It's hot here today. Going past a company called Crossroads Cafe on the Main Street of Delhi, I saw this dog drinking from a tupperware bowl.
I went inside and got a vegetarian oatmeal cookie.
Lots of women were inside talking about a pile of books they had brought.
They were eating breakfast.
What is the difference between a COMPANY and a CORPORATION?
The people who work at Crossroads Cafe are nice: mostly youthful local women. They serve a variety of sandwiches and drinks. The oatmeal cookie is enormous. It costs 2dollars which after taxes amounts to $2.16.
I have a fond feeling toward this company, and, although I do not like dogs (Shakespeare didn't either), this dog seems quite pleasant. I actually had an inclination to pet it, but resisted, unsure as to whether it had Lyme's Disease, or whether it might bite. Its tail wagged in enthusiasm, but I didn't trust its intention. It might have been trying to trick me to get closer, so as to rip my hand off. I didn't know this particular dog.
I wanted to throw it part of my cookie, but didn't know if the owner would appreciate that. You can't see its face, but I think it's a bloodhound.
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Company: an association of persons for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise
Corporation: a body formed and authroized by law to act as a single person although constituted by one or more persons and legally endowed with various rights and duties including the right of succession
Webster's College Dictionary.
"the beauty of the corporate from from the business point of view is that it can act with the firmness of an individual, but its liabilities are absorbed by the corporation. Individual members of the board of directors, or the managing partnership, are not individually liable for any unpleasant consequences of a corporate action. Corporate board members are (almost by definition) 'faceless'. They have no personality. they are not 'captains of industry' in th eMarxist sense. They are much more like a general staff, more or less anonymous planners and decision makers. These kinds of people are not very readily amenable to literary treatment of the usual kind, they register as functions, chief executive officers, accountants, and so forth, not as persons with temperament, character, or individual motivations" Alec Marsh: Money and Modernity, p. 218.
Charles Olson's Maximus Poems would also fit into this mold (along with Pound's Cantos and WCW's Paterson).
a corporation can sell arms to both sides, and profit when there's a standoff.
A smaller company like the one pictured is apparently more suitable for suiing if someone were to fall over and croak after eating something that didn't agree.
The owner is a nice woman who grew up here. I love her place.
I can't afford to go in there for more than a cookie, and not for more than once a year or twice do I get a sandwich, but the quality is quite high.
From what I can tell.
This is the opposite of a corporation. this COMPANY has a face, and even has a nice dog wagging its tail out front.
It's not at all like Eisenhower's notion of a "military industrial complex."
Even a den of rattlesnakes at least has an embodied presence. What is mysterious about the corporation is that it is everywhere and nowhere.
You can't even find a head to cut off.
The conglomerate is according to Webster's, "A widely diversified corporation."
ITS HOT!
and this dog is chained-up out side IN THE SUN?
and how HOT is the concrete pavement 112
whoever's dog this is should be arrested and
you should have called the local Humane Society..
This dog belong to one of those dippy women?
good thing the dog wasn't in a car while they talked and ate!
It was 79 on the town clock this morning. But the dog had water, there was a slight breeze, and the dog's rope would allow it to get into the shade.
I thought the dog looked fine.
I think whoever brought the dog was watching it carefully. I had the sense that this was one very highly regarded canine.
Jeez, a vegetarian teetotaler who doesn't like dogs? How do you have fun, kirby?
Wildflower identification.
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