Damn good point. We need smaller government so that it can't be sponsered by corporations or any other monied special interest groups. We need to vote for libertarians.
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Well, you're right about sticking your money someplace that earns decent interest (my low risk portfolio averages 9%), but my point is even if you stick you money in a sock drawer, it's better than spending everything AND using credit cards. Just the act of saving 10% with or without interest will end of saving you thousands of dollars by virtue of not having to use expensive credit lines. Also, regularly putting money away into a saving's account (or your investment portfolio), is just as good as building credit via credit card payoffs for the one time you'll need credit (buying a house). In fact, most mortgage brokers will be quite assured to see that you were able to regularly put away a chunk of change without using any credit.
Ben Franklin was right! A penny saved is a penny earned.
My credit union doesn't charge me a penny as long as I report the card stolen within 24 hours. If I wait longer than that, then I only have to pay $50 bucks if there's any illegal card activity. Most banks will put a maximum daily spending limit on check cards anyway (mine is $750 unless I phone the bank to let them know about larger purchases).
Regular banks suck compared to credit unions, but if you shop around, you'll be able to find a decent one that offeres sufficiant protection.
In any case, worrying about something like that is a bad reason to use credit cards that you can't pay off at the end of the month. You'll lose way more money by being in debt than you would if you were mugged.
So what? If apple really cared about the domain and they really knew about the product...then surely they would have been willing to pay 10 bucks or so to register the domain before the "profiteer" did.
Wall Stree et al has spurned a respectable global financial industry over "profiteering" by speculating in futures, commododies, stocks and so forth...so I fail to see how buying domain names as a speculative commodity should be considered "profiteering" while buying gold or mutual funds is called "investing." The bottom line is that the person that thinks of an idea first is the person that should be rewarded. If I went back 100 years and bought all the land in orange county along the coast for a few thousand bucks, would you call me a "profiteer" for knowing that people in the late 20th century would overvalue seafront property and be willing to pay millions for each quarter acre? No, you would call me an orange grove farmer, a business man, and a lucky son of a bitch. There's nothing wrong with earning a profit. If you think of it first, you deserve it.
Why "must" the courts become involved. If some rich asshole wants to buy your house but you refuse to sell, should that rich asshole be allowed to convince some court that he deserves your house more than you do? If google really cared about this kind of thing, they should have bought all the names themselves. And I'm pretty sure that if offered enough cash, anyone would sell a crappy typo name. But if they don't...tough luck for the company. Money shouldn't be able to buy everything. Freedom and protection of private property are more important, wouldn't you agree?
Who cares? If you make lots of typos, you lose...so what? People will be encouraged to type better, and companies will be encouraged to invent newer, more accurate and more efficient input devices. Leave the free market alone! Fuck government regulation and companies being able to buy power from the government.
Fine with me. You still won't be able to replicate Coca Cola's taste...and reputable retailers probably won't stock your goods, and consumers probably won't support you either unless they are really dumb. A news story about your exploits would pretty much ruin you because of the resulting boycotts. In any case, your efforts would have been better spent making a better product at a lower price. As a matter of fact, alot of soda/drinks companies do make better products and do quite well. Sometimes they are bought out by pepsi and coke's parent companies for big money.
That's the free market. I'll take freedom to choose over regulation and dictatorship any day of the week.
Sorry, but BOTH liberals and "conservatives" make government bigger and take more property rights and freedoms from citizens every year. If you want real freedom and gauranteed property rights, you'll have to vote for a libertarian.
About a year ago, I went back to the States for a month for a vacation and I needed a cell phone. I went to AT&T Wireless (now cingular) and bought a pre-pay phone. They asked for my details, but being a lover of privacy, i just gave them bogus info (fake name etc). I imagine if you do the same thing and cancel your regular phone, you won't get bothered much anymore. It'll really piss them off if they can't even reach you. Companies hate it when you're off the grid.
I know I'm probably preaching to the choir at this point, but you should avoid owing anyone anything at all costs. The only thing you need is food and shelter (and a computer)...and that doesn't cost that much. Everything else is just icing on the cake which you should only pay for in cash! Don't sign up for credit cards! All you need is a check card. I don't understand why people need credit. Your "credit" should be your savings. Just stick 10% of your income away in a bank account every time you get any money. You will hardly notice the difference, until you lose your job and have a nice chunk of change to carry you through the tough times. After several years, that 10% you've been sticking away will be large enough to invest in your own business or some rock solid investment idea. If you don't save money, you'll never have any money. Look at Mike Tyson. He has earned 300 million dollars and he presently millions of dollars in DEBT because he's a damn fool that used credit instead of cash. Don't be like Mike.
