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2024-08-20 at 8:26 AM UTC in Superyacht swallowed by ocean off Sicily
On 18 August 2011, Hewlett-Packard announced that it would purchase Autonomy for US$42.11 per share with a premium of around 79% over market price that was widely criticized as "absurdly high"
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On 3 October 2011 HP closed the deal, announcing that it had acquired around 87.3% of the shares for around $10.2 billion, and valuing the company at around $11.7 billion in total.
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In November 2012, Hewlett-Packard announced that it was taking an $8.8 billion accounting charge after claiming "serious accounting improprieties" and "outright misrepresentations" at Autonomy
You kinda wonder do these managers at places like HP bleed their companies out on purpose? -
2024-08-20 at 7:55 AM UTC in Superyacht swallowed by ocean off Sicily
Bayesian
Mike Lynch and daughterSix people are missing, including a man dubbed the British Bill Gates, after a luxury yacht sank off the Sicilian coast.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-20/what-we-know-about-mike-lynch-bayesian-sinking/104245450
Fifteen people escaped from the sinking vessel. The search for the missing continues.
The Italian coastguard said the yacht — the Bayesian — was anchored off the shore of port city Porticello, near the Sicilian capital Palermo, when it was hit by bad weather sometime after 4am on Monday, local time.
Eyewitnesses said it vanished quickly beneath the waves shortly before dawn.
Managers of the sailing vessel Bayesian, Camper & Nicholsons, confirmed to the ABC that the Bayesian encountered severe weather and subsequently sank.
"Our priority is assisting with the ongoing search and providing all necessary support to the rescued passengers and crew," they said.
"The wind was very strong. Bad weather was expected, but not of this magnitude," a coastguard official told Reuters.
Sicily's civil protection agency head, Salvo Cocina, said a waterspout — a tornado over the water — could have struck the yacht.
"They were in the wrong place at the wrong time," Mr Cocina added.
Storms and heavy rainfall had swept down Italy in recent days after weeks of scorching heat, lifting the temperature of the Mediterranean Sea to record levels and raising the risk of extreme weather conditions, experts told Reuters.
"The sea surface temperature around Sicily was around 30 degrees Celsius, which is almost 3 degrees more than normal.⁽ᴼᵇᵇᵉ ʷᵃˢ ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ᵉᵛᵉʳʸᵗʰᶦⁿᵍ⁾ This creates an enormous source of energy that contributes to these storms," meteorologist Luca Mercalli said.
Captain Karsten Borner of the Sir Robert Baden Powell vessel told journalists he noticed the Bayesian nearby during the storm, but after it calmed he saw a red flare and realised the ship had simply disappeared.
Mr Borner said he and a crew member boarded their tender and found a lifeboat with 15 people, some of them injured, who they then took aboard and alerted the coast guard.
Search crews, including helicopters and divers, are continuing to search the wreckage, lying at a depth of 49 metres.
Specialist divers reached the ship on Monday but access was limited due to objects in the way, the fire brigade said.
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Still missing:
Mike Lynch
Mr Lynch's 18-year-old daughter, Hannah
Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of global financial services company Morgan Stanley International
Chris Morvillo, a lawyer at the British multinational law firm Clifford Chance. He worked on Mr Lynch's lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard
The identities of the remaining two missing are still unconfirmed
Fifteen people escaped from the sinking ship.
Eight have been hospitalised and others were taken to a nearby hotel.
Among those rescued were:
Mr Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares, who was the owner of the yacht
Charlotte Golunski and her one-year-old daughter, Sofia. Ms Golunski is a partner at Mr Lynch's firm, Invoke Capital. She says she momentarily lost hold of Sofia in the water but managed to hold her up above the waves until the lifeboat was inflated
Ms Golunski's husband James Emslie
New Zealand captain of the yacht James Catfield. He told Italian newspaper La Repubblica the crew didn't see the storm coming
A lone Dutch citizen was identified by the Dutch foreign ministry as being rescued, but was not identified
Mr Lynch, once hailed as Britain’s king of technology, was recently freed from a Silicon Valley lawsuit that tarnished his legacy.
The 59-year-old Cambridge-educated mathematician created Autonomy, a search engine that could pore through emails and other internal business documents to help companies find vital information more quickly.
He then sold the software to Hewlett-Packard (HP) for $US11 billion ($16 billion) in 2011, with Mr Lynch personally netting $US800 million.
HP valued Autonomy at $US46 billion ($68 billion) in the months leading up to the deal.
Mike Lynch in 2019 leaving the High Court in London. (Reuters: Henry Nicholls/File Photo)
But the deal quickly turned sour after he was accused of forging the software's financial records to make the sale. -
2024-08-20 at 7:32 AM UTC in They should make jousting an olympic event.I'd watch it.
