It happens regularly. The most notable ‘tidy’ example I can think of would be when the Governments of US and Canada ‘bailed out’ General Motors. They did exactly what I’m talking about; they created a new legal entity called NGMCO Inc. which purchased almost all the Assets of the ‘old’ GM, including trademarks, names, websites, etc.

The key here is that the selling company was bankrupt. In such a case, the creditors want to try to get money back out of their ‘investment’ so the asset sale is done to cover debts. Selling liabilities generally doesn’t raise money for those creditors, so often after the money is all sucked out, whatever remaining liabilities exist are functionally void. Legally they remain until the corporation is dissolved, but with no ability to act on the liabilities (ie., no money to pay) this doesn’t functionally matter.

The ‘old’ GM changed it’s name to ‘Motors Liquidation Company’ and retained the liabilities. Shareholders of the ‘old’ GM were left holding the bag, so to speak. Technically, it was further split into trusts to ‘handle’ liabilities, but realistically ‘old’ GM sputtered out holding liabilities while ‘new’ GM carried on with minimal penalty.

You can have less ‘tidy’ cases as well, where substantial parts of a company are sold in an asset sale/purchase but leave behind a working company. In those cases the liabilities are not functionally abandoned. Disney purchasing FOX, for example.

Further reading:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/asset-sales.asp

https://www.reuters.com/article/oldgm-exit-idUSN3121109620110331/?feedType=RSS&feedName=cyclicalConsumerGoodsSector&rpc=43

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reorganization

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fox_by_Disney

This is the exact reason GM still exists.

If the new owners purchased the assets, name, and technology and not the company itself, then it’s beholden on the remains of the old company to honour the deal… Good luck with that.

Maybe I’m thick, but what’s the benefit for them in moving from self hosted to MSFT hosted?

Currently there are physical collector editions, that don’t actually have a game on disc, just a download code.

I bought the BG3 deluxe edition, which promises game on disk, soundtrack, etc.

They delivered on everything except…the game disk is 26mb. It’s a branded steam installer for you to install so you can use the steam key they provided in the box. I have never before been so disappointed in a ‘physical’ game purchase.

That is so far beyond predatory…the only reason to let this exist is to create wage slavery.

Nice try, Guardian social media team. I’m still not giving you my dollarbucks.

I mean, the details on the gun mount make sense if it’s remotely operated. Usually AI ‘fuzzes’ the details and I see what looks like an ir window and some other things I’d expect to see on a remote controlled turret. 🤷Not sure though.

No it’s not. Look at the court level in which it was shown.

If you want to make an omelette, you might have to fuck a chicken.

Wait…

You’re assuming corpo America will drop the prices after. They won’t.

That’s not automatic

Got space for a PCIe 8x card? Get a lsi2308 and a set of SAS to SATA cables. 8 drives off that bad boy, and actually reliable unlike every single PCI or PCIe SATA card I’ve ever tried.

I agree with you. Do you think he knows he’s a right wing propagandist, or does he think he’s espousing libertarian values?

See, this is homage/parody.

I don’t know why you’re being downvoted.

My neighbor throws rocks at my house because he wants me to move my fence and give him an extra 6" of backyard. I just ignore him and nothing bad has happened beyond needing to replace my bathroom window twice.

Ignore or give them what they want has worked well for me.

Weird. The 32x has its own power supply.

I regularly fire up my windows XP box to play hearts and muck about in Codewarrior

https://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=30

There’s a reason GenX trained on hopper. Too bad the newer generations don’t have something equivalent