While I see, understand, and mostly agree with your point, I hate it when we get hung up with inaccurate language. You are trying to convey something subjective and lump it into a narrow word of your choosing rather than a universal one as it is understood. By saying that music can't be "played," you are also saying that writing cannot be "read." Music in fact is played, perhaps played poorly or brilliantly or "with soul", but it IS played. A written book is read out loud, read silently, read poorly, mis-read, etc...but it IS without a doubt, read.
Let's not dilute language and make it more ethereal than the religious, new-age, pixie-dust types have already made it. While I appreciate that music is played differently depending on the player, the mood of the player, the instrument, etc, music is still "played." Sorry for being so pedantic...I'm just tired of wishy washy phraseology creeping into a relatively scientific community. On top of that, it just sounds so pretentious when someone says that art is "interpreted." Blow that.
I'm already hurting...and it started the first time I heard green day. Today's radio makes my ears bleed. Now I know how my parents felt about the music I listed to when I was younger. But somehow my music was right and the music they play today is wrong. So very wrong.
I am personally 100% against all government projects, mostly because they will spend way too much money on something that doesn't have to cost very much.
WiFi shouldn't even be considered for future deployments. (Only a totally foolish government--oops, redundant--would use this soon to be replaced technology). WiMax is the future of wireless. It can cover exponentially more area with much more speed and essentially uses the same cheap equipment and tech that wifi does.
My guess is that private businesses rolling out WiMax will beat the government's "service" to market anyway.
They're helping me because it serves their short term interests. If screwing me over did so instead, they'd do it in a heart beat. There is no control on buisnesses. You'll take your money elsewhere? They don't give a fuck- there's a million more like you. At least with politicians, you can vote them out of office. And in local elections, your vote *does* matter.
You're talking in absolutes again. I don't know where you get this idea that all humans are intrinsically evil and will backstab you every chance they get so long as they can get away with it. Your cynical and truly unrealistic worldview is just not helpful here. The reality is that most people want to expand their business and they know the best way to do that is to impress their customers so they keep coming back and tell their friends about it. A business that "screws" over their customers may get away with it in the short term, but eventually, everyone that wises up will never buy from that corrupt business again and it will eventually go out of business. Look at McDonalds. One guy with a video camera and 30 days, completely changed McDonands approach (Super-Size Me) by exposing their relentless cholesteral carnival upselling techniques to the world. Even so, even if a business "rips" you off, that's not my responsibility and it shouldn't be the governments. It is your responsibility to research the companies you do business with before handing money over to them. It is your responsibility to create and sign a contract concerning transactions you make. It is you who chooses to make a transaction or not! Intelligent people can't hand-hold you through your entire life. If you have questions about the trustworthyness of a corporation, ask your friends about them, research it on the internet, talk to consumer-advocacy groups or read consumer reports...but DON'T force me to pay the government MY money so that it can regulate a business because you're too much of an idiot to make your own decisions!
Corporations are the dictators of the 20th century. They have almost unlimited power when compared to the ordinary human being. They legally can't be touched (the corporate veil) and made accountable for their actions. There are no checks and balances over them. The only reason they aren't dictators in fact is that they have no army. And the only reason they don't is because the government wouldn't allow it. If they could march an army into some third world country and force them to work instead of hiring them as workers, they would in a second.
Where do you come up with stuff like this? People that deal in absolutes are absolutely idiotic. People like you that actually believe this bullshit make me want to give up. What is the point in working hard and providing a wonderful service if I'm going to be called a greedy backstabbing son of a bitch no matter what I do? Your thinking is so sophmoric and lazy that I actually considered crying, because it really is sad that a human being with a brain actually "thinks" like you do. Seriously...where did you "learn" this garbage? I trust you live in a forest in the woods and you grow all your own food and hunt animals for clothing, and use the surrounding trees for shelter...
