>>> "Last you heard" was in the 80s, and you heard wrong.
>>
>> OK, fair enough. But given that they were once a big name that everybody
>> knew and talked about, and now nobody ever mentions their name, it's not
>> surprising that I got the impression that they weren't doing so well.
>
> They're still a pretty big name. Just because you haven't heard from
> them doesn't mean no one has.

OK, fair enough. My point was that what *I* have or haven't heard about 
is all I've got to go on.

>> One of the worst, most infamous ecological catastrophes in human
>> history, and it's a "mere footnote"?? How did it not end their
>> existence? How did they not get sued off the face of creation?
>
> You've heard of appeals courts? Exxon has yet to pay a single cent of
> what they were fined, and even when they finally do, it will not harm
> them in the long run.

Figures...

> Oh, and by the way, the Bhopal disaster hadn't killed Union Carbide

Yeah, but that happened in a 3rd world country that people only 
/pretend/ to give a damn about.

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