http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/31900.html — for example.

Um — that's all proper English. Read more; you'll like it.

What if he's dead?

I was going to point the SEC/ASIC angle out — but it seems like you're already being fed that line. Disclosure really is a serious issue though.

I presume they asked where he was going, and then stopped him again when he blatantly didn't walk to that place.

Great article — and more importantly, I admire your commitment to grammatical perfection!

You're mistaken in part. Congress has granted certain professional sports organizations with licenses to monopolize their respective professional sport. This is certainly the case for baseball, and I imagine that the NFL has a similar arrangement with the federal government.

I don't think you quite understand how companies are owned and financed. Do you have a firm grip on what share prices are — as opposed to revenues and profits? Market cap? Are any of these terms familiar?

No, I get paid. I was a fiscal tax and customs advisor at a management consultancy, but now I'm starting a new career as a commercial lawyer.

Actually, southerners actually cop quite a lot of grief — including women and children. Anytime somebody from Arkansas or Alabama is depicted on a cartoon, it's inevitable that they'll be portrayed as ignorant, inbred, illiterate and likely to use chewing tobacco.

So move to China and see how that's working out for everybody. Ask a Tibetan while you're at it, jackass.

I kind of think the other guy replying to you might have a point... it's like, maybe you don't want to have a good time or enjoy yourself?

And you know what's funny — I tracked a few of the really racist ones down, the ones that don't air on TV, once to see what we were missing, and they just don't have that same timeless quality to them. They're not funny. It's just kind of sad, really — because everything else that those guys were doing was just…

Half of Americans pay zero federal income tax. It all (100%) comes back to them at tax refund time. What you're (probably) not counting on is that when you fill out your forms you get to make deductions which exempt a lot of your income from tax. So yeah, if you don't make a lot of cash and you have a dependent or two…

Sorry — I was too busy analyzing the way that administration and bankruptcy law actually work, while you were making some irrelevant comment about how bad corporations are.

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.