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How Ensemble Studios got bought by MicroSoft. Ensemble Studios was amazingly successful. We produced only one game that sold less than 2 million copies, and THAT one sold a million so was no failure. Even the expansions (which I led) sold a million copies or more. In 2000, MicroSoft...

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Great question from @Milliedrewgeorge and one I want to clear up: In 2000 Ben & Jerry’s was sold to Unilever as a publicly held corporation. Jerry and I did everything that we could to try to keep it independent, but SEC rules forced the board to make a decision to have the company sold because Unilever offered so much money for it. BUT there was a legally binding agreement that we negotiated that maintained the social mission. Now Magnum is violating that legally binding agreement. #freebenandjerrys

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Charlie Munger made $500 Million by reading Barron’s Magazine for 50 years. Here’s the story: “I’ve read Barron’s for 50 years and in 50 years, I found only one investment opportunity in Barron’s. Out of which I made $80 Million, with almost no risk.” “It was a Monroe shock absorbers company, trading at $1 and I sold it at $15 but it eventually went to $40. It was a pure cigar butt company.” “The Barron’s said it was cheap stock and so I bought it.” “I gave that $80 Million to Li Lu who turned it to $400-500 Million. So I made that money by reading Barron’s for 50 years and following one idea.” “Now that doesn’t help you very much, does it? I’m sorry but that’s the way it really happened.” 😂 - Charlie Munger. Daily Journal meeting 2017

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How much it cost to have a baby in America (Tennessee) - Ultrasound “cost us $2,067.85” - Hospital stay observation room $413.65 - The recovery room cost us $2,702.45 - “A hospital stay, I don't know how that's different, but that one cost us $4,438 - The emergency room cost us $1,932.90 - Laboratory, that cost us an additional $1,439.20 - Then we go into labor and delivery — we got charged $10,593.40 - Then our anesthesia. So my epidural cost us more than anything else. That one was $14,446.15 - Pharmacy cost $3,007.25 - “Supplies cost $565.03” So the grand total for everything came out to $33,011.73. But that was just for our stay. We also had to pay for Aspen, our newborn daughter, to be in the hospital. - her hospital stay to stay with us in the room that we also paid for was $4,008 Our complete hospital bill cost $37,019.73 “Was it worth it? Yes. — Yes. It was worth every penny, but she was an expensive baby. It's a lot of money.”

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Ryan Leaf says he made $15,000,000 from his $31,000,000 NFL rookie contract before losing it all “The headline says $31 million. The signing bonus was $11 million, which is still a lot of damn money. Three years in the contract was lower salaries” “I probably made $15 million out of all that. $7.5 million went to taxes. $3.8 million went to the ex-wife” “So I have $3.8 million, and I lived like I was still making $5 million a year. Had the big house, flew on private planes” “I just figured that the money would never run out. Didn't fully understand what that looked like, and before you know it, it's gone” “When you were making zero dollars a year, and you live like you're still making $5 million a year, it goes away. It was gone”

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SHOCKING: Jewish influencer Chef Tova was hired by a brand for an ad campaign. Everything was fine until the brand asked her to remove one word: “Jewish,” claiming it was too political. This is how Jewish identity gets erased in real time: Chef Tova was hired, a contract was signed, the script approved, and the video filmed. The contract allowed three revisions. All three were used. Only then did the brand object to one word: Jewish. The contract was clear: additional changes require payment. The brand refused, arguing that the contract bans political content, and that saying “Jewish” is political. Would they have said the same to a Muslim influencer? Or a Buddhist one? Our religion is not political. Our identity is not a provocation. The issue was never the contract. The issue was Jewish visibility.

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Kyle Shanahan was asked if it was the fact they had to go to Australia for Week 1 or that it was the Rams who asked the league to play the 49ers, that he wasn’t happy about: “Both, but more of that than the other. We only get 3 close fights, whether it’s Seattle, Arizona or LA, so to get one of those taken away is tough. Especially when it’s 19 hours away on an airplane. That’s not like a small flight. So that adds up and I love our fans taking over SoFi. That’s awesome and I get why the Rams don’t want that.” 🎥: Tom Tolbert

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139,644 views • 1 month ago

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Jez Corden explains disc-to-digital (Project Positron) conversion platform You literally put the disc into the console, and it gives you a digital license for the game permanently for your Microsoft account. If you give the disc away or sell it; if it gets connected to another Microsoft account, you lose access to that digital license. You don't need the disc to keep verifying it. It's whoever last used the disc who gets the license. In 2013 (Xbox One launch) there was a rumor that retailers were going to unlock the disc, but that wasn't actually true, but it was badly communicated, and Xbox leaders misunderstood how the feature was going to work. It became a huge cluster that they had to scrap. You get the full game, you get the Xbox Cloud version, you get the Xbox Play Anywhere version, and you get the license as if you purchased it digitally. Superchat: Alright, so insert the disc, get the digital license, snap the disc in half, got it. 😂 via: Jez Windows Central

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57,176 views • 15 days ago

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Mike Brown: "The buy in. It was a contract that I had everybody sign opening dinner night and I still have it framed. Everybody's signature from Mr. Dolan to Leon Rose, all the coaches, all the players, all the staff that was there that night signed and basically it was about committing to sacrifice, having a competitive spirit, being connected, believing in each other in the process while holding everybody accountable even myself...I told everybody that night if you're not gonna abide by this I'd have more respect for you to not sign it than to sign it and BS your way through tonight and BS your way through this and everybody bought in from day 1"

Oh No He Didn't

482,954 views • 1 month ago

We only have ourselves to blame. In particular, Ibou. He was the one who gave them the encouragement to get back into the game. No need for that stupid challenge which gave them the penalty. They grew in confidence after that. And for me, that was a Salah goodbye.
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We only have ourselves to blame. In particular, Ibou. He was the one who gave them the encouragement to get back into the game. No need for that stupid challenge which gave them the penalty. They grew in confidence after that. And for me, that was a Salah goodbye.

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991,196 views • 7 months ago

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Roseanne speaks on the Great Awakening and the Plandemic: "They put us into quarantine that was the best thing that ever happened to this country, although a lot of people lost their jobs, the greatest thing about it was that it broke the routine. That's one way to snap out of mind control. It woke people up to what mattered. And then they got on the internet and started looking for answers. And that's why they call it the Great Awakening. That's what Q was for quarantine. We all got a lot smarter, we all got a lot healthier, we all got a lot closer. It was the best thing that could have happened to us. Because anything that these people at the top try to do to us is going to end up working for our benefit as long as we reclaim our humanity and our love and our connection for each other. They can't hurt us."

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484,931 views • 3 years ago