Have you ever heard of something called `insurance'? You should look it up, it's pretty nifty.

Stockholders do not manage the company. They vote for the board of directors, which manages the rest. Only in special circumstances, like an offer to privatize the company, do the votes have any direct effect.

Should citizen voters be liable for prison time if they elect a senator who turns out to be corrupt?

Ah, so it is; looks like I won't be putting my /. profile and excellent karma on my resume after all.... I got so caught up getting my <s and my >s right on the first try that I completely forgot that it wasn't the same as a regular closing tag. I've also decided to learn HTML past the XHTML that I picked up long ago. To anyone who was looking at my post for insight into the inner workings of web technologies: please forgive me -- I have failed you.

Yeah, I realized that after I hit submit. I wrote the first scenario after the second, then realized that `contractor' would be ambiguous and changed it to `carpenter' without thinking about it. It was wrong.

I am sorry.

Also, I was forced to use non-compliant markup (<br> rather than </br>) because SlashCode is shit, I forgot to use `TeX Quotes', and I left out an example of a shitty contractor that I had been planning on including.

I apologize for this as well.

I'm not saying to write unfair contracts, just one that says "contractor will work with the client to implement X in exchange for Y$ per hour". Then, when they hire a consultant that gives them a 5000 page report detailing why they'll get 1000% better performance if they prefix all their classes with the client companies name, don't argue with them; just do it. If you were a carpenter and the homeowners changed their minds from White #001042051 to White #001042052, you wouldn't argue back that the difference is physically imperceivable to the human eye, you'd add a molecule of black to ten gallons of white and charge for it.

I'm not arguing that you should be out to do a shitty job and suck money from customers, just that if they want to piss money away, let them piss some on you.

Terrible advice. There is always money in confusion as long as you write the contract properly, which should always be the case.

The boomers are a pretty good place. They are an incredibly selfish, entitled, and overall shitty generation that grew up with unprecedented prosperity provided by their parents and decided that that was somehow their own work. The US will not advance until these people have died off, or at least gotten so senile that they stop voting.

Well, since we're teaching the controversy, why not? If we want to be serious about this, we should also teach the controversy of communism vs. capitalism in economics, teach the upsides of gay sex over straight sex in sex ed, and do a compare and contrast between Islam and Christianity in Social Studies with equal supportive evidence for both.

But wait, this is just a way to push Christianity and whatever the fuck the ignorant, retarded religious people chose to interpret it as to children on the public dime. It is has nothing to do with "teaching the controversy". It'll never happen.