Just corporations? Are you sure you don't also want to blame partnerships, sole proprietorships, and babysitters? Are you including charitable corporations in your attack?
Archaeologists are likely to insist that all findings be photographed and measured in situ, and the entire cave be dug out with low pressure air and camel's hair brushes. A big find might halt production for years or indefinitely.
Unless you know in advance how "authorities" are going to react, it's pretty much a crap shoot.
From all appearances, he didn't fill it with cement, he walled it off, which has at least 4 advantages.
The limestone cave, with which the south is riddled, is left undamaged.
The cave is not defiled by current investigators, who are likely to be incompetent compared to investigators who will look at the cave when it is rediscovered in a few hundred years.
The time and money of whoever would investigate is not being wasted on something likely to be worthless.
The time and money of both the builder and the owner is not being wasted.
undocumented, potentially important history (which belongs to us all)
There isn't a square inch of Earth which doesn't fit that description. This is just the noise of an interfering fussbudget, exaggerating the importance of his own pet peeve.
There are many practical difficulties to seceding a Hawaiian Island. One is that the US may not approve, and has the muscle to prevent it. Another is that once independent, he would need to have a defense force of some sort to protect from rogues who'd like to seize a paradise for themselves. On the plus side, tax advantages.
There are at least 2 layers of government above Ellison and his Pacific property. He's still subject to courts and laws beyond his control. Some aspects of feudalism, perhaps, but not entirely.
Zimbabwe is a poor example for just about anything. The aftereffect of Mugabe's land grab is to assure that no wise person invests there until many years after the present government is gone.
You're drawing rights a little too narrowly. For instance, a person has the right not to be murdered, regardless of whether the murderer is governmental or not.
I've heard from builders that rebar with a little rust on it is actually preferred: the roughness gives the concrete a better grip on the rebar. Stainless would be pointless.
One of the functions of a corporation is to separate some of the aspects of management (control) from ownership. This allows the immense advantage of a stock market, where I can buy a portion of Intel. profit when it does well and not go to jail if (without my knowledge or permission) the management does something criminal.
The Supreme Court ruling of corporate personhood is quite limited. People treating it literally are either dupes or dishonest, probably both.
Thus forcing copyright owning businesses to be sole proprietorships or partnerships, moving copyright owning entities to even more narrow and hence capricious control.
This widespread, foolish animus against corporations leads to nowhere good.
Aluminum oxide is tough and tends to prevent oxidation of deeper layers. Iron oxide is very weak, much larger than the metallic iron it replaces, and doesn't prevent oxidation of deeper layers.
If the engine is operated properly, the amount of lead emitted is very minimal.
Lead is an element. An engine is not a nuclear reactor; the lead doesn't change into something else. An engine is not a storage site for lead from the fuel; almost all the lead that goes in with the fuel goes out with the exhaust. Running the engine improperly does not increase emitted lead.
In support of your point: adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline to raise octane rating is very much a case of diminishing returns. A little raises octane significantly, a little more not so much. When leaded gasoline was common, enough lead was used that it was already well up on the curve: 0.1 g/gal 2.0 point increase, 0.4 g/gal 6.5 point increase, 1.0 g/gal 11.0 point increase, 3.0 g/gal 16.0 point increase. (Inferred from data at http://home.comcast.net/~gregs.speed.shop/site/. Another reference says about 6.0 points for the first gram/gallon, but the trend is clear.)
I've seen 85 octane gas mostly in farming country. I always assumed it was for tractors and other such low performance agricultural engines, much of it very old.
First, using ethanol isn't the only way to raise octane rating; different octane isomers and different petrochemicals and different additives also work. Second, some vehicles adjust ignition timing to a point just short of detonation to achieve best power or efficiency.
Technically, what the 16th amendment legalized was taxation "without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." That the amendment specified "income" is more window dressing than substance.
Social security was created as a vote-getting ploy by FDR, your lying claim to the contrary notwithstanding. Disability was not a part of the original SS program.
