Comment How much did this ad cost? (Score 1) 65
What's the price difference between getting a shill article posted on the front page vs running banner ads?
What's the price difference between getting a shill article posted on the front page vs running banner ads?
I fully trust them to take as much care with this endeavor as they have with their oil business. What could go wrong?
I predicted MacOS would go app-Store only years ago. It's taken longer than I expected, but it sure does seem to be getting closer and closer to that.
The difference is that for years Netflix encouraged password sharing.
Why is anyone surprised by this? Law enforcement in the US has long held the belief that they don't need a warrant if the information about you is held by a third party. It's not surprising at all that the free market found a way to earn a few bucks to speed up a process that was going to happen anyways.
The potential sale has not been disclosed publicly, but three sources confirmed to Ars that potential buyers have been contacted about the opportunity. These sources said a deal is expected to be closed before the end of this year and that investment firm Morgan Stanley and consulting firm Bain Company are managing the transaction.
Berger correctly lists either Lockheed Martin or Boeing as the most likely candidates to purchase the company, simply by buying out their partner in the consortium. Both companies have strong reasons to obtain this company after the Vulcan rocket is flying. Boeing's future building SLS is questionable, especially once Starship/Superheavy becomes operational. Lockheed Martin meanwhile has been very carefully moving into the new industry, investing heavily in the rocket startups ABL and Rocket Lab. It might want to own outright ULA, so it can better manage it.
Berger also speculates that Amazon or Blue Origin might be bidders as well. Somehow I doubt any company associated with Jeff Bezos will buy ULA, since he already has his own plaything in Blue Origin. Stranger things however have happened.
Either way, once Vulcan flies successfully it will then be a perfect time to put it up for sale, and others to buy it. The uncertainty will be reduced, and ULA will no longer be saddled with two rocket families, Delta and Atlas-5, both of which are expensive and non-competitive. Instead, it will have solid launch contracts with Amazon and the military, using Vulcan.
Such a sale will obviously also force major changes at ULA, possibly for the better. At such times the new management often uses the change as an opportunity to clean out deadwood as well as force major shifts in thinking.
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Well, that's a surprise.
How is having a handle, or perhaps a uuid, more likely to result in increased spam? You'd still need to share it with someone so they could contact you.
> "The short answer is that people want [stories]," Whittaker told Axios
Yeah, nah. I'd much rather have a username/handle/alias that I can give someone to reach me on Signal. My one gripe is that I have to expose my real phone number to someone to be even able to use Signal to communicate with them. Can we get that before they start wasting engineering effort cloning fad features?
Not really, it's more that the cables that come with devices are generally well made, and have lasted far longer than I've kept their original devices around.
Are you sure you are talking about Apple lightning cables? Most of mine have shrink-tubing around the end where the casing has split and the cable shielding started to fray. There's a reason there's a market for after market lightning, and it isn't because they only come in white.
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