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Comment Re:In Response, We Boycott Google... oh, nevermind (Score 0) 66

From what has been released, finland legislature gave the local company permission to start the construction.
The finish government environment agency is the one saying that you might have that approval but you still need to get approval from us and submit the various paperwork.
So it is going to be a court decision to determine who is correct.

Comment Re:Context - UC has no SAT/ACT math requirement (Score 0) 150

Faculty members reported that a growing number of students arrive without the core algebra required for STEM majors, masked in part by high school grade inflation. Students are increasingly struggling to pass standard freshman-level courses, leading to an unprecedented rise in course failure rates, students dropping out, and a surging demand for remedial tutoring.
In response the board of UoC decided to have student to decide if the SAT/ACT needed to be reinstated, suppose to be out sometime next year.
Also eight Ivy League universities along with MIT, Caltech, Stanford, and dozens of other institutions that followed UoC have already reinstated the ACT/SAT requirement.

Comment Re: Yes (Score 2) 202

Nearly 50% of stocks are held in retirement plans. It's not that the shareholders only care for the next dividend. It's that the shareholders are passive (as you also pointed out), or are one level removed (in index funds).

The fund managers don't want to rock the boat with the companies because the companies get to pick who manages their retirement accounts, so essentially the retirement accounts are yes votes and not ownership oversight.

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