.
The money-making enterprise customers will upgrade to 10. They have no choice. There's still a couple of years of 7 being supported, and that may be extended (it was for XP).
As far as overall Microsoft marketshare going down due to phones and tablets, that's the effect I was referring to. Microsoft's screwups are unlikely to cost it significant marketshare, but their market is shrinking, at least in the consumer space.
"Did not" is a perfectly adequate defense. It's up to the prosecution to prove someone did it. Reading the memo carefully, it doesn't have enough evidence to convict anyone of anything. Apparently, the Steele dossier wasn't sourced as Nunes wanted, but it was sourced to a named individual. There is no reference to the individual, or any description of him or her. Moreover, the newspaper article doesn't corroborate the dossier, okay, the memo never says the FBI used it that way. This isn't enough to get an indictment out of a grand jury.
The warrant was part of an ongoing investigation. Mueller isn't through yet. The warrant has expired, but that doesn't mean everything about it should be revealed.
What he reported was essentially nothing. That came out after the impact on the polls. If Comey didn't want Trump elected, and he wasn't stupid, why the October announcement?
When are people going to be ready? (At least close - I don't think anyone makes an informed choice to have a first child. I'm not as sure about later children.) Increasingly, this is after prime physical childbearing age.
And I see that you are indeed encouraging others to sacrifice to your benefit.
Different questions. You were talking about companies that move where they get the best tax breaks, and these typically involve taking a loss on having the company around. You and I and quite a few millions like us make up a main revenue source, and the government isn't going to charge us below cost for what services we use.
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If the company survives, it will be required to pay its employees. If it goes bankrupt, there is a specified order in which people are to be repaid, and shareholders are dead last and will not receive a dime (businesses don't go bankrupt if they don't have liabilities exceeding assets, and therefore all assets are exhausted before all the creditors are paid).
Um, who is this "they" that you speak of? Are you referring to a very large number of unconnected people, each with only a limited stake in the company and other things to do with their time and money?
Without a larger economy, your homestead is unlikely to do better than support you in a very basic and quite shaky standard of living. However, cutting yourself off from the outside world like that would get you off Slashdot.
Fundamentally, mostly. Any money I've invested in a corporation can go away if it goes bankrupt. (I've had that happen to me. Possibly I should have gone for a more shotgun strategy with risky investments.) That's enough incentive for most people.
In order to accept greater responsibility, I'd have to have some actual real control on the board, which I don't have, and the ability to find crimes the corporation was committing. Since this is impossible, I'm not going to invest because I could lose everything I've got, not just a few tens of thousands of dollars. The risk is too high.
And there goes the economy, as it becomes exceedingly difficult to raise capital for new enterprises.
Let's get specific. I own some 3M stock, and have corresponding votes in company elections. Suppose I decide that a board member, call him Joe, needs to go. My votes are insignificant by themselves. Shares held by mutual funds are almost certain to vote as the board recommends, which likely means voting for Joe. Most individual shareholders aren't going to know why Joe should go.
To accomplish anything, I'd have to run a major and probably multinational ad campaign to unseat Joe. I don't have the time or money to do that.
It's much simpler to sell the stock, and I will if I think the company isn't going to be clean. My mother was quite successful by picking more or less local companies that had reputations for treating their employees and customers well, and I'm following her example.
Since she was a fairly young blonde woman, I'm expecting a bad law to come out of this. I don't know her eye color, but if it was blue it would be a near-certainty.
Yeah, young children playing with toy guns are extremely dangerous, and anyone armed in the vicinity should shoot them.
Michael Brown is a really bad example for BLM, and they shouldn't mention him. There are other cases where the police officer shows up, shoots an unarmed child, and is not held accountable.
If police were imprisoned for a long time for shooting people who presented no actual danger, people would be more willing to accept Michael Brown as a justified case.
In the US, premeditated murder is normally considered more serious than spur-of-the-moment murder, Many crimes depend on the intention for their severity and definition. The idea is that accidents happen, and crime is performed, and the two aren't necessarily the same.
