Today's Tids Issue 6,052
Some people gotta sing:
It feels like decision week ahead. Iran is much too quiet as is our President. Nowadays when things are quiet, I expect surprises. Reports from Iranians say that the Regime is more entrenched and ready for revenge. Trump is frustrated, it seems. And there is mounting tension in the straight as UAE claims attack on tanker. US denies Iran shot at one of their ships, And who knows what will a happen as US promises to escort chips though the strait. There is a coiled spring in there somewhere.
Hey, Rhode Island burst alive today. I drove down to Jamestown this morning and three hours later driving home I noticed all the buds had blossomed and once again the greenery was hiding the death remnants of winter.
That was one thrilling Derby for sure. And Kudos ot Cherie. But I have to ask how much the Great White contributed to the finish. That was teh horse that threw his jockey a which required all horses to be removed from the gates, The horses were ready to move forward not backward, It was a great race with the strangest of all beginnings. BTW, I loved Jockey Jose Ortiz who beat his brother Irad coming in second on Renegade.
A mathematician wanders back home at 3 a.m. and proceeds to get an earful from his wife. “You’re late!” she yells. “You said you’d be home by 11:45!” “Actually,” the mathematician replies coolly, “I said I’d be home by a quarter of 12.”
Think about it.
The Question:
Name the top 5 Golden Parachute payouts to executives who left after poor performance or scandal.
The HEadleins:
--23 Teens in Oklahoma City Hospitals after mass Shooting at Edmond’s Lake Arcadia.
--US Stock Markets Look at April Jobs Reports and Chip maker Earnings this Week; Activities in Strait has Stocks Lower Afternoon; Korea and Taiwan Chip makers Pushing Asia Stocks to New record Levels.
--Trump Announces “Operation Freedom
Designed to Safely Escort Ships Through Hormuz; UAE Says Iran is Attacking Commercial Ships Again, US says it has sunk Six Small Iran Boats.
--Spirit Airlines Over and Out; 17K Workers lose Jobs, Passengers Stranded.
--Rudy Guiliani In Hospital in Critical But Stable Condition.
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Coincidence: Trump announces a tariff on European Luxury car makers on opening day of PGA trourney at his golf club and sponsored by Cadillac. Nah. Just my conspiratorial imagination.
I’ll tell you one thing about this war – I've learned how to spell Hormuz.
These mass shootngs just seem to go on every week somewhere in our fifty states. What seeded this idea into wayward minds that shooting innocents was ok. The guns may be a weapon but its the mental delusion that is problem. What in this society legitimizes mass killings in these people's minds.
The amount of financing necessary to sustain AI spending is mind boggling. I'd try to explain it to you, but my mind is boggled. Its like one of those things where the cost of failure is much too high so you keep pumping money into it to at least give it a chance. Well, it’s not exactly that.,
I was reminded over the weekend about how we played everything on the street. Roller Hockey, Football, Baseball, and car dodging. The most important guy on the team was the car lookout. Car!! Scatter!! I goess we’re lucky to be alive, or are we alive because we dared to rise above supervision.
I think tomorrow I'll be ethereal.
AI has trouble dealing with typos. It responds like I have discovered a fact that they are unaware of and they try to destroy the foundation of it. And, it’s just a typo. Maybe Typos are the answer to controlling runaway AI.
It's like the chess master playing the amateur and says, Man, I’ve never seen that move before. And he panics.
I have a lot of faults but one a I notice often is forgetting to press send after immediately responding to an email or text. When I find it four days later it sounds less pithy.
After a what I would call a Celtics humiliating loss to Go Philly the team reaction seemed be, “Hey, we lost. Time to go home”. I guess when you are making up to $50 million plus a year, winning is less than everything.
It's like the CEO that puts a company into bankruptcy and walks away with life changing cash. That’s all I ask for in life. Make me your CEO with a great Golden Parachute clause and I’ll happily put your company out of its misery in less than a year/ Hire me, Reduce your long-term anguish.
The Answer:
Number One at $164 Mil is Stanley O’Neal at Merrill Lynch, Next is Thomas Preston Viacom ($101M) Philip Dauman Viacom ($72M), Dennis Multenburg Boeing ($62M), Carly Fiorina HP ($21M).
Nothing like a rainy day.
