Splount

Fuckin’ asshats!

Weird…usually no one cares so long as the stock price goes up. Or he’s fucking children…and even then these companies take a “wait and see” attitude.

How can a public trial be held in secret? I can understand that any agreement can also include NDAs but I wasn’t aware that any US court could adjudicate in secret.

The word trivia comes from Latin. In Roman times people would place signs with interesting tidbits about their nearby town where roads meet as a way of luring travellers to their town. Tri means three and via is road. So trivia are useless and entertaing facts originally found at the confluence of three roads.

I recognize that you are asking about European place names but how humans named things in North America might give some insight. A really great book on how places got their names in the US is Names on the Land: a historical account of place-naming in the United States by George R. Stewart (ISBN 978-1-59017-273-5).

That is SOOO LinkedIn!