First of all, all the major oil companies are publicly traded, so you can get a pretty good idea of what their gross and net profit margins are (not as exceptional as you might think)
Secondly, wouldn't high gas prices lead to happy environmentalists?
Finally, Oil rich nations tend to reap gigantic profits off thier natural resources.
In other words, you have no idea what rights should be granted to corporations, only that they shouldn't be the same as an individual's right and they should be decided upon by population through political channels.
Oh wait, that's what we already have. Corporations do not possess all rights individual citizens possess, the existance of corporations and their accountability to the shareholders, stakeholders and public at large are determined by the public through political channels.
It sounds to me like you want to complain about "evil corporations" but don't have enough information to produce and argument so you resort to emotional appeals about how "companies aren't people!" that most likely is the result of some of documentary like "gangs of America."
Here's what I don't get about these all too frequent rants.
Are you saying corporations shouldn't have the ability to advertise things that will make them better off? Are you really saying that corporations shouldn't have access to legal representation when they are sued by a real live human being? Are you saying corporations should not be allowed to own/buy/sell property?
It doesn't make any sense, to conduct business a legitimate individual or a corporation must be able to do these things with the implicit protection of government's legal code. What slate of legal rights would you give corporations so that they are not "treated like people"? All a corporation is a group of people working together for a common goal. To suggest that the organizational structure of a corporation is somehow inheriently evil means you believe there is some other type of organization which is not evil (perhaps a union? perhaps mutual ownership company, perhaps a partnership?) even though those organizations are capable of the same degree of fraud, deciet and evil doing that a corporation is.
P.S. Very few corporations have the right to keep and bear arms (even fewer are able to legal maintain well regulated militias) which makes them very much unlike people (there are countless other examples too)
http://blanu.net/curious_yellow.html/. had an article on that many months ago. It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect every computer to carry some viral load in the future, it doesn't even seem that unlikely.
Even if you don't vote it is your god given right to complain. The idea that if you don't vote you can't complain is a platitude that makes no sense if you apply even a second of analysis to it.
On one hand I want to say "just relax the telecom/cable regulation so there are far lower barriers to entry." But you can't have every company with a couple wires digging up every street to spur competition. Then to make it even worse the existing telecom grid was put in place by private companies using MASSIVE government subsidies. I am about as hardcore capitalist as one could get but I think in the case of wired communication you have a natural monopoly that should be owned by the government so that a level playing field for all can be developed and create an enviroment with much lower barriers to entry. Of course to do that the current owners of the telecom grid would get F'd in the A so it's not as simple as that.
Wow very conscice and not full of emotional drivel at all, oh wait... Furthermore what does the rant above have to do with substantiating your previous baseless claim that the republicans are rigging the election, oh right nothing... just a bunch of "facts" thrown together into some anti republican hate fest.
Seriously, get a grip. The SCAREY republicans are not trying to lock you in a concentration camp.
The Republicans are no doubt rationalizing to themselves that what they are doing is in the best interest of America, its OK to rig the election to stay in power, since they are the one true defender of the nation. Its OK they are destroying the foundations on which America was built in the process of "saving" it from its enemies, whether they be Muslim extremists or Democrats.
Since we are just conjucturing wildly at this point. The Republicans are forced to behave this way because the Democrats seek to provide aid and comfort to those that wish to see our cities in flames. The thinking is that only by violently stealing money from the wealthy can true peace be obtained.
I mean seriously, you are basically making the claim that the republican party is consciously bent on dismantling the US government system and then provide no justification, no facts, no nothing... just pointless emotional BS. Get a grip.
You know he has to be charged with a crime within forty-eight hours* of his arrest right? Maybe you should try reading the constitution before you go around proclaiming that America, as a free society, is dead.
I'll never understand why people trump up their claims so much when it comes to government, maybe it's because nobody would listen to them if they didn't declare "this is the end to all our freedoms as we know them." Which should tell you something.
*This is an outgrowth of the 6th amendment. Here is a SC case http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/89-1817.ZS.html
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First of all, all the major oil companies are publicly traded, so you can get a pretty good idea of what their gross and net profit margins are (not as exceptional as you might think)
Secondly, wouldn't high gas prices lead to happy environmentalists?
Finally, Oil rich nations tend to reap gigantic profits off thier natural resources.
