That's like the boy who mudrers his parents and begs the court's mercy on the grounds that he is an orphan. The stockholders voted the board of directors in, so the stockholders are the perpetrators. The law should reflect that salient fact.
A corporation is not a person; well, it is, but it is a legal fiction that could be easily rectified if our legislators cared more about human beings. The fifth amendment should not apply to corporations, only to the people employed by the corporation.
Nothing quite like it in the whole world. If you harm me, you should make good on your damage to me. That's what government is for -- to protect me from sociopathic anarchists like you.
Freezing a companies' assets and disallowing any business for two years would be the equivalent of putting a human in prison for two years. So you could, in fact, "jail" a corporation. You could shield its employees (at least the ones not responsible) by forcing the company to pay them anyway. If it goes bankrupt, well, people go bankrupt after incaration, why shouldn't businesses?
Or converseley, put its CEO and Board of Directors in a maximum security prison with the other criminals, many of whom caused far less damage to people, or none at all.
The thing is, the corporations are deemed too valuable to be punished. THIS is what should change.
the cops don't do much when it comes to non-violent, non-domestic, non-street crimes.
I know a man who was charged with home invasion and attempted murder for breaking into a man's home and trying to kill him with a butcher knife, and plea bargained down to two weeks in the county jail.
A woman I know spent four months in Dwight Correctional Center for a non-violent drug offense (possession). It seems to me that being careless with thousands of peoples' lives, let alone attempted murder, should carry a far heavier burden than a crime with no victim.
Not only should there be criminal damages, but attempting to keep the thieft secret should carry an even heavier penalty.
There should also be, upon conviction in criminal court, monetary redress for the poor slobs whose data was compromised, and it should be a LOT more than it cost the compromised person. Say, enough to buy a new car.
Why can't we have the death penalty for corporations? The standard answer is "all those people who get trhrown out of work", but there IS a death penalty for corporations; ENRON suffered the death penalty, but the people in charge (at least the ones that didn't go to prison) suffered no penalty at all.
How about a "death penalty" where the victims are given the company itself?
...who remembers a slashdot-like site named Planet Crap, where gamers, game webmasters, and game developers gathered, posted, discussed, flamed, and trolled?
Or how about this: "I'm not an engineer, so I cannot respond directly to your concerns - but I have forwarded your suggestions to our engineering team and we will address this issue in the next version of our site."
Why in the hell should I be asking technical questions to a person who thinks engineers wriete HTML? And from the question he's answering, retarded HTML at that?
A guy asks about his liveral slant, and he says "Thanks for your kind words about NewsTrust".
Here is the list. I was going to just post it, but Google's HTML cache won't copy/paste easily and its source is full of DIVs, which slashdot won't let you use in a comment.
If you want the PDF, it's linked from the linked HTML version.
My generation had erector sets and tinker toys. I remember a robot I built out of an erector set that would travel to the end of its extension cord and stop when the plug came out of the wall. It wouldn't do much else, though - I didn't have anough parts.
But I played with legos with my two daughters, fifteen or twenty years ago. It was as much fun as an erector set, even though you needed no screwdriver.
In my defense, many here truly don't believe that anyone would pay for something they can get for free. Many here think "free" equals "worthless", that only the RIAA makes recorded music worth listening to, that Linux isn't ready for the desktop, and refuse to drink anything but bottled water.
Well, a lot of uncyclopedia's stuff is hilarious, but other articles are just true pain. Most of them are pretty damned funny, though. This sounds like it may be similar.
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.
When the Civil War erupted, the Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1861, which restored earlier excises taxes and imposed a tax on personal incomes. The income tax was levied at 3 percent on all incomes higher than $800 a year. This tax on personal income was a new direction for a Federal tax system based mainly on excise taxes and customs duties. Certain inadequacies of the income tax were quickly acknowledged by Congress and thus none was collected until the following year.
By the spring of 1862 it was clear the war would not end quickly and with the Union's debt growing at the rate of $2 million daily it was equally clear the Federal government would need additional revenues. On July 1, 1862 the Congress passed new excise taxes on such items as playing cards, gunpowder, feathers, telegrams, iron, leather, pianos, yachts, billiard tables, drugs, patent medicines, and whiskey. Many legal documents were also taxed and license fees were collected for almost all professions and trades.
note that his profits on the devices "exceeded $390,000."
My friend Linda went to Dwight last November and was paroled in February; she's still on parole. Hers was a nonviolent drug offense. So I'd say if this guy really did make over a third of a million dollars from his offense, his penalty was pretty damned lenient.
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Think of the terrorists' children!
No different than a man sent to prison for fraud who is murdered by another inmate.
That's like the boy who mudrers his parents and begs the court's mercy on the grounds that he is an orphan. The stockholders voted the board of directors in, so the stockholders are the perpetrators. The law should reflect that salient fact.
