A couple of entropy cultists went and destroyed a famous, beautiful, century-old tree – apparently just to destroy something people liked.
They face a maximum of ten years in prison. I imagine the Eldrae would be a little less merciful.
“Get up so I can kill you again”
They will, after all, be planting a replacement sapling taken from the cells of the old.
And saplings need fertilizer to help them grow.
And conveniently, opines the justice, there are two sacks of shit right here in this court.
Let justice prevail through ironic amusement, and a deliberate insult to this particular entropy-cult.
From the article
The message noted that VPNSecure was acquired in 2023, “including the technology, domain, and customer database—but not the liabilities.”
Yeah that’s not how anything works In general you acquire the assets you acquire the liabilities.
I suppose the person who sold it to you could agree to be liable for the liabilities and debts while nominally selling the assets to you but in that case you don’t cancel the those lifetime subscriptions you start billing the previous owner for them they after all agreed to retain the liabilities of their former assets.
I wonder if somebody will get a class action going.
Yeah, there’s a reason why “We have a contract, do we not?” is a phrase that has, there, acquired some considerable notoriety.
(Because if you hear it, you’re about to have a real bad day. And if you don’t pick up on the implications, you’re about to have a real bad year.)
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Relevant to this thread in general:
Speaking of people who should be sentenced to become fertilizer, the people responsible for chopping down every peony flower at the University of Michigan peony bloom, leaving behind only these flyers:
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…I do so want to be reasonable, and civilized, and just, and kind. I do. So it would be nice if people could stop giving me visceral sensations along the lines of “The only thing Grand Moff Tarkin did wrong was not going far enough.”
It really would.
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“You’re not really giving me reasons to join your cause”