OT: Public referrendums on destroying evil companies

Growltigger · #1 October 28th, 2003, 06:05 PM

Macjimmy, the clever executive will get a salary, but benchmarked at a level that hopefully wont upset the shareholders too much.

He will then get bonuses, discretionary and non-discretionary.

He will also get pension contributions.

Add then stock options and some sexy advanced payment mechanism to get money paid offshore to avoid taxes as a "sweetener" and then your average board chappie is wealthier than Croesus

Oh, and the clever ones negotiate golden handshakes and golden parachutes, so it makes it damn expensive to get rid of them.

Eg head of AstraZeneca in England, sack him? no worries, but that will be �38,000,000 please

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 October 28th, 2003, 06:24 PM

poverty isn't so much of a virtue as it's hard to be tempted to be arrogant about your wealth when you don't have any.

Cyrien · #3 October 30th, 2003, 04:01 AM

Hate to bring this topic to the top again... but in regards to GATOR and installing even when you say no. I just ran into that when I downloaded a DivX Codec. It popped up twice asking if I accepted the Gator install and Gator EULA. I said no. The Codec installed. I run a program that uses the Codec and... My firewall pops up asking if I want to allow a program titled Gain to connect to a website with Gator in the URL. I say block all connections from said application.
I ran Adaware. And... 29 Gator files, 2 Gator regkeys, 2 Gator Regvalues, 1 Gator Process.

So it seems that in at least a few cases, though probably not all. Gator will install even if you say no. And if they are willing to do that then they are probably willing to install without asking at all.

Now THAT fits my description of a sleazy company. Both Gator and the one allowing it to run in their software/downloads in such a misleading way.

PvK · #4 November 5th, 2003, 04:00 AM

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Originally posted by deccan:

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Originally posted by PvK:
I didn't mean to say that they should be destroyed if some people don't appreciate what they do.

Hey, PvK, you named the thread "Public referendums on destroying evil companies".

Non-appreciation is not the same thing as evil.

PvK

Instar · #5 November 5th, 2003, 06:49 AM

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Originally posted by Cyrien:
Hate to bring this topic to the top again... but in regards to GATOR and installing even when you say no. I just ran into that when I downloaded a DivX Codec. It popped up twice asking if I accepted the Gator install and Gator EULA. I said no. The Codec installed. I run a program that uses the Codec and... My firewall pops up asking if I want to allow a program titled Gain to connect to a website with Gator in the URL. I say block all connections from said application.
I ran Adaware. And... 29 Gator files, 2 Gator regkeys, 2 Gator Regvalues, 1 Gator Process.

So it seems that in at least a few cases, though probably not all. Gator will install even if you say no. And if they are willing to do that then they are probably willing to install without asking at all.

Now THAT fits my description of a sleazy company. Both Gator and the one allowing it to run in their software/downloads in such a misleading way.

Ive had to deal with a browser hijacking lately. Installs without any notice usually. Ad aware only helped so much, I had to manually root around in my files and zorch those files. I added 00hq.com and 8ad.com to my block list, I'd reccomend you all do the same.