[NB: check the byline, thanks. /~Rayne] This question has been bugging me for some time, long before Elon Musk figured out how to stuff problematic business into a single corporation issuing an initial public offering. It began to bother me when Facebook didn’t seem to be fazed by the fines it was assessed by the Federal Trade Commission for privacy violations — first in 2012, then after the Cambr...