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The hatered of the middle American white working class caused you to lose the election.
You can't win on hate, and the presidential race, the senate races, the house races, the governor races prove it.
But hey keep up your "Stupid inbred Wal Mart shopping hicks are ruining this country" crap. It's very witty.
Finally, something to distract me. I want some extreme polazation in this thread people!!!
You just copied the post above you, you bastard. Why do people keep doing this?
-Jesse
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You are dumb.
What about the Telephone?
The Cotton Gin?
I think your generalization is bit to broad, but your point is taken.
You mixed KM and miles. 3100km is about 1900 miles. So you would need 3 for the US-Mexican boarder.
In other words, you have no idea what rights should be granted to corporations, only that they shouldn't be the same as an individual's right and they should be decided upon by population through political channels.
Oh wait, that's what we already have. Corporations do not possess all rights individual citizens possess, the existance of corporations and their accountability to the shareholders, stakeholders and public at large are determined by the public through political channels.
It sounds to me like you want to complain about "evil corporations" but don't have enough information to produce and argument so you resort to emotional appeals about how "companies aren't people!" that most likely is the result of some of documentary like "gangs of America."
Here's what I don't get about these all too frequent rants.
Are you saying corporations shouldn't have the ability to advertise things that will make them better off? Are you really saying that corporations shouldn't have access to legal representation when they are sued by a real live human being? Are you saying corporations should not be allowed to own/buy/sell property?
It doesn't make any sense, to conduct business a legitimate individual or a corporation must be able to do these things with the implicit protection of government's legal code. What slate of legal rights would you give corporations so that they are not "treated like people"? All a corporation is a group of people working together for a common goal. To suggest that the organizational structure of a corporation is somehow inheriently evil means you believe there is some other type of organization which is not evil (perhaps a union? perhaps mutual ownership company, perhaps a partnership?) even though those organizations are capable of the same degree of fraud, deciet and evil doing that a corporation is.
P.S. Very few corporations have the right to keep and bear arms (even fewer are able to legal maintain well regulated militias) which makes them very much unlike people (there are countless other examples too)
http://blanu.net/curious_yellow.html /. had an article on that many months ago. It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect every computer to carry some viral load in the future, it doesn't even seem that unlikely.
FIRST MOVIE!
OWNED!
Even if you don't vote it is your god given right to complain. The idea that if you don't vote you can't complain is a platitude that makes no sense if you apply even a second of analysis to it.
What is that like 84 cents US?
witty comment goes here.
On one hand I want to say "just relax the telecom/cable regulation so there are far lower barriers to entry." But you can't have every company with a couple wires digging up every street to spur competition. Then to make it even worse the existing telecom grid was put in place by private companies using MASSIVE government subsidies.
I am about as hardcore capitalist as one could get but I think in the case of wired communication you have a natural monopoly that should be owned by the government so that a level playing field for all can be developed and create an enviroment with much lower barriers to entry. Of course to do that the current owners of the telecom grid would get F'd in the A so it's not as simple as that.
Sigh...
Wow very conscice and not full of emotional drivel at all, oh wait...
Furthermore what does the rant above have to do with substantiating your previous baseless claim that the republicans are rigging the election, oh right nothing... just a bunch of "facts" thrown together into some anti republican hate fest.
Seriously, get a grip. The SCAREY republicans are not trying to lock you in a concentration camp.
I mean seriously, you are basically making the claim that the republican party is consciously bent on dismantling the US government system and then provide no justification, no facts, no nothing... just pointless emotional BS. Get a grip.
Yeah, send combat mailmen behind enemy lines. That's brillant.
USPS is usually one of the first services set up of soldiers but for any services at all to be set up a large enough camp must first exist.
Read the link. The burden would still fall on the government if they delay for delay's sake.
You know he has to be charged with a crime within forty-eight hours* of his arrest right? Maybe you should try reading the constitution before you go around proclaiming that America, as a free society, is dead.
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I'll never understand why people trump up their claims so much when it comes to government, maybe it's because nobody would listen to them if they didn't declare "this is the end to all our freedoms as we know them." Which should tell you something.
*This is an outgrowth of the 6th amendment. Here is a SC case http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/89-1817.Z
Just think a chance to talk on your cell phone and be inattentive IN A WHOLE NEW DIMENSION!