

That’s way better.
I’d entirely forgotten we have that kind of option available.
That’s way better.
I’d entirely forgotten we have that kind of option available.
The fine has to be big enough to cause enough pain to the shareholders that the board of directors cares.
Let’s say we set the fine to an amount that would destroy the company if levied in a single financial year, then actually leviing it over five years. Five years of poor dividend performance.
Or perhaps partial dividend forfeiture for a period of time.
The people who make the kinds of decisions that result in this kind of failure are driven by next quarter’s share price, hurt that enough and they’ll make the right decisions.
Either way, that particular fine is appallingly small for poisoning the general public with heavy metals.
But we saved $75!
Prisons serve to remove a person from society (in the civilised world).
Removing a person from society has two subtly different justifications:
Consider the difference between violent crimes (1) and nonviolent crimes (2).
Note that some societies expand (2) to include more punishment than just separation from society.
I’m unfortunately stuck with him.
Unfortunately we’re all stuck with him. US politics/economy leaks out into every other country’s politics/economy.
The US threatened to pull out of the WHO at the time since the findings didn’t match US drug policy. Instead of losing the US, the WHO quietly shelved the study.
Time to release it then.
Meet Mushu! The whale that thinks she’s better than you!
If only the nation were awash with guns, to secure the union, or something.
how 99.9% of all public figures, “philosophers”, inventors, important rulers, generals, diplomats, and so on were all men?
Men got the credit for them, no matter who actually did the work.
It’s not convenient, it’s survivor bias.
The thing is, it’s almost certain that the orange idiot will do this again next month, next quarter, next year, ad infinitum. He’s also shown that it’s mostly bluster, Canada called his bluff and he blinked. So now it’s noise, risk, and unnecessary cost.
There’s also no confidence that this nonsense will stop in four years, no confidence that another Trump won’t be elected next time.
America’s burned the last shred of respect it had left, and it’s gone, for decades if not forever.
Every other country is going to do its best to divest itself of every dependency on the USA it can; find other buyers and find other sellers.
simply driven over
That’s called smuggling.
Never again.
Optimistic
Its very possible to enrich corrupt elites without taking an axe to the US’s strategic position.
Yes. But not for a very stupid easily manipulated “businessman”.
“So our worldview is our maunga are ancestors, they’re not resources but they are living beings and so the notion of legal personhood fits well with our worldview.”
We generally don’t think of people as resources… Human resources… Shit.
Shame that he doesn’t have the capacity to decide when to shit his pants.
I’ve seriously considered burning a handful of books, once. Because they were just such awfully written garbage money grab sequels (by another author) to a series I really like.
Then realised that my objection to book burning in general was stronger than my petulant desire to remove my copies of these books from existence.
“So our worldview is our maunga are ancestors, they’re not resources but they are living beings and so the notion of legal personhood fits well with our worldview.”
Emphasis mine. I’ve not seen the nuance of maunga as tupuna explained so effectively before. Neat.
Does anyone know what effects legal personhood has?
No, no. A fiddle isn’t that easy to play. He played trump more like a carrot.