Wild. I remember back when these accusations first broke, someone linked to a since-deactivated Reddit account that commented with very serious accusations about him being a pedophile. The original comment was posted back in 2012/2013 and was heavily downvoted at the time because as far as anyone was aware Spacey was an upstanding gentleman. It ended with something like, “you may not believe me, and you may downvote this comment, but mark my words he will eventually be revealed as the sexual predator that he is.” Well the turnabout got a LOT of traction and people spent days/weeks trying to track the user down for some kind of cathartic vindication tour. They never surfaced, and the comment became legend.
Fast forward to today, and despite all the #metoo furor that was associated with these accusations, it sure looks like he was innocent all along. What a roller coaster this has been. Can’t imagine what he went through all those years, knowing (apparently) that the charges were bogus. Hope he gets some semblance of a career back.
Sadly he is likely permanently tarnished. It’s important to note in this case 3 of the people involved in the event alleged filed suit civilly before the criminal trial even began. That’s important because people generally wait for the outcome of a criminal case before suing so that they don’t have to reprove facts. This leads me to believe they all knew the allegations were false and were trying to collect before that was shown in court. As far as the Anthony Rapp case went I am unsure what happened there to it was almost immediately dismissed but they were 40 year old allegations. The was another case where a man claimed he was groped by spacey in a bar but they were dropped almost immediately by the DA.
Ffs. That’s a thing you finalize BEFORE pulling the trigger on it.
This is just more proof of the ad hoc nature of things over there, and how everything is dependent on his protean-ass will. And he thinks folks are actually gonna trust him with their money?
He's acted like there's a mad rush, trying to crowdsource a logo overnight and then saying it's good enough to use as an 'interim logo'. I guess he needed to change it before the coke wore off and he went to sleep.
It’s pretty bizarre how it worked. “We’re going to replace our world famous brand, logo and ‘slowly, all the birds’, overnight with a logo someone sends me. That will work as an ‘interim logo’.” I mean , wtf is the rush?
I do not get the rush. He’s clearly not thought any of it out, which is obnoxious by how piecemeal the rollout was.
The second largest market for Twitter is Japan. The legal entity for it in Japan is Twitter Japan. So, seems like they’d charge it to X Japan, right?
Well, no. Because the trademark for X Japan is owned by the very famous over here rock band X Japan. One of the founding members, Yoshiki, already tweeted in English and Japanese that the name is trademarked. So what are they going to call it? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ That’s something so basic even a rudimentary Google search would have said the name was unavailable in the second largest market, but Elon couldn’t even be bothered to have any of the grunts still stuck working for him look into the actual logistics of using the name he’s stuck on.
The only reason I can think of that’s not Elon’s manic drug bender wearing off of the idea I’ve seen floating around that he’s trying to force through the face charge to get out of legal and contractual problems by making it so “Twitter” as a compact doesn’t exist so greed not on the hook for any payments Twitter owes. At this point, both ideas seem just as likely.
True, perhaps he’s trying to pass all of twitter’s assets to X, then have Twitter, Inc declare bankruptcy. It’s hard to imagine he’d have any problem with that ethically.
For one, the Twitter trademark which he recently transferred to X, Inc. I’m sure they have other things like patents which could be considered assets, a huge ad customer list, and a lot of data.
As far as the legal consequences of doing that, I’m not a massive douchebag from South Africa to go bought Twitter, so don’t ask me. The idea that a billionaire would go to prison in the US is hilarious.
He has what, $240 billion which fluctuates constantly. If he lost $20 billion the effect on his life would be basically nothing.
A pissed off judge can do more than just send someone to jail. They can claw back any illegitimate transfers and give them to someone else, like pissed off creditors. That’s what would happen to any Twitter assets in the event of bankruptcy, even if they technically no longer belonged to Twitter.
Bankruptcy isn’t just something you declare, like in an episode of The Office. It means opening up all your books to the courts and to your creditors. It’s like an IRS audit, except instead of a bored IRS agent you will face multiple openly hostile lawyers.
And if Elon actually didn’t care about losing $20 billion, then why go through the trouble of all these dangerous shenanigans? All the “Elon is masterminding the death of Twitter” simultaneously assume that he doesn’t care about losing his investment and he is desperately trying to cash in assets that belongs to other investors.
This entire thing has been one inexplicable stupid move after the other, starting with offering a ridiculously high price then trying to back out. The branding change is just the latest. There are two possibilities: he’s either incredibly stupid or it’s part of a scheme. I suppose we’ll find out.
Steinke faces a felony charge for criminal attempt to commit manslaughter…
How can you have “attempted” manslaughter? I thought one of the defining characteristics of manslaughter is that there isn’t a deliberate intent to kill.
It’s probably specific to the jurisdiction. For instance, some states consider assault and battery to be two different things, whereas other states call them assault and aggravated assault instead. So in those states you’d be charged with aggravated assault instead of being charged with battery. But they both mean the same thing in the end.
Good. According to the Supreme Bigots, affirmative action is okay for the military because apparently diversity = better war. But the same doesn’t apply to the classroom? Hmm fishy. And it’s okay for the rich kid whose daddy went to a school, because how else are these schools with billion dollar endowments supposed to afford a new admin building?
Oh and we can’t forget the (un)related totally not hypocritical: religious freedom, but only for Christians. And bodily autonomy, but only for men.
Yeah we would’ve had it already too if the government didn’t get fleeced. It was about 2010 when the “National Broadband Plan” was unveiled. Part of its goal was 100Mbs to 100M people by 2020.
ISP received $200 Billion in subsidies and tax breaks to run nation wide fiber in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. They didn’t do it, kept the tax breaks, and the government didn’t care.
They’ve been stealing taxpayer dollars for 30 years, constantly stalling and delaying and then saying the plans are now outdated and we need more money for the new plans. Repeat every decade. Everyone knows it’s a monopoly with speed/price fixing yet somehow it never improves.
Can’t speak to Comcast’s evils, but I call my ISP once a year to ask about my speeds and bill. Just got bumped from 200/20 to 1000/?, with a $10 discount. I’m on the edge of town, not technically rural, but close enough.
Not sure the answer to the monopoly thing, but I used to be an internet cable guy, so I can speak to the complexity of having 2 providers where there was only one. The costs are staggering.
make it a publicly owned and operated municipal utility
make the “last mile” publicly owned infrastructure and private service providers can connect to the data center that connects the last mile
require that the company who owns and maintains the last mile can not also be a service provider over that last mile infrastructure
The last one is how Texas handles the power grid, so it would need a real regulatory body making sure the private last mile infrastructure is actually maintained, unlike the Texas power grid.
Currently in Utah with a city that offers municipal fiber. 1gb up, 1gb down for $60 per month. Luckily my city does that and many things right, I wish others would follow. My buddy who lives 10 min away in another city has comcast and whatever century link calls themselves these days.
That’s so unfortunate! If you scroll down and read about Utah, it talks a little bit about the formation of Utopia fiber. That’s what I have and it’s great. It’s kind of interesting because I pay 2 places for my internet service. $30 per month to Utopia Fiber, and then $30 to an isp (I utilize xmission). Not sure if situations like that are normal for municipal internet service or if it’s a loophole to get around the restrictions somehow? No idea.
@Foggyfroggy@BrikoX I really wish someone in the FCC /FTC/Federal government in general would put their foot down and say to the industry, "You WILL build broadband everywhere, you WILL make it 100 Mbps at minimum, and you WILL pay for it out of your own pocket." Nothing less is acceptable.
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