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The End of Yahoo: Marissa Mayer To Resign; Yahoo To Change Its Name To Altaba (arstechnica.com)
maxcelcat writes: Spotted on The Register's twitter feed: Yahoo! Submission to The SEC. Most of the board is leaving, including CEO Marissa Mayer. The company has been bought by Verizon and is changing its name to Altaba Inc. I'm old enough to remember when Yahoo was a series of directories on a University's computers, where you could browse a hierarchical list of websites by category. And here I am watching the company's demise. According to the regulatory filing, the changes will take place after the sale of its core business is completed with Verizon for roughly $4.8 billion. The Wall Street Journal notes: "Verizon officials have indicated all options remain possible, including renegotiating the terms of the deal or walking away."
I'm really sorry that you worked for the clueless part of Google. But, thankful that they let you go and became less clueless.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Read it, but didn't make the connection (and can't even recall ever wanting to directly quote the summary).
I'd apologize for my ignorance, but you're such a rude person I won't bother. I can only hope you've never been asked to teach anyone anything. EVER.
Speaking from experience, walking dicks make lousy teachers, and I was just lucky to encounter relatively few of them while in academia. The sad part was that the dicks tended to rise into administrative positions of minor power. An improvement insofar as I'm rather confident that they never liked being in the classroom in the first place?
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.