Is letting 'cloud users' access the servers that run out financial markets really a good idea?
No.
I haven't yet seen any of our software appear again on RapidShare.
That I know of, anyway.
I'd be surprised if Rapidshare, et. al, hasn't pursued the same strategy.
It's possible, I don't know. I must say though, I own a small ISV and one day I discovered pirated copies of our own software on RapidShare. I fired off a letter to their abuse address, and within 24 hours they had removed (and, they said, permanently blacklisted) the content and sent an apologetic response. It was certainly a more positive response than I had expected. This was about 3 years ago, and I haven't yet seen any of our software appear again on RapidShare.
Only he uneducated idiots say they have to keep it loaded and ready for home defense.
This has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not it's a good idea to keep a gun 'loaded and ready for home defense', because doing that wasn't the cause of this negligent accident: This guy left the thing *loaded and lying on a table near a 3-yr old*, something you just don't do regardless of whether or not you prefer to keep a gun loaded and ready for home defense. Why are you trying trying to turn this into an argument about something it isn't, and falsely equating what he did with general carry for home defense?
Tell me again how not having universal health care is good for small business?
Um, no, fallacy of false choice - not having DECENT healthcare insurance services is what is detrimental - yet you posit that the only choices available are "universal healthcare" and crummy healthcare. Yeah you got crummy healthcare, but there are other reasons for that (e.g. lack of competition), most of which are probably fixable in other ways without having to create "universal" healthcare. You didn't need *universal* healthcare in your case, you just needed a decent option.
The notion that "anybody can make it in the US if they work hard" is a fairy tale.
Seriously. Be born rich. That's the way to go.
The notion that the notion is a fairytale is a fairytale. People love to blindly spread memes like this because they enjoy feeling sorry for themselves, but it simply isn't true:
Rags To Riches Billionaires: "Almost two-thirds of the world's 946 billionaires made their fortunes from scratch, relying on grit and determination"
That doesn't mean everyone can end up a billionaire, but it's simply false that this notion that 'anyone can make it' is a fairytale; it's borne out on practically a daily basis. If you open your eyes and look, you'll find true-life rags-to-riches story under every second stone you turn --- especially in the USA, but also these days frequently in places like China. But yeah, not everyone is born hard-working, I guess, so keep sitting and feeling sorry for yourself and you'll definitely ensure that nothing ever changes for you.
7 greatest celebrity rags to riches stories
Entrepreneur takes women from rags to riches
Asian American Rags to Riches Sagas
Case Study: From Rags to Riches (Brenda French)
Cordia Harrington: From Rags to Riches Success Story
Local cosmetics magnate reveals rags-to-riches life story
China: A rags-to-riches story to dream about (Yan Huiyan)
China’s paper magnate is a rags-to-riches story, literally
Rags to riches: Bill MacAloney: from orphan to successful business owner to CBA
From rags to riches: Filipino weavers trade up
Etc. etc. blah blah
Really?
As a matter of fact, by and large, yes, yes, it really is. Especially if you don't want to get caught. Think about it a bit.
As far as I can tell the employees kept coming to work without pay, this was their choice, were is the fraud?
It's honestly a little embarrassing having to point out something this obvious, but the fraud is that they were promised that they would ultimately be paid, and now it looks like they're not going to get paid at all. They never agreed to work for free, only that their wages be deferred; the employer broke an agreement.
If the boss said "we want you to work for free" and they inexplicably said "OK" that would be free markets at work, sure. But that's not what happened. If you have an employer-employee agreement stating you will be paid for your labor and you don't get paid, that's fraud. If you can't see that, I'm sorry, I don't know how to make it more obvious.
Here in the US, we've had entire industries do this to their workers. It's called "free-market capitalism" writ large.
Oh please. Firstly, FTS, which part of "Interzone's
If you believe your boss is just out to fuck you over, just quit already and do something else. Actually it's thanks to the "free-market capitalism" you criticise that it really is as simple as that; if you think it's better in other countries where they don't have that nasty "free-market capitalism" then by all means move somewhere like Cuba. The reason you have a job at all is because of your boss.
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.