“ActivisionBlizzard is an honorable, upstanding, ethical corporation. You may be sure that this is so as they have written this release themselves, and their dedication to absolute objectivity is notorious.”

“We especially insist that none of this was going on in the Cosby Suite.”

Yeah, the “don’t you tell me what I can or can’t do” ethos pervades the state.  At best, you might find it soften a bit in Missoula.

Then his team should be saying what those valid reasons are. “On vacation” isn’t good enough.

I’ve never heard that before; what’s your source?

This is a FANTASTIC thread.

EXPAND THE COURT please.

So much this. Pretty much any time a company moves its HQ, it’s because of either local incentives or for tax purposes.

Men want a truck that performs as a truck should—hauls all you need hauling, a usable truck bed, good room in the cab

Now they need to make a 49" version!  I have the G9, and literally my only complaint is the 1440p vertical resolution.

Now they need to make a 49" version!  I have the G9, and literally my only complaint is the 1440p vertical…

Where I work, we still have a couple of internal sites that only work with IE (Java based of course).  Fortunately the IE compatibility mode works, because I can assure you, nobody has considered spending so much as a dime to modernize the system.

Way too obvious.

GenX

I don’t like the sound of ‘ese ‘ere “Boncentration Bamps.”

I wasted 30 years.  I kept telling myself that I just had to try harder.

Over the course of several days, as I heard her tell the story to all her friends and family, the amount of time I was gone kept increasing. 2 hours. 4 hours. 8 hours.

The employees let go today will receive a minimum of two weeks severance, 4 months of COBRA health insurance if they’re in the U.S., and access to Talent Hub, an employment and networking service.

For me, it was this version of Cadillac’s badge:

In the 70's I thought that was the absolute pinnacle of car adornments.