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2024-08-20 at 7:24 AM UTC in Random image thread
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2024-08-20 at 7:08 AM UTC in Meanwhile, in England
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2024-08-20 at 7:08 AM UTC in Meanwhile, in England
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2024-08-20 at 6:07 AM UTC in Deadpool murderer faces death penalty despite protests
Tattooed “Deadpool Killer” Wade Wilson has lovesick ladies begging a judge to save his life — even though he brutally slaughtered two women in 2019 just “for the sake of killing.”
https://nypost.com/2024/07/17/us-news/letters-to-judge-beg-him-to-spare-the-life-of-wade-wilson/
Wilson, 30, has received nearly 4,000 messages in prison, many from misguided women who have sent him X-rated photos.
According to public records, authorities had to reject 163 “inappropriate” photos.
Now, the women — and other supporters — have flooded the chambers of Lee County Circuit Judge Nicholas R. Thompson, begging him to spare Wilson’s life, despite a jury of his peers deciding he should face the possibility of the death penalty for brutally murdering Cape Coral women Kristine Melton, 35, and Diane Ruiz, 43.
One woman even pledged her undying devotion to the sociopathic killer.
“As someone who cares unconditionally for Wade, I have deeply reflected on the gravity of the situation and impact of your decision,” the woman from Visalia, California, wrote to the judge, according to WINK.
Another woman — a mother of two — claimed that Wade is a different person when he’s on medication.
“If you look past his tattoos to his face structure since being in prison and medicated he is healthier, his face is fuller compared to his booking picture where his face is gaunt, pale and he looks unhealthy,” she wrote.
It’s unlikely that the letters will have any effect. According to The Code of Judicial Conduct, which has been reviewed by The Post, a judge is prohibited from considering communications made to the court outside of the presence of the parties involved.
Wilson took Melton home from a bar on Oct. 7, 2019, then strangled her and left her tied up in her home.
Ruiz was reported missing mere hours later — and Wilson later told his dad that she got into his car when he asked for directions.
He then admitted strangling her before throwing her out of the car — only to get back in and run her over “until she looked like spaghetti,” jurors were told.
“I choked her out until she couldn’t breathe anymore,” Wilson had told cops of one of the murders. “It came across my mind to murder, just kill, kill, kill.” -
2024-08-19 at 5 PM UTC in My friend killed his girlfriend and is currently on the run.
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2024-08-19 at 1:15 PM UTC in AI will be able to determine your political leanings and detect when you are lying with near 100% accuracyThat is racist though.
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2024-08-19 at 8 AM UTC in Questions to the female members
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2024-08-19 at 6:09 AM UTC in My friend killed his girlfriend and is currently on the run.That's messed up. How are you feeling?
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2024-08-19 at 6:01 AM UTC in Help me understand something.You're supposed to be a team. Schedule regular meetings to facilitate communications and make sure you have clear expectations of each others role in order to prevent fights. Basically I think the idea is that an assistant manager is manager when the main manager isn't around, and needs to have some autonomy to make decisions, but any big decisions that can be delayed need to go to the manager.
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2024-08-19 at 5:41 AM UTC in Do you believe this dog fucker here?I don't see any reason not to believe her about her husband being into the BBC cuckolding thing. It's a fairly common kink, and it's all about humiliation, both for them and their wife. And when you are into humiliating your wife like that, you're not far away from other fucked up things.
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2024-08-19 at 5:32 AM UTC in pyrohydrosmok was killed in an accident this weekDamn that sucks. I remember him posting on totse, but I never really interacted with him.
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2024-08-18 at 4:03 PM UTC in Make it so word enhancements don't apply in img/url/video tags..?If people had come to my pull parties we could all be doing pushes and pulls for each others pythons.
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2024-08-18 at 3:36 PM UTC in Misogyny to be treated as extremism in UK
Originally posted by Kafka I can't tell if you're just trying to annoy me or if you really have all lost touch with reality and are incel creeps.
But something's wrong when I can't join a forum I have mutual interests in and be heard.
I hope Keir puts Kafka in charge of deciding what is misogyny or not. -
2024-08-18 at 2:38 PM UTC in Military Genius Zelensky wants Ukrainians to throw molotovs at Russian tanksGuess it's the Ukrainian Samsung Option.
Maybe the Salo Option. -
2024-08-18 at 2:36 PM UTC in Misogyny to be treated as extremism in UKWhat is extremism anyway?
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2024-08-18 at 2:35 PM UTC in I'm never having kids
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2024-08-17 at 4:09 AM UTC in Does Greenland even exist anymore?
