The bottom line is that any credible law firm that handles transitions like this would have done it after trading hours, once the board had been fully briefed and all of the funding sources named and proven. Musk could have quite possibly broken the law with his tweet, which will put the short sellers on much firmer footing unless he becomes a hell of a lot more vocal about his plans and can prove that funding was indeed secured before he made his tweet.
Only one looking like an idiot is you. "Faeces: British spelling of feces" is not really a strong argument there. Now run along and stick more U's in words that don't need them.
Sure, if you only buy Apple products, you're pretty much screwed if you want a performance laptop. However, thankfully, there is a thriving Windows market with many competitive laptop models including monstrous products like the Acer 21X.
A 20% market share of 100% Apple manufactured phones vs 80% market share for Android spread across dozens of manufacturers, none of which can claim 20% of the market or anything close to Apple's profits. You're comparing Apples to Oreos and coming up with D'oh.
Apple is the sole provider of the operating system for Apple phones. Apple does not allow other people to manufacture iPhones, does not allow other App stores, does not allow other web browsers (They still have to use Safari's engine, so they're mostly skins). Apple conspired with book publishers to fix prices on ebooks. Apple is a monopoly, by every definition, and abuses it.
Yes! Or force Apple to allow competitors App stores on their devices. Why can't Amazon setup an iOS App store on iPhones an offer developers a bigger cut of purchases made through it, compared to Apple's 30% cut?
99% of the apps I don't want on my phone and that I find you can absolutely never remove are the manufacturers crappy apps that they toss on there just to look like a feature. Most people who've been with Android for a while look for phones that offer "pure" Android, without all that bloatware.
Apple could care less about "search", because Apple has a stranglehold on their app store and gets 30% OF EVERYTHING GOING THROUGH IT. And therein lies that problem. That's why Apple and book publishers got slapped with monopoly fines for rigging book prices against Amazon.
Apparently the lesson here for Google is to close up Android, cut off all the other manufacturers and only allow their own handsets with their own software on it, force all money transactions to go through Google Play and take a nice cut off of it, restrict other browsers so they're mostly just skins on top of Chrome, and then they wouldn't be a monopoly. Somehow.
Let's be honest, they were annihilated BY the Spanish. The Spanish get a bit too much "forgiveness" or is it just plain forgetfulness, of their history of destruction across the Americas these days. The Spanish owned slaves (African and natives), pretty much created the Atlantic slave trade, they pillaged whole societies for gold and silver to fund a religious war in Europe, they defined the very term "Love Christ or we'll cut you".
One of the most hilarious cases of modern historical blindness are the groups in California that demand we return California to Mexico. Because we "stole" it from them. As if it just fell into their possession and wasn't stolen itself. Then there's the groups of African Mexicans descended from Mexico's slaves who didn't get officially recognized until 2016, even though they routinely would get deported because Mexicans didn't believe they existed.
Uh, yes, who would imagine a political party that was against being hijacked by an independent who was blatantly using you for the votes over a candidate who actually supported the party? Bernie Bros need to get over that, make a Bernie party and then see how popular your guy is, stop whining that the Dems didn't like you poaching their voters when they already had a candidate.
...let me ask why you assume that my observation is due to how their twitter sounded in my head, based on a few internet sentences?
Because you yourself said you "assume she's an unpleasant person" because of her Twitter, which implies you've never met her. Interpreting sentences is a fill in the blank process rather than hearing what someone is saying in context.
I'm saying if you're going to be a Nazi, don't be surprised when people fight you. You want to pretend like GamerGate wasn't about silencing women developers and keeping women out of gaming but whine about how those mean women said mean things about you like it fell out of the sky from nowhere.
So, how long have you been a GamerGater? Cause your argument right now is sounding like a Nazi complaining about the Jews not going into the ovens willingly.
Given her twitter I can only assume that she not a very pleasant person.
Or, she's a very pleasant person and you just don't like how her twitter sounds in your head, but you'll never meet her so it's easier to just dislike her based on a few internet sentences.
...it looks like the whole self-victimisation through gender backfired wonderfully on the perpetrator here.
What self victimization? She wrote some tweets about how challenging her job is (was) and when a guy chose to explain to her how she should do it, she shut him down. That's not victimization.
So when twitter being twitter responded and her boss fired her she commented that companies in game development do this all the time rather than back their employees. Not victimization either.
Counterpoint, tax breaks are subsidies. Tax breaks for one corporation means that the local small businesses and individuals must be taxed more to pay for the roads and government services that the corporation receiving the subsidy is taking advantage of.
Mom & Pop invest their profits back into the local community and tax base.
MegaCorp just pockets the money in an offshore bank and demands more subsidies while the CEO calls his workers parasites for wanting a living wage.
Even mom&pop: because now they have more customers that can spent their money at them.
Unless Mom & Pop were put out of business by the MegaCorp, or if they were lucky enough to sell their products to MegaCorp, MegaCorp has told them to offshore in China.
"Yeah, I'm a Libertarian, the government shouldn't pick winners unless it's me, and the market should decide because I'm a market disruptor..at least until I control the market and then everything I said about disrupting the market was misquoted. Remember taxes are theft! Now excuse me while I drain all your local taxes into my Lear jet and then maybe I'll consider throwing you parasites a few underpaid jobs to replace all the local businesses I disrupted. Capitalism!"
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And I suspect that the board knew EVERYTHING about this.
Apparently, you'd be wrong.
The board was made aware of it a week before Musk's announcement. Again, try to keep up.
Apparently you need to keep up, the board was only told that it was an idea and was not given any of the details either.
The bottom line is that any credible law firm that handles transitions like this would have done it after trading hours, once the board had been fully briefed and all of the funding sources named and proven. Musk could have quite possibly broken the law with his tweet, which will put the short sellers on much firmer footing unless he becomes a hell of a lot more vocal about his plans and can prove that funding was indeed secured before he made his tweet.
