The company bylaws cap how much stock board members can own. It keeps him at something like less than 14 or 15% ownership of the company.
There's also rules on what he can and can't say publicly (like the emai said) that could be construed as trying to influence the stock price.
Well, thank goodness, then.
Because lately their plans don't seem to be working out all like they had hoped.
"We were shooting for 20 million dead from starvation and the entire middle class subsisting off of nothing but Soros Bug Bars, but somehow ended up with $0.47 steaks and $1 pints of Guinness. And I don't even know how the brownie subsidies happened."
GTFO with that nonsense you self-absorbed sell-out.
You didn't "centralize discovery and identity" any more than AOL, Prodigy, or Compuserve did back in the day. You built a walled garden, and you tried to build the walls so high no one could see over them to realize there was much more to be seen than what you presented.
twitter, facebook, google, apple... you're not the internet.
You're subsets of the internet.
You're Disneylands. Brightly lit areas with orderly sidewalks and a long list of rules that have to be followed or else the Paul Blart rent-a-cops will throw you out.
The underground is still alive and well, and it needs neither you nor the toys you've made to thrive.
The headline hints at drama, but you don't get the full sense of how that night turned into a suburban version of the "banned in America" video for Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" until you get to the part where she proclaims she's a POC before puking in some little girls' shoe.
"Hi, my name is Eric. I'm totally willing to lie about a car wreck to avoid jacking my car insurance rates up a few bucks and getting a misdeamnor citation, but I'm being absolutely truthful about not being involved in a conspiracy to defraud an election by installing backdoors in voting systems I setup and covering up the treason I didn't commit."
This is the absolute most disgusting attempt to "right-fact" history that I've seen.
Yes. You had better goddamned believe US servicemen were tortured in Vietnam. But there were ones who weren't, and those were the ones who cooperated with the NVA to provide anti-US propaganda. The "evidence" presented by this article and the book it's trying to pimp are the testimony of one of those traitorous collaborators and the chief prison guard of the Hanoi Hilton.
Find a copy of this book and read it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19053159-honor-bound
It will also put the war we are fighting against the DS into context.
If you want to rip NO NAME for being a traitor, go ahead. He wouldn't be the first to serve in the military and then turncoat for 30 pieces of silver, and there's more than enough from his career in the Senate to curse him.
But don't try to diminish the patriotism and sacrifice the rest of the POWs made by promoting this commie BS revisionist history just to get at him.
I believe what's at stake here isn't just gas prices.
With the push to sanction Russia and boot them off of SWIFT while Germany is still reliant upon Gazprom for 38% of their energy, it's clear that an alternate method of payment is going to be needed. Putin's making moves to setup gold as their standard by dropping their VAT on bullion.
If Germany is using gold bullion for a major chunk of their energy costs, then what do they need to hold on to US dollars for? They'll start either dumping them or converting them to gold... which increases the supply of USD in circulation, which causes a devaluation of the USD, which gives us a bump in inflation especially if we don't have the GDP to soak up the hit.
If it spirals on from there and other energy producers start taking gold, then the "petrodollar" is dead and the USD is no longer the commonly used world currency. Everyone else starts dumping or converting because no one wants to do deals in USD because it's losing value so quickly, and things snowball from there.
And then we get the "wheelbarrow full of $10,000,000 bills to buy a loaf of bread" stories here in the US.
We don't need to ramp up production NOW just to keep prices at the pump down... we need to do it so we've got relevance in the new non-USD-based economy that's about to explode into existence. We don't need to just be self reliant, we need to dominate the oil and gas markets in order to maintain our current standard of living.
What a bummer.
Whoring yourself out to a smug gimp who looks like a deshelled turtle and always has a faint whiff of onions around him for nearly a decade just to get a shot a controlling a billion dollar media company someday, and right before he steps down and you get to take over Captain Viagra drives it into the ground AND gets you fired by publicly outing how you've been sleeping your way to the top.
At least the Chris Wallace meltdown is someone else's problem now.
Not be The Buzzkill "Actually..." Guy(tm), but for the sake of accuracy: The program isn't handing out crackpipes.
It's distributing what they are calling "safe smoking kits" that have things to sanitize your crackpipe experience. It includes alcohol pads you can use to disinfect your crackpipe, a rubber mouthpiece cover to prevent you from cutting your lips, and small brass mesh filters you can install in your crackpipe to prevent from inhaling large particulate matter instead of the sweet, sweet, cracky (or methy) goodness.
The end user is still responsible for acquiring their own crackpipe. The government is just providing safety enhancements for it. To stop the spread of disease and prevent injuries common in the crack-using community.
What's that? No, you can't get a $10K loan to buy tools to start a carpentry business downtown anymore. We used the money for that program to buy these kits for you instead.
Happy Cracking, empowered person of color whose citizenship status I'm not inquiring about!
Well, if he's right then as a smoker I should be immune to king cobra venom.
Will report back here if I happen to get bit by one and don't die.