OK — just checking. You don't know how the tax system works, so your opinions don't mean anything until you do some reading.

If there are is only X dollars when they sell off the company and its assets, who should get them?

Sorry — yeah, I was drunk-commenting, and I thought you were going all Axis-sympathizer, which I've been seeing more and more of these days by butthurt high-school kids who desperately want to believe that somehow the allies were equally at fault for the shitty way that the mid-20th century went down.

All of which has recently been revised by games such as White Wolf's changeling series, and heaps of terrible "urban fantasy" novels aimed at women who own lots of cats.

No. The owners of the corporations — the shareholders — get paid last. LAST. That is to say *after* the unsecured debt holders. Long story getting longer — the dudes who preordered Diablo III will get paid before a dime of the liquidated value of the company goes to the shareholders.

Why would you suggest that the WB cartoons selling war bonds could be viewed as "reprehensible" then or now?

Wrong. It's just plain ignorance. It's like calling out the God of War games for their naming conventions. Seriously — what kind of name is Zeus.

Those are the names applied to particular shoe and belt and hat designs sold at American fashion retailers, not popular given-names around the Kennedy compound. As in, they sound preppy to non-preppy people.

Employees should get paid out before unfilled orders. You disagree? Or is your entitlement more important than somebody's paycheck?

You don't know what you're talking about — but that's fine. I won't explain all the legal concepts involved because I don't have time to educate you, but as a pragmatic solution: just use a credit card, and make the card issuer wear it.

The lower middle class pays no income tax. Am I missing something?

So.... are you seeing anybody?

Ugh. Messiah? Seriously? They're just trash.

Ugh.

No, they're really not.

My day. Ruined.

The people who are really into them say that you basically have to pay three times as much on speakers to make them sound as good — and that seems to be about true for me. Some people buy really expensive receivers and floor speakers; think about much they could have saved to get a good pair of cans.

You need to get out of the friendzone, Chief. Lock it up!

I have faith that our children will be mad-excellent hackers.

Hasn't Chinese culture always been kind of "flashy" — and related to face and prestige? I mean, other than the Communist-era's earnest efforts to reverse things (with futility), isn't it just part of the culture?