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(06-27-2022, 04:28 PM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

Then the question arises: Which union? One of the ones that has a reputation for being just as corrupt as the employers? A brand-new one with zero bargaining power? One chosen by the employer? (All of these have happened even without the proposed rules. My choice would be "one chosen by the employees".)

Also, doesn't a stock buyback reduce the amount the company has to pay to the shareholders in the future, thus letting the company spend that money on employees (yeah, I can dream) or process modernization?

(06-27-2022, 04:48 PM)robkelk Wrote: [ -> ]Also, doesn't a stock buyback reduce the amount the company has to pay to the shareholders in the future, thus letting the company spend that money on employees (yeah, I can dream) or process modernization?

No, because a stock buyback only decreases the number of shares that can partake in the dividends, but the dividends will be payed regardless, and the total size of the dividends pool does not change relative to the total number of shares.

It just means every share gets more of the dividend paid out in absolute and relative terms.

(06-27-2022, 05:42 PM)hazard Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-27-2022, 04:48 PM)robkelk Wrote: [ -> ]Also, doesn't a stock buyback reduce the amount the company has to pay to the shareholders in the future, thus letting the company spend that money on employees (yeah, I can dream) or process modernization?

No, because a stock buyback only decreases the number of shares that can partake in the dividends, but the dividends will be payed regardless, and the total size of the dividends pool does not change relative to the total number of shares.

It just means every share gets more of the dividend paid out in absolute and relative terms.

Ah. I'm so used to dividends being announced as "$xx per share" that I didn't realize that that was relative instead of absolute.

(07-03-2022, 09:17 AM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

These are not really true.  In Gen 2:7 God begins Adam's life with the breath of life.  In Exodus 21:22, it's a law for punishing the injury of a pregnant woman -- nothing about fetuses, or children, or anything.  In Numbers 5 -- wow this is a problematic passage.  It's public punishment for adultery by poisoning?  That the woman would be struck barren by drinking the bitter vinegar.  Unless she wasn't a proverbial "witch" and the drink didn't do anything to her.  Honestly it's just as terrifying that a pro-abortion advocate would read this and say, oh yes, this part of the ancient Hebrew culture is what I want in my modern society.

Honestly I find the Biblical evidence on abortion to be really weak all around.  "I knew you before you were born" is probably the strongest, but is also easily explained away by God's omniscience.  And also by the Jewish concept of a Guf where souls reside before being born -- all the souls exist before birth in the same place.  I really can't draw a conclusion from the Bible, and I don't know how other people manage it -- perhaps just a leap of faith.

Meanwhile the Bible is not ambiguous about its message of economic equality and tolerance of immigrants.

(07-03-2022, 09:17 AM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

Ermm. Not really. Remove one male from the breeding pool and it's easy for other males to fill in the gap. Remove one female from the breeding pool and no one's filling in for her.

I believe it was referring more to the idea that a promiscumous male is likely to impregnate multiple female.

(05-28-2022, 01:56 PM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

Defictionalized! In Texas, no less.

(07-11-2022, 06:43 PM)robkelk Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-28-2022, 01:56 PM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

Defictionalized! In Texas, no less.

Never was fictional. Arizona 2006.  The officer in this case had heard it before, but this was the first one to take it to a judge.

(07-19-2022, 12:23 AM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

This, so much.

Except for Trump.  You vote for him because you love him.  And he promises to love you back, as much as he loves his wife.  Believe me.

(07-19-2022, 12:23 AM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

Try looking for the cultural equivalent of the time: a sword.

But while you're looking, maybe you could tell me where there's anything about a God-given right to not pay taxes. All I can find is Matthew 22:15-22, which says the exact opposite...

Do remember that Republican "values" and true adherence to the teachings of Christ are at violent odds with each other -- Christ is effectively the source of all modern Western liberal values. That's why the only churches that the GOP courts are those which carefully pick and choose their tenets around and away from the parts of the New Testament which tell them to do things they don't want to do.

The Republicans worship the god they love.

That god is called 'power'.

It is very much not who they say they love, but loving somebody other than they profess to love is nothing new to Republicans either.

It is a shame that worship of the Almighty Dollah always seems to involve more collection than spreading miracles to end suffering.

Begold an example of what the French would call, The Late Seal....

"If the rest of the UK is going to be nuked, we need to be nuked to prove we're part of the UK"