There should be as it's a major conflict of interest that opens a lot of bad doors to stock manipulation. You shouldn't be allowed to use(play with) the stock of the company you are employed by unless you own the company lock, stock, and barrel thereby only shooting your own foot. Your described situation is technically insider trading.
Are there laws, probably not. Legal responses, depends on who you piss off.
" I understand that increasing the deficit at the behest of foreign bond investors even if it's contrary to American interests, will increase their interest revenue so that they can become the primary equity holders of America, resulting in us becoming third world slaves, therefore I oppose Republic politics because it doesn't actually resemble conservative politics in any way (indeed, Barry Goldwater would laugh in those peoples' faces), and in fact it has no right/left component at all, being mere corruption rather than partisan idealism.
Repair complete."
You know that reads like economic treason right? What's the penalty for treason in time of war? answers: Yes and Death. Kill those republican bastards.
"The worst part about the judges is that most of them are former prosecutors."
Isn't that a major conflict of interest. Well among the others, ie judges and lawyers in the same club(legal), guaranteeing more laws and decisions supporting laws regardless of common sense, etc.
"I would be all in favor of an ammentment to change that to "persons, houses, papers, effects, and all personal property"."
Except you don't need too. Houses, papers, and effects are personal property so it's already defined. The fact is the lawyers and judges are dancing around this, just like all the other constitutional raping going on. They keep using imaginary corner cases to run roughshod over publicly established and accepted law to reduce public protections so when the time comes they(government, etc) can do anything they want. I say we bring back lynching/flogging of public officials.
" The agency was voted into existence by an elected congress and the detailed rules created by an elected executive. "
You left out "in violation of the Constitution". The constitution expressly forbids the function of the agency, ah hell DHS, that "was voted in existence by an elected congress and the detailed rules created by an elected executive". The public knows this, maybe the government should be reminded violently, since peaceful methods haven't worked.
"If and when it happens, we can complain and vote with our wallets"
And that has worked so well in the past. Face it, you guys are a not even a blip on their sales radar. The problem is Microsoft could just tell the OEMs to drop the no-secureboot option and we'd be SOL. For in the kickback paying and board sales dept. Microsoft out votes any of you. What happens if every OEM incorporates secureboot? It's amazing you guys still don't get the message, MS is seeing large cracks in the software space and is now trying to lock up the hardware. The shock is people still trust a convicted monopolist who corrupted a world standards body just recently to stay relevant. This is just more embrace, extend, extinguish crap.
"Can we finally admit that the Republicans were right after 9/11, that DHS is not needed and in fact a bad thing, and dismantle it?"
The republicans were in charge at that time. They, in fact, voted to put the damn thing in to go with the republican president who signed the bill. Get your facts straight.
"As for mega upload they were charged in Virginia court and Australia courts for crimes related to piracy. That is a typical business seizure that happens to businesses which are fundamentally criminal enterprises. You may disagree that megaupload was a fundamentally criminal enterprise but there is nothing unusual about the government seizing business assets for companies under indictment. That's not censorship."
Bullshit! Even New Zealand's courts said the government blew it and should never had raided megaupload, which was legal locally, for shit going on in other countries. The entire raid was deemed illegal. The US may pay for this in less partnering from NZ later.
"Go ahead and explain to us how and why anything would be developed (pharma, entertainment, software) if nobody is willing to pay for it and just waits to get it for free. I'd love to know how that system works?"
Funny we actually had all that before patents and copyrights. They were called doctors, art, math and made money just fine.
" If the US didn't pay to go to the movies, buy DVD, and rent the movies, I'd have a hard time believing that anyone in Hollywood would be willing to put up $100M to make a great movie. They'd loose all their money."
Didn't stop those movie companies from moving to the west coast to avoid fees on using the camera and tech developed by edison. Besides it's not "their" money, it comes from us. Maybe you should study your history a little more.
"The cell phone providers are not the internet."
Yes they are as they are a part of it(backbones, etc) and and directly control their own infrastructure as isp and owner. They are also given monopoly power over various areas.