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Just corporations? Are you sure you don't also want to blame partnerships, sole proprietorships, and babysitters? Are you including charitable corporations in your attack?
Archaeologists are likely to insist that all findings be photographed and measured in situ, and the entire cave be dug out with low pressure air and camel's hair brushes. A big find might halt production for years or indefinitely.
Unless you know in advance how "authorities" are going to react, it's pretty much a crap shoot.
There isn't a square inch of Earth which doesn't fit that description. This is just the noise of an interfering fussbudget, exaggerating the importance of his own pet peeve.
Mining rights vary by state.
If current US citizens had learned from history, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now.
There are many practical difficulties to seceding a Hawaiian Island. One is that the US may not approve, and has the muscle to prevent it. Another is that once independent, he would need to have a defense force of some sort to protect from rogues who'd like to seize a paradise for themselves. On the plus side, tax advantages.
There are at least 2 layers of government above Ellison and his Pacific property. He's still subject to courts and laws beyond his control. Some aspects of feudalism, perhaps, but not entirely.
Zimbabwe is a poor example for just about anything. The aftereffect of Mugabe's land grab is to assure that no wise person invests there until many years after the present government is gone.
Vladimir Lenin.
You're drawing rights a little too narrowly. For instance, a person has the right not to be murdered, regardless of whether the murderer is governmental or not.
Steel has no problem with compressive strength, it's just a lot more expensive than concrete.
Choose your stone well; not all of them are good for your 5000 year building. Limestone is attacked by acid. Granite contains radioactive material.
I've heard from builders that rebar with a little rust on it is actually preferred: the roughness gives the concrete a better grip on the rebar. Stainless would be pointless.
One of the functions of a corporation is to separate some of the aspects of management (control) from ownership. This allows the immense advantage of a stock market, where I can buy a portion of Intel. profit when it does well and not go to jail if (without my knowledge or permission) the management does something criminal.
The Supreme Court ruling of corporate personhood is quite limited. People treating it literally are either dupes or dishonest, probably both.
Thus forcing copyright owning businesses to be sole proprietorships or partnerships, moving copyright owning entities to even more narrow and hence capricious control.
This widespread, foolish animus against corporations leads to nowhere good.
He couldn't stand up to a bunch of pansy Democrats in California. He's lost all credibility.
Your use of loaded language, and failure to explain the extent and reasons behind corporate law, are hilarious.
Aluminum oxide is tough and tends to prevent oxidation of deeper layers. Iron oxide is very weak, much larger than the metallic iron it replaces, and doesn't prevent oxidation of deeper layers.
Lead is an element. An engine is not a nuclear reactor; the lead doesn't change into something else. An engine is not a storage site for lead from the fuel; almost all the lead that goes in with the fuel goes out with the exhaust. Running the engine improperly does not increase emitted lead.
In support of your point: adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline to raise octane rating is very much a case of diminishing returns. A little raises octane significantly, a little more not so much. When leaded gasoline was common, enough lead was used that it was already well up on the curve: 0.1 g/gal 2.0 point increase, 0.4 g/gal 6.5 point increase, 1.0 g/gal 11.0 point increase, 3.0 g/gal 16.0 point increase. (Inferred from data at http://home.comcast.net/~gregs.speed.shop/site/. Another reference says about 6.0 points for the first gram/gallon, but the trend is clear.)
I've seen 85 octane gas mostly in farming country. I always assumed it was for tractors and other such low performance agricultural engines, much of it very old.
First, using ethanol isn't the only way to raise octane rating; different octane isomers and different petrochemicals and different additives also work. Second, some vehicles adjust ignition timing to a point just short of detonation to achieve best power or efficiency.
We no longer have it because people like William Jennings Bryan and Eugene V. Debs found a willing audience of envious suckers like you.
Technically, what the 16th amendment legalized was taxation "without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." That the amendment specified "income" is more window dressing than substance.
Social security was created as a vote-getting ploy by FDR, your lying claim to the contrary notwithstanding. Disability was not a part of the original SS program.