Whoa, I wouldn’t expect to get much production out of a company that has been given $1.3. Suppose the CEO gets a coffee from the company cafeteria for $1.25. Subtract that from the award of $1.30 and you get a nickel. The company’s research and development department would burn through five cents in particularly no time at all. And then the project would necessarily shut down for lack of funds.
I know, I know, if you read further, the article does say $1.3 B, which makes the shock value of getting nothing in return somewhat greater that it would be for $1.30. Still, that’s what the headline said and it made me smile.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
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Maybe the people who wrote the ad did have an editor. If that is the case, woe to them!
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I really did laugh at the title.
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Yes, lets divert the attention from the Beiden family’s corruption. How very convenient.
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The joke here is just about the headline saying $1.30 instead of saying $1.30 billion
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