[via Schneier on Security] Interesting that a corporation’s attempts at avoiding taxes would open it up to liability on this scale – Facebook’s existence more or less hinges upon the sleight of hand which allows its “users” to believe that they are also its “customers”. Pro Tip: If you’re on Facebook, you are a supplier [...]
Like a terrorist in a horror film, Wall Street thrives on threats. Three short years ago, Wall Street was virtually bankrupt, a ward of the state. We could have jailed “just one” of them back then, when they were down for the count. Instead, we bailed them out! Made them richer. Gave them $13.7 trillion, [...]
A culture that just uses a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, to be manipulated by whatever creative design the human can foist on that critter, will probably view individuals within its community, and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling type mentalities. [...]
Finally, a candidate without any question of loyalties. We’ve seen massive problems now with the election of state court judges from special interest groups that want to affect the election…That was the reason why we went to elections in the first place, to get rid of special interests. But now they’ve come back with money, [...]
“The cost of an Associate with seven years of tenure is almost 55% more than the cost of an Associate with one year of tenure, yet there is no difference in his or her productivity, moreover, because we pay an Associate more in salary and benefits as his or her tenure increases, we are pricing [...]
You pay for insurance on the off-chance that your health fails. Your insurance company takes your money and pays its employees a bonus to cancel your benefits when your health fails. Your health fails – but look at it this way, some lucky drone just won a bonus. (Though he’ll doubtless lose his insurance, too, [...]
The former workers of the family-owned firm based in Lynchburg, Va., said the problems were obvious and long-running. “It was pretty filthy around there,” said Jones, 50, who said he worked in the sanitation department for eight months before being laid off. Recalling rainwater leaking into the plant, he said, “It was coming in through [...]
The Peanut Corporation of America product recall has the look and feel of another overblown public health scare/corporate malfeasance scandal with the inevitable punchline: litigators agree that it was preventable and, therefore, definitely worth suing over. Let’s step outside the headlines for a moment and consider the inverse of the equation: you work in a [...]