Wait...you mean you gave money to those corporate scum that would totally, like, backstab you and turn you into, like, a slave...just so you could have a computer and the internet? You give those corporate slave-drivers money every month to access the internet? And wait...are those clothes that you are wearing (god I hope so)? You mean you give those corporate child abusers money just so you can look fashionable and protect yourself from the elements? Oh wait, is that a roof over your head? You mean you give those business bastards dosh to tear down forests and raid mountainsides and make people with saws and pick-axes sweat just so you could hide from the wind and the rain? Wuss.
For someone that thinks corporations would turn you into a slave
Let's see, last I checked Government, at least in the US, provided a vast infrastructure of roads, waterways, airports, etc. I also know my water is clean and safe. I know what the weather will be like. All because of the evil government.
Most of the roads that you drive on are paid for by your local governments (at a pretty cheap rate by the way). And the national highways are still a tiny tiny fraction of what the federal government spends, say on the military, welfare, etc). I've got no problems paying 1 or 2 percent of my money to my local government for roads, streetlights, police and a justice system. I already pay a private company for my water (and it's damn cheap). Airports should be built and paid for by businesses that will profit from the airport. I shouldn't have to subsidize the airline or tourism industry.
Exactly. Amazingly, the above 4 lines pretty much sums everything up.
The best way to take care of society is to take care of yourself, your family, and your friends (in that order). If everyone did that, we wouldn't have any problems. But because so many people seem so adamant about forcing others to take care of everyone but themselves, we are ironically screwed.
Yeah, I trust corporations! They give me exactly what I pay for 99% of the time. I ask nothing from the government, but they steal half of my money and make my life more difficult 100% of the time.
It's entirely foolish to think that governments are more deserving of trust than businesses are. Governments are legal monopolies that don't have to earn your trust. A government can (and does) fail completely, yet will still take 40% or more of your money every year and lock you up if you don't like it. If a business fails, it collapses. If you don't trust a business, you don't have to pay it any money. If you don't trust the government, you still have to pay! "Hi, Mr. IRS, I'm not going to be paying you any taxes this year because frankly, I don't trust the government." See how far that gets you (say hi to Brutus, your cell mate). If anyone is a moron, it's you who would give power to a monopoly that can use deadly force against you if you disagree (the government).
The entire "corporations are evil" creed is just getting out of control. Do you have a job? Why? Because you need money? Well so do the thousands of people that work at corporations. What is so bad about wanting money? Would you prefer that all of us just lay around on our couches all day and do no work? Well, thanks to freedom...you can. Be my guest...but don't bag people that work hard to earn a good living so they can improve their lives and the lives of their family. There is nothing wrong with wealth. Wealth is a reward for hard work or smart thinking. It may not be the most important thing in life, but for some it is...so what? If you don't like money...what's the problem? Let them have it. Oh I see, you don't get paid enough but you think that corporate executives get paid too much? Well, why don't you start your own corporation? Then you can pay yourself as much as you want. Oh, what's that? Don't have the funds or the brilliant ideas that these big "greedy" corporations have? Then you're out of luck buddy, because good ideas aren't free. If you don't like the idea of other people being smarter than you, or being more successful, then don't buy their products. Tell the world that they are "greedy" because they want to profit from their work or their creativity. Encourage people to boycott their products and services because they are more clever than you...but don't dare tell me that a government is the lesser of two evils. The government has NEVER provided me with a product or service that I couldn't have gotten cheaper, faster, or better from a private company that competes in the free market.
A corporation's only interest is money. There is noone there who's looking out for your interests.
Do you want me to hold your hand? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you responsible for your own interests? Aren't you capable of choosing whether to support a business or not? Even if you're a complete moron that can't make his or her own choices, why shoul I have to pay for your inadequecies?
Of course a corporation's primary interest is money. They have to pay their employees, their research teams, and their costs! People that work at corps. also have to be motivated to work at all (profit) so they can buy the things that they want to buy. Corporations also have to convince people to invest in their company so that it can expand and provide even more jobs to the community and services for the world. Who's going to invest in an unprofitable, inefficient business? By making profits a primary goal, the corporation ensures that only efficient ideas survive and that successful, hardworking, and highly motivated people are rewarded.
