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| Date | Title | Body |
|---|---|---|
| 6 days 3 hours ago | shit |
floats |
| 5 weeks 6 hours ago | effing HATE those things...... |
and i own one......... |
| 20 weeks 10 hours ago | right, but.... |
in what world do you think you get to avoid that? I am G.M. of a start-up here in San Francisco and over the last three years have been embroiled in separate negotatitions with attorneys from HP/Palm, Verizon and AT&T over licensing our technology. After the first 5 months or so, I dumped our counsel and started managing it myself (and I am not a lawyer), because we were dropping huge amounts of $$ on people whose main job seemed to be obfuscating things in order to extend the process so they could increase their billable hours. Same thing for the attorneys on the other side of the table, each one coming in with a such draconian set of expected rights in their boilerplate contracts that I had no choice but to refuse to sign any of them. Signing one of them would essentially preclude me from working with anyone else within the U.S., because what they are demanding is essentially exclusivity on the technology without paying for it. This has only gotten worse as we expand internationally and deal with companies like Vodafone who start out asking for the same thing, only on a global basis (or anywhwere they have a presence, which is more or less the same thing). To a company, their involvement amounted to summarily refsuing to even look at our contract and sending me their standard issue MSA for me to red line, then refusing anything but the most meaningless of edits and for any material changes I made, re-writing them to say the exact same thing in a slightly different way and sending it back to me like I am supposed to be okay with it and scheduling a meeting for 2 weeks later in order to again discuss the same points. Funny thing is, I have worked with the marketing people at all of the companies to essentially be able to circumvent the requirement for a contract and to be able to sell them our solution and invoice them without having one. So far so good. We got super lucky in that we have been profitable from day one and delightfully were able to cease the negotiations with V.C.s and their lawyers. I have worked at 8 different start-ups and I know that those were all headed in the same direction, that being a prison-style assault on the equity and ownership rights. Had we needed the money, we would be i a very different place right now with our exit strategy being controlled by them and the board members they would have required us to take on. Sorry, ranting a bit, but the legal system, with regard to business, to me has become nothing but a hindrance and a process to be avoided at all costs and I guess the Technology Transfer Office at UM is no different. I see the value in definining things to avoid problems later and would certainly prefer to be working under contract (negotiations are ongoing), but to me it seems like the whole system is geared toward supporting a huge amount of $$ and overhead in the industry. Stepping down from soap-box now. |
| 21 weeks 6 days ago | Bacon said... |
..he heard someone say "he isn't injured." That could have been said by anyone for any number of reasons, true or not true, i.e. perhaps someone who thought he was not injured said it prior to there being a determination that he might be....we don't know. As for being pulled, performance is not the only reason you pull a player...attitude (see Beilien v. Manny), inability or refusal to stick to a plan (results nothwithstanding)...Threets state coming into the locker is clearly an indication of something being amiss...whether it was an injury or some rub with the coaches is unclear. Bacon is not making any assertions here, he simply reported what he heard and saw and I agree, it is confusing when you look at the entire sequence as a whole and I would guess it is also confusing to people who were there. It seems like a situation where there were some decisions being made and some confusion around the rationale for those decisions and perhaps some communication to the public that sought to downplay the whole situation to the public. I think you see that just about every weekend college football is played. Coaches are very often elusive and As much as you would like it to be, you don't have any kind of smoking gun here that is going to impugn the voracity (veracity?) (/s for those that need it) of the book and the mountain of evidence it puts forth. |
| 22 weeks 6 days ago | I think the accepted MGoblog course of action is... |
throwing a mostly empty water bottle at him on a regular basis. I do actually try to calm my ire with people/actions like this by reminding myself that this person is probably like that all the time and that they actually live their life being an a-hole. Seems weird, but it helps. |
| 22 weeks 6 days ago | yes, they do..n... |
and MSU fans cheer injuries for their opponents and boo......so we should endeavor to be like MSU.OSU in all ways? Boo-ing is right in line with that kind of behavior and is something to be avoided at all costs. Boo-ing while kids are on the field giving it their all, risking bodily injury, trying their hardest after weeks (lifetimes, perhaps?) of work in preparation......all for your enjoyment........is a shitty thing to do. No justification whatsoever. As Michigan fans we are supposed to be better than that. |
| 22 weeks 6 days ago | don't forget |
unrealistic, uninformed, over-entitled....I could go on ;) /s |
| 22 weeks 6 days ago | people kill people all the time too, but that |
doesn't make it right. This was not limited to RR years, see treatment in the past of a young Chad Henne, Lloyd Carr, Navarre.....all happened, none were justified. Boo-ing is a reaction from an infantile segment of the fan base that are getting enough of what they want. plain and simple. |
| 22 weeks 6 days ago | ergh..... |
I'm not sure sure what your definition of free is, but looking at the numbers coming out of the PracticeGate investigation, the amount of work put in for just countable hours is tremendous. If you attach even a minimum wage level of compensation to that, you are looking at a lot of $$. Let's also consider the things they give up to play football while at college, the parties, the almost complete lack of responsibility, the massive amount of socializing and fun that comes with attending a school with a few thousand people your own age, perhaps the ability to study whatever major you want due to time constraints. They also take a huge risk of bodily injury, either an abrupt, career-ending one, or ones that will appear later in life as a result of repeated/constant impact to the head, knees, spine, etc. That...is not free. Please also consider that very few of these guys are going to the NFL and they likely know it better than you do. I don't know an exact percentage, but the number of these guys making a career in the NFL is astronomically low. Also, remember that the entire program, the gameday experience, the history, the tradition and everything you love is built on their backs and that the athletic department runs on the revenue they generate. If you apportion the amount of profit from football revenues on a a per player basis, they are paying the U back in spades several times over. So yeah, boo them when you don't get enough of what YOU want and delude yourself into thinking you aren't acting like a petulant three year old. Good idea. |
| 22 weeks 6 days ago | way less than $0.02 cents worth.... |
Can I get a 'no sense'? |
