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Tried to verify that on my Apple Newton but it's not working well these days.

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All CEO bonuses should be based on something like the 3-year performance of a company and not quarterly. No more 'golden parachutes', no performance or salary bonuses decided by a board of directors but by a majority vote of stockholders. And anyone makes over one million a year has to spend one week every six months doing the most low-level job that company has.

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"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

- Groucho Marx

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Theirs is a high and lonely destiny.

The Socialite-Man's Burden ?

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That's why Home Depot prospered under "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap. His expertise at <strike>sucking Jack Welch's dick</strike> making jet turbines and railroad locomotives at GE just transferred naturally to selling 2x4s out of bins at the home center.

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One Australian mining tycoon thinks $2/day is an adequate miner's wage: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/busi..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-ri...">http://www.latimes.com/busi...

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