"About 97% of all of the taxes in our country are paid for by about 5% of the wealthy people in this country. "
And the wealthy pay as little as they can get away with too. Your numbers have only been true the last couple of decades, before there was a lot more balance and more legal protection for the public from the current nightmare. The wealthy own more so they should pay but unfortunately not the same per capita as the rest of us. Lets not forget how many of them got wealthy in the first place. Which was largely on the public's dime in a country with a publicly provided stable business friendly environment: tax system(bailouts, tax breaks), government support(laws, military, education, research), infrastructure (roads, rails, air, ships and regulations to keep them stable), and culture (capitalism is king). Let's not forget plenty of brain-washed docile slaves(conservatives). The wealthy don't get wealthy on their own, that value had to come from those who did the work. The current system of keeping the profits and socializing the losses for those in private business has got to go after all business is risk stand up for yourself and stop taking handouts and take you licks when you lose.
Again study your history because you obviously haven't.
" I told her, "you want to eat right after watching a grizzly live suicide?!" She said, "Yeah, why not? He deserved it, burning his dog like that. Let's go to KFC.""
Please tell me you had the enough sense to not marry her.
"Sorry OP im having a hard time here, what was your point again?"
You forgot about the three days of updating and rebooting after a fresh install. At least that was how long it took the last time I did it 6 months ago when I needed windows for a short stint of work.
"So what's extraterritorial about it? US court arrests a US citizen on US soil for breaking a US law. It doesn't get much more domestic than that."
How about the law was broken in a different jurisdiction where it isn't illegal. The act was committed on foreign soil where US law has no authority. By doing so you essentially have an ex-post facto situation where you are being arrested for something that isn't illegal where it's done or when it's done. Then comes the real fun, what happens when US law and foreign law are in direct conflict over said crime or lack there of? (I know this is worked out but just fishing for opinions in barrels)
"But most of the candidates I interview simply do not meet the requirements on intelligence, skills, and problem-solving abilities."
Didn't George Carlin say something about this:
Bitch: "My needs aren't being met."
Carlin: "Drop some of your needs."
In other words:
Stop looking at community college students to have MIT professor qualifications with 30 years of experience in everything for paper route paychecks!
The latest generation has figured out after watching their parents get stabbed that they need you a lot less than you need them. You reap what you sow!!
"Nevermind the students. The purpose of a government school is to maximize payroll."
The purpose of government Dept.(anything) is to maximize payroll/funding. Schools are not unique in that aspect. Nevermind we've treated teachers like shit for centuries. Forget they are responsible for your most important asset. Ignore that they have to constantly keep up their skills at their own cost. I won't even get into teachers(women) not having kids(a primary drive) because they deal with the children of others day in, day out(burnout). Then there's fighting to get paid a decent wage during increasing taxes(yea teachers pay them too) when the governor/legislature decides to screw with funding or having to use to their pay for work related materials(class material). Of course there's that dealing with that unruly student and their helicopter parents in a school society that's little more than a war zone of one kind or another(lets leave out that the district might be a war zone too).
Let just make their job more unstable and undependable year to year based on unquantifiable metrics that can shift with the job market of the parents. How do you think many bad areas are bad? They were good at one time but as generations grew up and were replaced with lower quality people the tax base collapsed as well as the incoming student quality and then the jobs left and the quality at all levels spiraled down. Some areas started bad but many didn't. Now many public districts are 50 to 100 years old and their infrastructure reflects it. It would help if the political system wasn't so corrupt, wasteful, and full of thieves but there you are./rant
You know having teachers teach the basics reading, writing, arithmetic, how to learn, critical thinking, and how to live in todays world should be enough. Then release them back to their parents to learn on their own, with the internet there is no reason not to do this. This way you get rid of the school society and kids have to live in the real world instead of whats essentially a 12 year prison sentence. Make the schools little more than community resource centers or just do away with them thereby cutting costs and getting rid of the BS sub-society that schools have become. If you think your kids need socialization skills send them to the mall to consume like everyone else.
I'd like the parents to be singularly responsible for their kids education instead of us having to shell for it. I feel like I'm being hit by a pickpocket every time a woman tells me she's having a kid(no they're not mine). I don't have any kids and don't like being held accountable because others do. Let the bastards be responsible for their own shit.