Corporations have helped me keep my house clean (by inventing the vacuum), have helped me cook meals quickly (by selling me the microwave), they have enabled me to buy pretty much any food item in the whole world from one store (the supermarket), they have provided me with an extremely powerful computer for hundreds le
Actually, ownership has everything to do with it, or at least it should. Your ATM analogy is about as feeble as it gets, but looking at it: when you use an ATM, you know that the ATM is designed to protect your money while still allowing you easy access to it. ATM's do log your passwords (otherwise they wouldn't work), but you have a reasonable expectation that your password won't be compromised because either 1.) your bank owns it or 2.) a 3rd party with a reputation on the line owns it. It is in both parties' interests to maintain trust with you so they can continue to profit from you.
When you accept a job at a private business, you are accepting the terms of the job. If you don't like any of those terms you are free to refuse the job. I don't think there is anything wrong with key logging as long as the employer explains that they will be used before you accept the job. I was hired to upgrade a posh restaurant about 6 years ago and I installed a POS system and some cameras in the kitchen and the bar...guess what? Revenue mysteriously rose and theft mysteriously waned. Surveillance (either cameras or keyloggers or computer inventory systems) works. It should be an employers right to deploy any technology they see fit so long as they inform their employees of the practices before hiring them or renewing their contract. People don't have a "right" to a job. if you want complete control, start your own damn business and work for yourself.
And by the way, I think the law should have a tough time coming onto my private property or telling me what I can or can't do on it. It has no right to pass laws about how I use my private property. So long as I'm not hurting anyone, I'll do whatever the hell I want (it's a shame I had to move to the caribbean to enjoy the rights laid out in the US Constitution).
PS...you should be allowed to beat as many people as you want on your property so long as you tell them beforehand that that's what you're going to do when they trespass. Your property, your law.
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Damn good point. We need smaller government so that it can't be sponsered by corporations or any other monied special interest groups. We need to vote for libertarians.
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Exactly. If I had the points, I'd mod you up.
"Die-hard" Libertarians don't support ANY income taxes in the first place so this entire dilemna wouldn't even exist if Libertarians were in charge.
Ben Franklin was right! A penny saved is a penny earned.
Regular banks suck compared to credit unions, but if you shop around, you'll be able to find a decent one that offeres sufficiant protection.
In any case, worrying about something like that is a bad reason to use credit cards that you can't pay off at the end of the month. You'll lose way more money by being in debt than you would if you were mugged.
Wall Stree et al has spurned a respectable global financial industry over "profiteering" by speculating in futures, commododies, stocks and so forth...so I fail to see how buying domain names as a speculative commodity should be considered "profiteering" while buying gold or mutual funds is called "investing." The bottom line is that the person that thinks of an idea first is the person that should be rewarded. If I went back 100 years and bought all the land in orange county along the coast for a few thousand bucks, would you call me a "profiteer" for knowing that people in the late 20th century would overvalue seafront property and be willing to pay millions for each quarter acre? No, you would call me an orange grove farmer, a business man, and a lucky son of a bitch. There's nothing wrong with earning a profit. If you think of it first, you deserve it.
Why "must" the courts become involved. If some rich asshole wants to buy your house but you refuse to sell, should that rich asshole be allowed to convince some court that he deserves your house more than you do? If google really cared about this kind of thing, they should have bought all the names themselves. And I'm pretty sure that if offered enough cash, anyone would sell a crappy typo name. But if they don't...tough luck for the company. Money shouldn't be able to buy everything. Freedom and protection of private property are more important, wouldn't you agree?
Who cares? If you make lots of typos, you lose...so what? People will be encouraged to type better, and companies will be encouraged to invent newer, more accurate and more efficient input devices. Leave the free market alone! Fuck government regulation and companies being able to buy power from the government.
That's the free market. I'll take freedom to choose over regulation and dictatorship any day of the week.
Sorry, but BOTH liberals and "conservatives" make government bigger and take more property rights and freedoms from citizens every year. If you want real freedom and gauranteed property rights, you'll have to vote for a libertarian.
I know I'm probably preaching to the choir at this point, but you should avoid owing anyone anything at all costs. The only thing you need is food and shelter (and a computer)...and that doesn't cost that much. Everything else is just icing on the cake which you should only pay for in cash! Don't sign up for credit cards! All you need is a check card. I don't understand why people need credit. Your "credit" should be your savings. Just stick 10% of your income away in a bank account every time you get any money. You will hardly notice the difference, until you lose your job and have a nice chunk of change to carry you through the tough times. After several years, that 10% you've been sticking away will be large enough to invest in your own business or some rock solid investment idea. If you don't save money, you'll never have any money. Look at Mike Tyson. He has earned 300 million dollars and he presently millions of dollars in DEBT because he's a damn fool that used credit instead of cash. Don't be like Mike.
