Can a person do this?

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News Corp. Is Officially Breaking Up With Itself

The News Corp. board of directors has approved a plan to split the company into two pieces, one for the company's lucrative entertainment businesses and its not-so-lucrative publishing businesses.

http://news.yahoo.com/news-corp-officially-breaking-itself-022425626--finance.html

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1. No living thing beyond a paramecium can do this.

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2. So you are saying a corporation is potentially a paramecium then

but couldn't possibly be a person. I'll go along with that.

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3. Identical twins, triplets -

any multiple resulting from the division of a single fertilized egg.

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5. That would work if this corporation was still an embryo

but this was a born and fully matured corporation already. In fact, it was 33, per wikipedia,
"News Corp was created in 1979 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company for News Limited. "

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4. Some starfish can regenerate two whole entities after splitting or being split.

Even a single arm can grow a whole new creature..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish#Regeneration

Some (but not all[33]) species of starfish have the ability to regenerate lost arms and can regrow an entire new arm given time. Some of these can regrow the rest of their bodies from a single arm[38] while others need at least part of the central disc to be attached to the arm.[38] Regrowth can take several months to years.[33][38] Starfish are vulnerable to infections during the early stages after the loss of an arm.[33] Arms live off stored nutrients till they regrow mouths. Other than fragmentation carried out for the purpose of reproduction, the division of the body may happen inadvertently due to a predator or it may be actively shed by the starfish to escape (see autotomy). The loss of parts of the body in response to a predator is achieved by the rapid softening of a special type of connective tissue in response to nervous signals. [39] [40] This type of tissue is called catch connective tissue and is found in most echinoderms.

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6. Okay, then a corporation can be a starfish but not a person, right? nt

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7. You're forgetting about Patrick..

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8. lol If a corporation was a person,

that is what it would look like.

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9. since murdoch is a single celled creature like an amoeba, I don't see why not.

Oh wait, you are talking about new corp. never mind.

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10. Lol - weelll..

.. mentally. Reeps do it all the time.

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11. I'm sure the Supreme Court thinks it can

And that's the only ruling that counts nowadays.