OT: Public referrendums on destroying evil companies

[narf poit chez BOOM]

actually, that 'governed by the laws of X' seems to refer to the place the company is at. still, your the one that'll pay airfare.

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by SpaceBadger:

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Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
FYI: (and this might shock the **** out of you..) When a 'Gator' dialogue box pops up and asks if you wish to install it [YES] [NO].

Clicking on either answer will promptly install the spy/ad ware. In fact the 'Gator Dialogue' only pops up after it is installed.

You're sure about this?

Dang, I run into one of those dialog boxes a couple times a month I think, just surfing the web (seems like one of those freebie places, like fortunecities or geocities or something like that, pops up the box every time I go there). Always click NO, of course. You mean that each time that has happened the site has installed Gator on my machine?

Sigh, I guess it is time to hunt up and install some anti-spyware app - any recommendations?

SpaceBadger

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I'm not sure about that, but who knows. I use Lavasoft's Ad-Aware. It's free, small, fast, and works well.

[DavidG]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Pay a visit to www.mcspotlight.org some time and you will learn something about how they obtain the cheap food that makes their business model possible, how they treat their workers, and how utterly amoral their management is.

Hmmm some intersting stuff there... and also a lot of funny crap. One one of the pages it suggest McD is causing world hunger by promoting the meat culture. Like if it wasn't for McD we'd all be vegitarians and there'd be enough food for the whole world. And McD is responsible for global warming cause of all that methane cows produce. Like if McD's dissapeared tomorrow we all start eating salads.

[minipol]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
I'm not sure about that, but who knows. I use Lavasoft's Ad-Aware. It's free, small, fast, and works well.

I also use Spybot. Together they rock.

[Erax]

This may surprise some of you, but down here McDonald's is in many ways an admirable company. They have a standard for quality, which many of our national fast-food chains do not. While expensive for the average Brazilian, they are still cheaper than comparable competitors. Their employees are always polite - it's impossible to have an argument with them because they always agree with you. Their places are generally clean and tastefully furnished. The food is always the same, but they usually come up with a dozen 'special' recipes every year. Every year they have a 'charity day' in which all of the Big Mac sales are donated to child cancer hospitals. Much of this is probably because they are run as a franchise, so most decisions are made on the spot and not in some boardroom half a world away. I personally have nothing against them.

[Cyrien]

I don't have anything against McDonalds either. They are a well run business as fast food goes, good marketing, and they aren't a monopoly. I have in the past traveled extensively and in many cases I would see more Burger Kings than McDonalds. I will admit that was at least five to ten years ago for foreign nations that were located in Europe so maybe things have changed.

Sometimes they do things that are stupid such as suing in Scotland for the exlusive rights to McDonald.

I don't really like the food and much prefer Whataburger for quality but every now and then I do get a light craving for McDonalds and go have one and that is it until a few months later when I will have another one or will be in a rush and it is what is available.

Is McDonalds evil? Nah. Just a super corporation and at least in my book not one of the bad ones as at least it isn't a super global monopoly with control of all or almost all fast food everywhere.

[Instar]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
The Last question is the most important. Companies are NOT people and should not be given the rights of people. Yet some senile old Supreme Court judges in the late 19th century gave them the rights of people and no one since has had the brains or guts to fix this ****up legislatively. Prior to this disaster a 'company' was a public trust and was vulnerable to the public if it exploited and harmed them. Since that Supreme Court ruling they are the proxy shields for the new Robber Barons. Someday, someone has got to stand up and say 'no quasi-governmental power without commensurate responsbility to the public!'

Corporations need the rights as individuals, its necessary for them.
Also, the public *can* get rid of companies -- just stop buying their bloody products! X10.com went out of business recently, no one bought their schlock and thus they ran outta money.
And I rather like Microsoft, so you can bugger off!