Comments on: Banking and finance roundup

By: cecil

cecil — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:15:40 +0000

Did they hand her cash or a check? If a check, on what bank? If on their bank, wasn’t that still trafficking with drug related customers? And lastly, if they did not give her the money immediately and denied her access to it, wasn’t that theft?
Why only women? Approximately 60% of blind persons in the US are unemployed… I’m sure one or two would be glad to serve on the board of a company in Ca… Which is longhand for what about all the other minorities? Aren’t they sexist to just pick gender to do something about? Can they prove that no other protected class has issues with being represented equally on boards?
Don’t look at me like that, all I have ever asked for is the opportunity to prove that I can get the job done. And make your products usable if you want my business. Oh, and to make the baenebooks site as friendly and usable as it was, which they did, hurrah them, and yayme! I love to read and thank the congress back in the early 1900’s (iirc?), and publishers who have cooperated with letting blind folks read on specialized formats and electronically in the modern instance. It’s a great time to be blind, not that any time is a good time to be blind… There is just so much more opportunity, especially to read and learn, unless you’re berkeley.
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By: cc

cc — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:25:01 +0000

In reply to cc. Further to my comment, if we are going to impose quotas (which the Supreme Court found unconstitutional for college admissions) why not quotas for every minority? On a corp board of 8, how could you have perfect balance of male/female, black, white, hispanic, asian (oops, forgot that asians are "white")? It is a step back from colorblind society

By: Canvasback

Canvasback — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:45:02 +0000

Re: Florida agriculture commissioner-elect Nikki Fried

Brick by brick the green wall is coming down. Florida is as likely a place as any to be next.

By: gasman

gasman — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:10:44 +0000

In reply to cc.

lawsuit from the non-binary crowd imminent….

Chief Justice Roberts, in the Supreme Court’s 2007 Parents Involved decision, stated: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

I’m certain that he would advocate substituting sex or gender for race.

By: cc

cc — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:31:09 +0000

The calif women on boards law is unconstitutional for several reasons. First, if a corp is incorporated in another state, this law tramples on their bylaws. Second, board members are elected by shareholders and this violates that principle.