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I always misread the title of this game as "Eritrean Odyssey".

That's all-but-certain, unfortunately. There's very little chance that we'll ever get an accurate sense of the scale of the situation in northern Syria.

From The Guardian:

I just had another thought. Let's assume that MS/ABK "wins" Step 2 and the CAT vacates the original CMA decision, I wonder if MS/ABK can then take the case directly to the UK Court of Appeals and have it decided in the "real" legal system and therefore avoid having it remitted to the CMA for another round? I think I'll see if I can find this out!

Alright - from what I've read, the "loser" of the CAT's decision can then appeal to the UK Court of Appeals within the "real" judicial system. So, this is potentially how this will play out: 1. Assuming that the CMA rejects whatever structural/behavioral remedies MS/ABK comes up with, the next step would be for MS/ABK to appeal the CMA decision to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). 2. The CAT will not rule on the actual merits of the CMA's decision, but rather will apply a "judicial review" standard to determine whether the CMA acted "irrationally, illegally, or with procedural impropriety" in making its decision. 3. If MS/ABK wins the appeal, the CAT does not make a fresh decision, but will instead remit the case back to the CMA for further review. 4. The party that "loses" the CAT decision (the CMA or MS/ABK) can appeal that decision to the UK Court of Appeals and the case will then enter the "normal" UK judicial system.

That one I was unaware of!

I said that there are no judicial reviews of CMA decisions, meaning that the the review doesn't occur within the UK court system, but rather occurs through the CAT which can kick it back to the CMA if it finds that the CMA erred procedurally.

That Zelda CE is pretty damned pathetic.

Seems fine to me! I haven't noticed anything unusual during the routine inspections of my output.

It all comes down to how hard a line the CMA (and in reality, it's the CMA that will make or break this transaction because there is no judicial review in the UK of CMA decisions) takes regarding remedies short of the divestiture of the CoD IP. If the CMA rejects the proposed remedies in its final report, the only avenue of appeal available to MS involves going to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). As per a British legal site: Of all the major antitrust regulatory bodies, the CMA is the one that genuinely appears to have the most teeth and isn't afraid to use them. The CMA was the one largely responsible for killing Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of Arm.

Ahem.

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Some further information on the subscriber loss which appears to be entirely attributable to the India/SE Asia market: From what I gather, the Disney+ Hotstar service lost the rights to broadcast live cricket matches which would DEFINITELY have a significant impact in that particular market!

The good news? That's actually 600K fewer than expected! Disney beats expectations as streaming subscriber losses aren't as bad as feared WWW.CNBC.COM Disney reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results.

I'm pretty convinced that MS's proposed 10-year non-exclusivity agreement for CoD with Sony, Valve, et al. will not be enough of a behavioral remedy to satisfy the CMA. That agreement will have to be in perpetuity.

This illustrates just how complicated (if not outright impossible) the delivery and distribution of aid to Syria will be:

There is no way that solely behavioral remedies -- no matter how well-structured -- will be acceptable to the CMA. However, there is every reasonable possibility that those well-structured behavioral remedies in conjunction with some form of non-prohibitive (and by that I mean ones that don't involve the complete divestiture of the CoD IP) structural remedies would be enough to satisfy the CMA.

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The good news for MS/ABK is that the CMA didn't outright say "OLOLOLOLOLOLOHellNoOLOLOLOLOLOLO" to the proposed deal and by actually articulating possible remedies, they've left the door open for negotiation. The bed news for MS/ABK is that the the negotiating "wiggle room" based on those proposed remedies is extremely narrow and could very well be impossible to reconcile. I'd say this deal 60/40 (maybe 70/30) in favor of not coming to fruition.

The CMA has issued its provisional report and while it is generally opposed to the deal, it did offer a path forward with these example "structural remedies": You're right @Spawn_of_Apathy - it's ALL about CoD! These suggested "divestiture of CoD" structural remedies strike me as an absolute non-starter so MS/ABK had better hope that the CMA is open to negotiations based on the proposed remedies MS floated to the EC such as the 10 year contract for CoD non-exclusivity, otherwise this deal is dead.

Oh yeah?!? Check out this absolutely scorching retort from "George": Wow. How will Mitt Romney ever recover from that sick burn, bro?!?

The official death toll now stands at 11,200.

I really am having a very difficult time seeing how the so-called "AAA"-tier is going to remain sustainable.

No, she didn't bring the balloon. However, she did get on Kevin's nerves with her heckling to the point where he did tell her to shush.