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  1. Re:Settle criminal charges? on BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    Why would they work for free?
    The company would still have to pay them.

    If the government dissolved the company, it would simply sell off its assets and operations. This happens all the time during bankruptcy.

    Creditors, partners and employees can be paid out of existing funds or with loans. Just because you have to pay a fine does not mean you don't have to pay your mortgage.

    Slavery does not enter into it. This is simply my attempt to put a corporation in jail.

  2. Re:You're confused about who he's representing. on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 1

    I was obviously speaking of roundness as a sphere not disc.

  3. Re:If "employment prospects" Are All That Matter . on Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help? · · Score: 2

    Does it still silently drop data that does not match the expected input?

    Can you easily delete a table with foreign keys yet?

    I am sorry if I don't keep checking to see if they finally fixed based problems. Way easier to just use postgres.

  4. There are lots of postgres employers on Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help? · · Score: 1

    I have used it at several employers and know of some hiring right now.

    Most of these jobs end up filled with people who are used to other DBs though, since candidates are so rare.

  5. Re:Settle criminal charges? on BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    Sure, but he plead guilty to a lessor charge. So your example is not that at all.

  6. Re:Betteridge's law: no. on BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    Because they had no idea this was going on and no way to act against it.

    The customer is always the least information actor, thus the least responsible.

  7. Re:Settle criminal charges? on BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    Easy way around that.
    Take it out of revenue not profit. To ensure they do not cook the books calculate it out of the ratio of days in a year. So 180 days in prison would be nearly 50% of gross revenue for the year. To ensure no cross year shenanigans also require it to be no smaller than 40% of the previous years.

  8. Re:You're confused about who he's representing. on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can't disagree with facts. You can be ignorant of them, but you can't disagree as they are not matters of opinion. Sometimes there are not two sides, the earth is round, the sun is the center of the solar system, the earth is billions of years old.

    At least he is replacing the "lies from the pit of hell" moron.

  9. Re:No: of truthful notifications on BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    I would say blaming them for a spill is fine as well. You are still responsible for cleaning up the mistakes you make even if they are not intentional.

  10. Re:Settle criminal charges? on BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    While that is generally possible for lesser charges I don't think it is normally the case for manslaughter charges.

  11. Re:Settle criminal charges? on BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    Far easier. Seize all revenue, not profits.
    People don't generally collect a paycheck from their normal jobs while in jail. Hey, if corporations want to be people lets treat them like people.

  12. You can now pay fines for manslaughter? on BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill · · Score: 2

    Does this mean rich people can just kill the poor and pay fines now?

    Taking a life illegally should at least warrant some jail time.

  13. Re:Will it work with glasses? on Kickstarted Oculus Rift VR Headset Shipping In March/April · · Score: 1

    News to me, I find not having peripheral vision unacceptable.

  14. Re:Will it work with glasses? on Kickstarted Oculus Rift VR Headset Shipping In March/April · · Score: 0

    Have you considered alternatives to glasses?

  15. Why is this shit connected to the internet? on Real-World Cyber City Used To Train Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    Should these things not be on their own separate networks? Do we really need the water tower connected to the internet.

  16. Re:.mil only on British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests · · Score: 2

    Citation needed.
    Why would throwing away half the craft and having to carry many tons of oxidizer, which the skylon does not need, be cheaper?

  17. Re:Screw US Airports on British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests · · Score: 1

    You will need a specially strengthened runway, so any legal trouble would be sorted out before that is built.

    A normal airport would not be useful for skylon.

  18. Re:Reliability? on OCZ Launches Vector Indilinx Barefoot 3 SSD, First All In-House Design · · Score: 1

    Unlike cars, computer backups are free.

    I use only SSDs in laptops and workstations, and have not yet had one fail. Mind you, I steer clear of OCZ.

  19. Re:Pricey on OCZ Launches Vector Indilinx Barefoot 3 SSD, First All In-House Design · · Score: 4, Funny

    These are fast, not cheap.
    Normally that would mean you also get "good", but this is OCZ so all you get is fast.

  20. Re:Benchmarks don't mean much... on OCZ Launches Vector Indilinx Barefoot 3 SSD, First All In-House Design · · Score: 2

    It is from OCZ reliability is not what they do, they do fast.
    If these drives are already fast enough for you then don't even consider this product.

  21. Nokia Suing RIM? on Nokia Asks Court To Block RIM Products For Violating Patent Agreement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So is the point here just to funnel what little future these companies have into their lawyers pockets?

    If you are circling the drain spending all your income on lawsuits seems unwise.

  22. Re:The Worlds worst nuclear accident on Workers Raise First Section of New Chernobyl Shelter · · Score: 0

    I think what it really tells us is that the original fix was no good. Which most of us already knew.

    You can dismantle a coal power plant, but what do you plan to do with all the collected waste material? It is full of heavy metals.

    Once you dismantle the coal plant, you still have not removed all the pollution it let out.

    I agree with your over all point about people, but I disagree that coal power is a solution to that.

  23. Re:The Worlds worst nuclear accident on Workers Raise First Section of New Chernobyl Shelter · · Score: 1

    Europe wiped out?
    Please show your work. Was there even enough fissile material for that to occur?

  24. Re:The Worlds worst nuclear accident on Workers Raise First Section of New Chernobyl Shelter · · Score: 1

    Incidents of cancer trippled over the decade following the accident.
    Citation needed.

    Does this report also deduct the massive increase in ability to diagnose patients that occurred at the same time?

  25. Re:Nuclear... on Workers Raise First Section of New Chernobyl Shelter · · Score: 1

    Do you really believe that or are you trolling?

    The entire Soviet Union was run as one big profit making enterprise. It was state capitalism at its finest. The whole point of the test that caused the failure was to increase the profitability of the Soviet State.