"Virtual not other profession enjoys such a lack of accountability for the results employees achieve."
Oh, yea, like the last Republican and congressional sessions during his reign or the bankers and insurance companies all of whom sold us down the river a few years ago that we are still suffering with today. I'm looking at you Bush Jr and 1994-2006 congress critters and most of all Goldman Sachs who with their schemes was guilty of causing two crashes(1929, 2008). I haven't seen any of them see any real time. Or the corporations that we built when times were good and deserted us to other countries when times were bad and actually were part of the cause of the bad times. I don't see any compensation or screaming for blood about that at all. The fact is most high order large groups(corporations, government, etc.) are not accountable to the very people that made them and they depend on. These are just a few examples, there are more.
"Additionally the Unions hate the citizen United decision because they think it gives some corporate interests undue influence."
Look around at all the money flying around in the elections during a major recession/depression and long running downturn aftermath. Let's not forget the various laws and decisions in the last few years. The Unions were right on if not understating the problem.
FDR was no angel either. His slaves striking undermines him so it doesn't take a scholar to figure out which side he'd be on. Unions exist because working in the early years intentionally sucked and business and government refused to correct it. It's also a continuous battle to keep standards up against the blame game.
". I have the same amount of education, working in my field for 15 years, and I make well under half of what their average workers do"
What? You mean you have the BA minimum degree, various teaching certificates, child development training, continuous education at own cost, shelling out for work materials, and combat scars(PTSD, emotional, physical, political games etc. from the community) as they do for the highest responsibility of caring and guiding our young and you only get half? Seriously, quit your job dude./sarchasm
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"Are there laws against that?"
There should be as it's a major conflict of interest that opens a lot of bad doors to stock manipulation. You shouldn't be allowed to use(play with) the stock of the company you are employed by unless you own the company lock, stock, and barrel thereby only shooting your own foot. Your described situation is technically insider trading.
Are there laws, probably not. Legal responses, depends on who you piss off.
"I've never met anyone from Nebraska."
You have now.
chapka "mutating" Ahhhhh! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
" I understand that increasing the deficit at the behest of foreign bond investors even if it's contrary to American interests, will increase their interest revenue so that they can become the primary equity holders of America, resulting in us becoming third world slaves, therefore I oppose Republic politics because it doesn't actually resemble conservative politics in any way (indeed, Barry Goldwater would laugh in those peoples' faces), and in fact it has no right/left component at all, being mere corruption rather than partisan idealism.
Repair complete."
You know that reads like economic treason right? What's the penalty for treason in time of war?
answers: Yes and Death. Kill those republican bastards.
"George W's own treasury secretary resigned because of his attitude towards money.)"
So did Reagans OMB director, David Stockman, over the rising debt.
"The worst part about the judges is that most of them are former prosecutors."
Isn't that a major conflict of interest. Well among the others, ie judges and lawyers in the same club(legal), guaranteeing more laws and decisions supporting laws regardless of common sense, etc.
"I would be all in favor of an ammentment to change that to "persons, houses, papers, effects, and all personal property"."
Except you don't need too. Houses, papers, and effects are personal property so it's already defined. The fact is the lawyers and judges are dancing around this, just like all the other constitutional raping going on. They keep using imaginary corner cases to run roughshod over publicly established and accepted law to reduce public protections so when the time comes they(government, etc) can do anything they want. I say we bring back lynching/flogging of public officials.
" The agency was voted into existence by an elected congress and the detailed rules created by an elected executive. "
You left out "in violation of the Constitution". The constitution expressly forbids the function of the agency, ah hell DHS, that "was voted in existence by an elected congress and the detailed rules created by an elected executive". The public knows this, maybe the government should be reminded violently, since peaceful methods haven't worked.
" that means rich people don't need to spend a lot of money reducing the amount of greenhouse gases they dump into the atmosphere"
So it all comes down to a bunch of rich people trying to save some money.
"More likely it would be on land that the universities aren't currently using."
Then why keep the land at all?
