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"To modify a quote from The Dark Knight:
"Let me get this straight, you think one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, who owns the Washington Post and pays out of his own pocket to send rockets to space, won't stand up for himself so your plan is to blackmail this person?
Good Luck "
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I think another interesting thing about these times, compared to when such things may have happened 20+ years ago, is that the photos they've described would cause rather little outrage or attract much beyond a few giggles from the public. Especially if released after their existence is already known about. I think the iCloud leaks of 2014 severely tempered society's salacious demand for more pictures of this nature.
As I read Bezos's post, I noticed that at the section where he describes the photographs, I found myself simply scrolling past them to get to the next part of the story.
Whatever you think about Jeff, this is the correct way to handle such things. We should all have the same character in such a situation (despite how the situation arose; in this case via an affair). Jeff has MANY other issues of moral disfortitude (we all do to some degree, though not at these scales). However, this particular event is to be applauded and emulated.
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Amazon could pull a CloudFlare and knock them off the internet as nationalenquirer.com seems to be hosted on AWS. My guess is Amazon/Bezos already has multiple backups of the Enquirer's digital assets for forensic purposes. https://twitter.com/ryanhuber/status/1093665718464327680
I'm not sure if you are joking, but that's exactly what they should not be doing. They also can't just go poke around their customer's data. That would be very unwise...
Given that Jeff Bezos appears to be willing to spend almost unlimited money on this, it’ll be interesting to see if a felony investigation happens.
My guess is yes.
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Not being sarcastic, but support for 20 years, is a bit far fetched. At some point after inception, Amazon was successful, even before it went public. So are you saying Amazon rose in value because Jeff had the undying support of his wife? I would say the support helped Jeff until the company was self-sustaining and successful. Of course, without the initial support of his wife, Amazon would not have started in the f…
I don't want this thread to devolve needlessly; in summary: I treat my wife like my cofounder with an equal share of equity. I wouldn't let my cofounder take anything less than half of the total value of the business if a liquidation/separation/liquidity event occurred, so why would I treat my spousal relationship differently considering the work a relationship requires? If you're concerned about your partner entitle…
What I do care is the notion that the growth and success of Amazon is 50% due to the wife. That I disagree with.
Wonder what the Saudi connection is...
The Saudis claimed they had no involvement in it, although an Associate Press investigation revealed that it had circulated among Saudis weeks before publication [2]
This issue was distributed at supermarkets across the United States.
Whether there was an untoward arrangement behind it might be under investigation.
1.https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-publisher-pal-puts-saud...
2. https://nypost.com/2018/04/24/the-strange-saga-of-a-pro-saud...
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It is possibly due to pressure from Saudi Arabia. MBS was pissed that WP is going after him after killing of Khashoggi. Enquirer (and Pecker) are quite close to MBS, they ran a cover story on him (how awesome he is). It could be a bigger story than it seems at the moment.
How can they act above national security interest? Don't they realize the security institutions would destroy them?
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Nobody is perfect, but when the person's "main thing" is objectionable then it seems pretty normal to be critical of that person! It's the difference between "My teacher committed adultry" and "this loan shark's entire reason to exist is to scam people out of their money" You see Blue Origin as "moving towards a spacefaring civilization", I see it as "rich person plays with money gotten by aggressively underpaying ev…
Does Amazon do more good for society or bad? Serious question. I wonder this a lot. Can they be blamed for wanting to create something better than Wal-Mart? Can they be blamed for the fact that shareholders expect growth and customers expect lower prices all the time? Is this not a bigger problem than just blaming the billionaires for all of society's woes? Aren't all of us complicit for buying and supporting Big Tec…