If they owned the company, they would be liable for any debt if the company goes bankrupt.
Before the creation of the limited liability company, stockholders were liable for the debts of companies that they owned. Stockholders are not liable because there are laws that limit their liability (if the company is set up correctly), not because they don't own the company.
An investor is not an owner. The money he paid for the stock did not go to Apple, it went to some other market player.
Consider buying a car. If you bought a used car, you did not pay the manufacturer. Using your logic, you would not own the car.
Just because someone who buys a share of Apple stock did not buy it directly from Apple does not mean that Apple did not originally benefit from the first sale (or grant) of the stock. It did. In the case of an IPO, a company is selling stock. The company receives money in exchange for that stock. The stock is now an asset that can be re-sold. In the case of employee stock, the company is paying the employee with stock in lieu of paying cash, so the company is trading its stock for the work of the employee -- the company received a benefit in exchange for stock which is now an an asset that can be re-sold
Sure there is. A great CEO can spend an hour doing something that leads to several hundred new jobs. Is that hour worth 60 of those newly employed people? I suspect they'd think so.
Running a major enterprise isn't easy. There's an awful lot of information to absorb and decisions to make, and the implications of those are immense. That's why a good CEO is worth a lot of money, and a bad one takes down an entire company.
Is the CEO putting his own money (not salary, but personal wealth) on the line if he makes a bad decision? If not, then your value argument doesn't work. What about engineers who invent something that may earn a company hundreds of millions of dollars, do you expect them to be paid millions?
The fact is that CEOs are worth what it would cost to replace them with someone broadly similar, and probably there are many people who could do the same job but never get the opportunity.
This isn't Wikipedia where "citation required" is accepted use. Here, we expect people to be able to use Google. However, I have used Google on your behalf and come up with this article which discusses the costs:
One of the common questions I always got from Telco operators is "how many subscribers can your mobile system handle"? My snide answer is "100 billion"....as long as nobody makes any calls. The question they should be asking is "how many simultaneous calls can your system handle?". Then the answer becomes 100,000 peak busy hour calls. The Telco customer should know what their *expected calls per hour per subscriber* are and then they can calculate the number subscribers they can handle.
Net neutrality simply shifts who is paying for the cost of all that equipment for our access. One way the end user will end up paying for it directly, and the other way the end user pays for it indirectly through higher content fees, or goods and services that are more expensive due to higher advertising fees. In the end we all have to pay for it.
All of that is true, but it ignores one crucial fact: the biggest cost for ISPs is the last mile, while the bandwidth limits that are being discussed affect the core.
Only a little time ago, there was lots of "OMG Android is becoming fragmented" stories. Now the stories are essentially the opposite: that device makers are closely tied into what Google does.
Is there someone behind this? Or am I seeing consipiracies where there are none?
Maybe at the consumer level there is no competition, but the next time your city negotiates with companies to provide cable service, there will be fewer options.
So the oil companies are profiting off POLLUTION, but not profiting off "polluting", which implies they are somehow responsible.
Please tell me how, if the oil companies are not responsible, they are able to collect from their insurance companies?
This is crony capitalism at its finest. This is taxpayers money being given to companies that should instead be compensating the taxpayer for the damage that they have done.
The footprints themselves, which survived for almost 1 million years, won't be there. Two weeks after they were uncovered, North Sea tides had washed them away.
Let's see if you feel the same way if and when you reach the age of 82.
My mother was treated for cancer in her '80's. The cancer was (temporarily) defeated, but she lost her quality of life. Afterward, the cancer treatment, she regretted opting for treatment instead of palliative care. When the cancer came back, she opted for palliative care.
My father (approaching 100) told me years ago that he felt that he had done everything that we wanted to do and did not fear death.
You can read "only manufactures outside the USA" as either "the only place its manufacturing occurs is outside the USA" or as "manufacturing is the only thing that it does outside of the USA."
And neither of those interpretations would be correct.
I live in the Phoenix area and used to work in Chandler.
