When I was a kid growing up in Oregon, we kids almost "collected" the Spotted Owl to extinction and we didn't need any Harry Potter books to do it.

Them owls are good eatin.

Actually what's top of the list is the water. Just because you're fixating on the gold doesn't mean that everybody is.

Your nihilistic noise is pathetic. It's ours for the taking because we're here. There isn't any reason needed.

No wai! Cold ribs are blech, and rewarmed arn't much better

Cuz there's all sorts of reasons to -not- strip mine a moon with no atmosphere.

You understand that a barrel of water costs more than a barrel of oil, right?

Truth, and both the Chinese and the "next cheap place" will be happier for it. Even the US will be happier, although perhaps not in the short term.

Remember the Sony rootkit? Who went to prison over that one? I'm pretty sure who would have gone to prison if I, a private citizen, had done something like that.

If you, as a private citizen, distributed software by CD that included .... software? Distributing faulty software isn't a crime, by the way.

What crime are you suggesting you would be charged with, and presumably Sony decision makers should have been? Quote the law itself please, handwaving and uttering "thereaouttabealaw!!!11111oneone" isn't sufficient.

Yep corporations can get away with murder. All the CEO or Board needs to do is find an employee willing to do that job (example: dump poisons into drinking water). They will be shielded by the corporate license.

You have an incorrect understanding of limited liability afforded by incorporation. Decision making is an -act-. Deciding that poisons should be dumped into drinking water is a -criminal-act-. Actually engaging in the dumping is a separate criminal act. Both actors are subject to criminal charges, and in practice the dumper tends to get off with lighter sentences than the decider due to assisting prosecution, etc.

It strikes me that you're just upset that the people involved have a presumption of innocence. Too bad.