Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I did not think he was stupid either - but his behaviour over Twitter can hardly be described any other way.

1. Signed a binding contract to buy the company for 25% over market pricewithout doing "due diligence"
2. Refused to honour this contract, and was taken to court over this refusal, finally doing so literally the day before the hearing.
3. Dismissed substantial parts of the company workforce in breach of California and EU employment law.
4. Dismissed large numbers of staff without even knowing what they do (see 1.)
5. Begged key staff to come back (unclear whether any did - in fact since Twitter no longer has a communication department, who knows?)
6. Introduced an $8 payment to verify that the account holder is who they say they are instead of actually requiring proof of this
7. Dropped this when large numbers of $8 accounts with false names started Tweeting - exactly as he had been warned in writing by his staff - who were fired for disagreeing with him.
8. Gave all staff an ultimatum to agree in writing to "work at high intensity for long hours" - failure to agree would result in immediate dismissal
9. Failed to comply with FTC consent decree agreed by the company earlier this year
10. Twitter has never been consistently profitable - now he has saddled it with an annual additional interest bill of over $billion, while the antics above have by some estimates reduced their income by over 50% - most of Twitter's income is from advertising, and advertisers are dropping them because of the above antics and because with Twitter no longer moderating offensive content, they do not want their ads alongside this stuff.
11. His behaviour has prompted urgent and apparently unanswered requests to know what is going on from a number of governments - including Australia.

He may not be stupid, but achieving this all in three weeks without being stupid is pretty impressive.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

It’s Official: The Leap Second Will Be Retired (a Decade from Now)


On Friday, an international vote was taken to ditch the leap second, a technical fudge that has caused headaches since its inception 50 years ago....


The time has come — or will come, in 2035 — to abandon the leap second.
So voted the member states of the international treaty governing science and measurement standards, at a meeting in Versailles, France, on Friday. The near unanimous vote on what was known as Resolution D was met with relief and jubilation from the world’s metrologists, some of whom have been pressing for a solution to the leap second problem for decades.
“Unbelievable,” Patrizia Tavella, director of the time department of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, known as B.I.P.M. from its French name and based outside Paris, wrote in a WhatsApp message shortly after the vote. “More than 20 years of discussion and now a great agreement.” She added that she was “moved to tears.”

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That is a long time to fix a second link

I'm still confoosed so if it ain't gonna change my life I think I'll give this a miss, ta very much.

Why would they even bother?

Originally Posted by scarry

I bet you havent had as many facelifts

But probably sniffed more phosgene

Anyway,back on the NZ topic.

New Zealand plans to tax sheep and cows for ‘belching and flatulence’ | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

I am wondering what that lot will Tax next.
Apparently her popularity is slowing going the wrong way,oh well.

Nary a one as it happens & they don't call me Baby Face Bee for nothing. Honestly. With a Tommy Gun or without.

Mick has been quite crook it seems. Maybe he needed some Phosgene in his day to day life topped up by a lb or two of SO2 while locked in a filling shed by co-workers for a laugh.
Cow farts have been blamed for years for Climate Change (forget the Coal Fired Power Stations) I reckon. We have all contributed to that I suspect.