I honestly thought this was a strategic rebranding to capitalize on their transition to electric vehicles and to get ahead of people shouting the down due to the involvement of Hitler in their early years.
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Publications have pre-written obituaries for famous people to make sure they can respond immediately when somebody famous dies. Occasionally these obituaries get published in response to incorrect rumors or simply through some kind of internal error—always a bit awkward!
That’s actually how we got the Nobel Prizes. Nobel was famous for inventing dynamite. After his brother died, some newspapers reported his death with their prewritten obituary about how “The merchant of death is dead”. After seeing that, he changed his outlook and modified his will to create the Nobel Prizes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize
I particularly appreciate the irony in the Nobel Peace Prize, especially as Henry Kissinger is a laureate.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Just change the name and change it back For real? A company with global presence, to LEGALLY change their name? And then run through the bureaucratic hell with countries, tax authorities, customs, contracts, insurance companies, changing logos/templates.. Do you have what is the actual cost to change a name for a company? The top hit on a DDG search: https://www.thebalancesmb.com/how-do-i-change-my-business-na... B…
You don't need to legally change the business name. In fact, many of the businesses you're familiar with are incorporated under unfamiliar names. Rather, you can often just register a trade name (aka DBA name), which is a sort of formal alias which in principle is readily resolvable to the business name. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_name
But that still requires plenty of costly changes. They will still have to amend the name in every country, every poster/sign, paper templates, stamps, cards. When you create yor company you still have to declare both the legal entity name "XYZ Ltd" and trade name "X".
It means that they have to send teams (outsource most likely) to every building, in every country, measure, create new models for each dimension, replace. Then, one month(?) later after the fun part is done, they will have to go back and redo everything.
Perhaps it won't cost them 100m, but it will cost them 50m. And then another 50m to change it back.
Re: Volkswagen will not change name of U.S. operations: sources
#145Only in our HN bubble it could make sense folks. We've been had.
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It invites the question. http://begthequestion.info/
I don't really want to get into it, those days are long behind me. But I couldn't help feeling dissatisfied with the content you linked. A simple example would be "My favorite author is always right because he says so in his latest book." The proof is merely a restatement of the premise. The sentence has begged the question. Ok, but... why? It asserts that "begging the question" is misused, asserts a "real" meaning,…
You could almost say it...
...begs the question.
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That’s actually how we got the Nobel Prizes. Nobel was famous for inventing dynamite. After his brother died, some newspapers reported his death with their prewritten obituary about how “The merchant of death is dead”. After seeing that, he changed his outlook and modified his will to create the Nobel Prizes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize
I particularly appreciate the irony in the Nobel Peace Prize, especially as Henry Kissinger is a laureate.
Good ol' Henry Kissinger, one of only two Nobel Peace Prize laureates with the distinction of having bombed another Nobel Peace Prize laureate.