So you know about the US fabs. Presumably you also know about the design offices outside the US.
In California, where there are laws requiring traffic speed surveys before setting speed limits, if the police want to push down a speed limit, the current limit will be rigorously and visibly enforced just before (and perhaps during) the survey.
Last time I looked at/. on my phone, 90% of the screen was filled with something like: "this comment hidden...". Really, 90% filled with no useful information.
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Before the creation of the limited liability company, stockholders were liable for the debts of companies that they owned. Stockholders are not liable because there are laws that limit their liability (if the company is set up correctly), not because they don't own the company.
Consider buying a car. If you bought a used car, you did not pay the manufacturer. Using your logic, you would not own the car.
Just because someone who buys a share of Apple stock did not buy it directly from Apple does not mean that Apple did not originally benefit from the first sale (or grant) of the stock. It did. In the case of an IPO, a company is selling stock. The company receives money in exchange for that stock. The stock is now an asset that can be re-sold. In the case of employee stock, the company is paying the employee with stock in lieu of paying cash, so the company is trading its stock for the work of the employee -- the company received a benefit in exchange for stock which is now an an asset that can be re-sold
Much of the money "lost" in the Madoff ponzi scheme never existed -- it was just a made-up number on a statement.
And there was me thinking that Comcast agreed not to do this very thing when it bought NBC:
They sign up for some Gmail accounts and then add their own Gmail addresses to their list. That wasn't so difficult was it?
Is the CEO putting his own money (not salary, but personal wealth) on the line if he makes a bad decision? If not, then your value argument doesn't work. What about engineers who invent something that may earn a company hundreds of millions of dollars, do you expect them to be paid millions?
The fact is that CEOs are worth what it would cost to replace them with someone broadly similar, and probably there are many people who could do the same job but never get the opportunity.
This isn't Wikipedia where "citation required" is accepted use. Here, we expect people to be able to use Google. However, I have used Google on your behalf and come up with this article which discusses the costs:
All of that is true, but it ignores one crucial fact: the biggest cost for ISPs is the last mile, while the bandwidth limits that are being discussed affect the core.
The mere possiblity gives cities more leverage.
FTFY
That link points to an opinion, not facts, and the opinion about Wyden is based on a falsehood.
This is false. Consumers don't have a direct choice, but municipalities can switch.
FTFY.
Furthermore, given that the NSA has a history of lying and misdirection, why believe any numbers that the NSA produces?
Only a little time ago, there was lots of "OMG Android is becoming fragmented" stories. Now the stories are essentially the opposite: that device makers are closely tied into what Google does.
Is there someone behind this? Or am I seeing consipiracies where there are none?
The NSA has been tracking everyone's data, and especially things going on in foreign sand-filled landscapes.
What's that, the title was NASA knows, not NSA knows?
Not at the consumer level, but cities can switch.
Maybe at the consumer level there is no competition, but the next time your city negotiates with companies to provide cable service, there will be fewer options.
Please tell me how, if the oil companies are not responsible, they are able to collect from their insurance companies?
This is crony capitalism at its finest. This is taxpayers money being given to companies that should instead be compensating the taxpayer for the damage that they have done.
My mother was treated for cancer in her '80's. The cancer was (temporarily) defeated, but she lost her quality of life. Afterward, the cancer treatment, she regretted opting for treatment instead of palliative care. When the cancer came back, she opted for palliative care.
My father (approaching 100) told me years ago that he felt that he had done everything that we wanted to do and did not fear death.
DNS can use UDP, yes, but it can also use TCP, so as an example of "a UDP", it is quite poor.
And neither of those interpretations would be correct.
So you know about the US fabs. Presumably you also know about the design offices outside the US.
So I guess Turkey has given up on trying to join the EU?
In California, where there are laws requiring traffic speed surveys before setting speed limits, if the police want to push down a speed limit, the current limit will be rigorously and visibly enforced just before (and perhaps during) the survey.
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