It's gross, fraudulent as three-card monte, and ... as with many corporate tricksters ... there needs to be a law with prison terms.
Have a look at Gorbachev. A big loss, that.
It can be hard to find the right community to post a link in. Figuring out the rules and knowing who's reading them (and sometimes what they're really about) might cause someone to give up. (Especially when people complain about 'this isn't the place for that' without stating the better alternative.)
Bill Gates, except when Ballmer was there.
For Krogh, the source of the number, it was a quite reasonable estimate, which was about all that was possible at the time. And it was 'wrong' by less than an order of magnitude ... compared to the newest estimate. AND an estimate of a truly unimportant number is as good as you can get (or need) in many cases. What's the total length of all the ice cores drilled since Camp Century? And their total volume is?
I'll give Chap1 a shot. PKD can be a headscratcher.
Derange the home stove, the Ford, or the range?
Either greed or religion has killed the most people before their time. One of them has to go.
Similar to my path, sounds like. Started when I noticed how much the acceptance of physics theories depended on POV. Already questioning Western religion/philosophy wholesale, Watts got me started looking at multiple Asian POVs, that brought me back to Jung, Gurdjieff, Polanyi and Bohm. There was no cure for any of that, so back to restart with slightly less naive realism. I am, whether or not I think, therefore.
"Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that precious little fragment as well. " — Philip K. Dick
I'd bet that 'lemmings' wouldn't work.
I specially liked the part where he collected $50k by clueing the affected companies.
That's good to hear.
Here in the US, I haven't seen a sign or heard a word from or about Stein this year. None. Also true in previous years. How's a GP going to get grown if it doesn't get a voice in and on the news? If the crazy right wasn't enough, I also notice that the Dems spent some time and money trying to put her down.
Looking at the GP platform, it seems solid. But, in the US, my position has NO representation in the US. If there is a GP in the US, it's been very muted. Stein is just a stale placeholder with no voice. That's not leadership. Every election for DECADES I've heard, "oh, not this time. We have to win it back" or "we have to hold on to it". OK, so when should we vote GP then? Screw that argument. We need another party, and there's only one way to get there. And that's quality, visable, vocal, energetic, leadership.
I looked at Canada's GP yesterday. They at least have -some- kind of org. in most provinces. IIUC, the GP has two seats in their congress. They got a million votes in 2019. That's better than nothing.