"If and when it happens, we can complain and vote with our wallets"
And that has worked so well in the past. Face it, you guys are a not even a blip on their sales radar. The problem is Microsoft could just tell the OEMs to drop the no-secureboot option and we'd be SOL. For in the kickback paying and board sales dept. Microsoft out votes any of you. What happens if every OEM incorporates secureboot? It's amazing you guys still don't get the message, MS is seeing large cracks in the software space and is now trying to lock up the hardware. The shock is people still trust a convicted monopolist who corrupted a world standards body just recently to stay relevant. This is just more embrace, extend, extinguish crap.
"(Tesla was born in what is now Croatia, but was ethnically Serbian)."
He did his work and died in the US. That makes him an American.
"Reward enough? 80% of authors would say no. "
Well, that gets rid of 100% of the fluff and crap currently written.
"All the author gets is good feeling that people are reading their work."
How about because you want to write it!! The good feeling comes next. If you're only doing it for the money then you're doing it for the wrong reason.
"Can we finally admit that the Republicans were right after 9/11, that DHS is not needed and in fact a bad thing, and dismantle it?"
The republicans were in charge at that time. They, in fact, voted to put the damn thing in to go with the republican president who signed the bill. Get your facts straight.
"As for mega upload they were charged in Virginia court and Australia courts for crimes related to piracy. That is a typical business seizure that happens to businesses which are fundamentally criminal enterprises. You may disagree that megaupload was a fundamentally criminal enterprise but there is nothing unusual about the government seizing business assets for companies under indictment. That's not censorship."
Bullshit! Even New Zealand's courts said the government blew it and should never had raided megaupload, which was legal locally, for shit going on in other countries. The entire raid was deemed illegal. The US may pay for this in less partnering from NZ later.
"Go ahead and explain to us how and why anything would be developed (pharma, entertainment, software) if nobody is willing to pay for it and just waits to get it for free. I'd love to know how that system works?"
Funny we actually had all that before patents and copyrights. They were called doctors, art, math and made money just fine.
" If the US didn't pay to go to the movies, buy DVD, and rent the movies, I'd have a hard time believing that anyone in Hollywood would be willing to put up $100M to make a great movie. They'd loose all their money."
Didn't stop those movie companies from moving to the west coast to avoid fees on using the camera and tech developed by edison. Besides it's not "their" money, it comes from us. Maybe you should study your history a little more.
"The cell phone providers are not the internet."
Yes they are as they are a part of it(backbones, etc) and and directly control their own infrastructure as isp and owner. They are also given monopoly power over various areas.
"About 97% of all of the taxes in our country are paid for by about 5% of the wealthy people in this country. "
And the wealthy pay as little as they can get away with too. Your numbers have only been true the last couple of decades, before there was a lot more balance and more legal protection for the public from the current nightmare. The wealthy own more so they should pay but unfortunately not the same per capita as the rest of us. Lets not forget how many of them got wealthy in the first place. Which was largely on the public's dime in a country with a publicly provided stable business friendly environment: tax system(bailouts, tax breaks), government support(laws, military, education, research), infrastructure (roads, rails, air, ships and regulations to keep them stable), and culture (capitalism is king). Let's not forget plenty of brain-washed docile slaves(conservatives). The wealthy don't get wealthy on their own, that value had to come from those who did the work. The current system of keeping the profits and socializing the losses for those in private business has got to go after all business is risk stand up for yourself and stop taking handouts and take you licks when you lose.
Again study your history because you obviously haven't.
" I told her, "you want to eat right after watching a grizzly live suicide?!" She said, "Yeah, why not? He deserved it, burning his dog like that. Let's go to KFC.""
Please tell me you had the enough sense to not marry her.
"Sorry OP im having a hard time here, what was your point again?"
You forgot about the three days of updating and rebooting after a fresh install. At least that was how long it took the last time I did it 6 months ago when I needed windows for a short stint of work.
"So what's extraterritorial about it? US court arrests a US citizen on US soil for breaking a US law. It doesn't get much more domestic than that."
How about the law was broken in a different jurisdiction where it isn't illegal. The act was committed on foreign soil where US law has no authority. By doing so you essentially have an ex-post facto situation where you are being arrested for something that isn't illegal where it's done or when it's done. Then comes the real fun, what happens when US law and foreign law are in direct conflict over said crime or lack there of? (I know this is worked out but just fishing for opinions in barrels)
"But most of the candidates I interview simply do not meet the requirements on intelligence, skills, and problem-solving abilities."
