Whatever: The Open Lines Thread

[Walks_At_Night]

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[Bart Ell]

Pictures

Bit too creepy to film them.
This is pretty much it...

[JUAN]

Can't be real.  I don't see anyone drinking beer from cans.  Particularly Budweiser.

[PB]

Bit too creepy to film them.
This is pretty much it...

Hell, yeah!

After a long day of making cuckoo clocks and chocolate.

[TigerLily]

Bit too creepy to film them.
This is pretty much it...

Amazing! Must be where the French got the idea for the Olympics. That water looks much cleaner than the Seine

[Up All Night]

Note to Self... Do not fuck around with HP...

Mike Lynch, his wife Angela Bacares, daughter Hannah and 19 guests were on the Bayesian superyacht for a "victory" trip celebrating Lynch clearing his name after a lengthy legal battle that saw him extradited to the United States last year to stand trial on fraud charges related to the $11 billion sale of Autonomy, to Hewlett Packard.

After HP took an $8.8 billion haircut on the value of the company within a year, Lynch was accused of conspiring to inflate its value and wire fraud but after a trial lasting three months a jury in a federal court in San Francisco acquitted him and co-defendant Stephen Chamberlain in June of all 15 counts.

It emerged Monday that former Autonomy Vice President Chamberlain was killed two days before Lynch.

The 52-year-old died in a road accident while out running in Stretham, 76 miles northeast of London, in rural Cambridgeshire.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/08/22/italy-mike-lynch-body-recovered/8051724329822/

[sean92008]

Note to Self... Do not fuck around with HP...

Are HP and Boeing related?

It emerged Monday that former Autonomy Vice President Chamberlain was killed two days before Lynch.

The 52-year-old died in a road accident while out running in Stretham, 76 miles northeast of London, in rural Cambridgeshire.

[Walks_At_Night]

Note to Self... Do not fuck around with HP...

Mike Lynch, his wife Angela Bacares, daughter Hannah and 19 guests were on the Bayesian superyacht for a "victory" trip celebrating Lynch clearing his name after a lengthy legal battle that saw him extradited to the United States last year to stand trial on fraud charges related to the $11 billion sale of Autonomy, to Hewlett Packard.

After HP took an $8.8 billion haircut on the value of the company within a year, Lynch was accused of conspiring to inflate its value and wire fraud but after a trial lasting three months a jury in a federal court in San Francisco acquitted him and co-defendant Stephen Chamberlain in June of all 15 counts.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/08/22/italy-mike-lynch-body-recovered/8051724329822/

Chamberlain got whacked as well.  Run over by a car.   Lynch, Chamberlain and the legal time all gone.   Bill and Dave win in the end as usual.

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[Up All Night]

Are HP and Boeing related?

They use the same outside contractor for some jobs...

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[Up All Night]

Hundred thirty years ago in 1889 as Paris was hosting the World’s Fair, the iron lady became instantly the city's iconic monument embodying the modernity and the engineering feat of this Era. The engineer Gustave Eiffel fought for years to erect in the heart of Paris the tallest tower ever built, seen by many as ugly and out of place at the time. Against all odds, he took the helm of a gigantic building site and revolutionized the construction technique. Revisit this historic saga and engineering challenge in this detailed account and high end docu-drama !

[sean92008]

While reading about the yacht sinking...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13768561/Russian-tourist-gored-trying-rape-cow-flight-attendant-dumped-faces-conscripted-fight-Putin-against-Ukraine.html

[HamsterMuscle]

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[Walks_At_Night]

More baffling stuff going on at Dodge.  Can't imagine too many folks spending $115,000 on a Durango.

2025 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat Silver Bullet Costs a Staggering $115,315

On the other hand, seeing stuff about a return of the Jeep Comanche pickup truck which will supposedly start at or just under 20k.  They'll sell some of them if they hold that price point.  Although the prospect of a 3 cylinder engine with a turbo is kinda scary. 

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An entity claiming to be Walter Chrysler's Great Grandson would like to pry Mopar out of the Euro's hands and save the company.    Not sure if a forum post on a fan forum is the way to go about it.   

[sean92008]

This is something Art would have featured on C2C. George, not so much.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254413/who-was-sister-wilhelmina-lancaster-the-african-american-whose-body-is-potentially-incorrupt

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wilhelmina_Lancaster

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[Walks_At_Night]

Maybe not a great idea to dick around up on the rim of an active volcano.

https://twitter.com/GeologyyScience/status/1827104663860375937