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Is this unusual?
Of course this can be diluted, but it seems I had the numbers. I guess I didn't know the updated numbers for future rounds, until buyback offers came around or people quit and exercised and filed their taxes and shared numbers.
Facebook could do better to engage with less shrill demagogues on all side of political spectra, instead of promoting clowns.
(Note: a clown is a smart person who plays for a dumb audience.)
A lot of what people hated about GWB was how he tried to turn Iraq and Afghanistan into a clean slate, and made a huge mess. Why would you want to do the same to USA (except out of some sense of radical fairness...)
is a deeply offensive term, and even undermining to the point you are trying to make about Musk.
which is nearly identical but one key difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon#History
There's no particular reason to believe they wanted to change the pronunciation as well.
Consider if you made ... something to sell. Something great, that you know people want. But no one bought it. But they want it, they just waited you out until you gave up and threw it away, and then yoinked it from your trash.
It's a violation of social decency, as much as pilfering something from your home -- maybe more so. The mere act of physical appropriation can't be the most important thing, since we don't complain about stealing some dirt or water from your property, and we don't complain about, say, chopping down a tree.
Perhaps a better word for copyright violation is vandalism, not theft. It destroys the value of someone's work, the taking isn't the important part.
(For Bloomberg, it was an obsession with becoming British aristocracy)