You're correct. The CEO is a former hedge fund guy, who has purchased a number of companies, shut them down, and added the IP to a portfolio. If Gibson ends up with new leadership out of this they will have a chance.
CNN is full of it. The key paragraph in the article:
"North Korea has never successfully tested an ICBM, despite repeatedly showing off what it claims are working missiles at military parades. Some experts have publicly doubted whether these missiles are anything but mock-ups."
The missile that is claimed to have a 5,400 mile range has never demonstrated this capability, making the article alarmist claptrap. CNN should check actual distances they've achieved, versus what they claim in their breathless press releases.
NK's last launch, on March 6, went 620 miles.
NK have detonated 5 nuclear underground tests, which have had incredibly low yields. Like early US designs, it is likely that the devices were large and heavy. I do not believe NK has a warhead small enough to fit on a rocket - the costly R&D to make a miniature nuke is beyond their means.
Finally, NK loves posturing and bragging. The NK leadership is well aware that an actual attack would end the good life they have as elites.
> Somebody should do a video startup that values free expression and adult topics of discussion, and eat their lunch.
If you can find a way to get the people either providing or consuming the media to pay, that might work (though not so much at eating YouTube's lunch as serving a different market).
If you want to monetize that with advertising, good luck: YouTube's content restrictions follow the general trend of big advertising-supported media, because its what the paying customers for that want.
Heh, Steve Jobs unknowingly solved this problem years ago. Apparently he didn't want a license plate in order to protect his privacy, before plate scanners were a thing. In California you have a certain amount of time after buying a car to get the plate. Steve leased a new car at that interval, and never had a plate.
Ha! When I lived in Palo alto I kept dealer plates on for three years before receiving a ticket: ticket was for speeding, the no plates part cost me all of $10 and a 2 min police inspection, after which the card board plates went right back on.
That loophole has been reduced to 90 days now and new bill has been introduced to require new passenger cars to be issued with a temp license plate just like many other states do.[1]
When I see companies demanding people's lives, I now see a message. The message is from the executives, board members, and investors. The message is the reality behind 'corporate culture', 80 hour weeks, and other destructive, unsustainable practices.
The message is: "WE ARE NOT GETTING RICH FAST ENOUGH!"
That'll never happen. Congressmen and senators would then not be able to say "...and my opponent voted against the America Awesome Act..." in the next election.