Only one looking like an idiot is you. "Faeces: British spelling of feces" is not really a strong argument there. Now run along and stick more U's in words that don't need them.
Well, one of us is full of feces, and it looks like it's you.
No, I don't believe I did. Feces.
I'd care more about your bitterness if you could spell 'feces' properly.
Actually.. that's a lie. I still wouldn't care.
Sure, if you only buy Apple products, you're pretty much screwed if you want a performance laptop. However, thankfully, there is a thriving Windows market with many competitive laptop models including monstrous products like the Acer 21X.
A 20% market share of 100% Apple manufactured phones vs 80% market share for Android spread across dozens of manufacturers, none of which can claim 20% of the market or anything close to Apple's profits. You're comparing Apples to Oreos and coming up with D'oh.
Apple is the sole provider of the operating system for Apple phones. Apple does not allow other people to manufacture iPhones, does not allow other App stores, does not allow other web browsers (They still have to use Safari's engine, so they're mostly skins). Apple conspired with book publishers to fix prices on ebooks. Apple is a monopoly, by every definition, and abuses it.
Yes! Or force Apple to allow competitors App stores on their devices. Why can't Amazon setup an iOS App store on iPhones an offer developers a bigger cut of purchases made through it, compared to Apple's 30% cut?
99% of the apps I don't want on my phone and that I find you can absolutely never remove are the manufacturers crappy apps that they toss on there just to look like a feature. Most people who've been with Android for a while look for phones that offer "pure" Android, without all that bloatware.
Apple could care less about "search", because Apple has a stranglehold on their app store and gets 30% OF EVERYTHING GOING THROUGH IT. And therein lies that problem. That's why Apple and book publishers got slapped with monopoly fines for rigging book prices against Amazon.
Apparently the lesson here for Google is to close up Android, cut off all the other manufacturers and only allow their own handsets with their own software on it, force all money transactions to go through Google Play and take a nice cut off of it, restrict other browsers so they're mostly just skins on top of Chrome, and then they wouldn't be a monopoly. Somehow.
That's not necessarily on the pilots. Low income airlines that pay bribes rather than pay for maintenance is how you get problems like that.
Let's be honest, they were annihilated BY the Spanish. The Spanish get a bit too much "forgiveness" or is it just plain forgetfulness, of their history of destruction across the Americas these days. The Spanish owned slaves (African and natives), pretty much created the Atlantic slave trade, they pillaged whole societies for gold and silver to fund a religious war in Europe, they defined the very term "Love Christ or we'll cut you".
One of the most hilarious cases of modern historical blindness are the groups in California that demand we return California to Mexico. Because we "stole" it from them. As if it just fell into their possession and wasn't stolen itself. Then there's the groups of African Mexicans descended from Mexico's slaves who didn't get officially recognized until 2016, even though they routinely would get deported because Mexicans didn't believe they existed.
Biometric info is considered "public", because it's not concealable. You're leaving fingerprints everywhere you go, so you can't claim exclusivity.
..biased against Bernie..
Uh, yes, who would imagine a political party that was against being hijacked by an independent who was blatantly using you for the votes over a candidate who actually supported the party? Bernie Bros need to get over that, make a Bernie party and then see how popular your guy is, stop whining that the Dems didn't like you poaching their voters when they already had a candidate.
...let me ask why you assume that my observation is due to how their twitter sounded in my head, based on a few internet sentences?
Because you yourself said you "assume she's an unpleasant person" because of her Twitter, which implies you've never met her. Interpreting sentences is a fill in the blank process rather than hearing what someone is saying in context.
I'm saying if you're going to be a Nazi, don't be surprised when people fight you. You want to pretend like GamerGate wasn't about silencing women developers and keeping women out of gaming but whine about how those mean women said mean things about you like it fell out of the sky from nowhere.
So stop being a disingenuous butthurt snowflake.
So, how long have you been a GamerGater? Cause your argument right now is sounding like a Nazi complaining about the Jews not going into the ovens willingly.
Celebrating?
Oh you little triggered snowflake.
Given her twitter I can only assume that she not a very pleasant person.
Or, she's a very pleasant person and you just don't like how her twitter sounds in your head, but you'll never meet her so it's easier to just dislike her based on a few internet sentences.
...it looks like the whole self-victimisation through gender backfired wonderfully on the perpetrator here.
What self victimization? She wrote some tweets about how challenging her job is (was) and when a guy chose to explain to her how she should do it, she shut him down. That's not victimization.
So when twitter being twitter responded and her boss fired her she commented that companies in game development do this all the time rather than back their employees. Not victimization either.
Counterpoint, tax breaks are subsidies. Tax breaks for one corporation means that the local small businesses and individuals must be taxed more to pay for the roads and government services that the corporation receiving the subsidy is taking advantage of.
Mom & Pop invest their profits back into the local community and tax base.
MegaCorp just pockets the money in an offshore bank and demands more subsidies while the CEO calls his workers parasites for wanting a living wage.
Even mom&pop: because now they have more customers that can spent their money at them.
Unless Mom & Pop were put out of business by the MegaCorp, or if they were lucky enough to sell their products to MegaCorp, MegaCorp has told them to offshore in China.
"Yeah, I'm a Libertarian, the government shouldn't pick winners unless it's me, and the market should decide because I'm a market disruptor..at least until I control the market and then everything I said about disrupting the market was misquoted. Remember taxes are theft! Now excuse me while I drain all your local taxes into my Lear jet and then maybe I'll consider throwing you parasites a few underpaid jobs to replace all the local businesses I disrupted. Capitalism!"
It adds extra value when you use that condescending techie voice.