A corporation is not a person; well, it is, but it is a legal fiction that could be easily rectified if our legislators cared more about human beings. The fifth amendment should not apply to corporations, only to the people employed by the corporation.
What's that smell... Ahhhhhhhh /. sociopathic anarchy.
Nothing quite like it in the whole world. If you harm me, you should make good on your damage to me. That's what government is for -- to protect me from sociopathic anarchists like you.
True, and I'm among them, but there are still slashdot posters as I described. Maybe they're just trolling, but they're there.
Freezing a companies' assets and disallowing any business for two years would be the equivalent of putting a human in prison for two years. So you could, in fact, "jail" a corporation. You could shield its employees (at least the ones not responsible) by forcing the company to pay them anyway. If it goes bankrupt, well, people go bankrupt after incaration, why shouldn't businesses?
Or converseley, put its CEO and Board of Directors in a maximum security prison with the other criminals, many of whom caused far less damage to people, or none at all.
The thing is, the corporations are deemed too valuable to be punished. THIS is what should change.
the cops don't do much when it comes to non-violent, non-domestic, non-street crimes.
I know a man who was charged with home invasion and attempted murder for breaking into a man's home and trying to kill him with a butcher knife, and plea bargained down to two weeks in the county jail.
A woman I know spent four months in Dwight Correctional Center for a non-violent drug offense (possession). It seems to me that being careless with thousands of peoples' lives, let alone attempted murder, should carry a far heavier burden than a crime with no victim.
Not only should there be criminal damages, but attempting to keep the thieft secret should carry an even heavier penalty.
There should also be, upon conviction in criminal court, monetary redress for the poor slobs whose data was compromised, and it should be a LOT more than it cost the compromised person. Say, enough to buy a new car.
Why can't we have the death penalty for corporations? The standard answer is "all those people who get trhrown out of work", but there IS a death penalty for corporations; ENRON suffered the death penalty, but the people in charge (at least the ones that didn't go to prison) suffered no penalty at all.
How about a "death penalty" where the victims are given the company itself?
Because apparently you can't even spell
Your straw man is on fire.
In addition, the question was in regards to Javascript, not HTML.
The question was why javascript was used when plain HTML would do just fine.
In his terminology "engineer" is someone who solves technical problems
An engineer solves technical problems, but solving technical problems does not make one an engineer. Nice astroturf ya got there, buddy.
Oh, a slashvertisement.
...who remembers a slashdot-like site named Planet Crap, where gamers, game webmasters, and game developers gathered, posted, discussed, flamed, and trolled?
I'd say 1999 called and wants its idea back!
I didn't cheat either, but the GP's comment would be correct if he had said "all cultures have members who cheat".
It's scary thinking that my surgeon might have cheated his way through college.
"News for 'noids, staff that mutters"
Or how about this: "I'm not an engineer, so I cannot respond directly to your concerns - but I have forwarded your suggestions to our engineering team and we will address this issue in the next version of our site."
Why in the hell should I be asking technical questions to a person who thinks engineers wriete HTML? And from the question he's answering, retarded HTML at that?
A guy asks about his liveral slant, and he says "Thanks for your kind words about NewsTrust".
This guy is a PR weasel, WTF is he doing here?
Here is the list. I was going to just post it, but Google's HTML cache won't copy/paste easily and its source is full of DIVs, which slashdot won't let you use in a comment.
If you want the PDF, it's linked from the linked HTML version.
My generation had erector sets and tinker toys. I remember a robot I built out of an erector set that would travel to the end of its extension cord and stop when the plug came out of the wall. It wouldn't do much else, though - I didn't have anough parts.
But I played with legos with my two daughters, fifteen or twenty years ago. It was as much fun as an erector set, even though you needed no screwdriver.
Touche'!
In my defense, many here truly don't believe that anyone would pay for something they can get for free. Many here think "free" equals "worthless", that only the RIAA makes recorded music worth listening to, that Linux isn't ready for the desktop, and refuse to drink anything but bottled water.
Well, a lot of uncyclopedia's stuff is hilarious, but other articles are just true pain. Most of them are pretty damned funny, though. This sounds like it may be similar.
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.
I'm McGrew, Felber's is a bar I journal about. My journals may be NSFW; usually has vulgarity and obscenity, often sex and violence.
We in the US have the best legislators and the finest laws that money can buy. Perhaps it once was a Federal republic, but it's now a plutocracy.
Indeed, who would pay for an aggregation of otherwise free software?
You never heard of Linux?
I can't beleive I did that in the first place or missed it on preview; boy is my face red. I did say "endangered" first, though.
I must not have had enough coffee. It's usually Monday when I make a stupid mistake like that.
note that his profits on the devices "exceeded $390,000."
My friend Linda went to Dwight last November and was paroled in February; she's still on parole. Hers was a nonviolent drug offense. So I'd say if this guy really did make over a third of a million dollars from his offense, his penalty was pretty damned lenient.