Interesting Links for 30-07-2012
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andrewducker- Critical Mass police ban blocked by law lords
- Tom Hardy Rapping With A Baby Is The Internet’s Reckoning
- £1.4bn plan for Fife wind farm submitted
- Music Labels Won’t Share Pirate Bay Loot With Artists
- Gretna Green residents are hoping for an influx of people wanting gay marriages.
- Climate sceptics carry out investigation, change their minds. Huzzah for science!
- Olympic opening ceremony: Chinese Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei's review
- Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies Fail To Improve Comments
- The New York Times gets more than half its money from subscribers. Still making a loss though.
- Employment Minister Chris Grayling moves to push people deemed too sick to work back into work.
- The London Olympics are the most Right-wing major event in Britain’s modern history.
- Fall, Mortality, and the Machine: Tolkien and Technology
- Mississippi church refuses to marry black couple.
- The Lord of the Rings in 99 seconds. In song.
- All music sounds the same these days - Computer confirms what your gran always said.
- Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM allows _any_ website to take over your computer.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on being asked to produce books like Harry Potter, and the quality of her adaptations
- How our brains see men as people and women as body parts.
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Date: 2012-07-30 08:08 pm (UTC)"The Indian Union Carbide Company – the American firm’s joint venture with the government – was bankrupted by this. All of the capital of that company went to a compensation fund administered by the Government of India. The American owner of half of the company gave extra money to the compensation fund, on top of giving up all its assets in India. The Indian company was resold – with all the proceeds going to the compensation fund – as the Everready Company of India.
14 years ago, the Dow Chemical Company of America bought the assets of the American Union Carbide company (the company that had already surrendered all of its Indian assets and given extra compensation that went far beyond the value of any business that it ever did in India)."
So, what more should they have done?