Ms.Huxtable Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 If you could erase one business organization from ever existing, which would you abolish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tara Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 this is a tough one. hmmm....either Labatt or Coors. And the Gap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 Ticketmaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tara Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 Damn that was a good one...why didn't I think of that. I change my answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Musicface Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 Oh, gotta go with Monsanto. Or maybe Coca-Cola. so we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water and the old farmroad's a four-lane that leads to the mall and my dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall - Ani DiFranco Peace, Mr. M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatPhish Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 oil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 Enron. They added nothing to the economy or society, and screwed over thousands of people. One of the big tabacco companies would be nice, but the others would just step up and fill the market. Aloha, Brad P.S. Ms H: Check your calendar, today's March 18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gentlemonkey Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 MOnsanto's Ottawa office is directly underneath my work.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 The Bush Administration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Musicface Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 quote:Originally posted by gentlemonkey: MOnsanto's Ottawa office is directly underneath my work..Nice - could you go down and ask them why it's necessary to make seeds to sell to farmers in the poorest parts of the world that are engineered to produce barren plants, so they have to buy new seeds every year, rather than gathering seeds from the previous years harvest as they have been doing for thousands of years? Here's an interesting little story of Monsanto vs. a Canadian farmer: http://www.percyschmeiser.com/ Peace, Mr. M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 I would easily pick Mcdonald's. (sally...hold your fire! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gentlemonkey Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 interesting! I have pretty much decided that I'm going to go pee on their door on my way out tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Mr. Musicface: quote:Originally posted by gentlemonkey: MOnsanto's Ottawa office is directly underneath my work..Nice - could you go down and ask them why it's necessary to make seeds to sell to farmers in the poorest parts of the world that are engineered to produce barren plants, so they have to buy new seeds every year, rather than gathering seeds from the previous years harvest as they have been doing for thousands of years? 'Cause if they weren't barren, the seeds might scatter, and the environmentalists would complain loud and long about the danger of an engineered plant taking over biological niches occupied by local species? I'm not on Monsanto's side, but this is another case of TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Any self-reproducing organism has a non-zero probability of escaping from where it's located and moving to where it's not wanted. "Convenient" and "Safe" are often requirements that are at odds with each other. Aloha, Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieDon'tSurf Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 quote:Originally posted by bradm: "Convenient" and "Safe" are often requirements that are at odds with each other. Aloha, Bradyou forgot "Profit"... I pick the NRA, because guns don't kill people, the NRA does Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeSee Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 wal-mart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hux Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 The Republican Party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay sanislo Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 Esau nailed it on the spot TICKETMASTER SUCKS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im going home Donny Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 Haha...Monkey....if you pee on their door you are going directly into my hero books... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevO Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 I'll go with the Canada Commercial Corporation. The U.S. war machine is their business. Here's a little quote from an article on rabble.ca about the CCC: As its own PR states, with the CCC connection “your U.S. [Department of Defense] buyer can have the full assurance that the Government of Canada is standing behind your deal.” Get a load of this, as well: “In times of crisis or war, the CCC serves as Canada’s national contracting instrument associated with industrial mobilization of Canadian sources of supply in keeping with our obligations to the United States.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted March 19, 2003 Report Share Posted March 19, 2003 All box-stores, but especially ( in order ): Walmart Costco Home Depot Best Buy Future Shop Box-stores are the ruination of city and town infrasturctures throughout Canada and the U.S. Proof? See: Brantford, Cambridge, Belleville, Port Hope, Barrie, Burlington etc... These cities downtowns are like ghost-towns, but their box-store sub-urban areas ( i.e., located near the 401/QEW etc... are thriving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brels Posted March 19, 2003 Report Share Posted March 19, 2003 I would say the Business of sport....it crossed the line a long time ago...I wish $ wasn't the influence that it is on sports as entertainment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted March 19, 2003 Report Share Posted March 19, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Esau13: Ticketmaster.I have a little beef. Not with Esau13, but with people in general. I share in the frustration everyone has with TicketBastard, but how come no-one was pissed off with the $10.50 US service charge on every ticket for Bonnaroo? I paid over $90 CDN in service charges alone. Why can't they just bury the charge inside the actual ticket price if they have to charge one at all? Arg. Maybe I just don't understand the economics of it all. Okay, enough of that. I'm happy I got tix for B-roo. Service charge and all it's still a huge steal. AD ps. I heard Bonnaroo was relocating to Frontiertown, then to my backyard for the remainder of the summer. Reliable source too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey d Posted March 19, 2003 Report Share Posted March 19, 2003 this store at the mall in my city that i got kicked out of for playing with a pogo stick that was set out for people to freely try out. it was soem sort of sporting-goods store. it and its whole chain of stores shouldnt exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaggyBalls Posted March 19, 2003 Report Share Posted March 19, 2003 i would abolish the church as a business...people that see money can't seem to go without taking a part of it... i would abolish dentistry as a BUSINESS - as well as medicine. those endeavours should be seen as aid, not money. i would abolish the government as a business...too many things are nickeled and dimed. i would abolish prostitution as well...but that's just because i don't want to have to pay... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Musicface Posted March 19, 2003 Report Share Posted March 19, 2003 quote: Originally posted by bradm: 'Cause if they weren't barren, the seeds might scatter, and the environmentalists would complain loud and long about the danger of an engineered plant taking over biological niches occupied by local species? I'm not on Monsanto's side, but this is another case of TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Any self-reproducing organism has a non-zero probability of escaping from where it's located and moving to where it's not wanted. "Convenient" and "Safe" are often requirements that are at odds with each other. Aloha, Brad Nah, sorry Brad, I don't buy it. It's a pure profit thing - safety might be the rationale but it doesn't wash. Read the Percy Schmeiser case I linked to above - apparently not only does their strategy NOT prevent cross-contamination, but their don't even take responsibility for it not working and they're trying to sue the ass off the poor guy whose field their shit ended up in. Here's a quote, but you should read the whole article at http://www.percyschmeiser.com/conflict.htm: Monsanto did not directly try to explain how the Roundup Ready seed got (in Schmeiser's field). "Whether Mr. Schmeiser knew of the matter or not matters not at all," said Roger Hughes, a Monsanto attorney quoted by the Western Producer, a Canadian agriculture magazine. A canola scientist, in an affidavit for Monsanto in the trial, said Schmeiser's theories of cross-pollination by wind and bees did not make sense to him, given the purity of plants grown based on Monsanto's tests. "It was a very frightening thing, because they said it does not matter how it gets into a farmer's field; it's their property," Schmeiser said, in an interview with Agweek. "If it gets in by wind or cross-pollination, that doesn't matter." So much for the safety argument. It's all about the money, baby! - M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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