From the article:

“This time around, the AP said that the 824.9 million euro fine was calculated as the maximum penalty that’s derived from four percent of a company’s worldwide annual turnover.”

Annual turnover is revenue, so top line money, before taxes, expenses, etc. They profited a little over $10 billion last year, so a nearly $1 billion fine is a little less than 10% of their profit.

I wouldn’t call it insignificant - as a percentage of profit, it’s not bad. But when we’re talking about billions, it’s still probably not enough to get them to stop.

Umm… I mean… I guess it’s not Jesus and his disciples, but that kind of thing definitely happens in the bible. E.g. Lot and his daughters.

Pretty sure this is for people to thank their departing friends and teammates. Not the other way around.

Well, actually… it’s ground into a powder, rather than the byproduct of sawing. I don’t think it counts.