There's nothing in the article (or anywhere in the news) that says that. All that is known is that they were sued by ex-employees, not why. So where exactly did you take that information that they defaulted on any obligation? Guesswork ain't facts.

That's like the Tina Fey / Sarah Palin thing. So many people now think that Sarah Palin did claim to see Russia from her kitchen window, it says lots about how people are misinformed.

Please point out the exact part of said article that mentions that the lawsuit was related to severance pay. Guess what - you won't find it, because it's not there.

You don't know what the lawsuit was about, yet you pretend to know that the laws involved are well defined. Bravo.

Did you read the article? Nowhere does it say that the employees sued because they hadn't been paid.

What the article says is that the former employees sued the company and won - not why or how. Following that lawsuit, the company was ordered to pay the awarded amounts immediately, and this lead to the company going out of business.

THERE NO FUCKING MENTION OF EMPLOYEES NOT BEING PAID WAGES OR SEVERANCE PAY - for all we know, they could have sued the company because its name starts with the letter M or because Obama got re-elected in the USA. The parent is just one of many in this entire story that jumped to wrong conclusions and built idiotic theories on top of those, so yes, he is just like the moron I used to work with.

I don't think you understand how capitalism work. Basically, the people who put the capital to fund a business venture own it, and people who don't risk their own money but merely work on an hourly or weekly basis are paid wages. If the business doesn't succeed, the investors lose their stake in it, but that doesn't mean they have to sell their kidneys on the black market to finance it further. The company has to sustain itself; its entire purpose is to generate profit, not to provide employment opportunities to citizen.

Labor laws are there to ensure that wages are paid and that workers are treated fairly, but when it's all said and done, the risk taker in this situation is the owner, not the employee. In countries like France they lost track of this because for centuries they've been sucking up the resources of their colonies and this led them to develop a huge culture of entitlement. They will learn.

I don't think it was a grammar error. I think saying "where?" is a middle school teacher gimmick used to teach people not to use "there" instead of "their".

As for the Republicans/Democrats thing I tend to agree. Democrats did enslave people and fought back when Republicans tried to abolish slavery, and to this day they still try to enslave people by raising taxes and piling up more laws (like Roosevelt who jailed a dry cleaner because he was charging 35 cents instead of the federally-controlled price of 40 cents to press a pair of pants).

Please provide a quote from the article or from any other source that confirms your statement. Voices in your head don't count.

You remind me of a guy I used to work with. Someone would ask: where is Tom? and this guy would reply: he's late because he has car troubles. But if you pushed further you always found out that he did not, in fact, have information about Tom having car troubles, it was just his best guess. He somehow couldn't see the difference between facts and guesswork. Quite annoying.

It's not that simple. The "law" in this instance is very much subject to interpretation. It's like a divorce. There are parameters but who the fuck gets the kenny rogers record collection is not something that is clearly stated in the law, there are arguments to be heard and if the two parties can't get to a compromise a judge will decide. Doesn't mean that the losing party broke the law - there's always at least one losing party in every lawsuit.

Why is the 0-star option located after the 5-star option and before the "stars ain't enough" option?

The person who did that scares me.

No. The dot come bubble was all about public markets and demented IPOs and insane stock price. Now the game is different. In most of these startups you couldn't invest even if you wanted. Call your broker and tell him you want to buy shares of Dropbox, you'll see.

Well there's crowdfunding also but then you don't get equity, you basically prepay for a product you may never get.

I don't know. Have you seen those savings circles in poor areas like Central America or Africa? Basically people pool a small amount of money each month and one member gets the whole pool each month. It may look like a zero sum game, but the people who get the big sum of money can invest in farming or cooking equipment, and the productivity of the whole group increases each month a lot more than if they just kept their small savings.

A dollar is not always just a dollar. It depends on the context.

The matter is settled, then. Thanks for your valuable input!

This reminds me of that joke about two guys driving downhill in a car with no brakes; one of them is not nervous at all so the other one asks him why he is so calm in such a dangerous situation. The first guy replies: it's ok, there's a stop sign at the bottom of the hill.

I'm surprised that this hasn't made the list of common misconceptions on Wikipedia yet.

Of course it's people that built the pyramids. But the pyramid scheme itself was designed by aliens posing as gods. They came to Egypt for cheap labor and sure, they exploited people for a while, but then there was the Arab spring when people used Facebook and the Stargate to get rid of the corrupt alien leaders. People, get your facts straight!

Nothing at all. Greece is like Venezuela, but without the oil. There's nothing to be done until they decide to stop their social experiment. The world shouldn't subsidize that.

What's the real downside? Migrants? Western Europe is already experienced at stopping poor people on their borders, and it's not like Greece has a direct migration path. A Greek that wants to sneak into Europe has to cross the land of the vodka people, or try to swim to the south-east part of Italy. That's quite a convenient buffer, just like Mexico is a convenient buffer for the USA.

Europe managed to survive two world wars, plenty of civil wars, the plague, three Inquisitions, etc. I think they will survive the bankruptcy of a country that hasn't played a significant role in history since before the first edition of the bible.