Same in ours.

Myself and another guy went to a tech junket that was by invite only and they gave away a laptop to one person from each company who attended. My boss tried to take the laptop from the other guy saying “that was a gift and you need to turn it over to me”

I’d already cleared it with our corporate conflict of interest ombudsman - if I’d accepted it, it would have been an issue because I had purchasing authority, but other guy was “just” a tech who couldn’t sign off on anything or even make recommendations to anyone other than me, we didn’t have an existing business relationship with the vendor, and we’re not obligated to conduct any business with them as a result of the gift.

I told my boss to take it up with head-of-department (whom I’d copied in on the ombudsman comms.)

Other guy kept the laptop, and boss got ‘audited’ for gifts received (they pulled his emails) and was demoted into a position he wasn’t able to handle (more technical than he was capable of, but on paper should have been able to do) and pushed out of the company soon thereafter.

I have mice active in my house and haven’t found poop yet, only realized last week when I found a piece of leftover food that was nibbled down on the edges. These ones are sneaky.

I wonder if the archive.org cases had any bearing on the decision.

When did WhatsApp start allowing signups without a phone number?

Send abusive kids off to camp with vulnerable kids, stick them in a cabin and say goodnight? Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

What the heck is a residential treatment school? Summer camp for suicidal kids?

Don’t worry, Americans, even though Trump’s tariffs apply to imported gasses, we’re not charging you for this so it’s a 50% on $0.

You’re welcome! Enjoy the free carbon vapor!

It happens regularly. The most notable ‘tidy’ example I can think of would be when the Governments of US and Canada ‘bailed out’ General Motors. They did exactly what I’m talking about; they created a new legal entity called NGMCO Inc. which purchased almost all the Assets of the ‘old’ GM, including trademarks, names, websites, etc.

The key here is that the selling company was bankrupt. In such a case, the creditors want to try to get money back out of their ‘investment’ so the asset sale is done to cover debts. Selling liabilities generally doesn’t raise money for those creditors, so often after the money is all sucked out, whatever remaining liabilities exist are functionally void. Legally they remain until the corporation is dissolved, but with no ability to act on the liabilities (ie., no money to pay) this doesn’t functionally matter.

The ‘old’ GM changed it’s name to ‘Motors Liquidation Company’ and retained the liabilities. Shareholders of the ‘old’ GM were left holding the bag, so to speak. Technically, it was further split into trusts to ‘handle’ liabilities, but realistically ‘old’ GM sputtered out holding liabilities while ‘new’ GM carried on with minimal penalty.

You can have less ‘tidy’ cases as well, where substantial parts of a company are sold in an asset sale/purchase but leave behind a working company. In those cases the liabilities are not functionally abandoned. Disney purchasing FOX, for example.

Further reading:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/asset-sales.asp

https://www.reuters.com/article/oldgm-exit-idUSN3121109620110331/?feedType=RSS&feedName=cyclicalConsumerGoodsSector&rpc=43

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reorganization

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fox_by_Disney

This is the exact reason GM still exists.

If the new owners purchased the assets, name, and technology and not the company itself, then it’s beholden on the remains of the old company to honour the deal… Good luck with that.

That is so far beyond predatory…the only reason to let this exist is to create wage slavery.

I mean, the details on the gun mount make sense if it’s remotely operated. Usually AI ‘fuzzes’ the details and I see what looks like an ir window and some other things I’d expect to see on a remote controlled turret. 🤷Not sure though.

No it’s not. Look at the court level in which it was shown.

If you want to make an omelette, you might have to fuck a chicken.

Wait…

I’m still waiting for my butter robot.

You’re assuming corpo America will drop the prices after. They won’t.

That’s not automatic

I don’t know why you’re being downvoted.

My neighbor throws rocks at my house because he wants me to move my fence and give him an extra 6" of backyard. I just ignore him and nothing bad has happened beyond needing to replace my bathroom window twice.

Ignore or give them what they want has worked well for me.

Agreed… although I would go a step further and say distributing the LLM model or the results of use (even if done without cost) is not fair use, as the training materials weren’t licensed.

Because only rich Ukranians could afford them, and the rich ones fled Ukraine when the war kicked up.