Strong words demanding accountability from an AC, heh.

Ah, so you've amended your definition of success

to

which is a little more believable, though still not true unless you're speaking about a very specific time frame in Apple stock price. And market cap, please.

GE, 3M, IBM, Wal-mart, Nike, Exxon, AT&T, J&J and most of the finance industry disagree with you. What was your metric for "successful" again? Smartphone production or something?

No shit, right?

Many of the beer guts are on outer boro people where a car culture is much more prevalent.

As if referring to herself as a "macgrrl" and then referencing a 10+ year old OS didn't already do that.

But I'm angry and want to rant!
Fair enough, my bad. ;) That privilege argument, when made earnestly, drives me up the wall.

You seem to forget that this is America and we are entitled to the right of free movement as repeatedly upheld by the Supreme Court. Flying is NOT a "privilege", it's a right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_United_States_law

What phone are you using? I've carried BBs for the last 6 years and never had one need to be charged more than once every couple days.

Real life example - I (back when I had an FB account) "like"d NewYork RoadRunners. Anyone who has ever talked to me about them knows that I vehemently detest them on multiple grounds, but they happen to be the organizers of the NY Marathon and have a practical monopoly on street permits for all the other smaller races. NYRR started releasing information about when registration opened for popular races (in this case - the Brooklyn Half-Marathon) on FB only and no where else. If you didn't "like" them, you wouldn't know that registration had opened and in that races case, it sold out in 8 hours.
Therefore I liked them just so I could see their newsfeed but I would NEVER EVER want to promote them in any way, shape, or form.
If I had known you could hide your likes back in my FB days, I would have done so happily.

How much effort is involved in having an undercover officer blend in with a semi-impromptu, decentralized protest? Particularly when it's happening in a high tourist and business income neighborhood.

And of course, this is the same NYPD that can spare four officers to stand around a remote Queens or Brooklyn subway station and search the bags of every one out of a thousand people who go through.

Because one is offered up as a black and white fact on a murky grey area and the other is offered up with the caveat that it's a dominant view. As soon as it's proven in court and not just debate papers, feel free to drop the caveat.

I'm glad to see that you've joined me and the experts in understanding that it's a complicated issue and black and white statements like "to maximize their market share and stock price, which is the legal obligation of a publicly traded company" are factually untrue and little more than an opinion.

It's pretty clear to me by your resorting to ad hominems and focusing on the word that I hurt your feelings by the use of nonsense. If you were offended, I apologize, but your statement was still untrue.

Uh, you mean my original point?

Okay, you're missing the point here.

1. YOU claimed that there is a legal obligation for corporations to maximize market share and shareholder profit without offering any proof or citations.

2. I call BS and ask for a citation.

3. You offer up 3 links to 2 papers written by "experts" (who, again, do not determine the law in papers written for journals) that shows your statement is incorrect and in fact, your experts side with me.

How does this prove your claim again? Who's not listening to experts?

It is nonsense. You presented it as a clear and legal obligation for corporations, and your very own references dispute that fact. A dominant view or opinion is not a legal precedent and therefore doesn't mean jack, surely you understand that.

You want me to prove that there is no law? Uhhh, it went this way -

You make a claim that there's a law or ruling obligating corporations to maximize market share and shareholder profit.

I call BS and ask for a citation. You throw out inconclusive articles without referencing anything in them and cling desperately to "dominant view" without ever showing a law or ruling that confirms YOUR claim.

Why don't you try proving that there is one.

Oh right, there isn't.