Intel's "human rights" have been violated.....

[marmar]

:wtf: Death to corporate personhood now! :nuke:



Intel: Antitrust fine violated human rights
New Mexico Business Weekly


Intel is appealing the record-setting antitrust fine that the European Union levied in May, saying that the fine violated the company's human rights, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The EU hit Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) with a fine of 1.06 billion Euros, about $1.5 billion, for offering rebates to computer makers who chose Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel’s chips over those made by Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), which is based out of Sunnyvale, Calif. The fine was the largest ever levied in a monopoly-abuse case.

The exact arguments aren't known yet, but Intel and other companies who are arguing that the fines violate human rights, base their cases on the fact that a political bureaucrat, and not a judge, levy the fines. The bureaucrat is antitrust commissioner Neelie Kroes of the Netherlands.

The companies maintain that Kroes has too much power, because she gets to supervise investigations, make a ruling, as well as decide the punishment.

One of Intel's largest chip manufacturing plants is located in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, immediately northwest of Albuquerque.


http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2009/07/20/daily58.html

[FiveGoodMen]

1. The title says it all.

[jody]

2. I'm not sure but it sounds like Intel is arguing a corporation has most/all the rights of a person.

My vocabulary of profanity is not extensive enough to express my feelings.

They kept taking

First they took our steel mill jobs, and the people ignored the cries of steel mill workers.

Then they took our textile jobs, and the people ignored the cries of textile workers.

Then they took our automotive jobs, and the people ignored the cries of automotive workers.

Then they took our high-tech jobs, and the people ignored the cries of high-tech workers.

Then they bribed the people's representatives in Washington and the people ignored their loss.

And the only jobs left were in the U.S. Foreign Legion, defending the worldwide assets of those who had taken the people's jobs and stolen the people's government.

The people shouted, "We the people are dead, long live the corporation."

And the high priests of Mammon laughed about how easy it was to destroy the world's longest running, most successful experiment in democracy.

And the thirsty and hungry and sick and imprisoned and naked prayed to Mammon to have mercy on their wretched. miserable bodies because the people had lost the very soul of democracy.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Apparently, Intel has more human rights than Gitmo detainees

Who would have thought that a stack of papers would become more human than flesh and blood?

[FiveGoodMen]

4. God damn whoever unrecommended this!

[marmar]

5. Nite kick.....

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[Wednesdays]

6. K&R

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