Everyone with money problems should read Richest Man in Babylon.
Thanks. Good to know.
Let's not dilute language and make it more ethereal than the religious, new-age, pixie-dust types have already made it. While I appreciate that music is played differently depending on the player, the mood of the player, the instrument, etc, music is still "played." Sorry for being so pedantic...I'm just tired of wishy washy phraseology creeping into a relatively scientific community. On top of that, it just sounds so pretentious when someone says that art is "interpreted." Blow that.
I'm already hurting...and it started the first time I heard green day. Today's radio makes my ears bleed. Now I know how my parents felt about the music I listed to when I was younger. But somehow my music was right and the music they play today is wrong. So very wrong.
Am I missing something here? Where the hell is the "Gr" key?
WiFi shouldn't even be considered for future deployments. (Only a totally foolish government--oops, redundant--would use this soon to be replaced technology). WiMax is the future of wireless. It can cover exponentially more area with much more speed and essentially uses the same cheap equipment and tech that wifi does.
My guess is that private businesses rolling out WiMax will beat the government's "service" to market anyway.
You're talking in absolutes again. I don't know where you get this idea that all humans are intrinsically evil and will backstab you every chance they get so long as they can get away with it. Your cynical and truly unrealistic worldview is just not helpful here. The reality is that most people want to expand their business and they know the best way to do that is to impress their customers so they keep coming back and tell their friends about it. A business that "screws" over their customers may get away with it in the short term, but eventually, everyone that wises up will never buy from that corrupt business again and it will eventually go out of business. Look at McDonalds. One guy with a video camera and 30 days, completely changed McDonands approach (Super-Size Me) by exposing their relentless cholesteral carnival upselling techniques to the world. Even so, even if a business "rips" you off, that's not my responsibility and it shouldn't be the governments. It is your responsibility to research the companies you do business with before handing money over to them. It is your responsibility to create and sign a contract concerning transactions you make. It is you who chooses to make a transaction or not! Intelligent people can't hand-hold you through your entire life. If you have questions about the trustworthyness of a corporation, ask your friends about them, research it on the internet, talk to consumer-advocacy groups or read consumer reports...but DON'T force me to pay the government MY money so that it can regulate a business because you're too much of an idiot to make your own decisions!
Corporations are the dictators of the 20th century. They have almost unlimited power when compared to the ordinary human being. They legally can't be touched (the corporate veil) and made accountable for their actions. There are no checks and balances over them. The only reason they aren't dictators in fact is that they have no army. And the only reason they don't is because the government wouldn't allow it. If they could march an army into some third world country and force them to work instead of hiring them as workers, they would in a second.
Where do you come up with stuff like this? People that deal in absolutes are absolutely idiotic. People like you that actually believe this bullshit make me want to give up. What is the point in working hard and providing a wonderful service if I'm going to be called a greedy backstabbing son of a bitch no matter what I do? Your thinking is so sophmoric and lazy that I actually considered crying, because it really is sad that a human being with a brain actually "thinks" like you do. Seriously...where did you "learn" this garbage? I trust you live in a forest in the woods and you grow all your own food and hunt animals for clothing, and use the surrounding trees for shelter...
Wait...you mean you gave money to those corporate scum that would totally, like, backstab you and turn you into, like, a slave...just so you could have a computer and the internet? You give those corporate slave-drivers money every month to access the internet? And wait...are those clothes that you are wearing (god I hope so)? You mean you give those corporate child abusers money just so you can look fashionable and protect yourself from the elements? Oh wait, is that a roof over your head? You mean you give those business bastards dosh to tear down forests and raid mountainsides and make people with saws and pick-axes sweat just so you could hide from the wind and the rain? Wuss.
For someone that thinks corporations would turn you into a slave
Most of the roads that you drive on are paid for by your local governments (at a pretty cheap rate by the way). And the national highways are still a tiny tiny fraction of what the federal government spends, say on the military, welfare, etc). I've got no problems paying 1 or 2 percent of my money to my local government for roads, streetlights, police and a justice system. I already pay a private company for my water (and it's damn cheap). Airports should be built and paid for by businesses that will profit from the airport. I shouldn't have to subsidize the airline or tourism industry.