Didn't George Carlin say something about this:
Bitch: "My needs aren't being met."
Carlin: "Drop some of your needs."
In other words:
Stop looking at community college students to have MIT professor qualifications with 30 years of experience in everything for paper route paychecks!
The latest generation has figured out after watching their parents get stabbed that they need you a lot less than you need them. You reap what you sow!!
"Nevermind the students. The purpose of a government school is to maximize payroll."
The purpose of government Dept.(anything) is to maximize payroll/funding. Schools are not unique in that aspect. Nevermind we've treated teachers like shit for centuries. Forget they are responsible for your most important asset. Ignore that they have to constantly keep up their skills at their own cost. I won't even get into teachers(women) not having kids(a primary drive) because they deal with the children of others day in, day out(burnout). Then there's fighting to get paid a decent wage during increasing taxes(yea teachers pay them too) when the governor/legislature decides to screw with funding or having to use to their pay for work related materials(class material). Of course there's that dealing with that unruly student and their helicopter parents in a school society that's little more than a war zone of one kind or another(lets leave out that the district might be a war zone too). /rant
Let just make their job more unstable and undependable year to year based on unquantifiable metrics that can shift with the job market of the parents. How do you think many bad areas are bad? They were good at one time but as generations grew up and were replaced with lower quality people the tax base collapsed as well as the incoming student quality and then the jobs left and the quality at all levels spiraled down. Some areas started bad but many didn't. Now many public districts are 50 to 100 years old and their infrastructure reflects it. It would help if the political system wasn't so corrupt, wasteful, and full of thieves but there you are.
You know having teachers teach the basics reading, writing, arithmetic, how to learn, critical thinking, and how to live in todays world should be enough. Then release them back to their parents to learn on their own, with the internet there is no reason not to do this. This way you get rid of the school society and kids have to live in the real world instead of whats essentially a 12 year prison sentence. Make the schools little more than community resource centers or just do away with them thereby cutting costs and getting rid of the BS sub-society that schools have become. If you think your kids need socialization skills send them to the mall to consume like everyone else.
I'd like the parents to be singularly responsible for their kids education instead of us having to shell for it. I feel like I'm being hit by a pickpocket every time a woman tells me she's having a kid(no they're not mine). I don't have any kids and don't like being held accountable because others do. Let the bastards be responsible for their own shit.
"Virtual not other profession enjoys such a lack of accountability for the results employees achieve."
Oh, yea, like the last Republican and congressional sessions during his reign or the bankers and insurance companies all of whom sold us down the river a few years ago that we are still suffering with today. I'm looking at you Bush Jr and 1994-2006 congress critters and most of all Goldman Sachs who with their schemes was guilty of causing two crashes(1929, 2008). I haven't seen any of them see any real time. Or the corporations that we built when times were good and deserted us to other countries when times were bad and actually were part of the cause of the bad times. I don't see any compensation or screaming for blood about that at all. The fact is most high order large groups(corporations, government, etc.) are not accountable to the very people that made them and they depend on. These are just a few examples, there are more.
"Additionally the Unions hate the citizen United decision because they think it gives some corporate interests undue influence."
Look around at all the money flying around in the elections during a major recession/depression and long running downturn aftermath. Let's not forget the various laws and decisions in the last few years. The Unions were right on if not understating the problem.
"I think FDR said it best:"
They also limited presidents to 2 terms after him, you might want to know why.
"I think FDR said it best:"
FDR was no angel either. His slaves striking undermines him so it doesn't take a scholar to figure out which side he'd be on. Unions exist because working in the early years intentionally sucked and business and government refused to correct it. It's also a continuous battle to keep standards up against the blame game.
". I have the same amount of education, working in my field for 15 years, and I make well under half of what their average workers do"
What? You mean you have the BA minimum degree, various teaching certificates, child development training, continuous education at own cost, shelling out for work materials, and combat scars(PTSD, emotional, physical, political games etc. from the community) as they do for the highest responsibility of caring and guiding our young and you only get half? /sarchasm
Seriously, quit your job dude.