When "the public" are shareholders in the corporation, then sometimes public interest is served by corporations breaking laws. Especially when they gain huge profits doing so!
You have summed up the problem pretty effectively. All the execs have to do is pass the buck and they know they can basically get away with whatever they want. And if they are caught, the harshest penalty is monetary - not even personal fines, but rather the corporation. It is like legally removing your conscience.
After an exhaustive investigation, they will determine that is was a single gunman who fired all of the rounds, acting alone. See, all congressional investigations aren't a waste of time and money!
Yeah, he published some books. Point to any proof other than your opinion as evidence he is interested in "long or infinite copyright law" and you may have something. Then actually read one of his books and do some research about what he is about and find out how off base you really are.
US money certainly does not dissolve in the wash as I can personally attest to - I have mistakenly washed bills on several occasions before and the color fades a bit, but other than that there is no discernible degradation of the paper itself. The paper used in US currency has some linen fibers woven into it to make it strong. As a matter of fact, most counterfeiters will run their fake money through the wash a few times themselves to make it appear to have been in circulation for a while. Also, you should take a look at recent US currency. There are more than just the red/blue fibers to prevent counterfeiting. There is a watermark, a strip that runs through the bill that tells it's denomination, the ink is slightly magnetized, etc. so reproducing good looking fakes is not such an easy task as you think.
Strangely enough, things like communicating, banking, finding information, sending messages to others, etc. all used to happen before the internet, and if necessary, could continue happening without the internet.
I notice there is no equivalent news story for the millions and millions of transactions that didn't end in a crime being committed. Without telling how many transactions they looked at in total, telling us how many crimes happened is a pretty worthless statistic.
Or save that $25/month over a few years and just buy yourself a backup furnace. You honestly pay $300 a year "just in case" there is a catastrophic failure of all 5 of your cell phones? For that matter you could buy a CB, Ham, or Shortwave radio, or various other devices other than a worthless land line that will probably also be out during a SHTF moment. And how many times over say the last 3 1/2 years has that happened to you where your land line was the only thing that could save you? Was it worth over $1000? I am all for being prepared, but $25/month for something that may or may not be of any use during an actual emergency seems silly to me.
And the first question the other side should ask in jury selection is "Has anyone from either side given you goods or services for free that would normally cost people money?"
The same point could be made for posting on Slashdot. Just because you don't use something doesn't mean it has no value to the rest of the world. I mean, I can't stand the show Glee, but I am not making it a point to tell everyone I know that the show has no value to anyone. I just chose not to watch it, and move on. But I don't let the fact that it exists bother me, and am not so naive to think that everyone feels the same about it as I do.
What does a carrier locking down certain features on phones they support have to do with Android? Android is open, the carrier modified version running on your phone may not be. But you can put another OS on your Android phone if you don't like the one it came with. If I don't like iOS on my iPhone, what other options do I have? If I don't like Win7 on my Windows phone, what other options do I have?
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Tax purposes and to limit the liability. If you sue my corporation, you can't take my personal assets, only the company assets.
Check your sarcasm detector, I think it is a bit off today.
When "the public" are shareholders in the corporation, then sometimes public interest is served by corporations breaking laws. Especially when they gain huge profits doing so!
You have summed up the problem pretty effectively. All the execs have to do is pass the buck and they know they can basically get away with whatever they want. And if they are caught, the harshest penalty is monetary - not even personal fines, but rather the corporation. It is like legally removing your conscience.
After an exhaustive investigation, they will determine that is was a single gunman who fired all of the rounds, acting alone. See, all congressional investigations aren't a waste of time and money!
Yeah, he published some books. Point to any proof other than your opinion as evidence he is interested in "long or infinite copyright law" and you may have something. Then actually read one of his books and do some research about what he is about and find out how off base you really are.
Yeah, it is totally fair. If you refuse to sign the agreement, they pull some eminent domain garbage on you and then take your land legally.
Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken from Minnesota? Yeah, I think your info is a bit off... They are hardly in big corporation's pockets.
Gravity does not really exist. The Earth just sucks.
If you are relying on your OS to provide security, you have already lost the battle.
US money certainly does not dissolve in the wash as I can personally attest to - I have mistakenly washed bills on several occasions before and the color fades a bit, but other than that there is no discernible degradation of the paper itself. The paper used in US currency has some linen fibers woven into it to make it strong. As a matter of fact, most counterfeiters will run their fake money through the wash a few times themselves to make it appear to have been in circulation for a while. Also, you should take a look at recent US currency. There are more than just the red/blue fibers to prevent counterfeiting. There is a watermark, a strip that runs through the bill that tells it's denomination, the ink is slightly magnetized, etc. so reproducing good looking fakes is not such an easy task as you think.
Strangely enough, things like communicating, banking, finding information, sending messages to others, etc. all used to happen before the internet, and if necessary, could continue happening without the internet.
I believe the correct answer is - a pound of lead weighs more than a pound of feathers. Am I right?
it'd wash the houses of all the rich summer folk away. Where's the problem again?
The problem is without all the money brought in from those same rich summer people, the town you live in may not be able to exist as it is now.
I notice there is no equivalent news story for the millions and millions of transactions that didn't end in a crime being committed. Without telling how many transactions they looked at in total, telling us how many crimes happened is a pretty worthless statistic.
Because you are talking about instituting a national ID and that never seems to go over very well with anybody.
Because American Idol hadn't been invented yet.
If you have all of that already, why exactly do you need a land line? Who are you going to call and for what reason?
Or save that $25/month over a few years and just buy yourself a backup furnace. You honestly pay $300 a year "just in case" there is a catastrophic failure of all 5 of your cell phones? For that matter you could buy a CB, Ham, or Shortwave radio, or various other devices other than a worthless land line that will probably also be out during a SHTF moment. And how many times over say the last 3 1/2 years has that happened to you where your land line was the only thing that could save you? Was it worth over $1000? I am all for being prepared, but $25/month for something that may or may not be of any use during an actual emergency seems silly to me.
And the first question the other side should ask in jury selection is "Has anyone from either side given you goods or services for free that would normally cost people money?"
Then you sir, are missing out. Try some of the intangible ones sometime. As a matter of fact, I just sent you some by thinking about it. Enjoy!
They are both foolish unwinnable wars against intangible objects that cost a lot of money with little results?
War on Drugs
War on Copyright Infringement
Re-read my entire post. Talk about Whoosh!
The same point could be made for posting on Slashdot. Just because you don't use something doesn't mean it has no value to the rest of the world. I mean, I can't stand the show Glee, but I am not making it a point to tell everyone I know that the show has no value to anyone. I just chose not to watch it, and move on. But I don't let the fact that it exists bother me, and am not so naive to think that everyone feels the same about it as I do.
What does a carrier locking down certain features on phones they support have to do with Android? Android is open, the carrier modified version running on your phone may not be. But you can put another OS on your Android phone if you don't like the one it came with. If I don't like iOS on my iPhone, what other options do I have? If I don't like Win7 on my Windows phone, what other options do I have?