The best way to take care of society is to take care of yourself, your family, and your friends (in that order). If everyone did that, we wouldn't have any problems. But because so many people seem so adamant about forcing others to take care of everyone but themselves, we are ironically screwed.
It is so refreshing to read an intelligent response on slashdot. Thanks.
It's entirely foolish to think that governments are more deserving of trust than businesses are. Governments are legal monopolies that don't have to earn your trust. A government can (and does) fail completely, yet will still take 40% or more of your money every year and lock you up if you don't like it. If a business fails, it collapses. If you don't trust a business, you don't have to pay it any money. If you don't trust the government, you still have to pay! "Hi, Mr. IRS, I'm not going to be paying you any taxes this year because frankly, I don't trust the government." See how far that gets you (say hi to Brutus, your cell mate). If anyone is a moron, it's you who would give power to a monopoly that can use deadly force against you if you disagree (the government).
The entire "corporations are evil" creed is just getting out of control. Do you have a job? Why? Because you need money? Well so do the thousands of people that work at corporations. What is so bad about wanting money? Would you prefer that all of us just lay around on our couches all day and do no work? Well, thanks to freedom...you can. Be my guest...but don't bag people that work hard to earn a good living so they can improve their lives and the lives of their family. There is nothing wrong with wealth. Wealth is a reward for hard work or smart thinking. It may not be the most important thing in life, but for some it is...so what? If you don't like money...what's the problem? Let them have it. Oh I see, you don't get paid enough but you think that corporate executives get paid too much? Well, why don't you start your own corporation? Then you can pay yourself as much as you want. Oh, what's that? Don't have the funds or the brilliant ideas that these big "greedy" corporations have? Then you're out of luck buddy, because good ideas aren't free. If you don't like the idea of other people being smarter than you, or being more successful, then don't buy their products. Tell the world that they are "greedy" because they want to profit from their work or their creativity. Encourage people to boycott their products and services because they are more clever than you...but don't dare tell me that a government is the lesser of two evils. The government has NEVER provided me with a product or service that I couldn't have gotten cheaper, faster, or better from a private company that competes in the free market.
A corporation's only interest is money. There is noone there who's looking out for your interests.
Do you want me to hold your hand? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you responsible for your own interests? Aren't you capable of choosing whether to support a business or not? Even if you're a complete moron that can't make his or her own choices, why shoul I have to pay for your inadequecies?
Of course a corporation's primary interest is money. They have to pay their employees, their research teams, and their costs! People that work at corps. also have to be motivated to work at all (profit) so they can buy the things that they want to buy. Corporations also have to convince people to invest in their company so that it can expand and provide even more jobs to the community and services for the world. Who's going to invest in an unprofitable, inefficient business? By making profits a primary goal, the corporation ensures that only efficient ideas survive and that successful, hardworking, and highly motivated people are rewarded.
Corporations have helped me keep my house clean (by inventing the vacuum), have helped me cook meals quickly (by selling me the microwave), they have enabled me to buy pretty much any food item in the whole world from one store (the supermarket), they have provided me with an extremely powerful computer for hundreds le
Tell that to the miserab--I mean sweet--children that were reportedly last seen climbing my fence to retrieve frisbees from my yard...
When you accept a job at a private business, you are accepting the terms of the job. If you don't like any of those terms you are free to refuse the job. I don't think there is anything wrong with key logging as long as the employer explains that they will be used before you accept the job. I was hired to upgrade a posh restaurant about 6 years ago and I installed a POS system and some cameras in the kitchen and the bar...guess what? Revenue mysteriously rose and theft mysteriously waned. Surveillance (either cameras or keyloggers or computer inventory systems) works. It should be an employers right to deploy any technology they see fit so long as they inform their employees of the practices before hiring them or renewing their contract. People don't have a "right" to a job. if you want complete control, start your own damn business and work for yourself.
And by the way, I think the law should have a tough time coming onto my private property or telling me what I can or can't do on it. It has no right to pass laws about how I use my private property. So long as I'm not hurting anyone, I'll do whatever the hell I want (it's a shame I had to move to the caribbean to enjoy the rights laid out in the US Constitution).
PS...you should be allowed to beat as many people as you want on your property so long as you tell them beforehand that that's what you're going to do when they trespass. Your property, your law.
Idiot.