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It looks like a ho-hum painting with no ITM content. Why post it here?

Philip's revenue in 2016 was more than 24 billion euros, so I still doubt that it could be bought for $135 million.. Profits 1.4 billion euros, assets 32 billions. Yet the evidence says they were. Whoever owned them in 2014 certainly saw Gibson coming. It looks like the balance sheet proves otherwi...

Yeah. Plates these days are about three inches wider in every dimension.

I dunno. Philips is known for, what? High end analog audio components and inventing the CD. And a bunch of other electric devices, all of which are being made cheaper in China. None of that seems all that valuable to me these days. I suspect that price was for the whole show. All the CD patents must...

Corporate shenanigans. The guitar biz is sound, but they got suckered into buying Philips in 2014, just as the audio business was being wiped out by hi tech. Gibson is not a hi tech company; it's difficult to see what value they could have added to Philips that would enable them to compete in the i ...

Nanohedron wrote:Do read the CCCP.

Da, Kommissar!

AuLoS303 wrote:If anything the nickel one looks thicker, but it may be the lighting.

The nickel tubes are nickel plating over brass, surely. It stands to reason they'd be thicker than plain or painted brass.

Coyotes get larger the farther east you go. On the west coast they're on the order of 30 pounds. By the time you get to Nova Scotia, they're twice that size, or more. This is usually attributed to the admixture of dog and/or wolf genes, but I dunno how sound that conclusion is. It may also be signif...

First, you should know that GT got it dead wrong. None of it is Gaelic, but it is Scots. "Dinnae" is "do not"; "fash" here is in its verb form, meaning "concern", "trouble" or "annoy"; and "yersel" is "yourself". It's a...

The cats already existed. If a colony attracts cats, then somewhere else is losing cats - even-steven. Thus leaving open territory someplace where the cats aren't spayed. Nature abhors a vacuum, so with an extra niche open, the cat population there will expand to fill it. Edited: Cats are fungible....

Feral cats clustering around a food source is how colonies get started in the first place. The bigger the food source, the more cats it attracts. When you start supplying extra, you're increasing the size of the food source. Thus, attracting more cats. Simple. Also with a regular food supply (and of...

Nonexistent litters are irrelevant when the food you're providing quadruples the size of the colony. From an ecological POV, it is far better for a given habitat to have 3 or 4 adult cats and a mom struggling to provide for 2 or 3 kittens than a colony of 20 sterile adult cats. In any case, you'll n...

Nanohedron wrote: I couldn't tell you. That's why I said that I should think that feeding them would be the last priority.

In reality, it's almost always the first impulse.

Nanohedron wrote: Colonies exist first because the locale could naturally support them without human agency.

Then why do they need extra food?

Besides, what Dan is doing is helping to control that colony of feral cats. It's got to be better than doing nothing. We don't have such programmes here in the UK (or if we do, they're not well known about), but my understanding is that control is one of the principal aims. No, what Dan is doing is...