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Comment Re: We the taxayer get screwed. (Score 1) 356

This.

When you consider that there are now over 1600 billionaires, how many of them are "using their powers for good" to the degree that Musk does? Sure there's the Gates Foundation, and other philanthropic efforts, there's the Tata Motors guy in India... some VC guys like Khosla... But out of 1600 people, what a tiny percentage of them even show up on the radar screen, let alone those who are doing "cool stuff" with their immense wealth and power.

If every billionaire used his wealth like Musk does, I wouldn't mind this staggering inequality so much. Sadly, Musk is more an exception than the rule.

and we must rule the exception.

atlas shrugged

Comment I'm waiting for the first tragic event... (Score 1) 166

I'm waiting for the first case where someone posts something online, gets attention from the school over something much less serious than suicide, drops social media, gets depressed, then kills themselves, then someone brings up the fact that if the school hasn't been such a nanny the fist time around the person would probably have tipped his hand online and his friends and family who saw the online messages he would have left would've been able to intervene.

Comment Re:Private Profiles (Score 1) 166

Anyone with a clue doesn't use a site whose sole purpose is to datamine your ass. When will people begin to understand that Facebook is the enemy?

Here, we have the nanny state stepping in, and Facebook cooperates fully. Facebook does nothing to block trackers, in fact, they ENCOURAGE trackers! I'm sure that Facebook is getting some kind of financial incentive for cooperating. If government doesn't offer incentives directly, then the companies like Snaptrends is passing it on.

Comment Should've closed in 2013? (Score 1) 422

It sounds like their mistake was not telling the shareholders "either pony up now to cover all of the legally-required costs of the layoff, or liquidate now and realize the assets will go to those we owe money to, including the employees. The choice is yours."

If France had American-style bankruptcy laws they could've filed for chapter 11 and reorganized, jettisoning the debt owed to former employees or at worst, making them accept stock in the "new" company instead of cash.

Comment Re:And what's the problem? (Score 1) 413

free university? really? because then we'll get pressure to pass students to increase enrollment rates of every private institution in existence to increase funding. Like public school.

then the market will have to come up with some other way to filter out the idiots, just like with the HS Diploma, because it became worthless.

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