27th September 2006, 12:04 PM
That doesn't seem fair though, that a company can be "bought out" just by buying shares. Oh well, strange agreement considering most people who buy it won't ever actually control much of anything, if anything. Them being "obtained" like that was just evil. Isn't there a way to sell shares, or whatever (as silly a system as that is to begin with, like collector's edition pet rocks raising and lowering in value like the winds), that doesn't put the whole company in danger of a total buyout?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)