Hate crime laws in the US are for harsher sentences for crimes that are apparently meant to terrorize members of particular groups. Hate crimes, in the US, are basically criminal acts of terrorism.
Perhaps one thing to help would be to get the non-SWAT officers out of the way, or at least for them to holster their weapons.
Nuking the city from orbit is the only way to be sure to stop crime.
The plan is that, if the operator thinks it's a drill, the operator issues the drill message, and if the operator thinks it's real the operator issues the real message. Two different responses to two different things. What we want to train the operator to do is to do one thing if it is a drill and a slightly different thing if it isn't. Having a slightly different message won't harm the drill and might be an additional check if no yo-yo decides to describe it as not a drill when it is.
If they guy was kept in a job he was seriously unsuited for, fire the supervisor or whoever made the personnel decision. There had to be a way to shuffle him off to other duties somewhere. Firing the guy who made the mistake accomplishes little, except to make people more reluctant to issue actual warnings.
You mean because the Pacific Fleet is based there, right?
Alternatively, you could conclude that they expect battlefield communications to be noisy and difficult to understand at times (more likely most of the time). If one word that isn't a command gets through, you want it not to be interpreted as a command word.
So you're saying that the average turnover is less than two months?
The ones that come to mind, like electrical power companies, are natural monopolies that have therefore been regulated, not monopolies that have been created by regulation. I'm sure there's a few of those, but you have the causation wrong on most regulated monopolies.
Microsoft comes immediately to mind. Coming up with turkeys like Vista and Windows 8 and Windows 10 doesn't really cost them market share, showing that the desktop OS business is a monopoly not created by regulation.
Yeah, but it's not cost-effective. Not even with low-end Android phones.
"Good" and "evil" aren't absolutes. We can point to examples of good things and evil things, but there's a lot of things that are iffy or have both good and evil consequences. "Good" people do interfere with others, as needed. People are neither all good nor all evil.
Philosophers are not soley recruited form sociopaths.
Diophantine equations are basically algebra that works only on integers. They have nothing to do with trig.
Dark matter fills some holes in our models of the Universe. It explains galactic rotation curves, anomalous gravitational lensing, and some issues with the Big Bang that I barely understand (apparently, the Universe would be different in some ways if all the mass in the Universe was normal matter). I've heard of nothing about very small low-frequency gravitational waves doing any lensing.
Nope.
Game theory is about what you should do in a situation to achieve as much of a defined goal as possible, and things related to that.
Philosophy is about what the goals should be, among other things.s
The money-making enterprise customers will upgrade to 10. They have no choice. There's still a couple of years of 7 being supported, and that may be extended (it was for XP).
As far as overall Microsoft marketshare going down due to phones and tablets, that's the effect I was referring to. Microsoft's screwups are unlikely to cost it significant marketshare, but their market is shrinking, at least in the consumer space.
"Did not" is a perfectly adequate defense. It's up to the prosecution to prove someone did it. Reading the memo carefully, it doesn't have enough evidence to convict anyone of anything. Apparently, the Steele dossier wasn't sourced as Nunes wanted, but it was sourced to a named individual. There is no reference to the individual, or any description of him or her. Moreover, the newspaper article doesn't corroborate the dossier, okay, the memo never says the FBI used it that way. This isn't enough to get an indictment out of a grand jury.
The warrant was part of an ongoing investigation. Mueller isn't through yet. The warrant has expired, but that doesn't mean everything about it should be revealed.
What he reported was essentially nothing. That came out after the impact on the polls. If Comey didn't want Trump elected, and he wasn't stupid, why the October announcement?
When are people going to be ready? (At least close - I don't think anyone makes an informed choice to have a first child. I'm not as sure about later children.) Increasingly, this is after prime physical childbearing age.
And I see that you are indeed encouraging others to sacrifice to your benefit.
Different questions. You were talking about companies that move where they get the best tax breaks, and these typically involve taking a loss on having the company around. You and I and quite a few millions like us make up a main revenue source, and the government isn't going to charge us below cost for what services we use.