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I swear I read the headline and figured this was in the US. Come on, Canada don’t be like us.

The swastika should be the #1 on this list.

Aerial superiority helps a lot, but ground to ground the locals have the upper hand just by knowing the area and their neighbors. The attackers may still win, but they’ll need more advantages and lots of good intel.

Never fight a land war in Asia. I heard that once in a documentary, “The Princess Bride”.

That’s a valid argument, however it’s a pretty gray one because it depends on what you refer to as the company, all costs, or motive. Note that in your points you use abuse, exploitation, and legally, implying that the company is breaking laws. So there the problem isn’t regulation, but enforcement of them.

But I don’t want to get into a debate on the finer details and legalese, you got my point. And my phrasing of what the company “should” do was probably too vague. A company’s goal (not the individuals inside it) is to produce something and try to profit from it. That’s it. How it can and does do that is determined by laws and the people running it, and that’s where the control and ethics and legal lines begin.

That link seems to support my point of the government having a leash on things, and when that was loosened or removed, we got what we have. Granting certain privileges for doing public good sounds a lot like regulatory management to me. But that’s only possible if corporations don’t have their own leash on the government from inside, which was my point all along.

Well, one particular religion. They talk about being persecuted while practicing it on other beliefs.

But at least there’s something in writing to argue about, whereas I don’t know of any rules protecting corporate influence on lawmakers. Maybe there are some limitations on lobbying and money waving, but there’s also loopholes. Just the issues of insider trading and other ways to profit from the positions of power shouldn’t be possible in an ideal government by the people and for the people.

Likewise on the other side, it shouldn’t be possible to just pay a fine and keep breaking existing regulations. There may be a parallel there with the average person and the wealthy - where one goes to jail for something and the other just waves it off because of who they are. Small businesses can’t get away with breaking laws like the big ones can. Deep pockets and influence matter, and they shouldn’t.

This shouldn’t be directed at companies. They’re the ones that are saying this, but that’s what they should do. Find the best route for the betterment of the company and its products.

That is why we need regulation from the government. To narrow the path that companies can take to maximize profits and growth. The real problem, and why so many of these maintained traction until they didn’t, is when businesses and government intermingle with each other.

We need a separation of corporate and state, just like church and state, for similar reasons. And the church and state one has always been kind of weak, some times more than others. Government should be impartial and fair to all matters, period.

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It has broken edges not because of weathering and age, but because it was thrown to the ground when the self referencing formula kept locking the whole database up.