[GEN] Lawyers Lay Waste to Military Models Industry

Not to mention my mother getting irate. Were it up to her he/it would no longer trouble this planet. Or its own, whichever that might be...;)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Reply to
Mad-Modeller
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You and I both know what 'assume' means.

Maybe he was merely trying to avoid the kind of media circus that's going on now.

What if he's found 'not guilty'?

Reply to
Al Superczynski

Actually it was toungue in cheek. Mainly I see his ugly mug plastere across the screen during the news, which I watch mostly for things like weather.

Reply to
Ron

Good one........my wife agrees with your mother.

Reply to
Ron

Maybe. But (a) how much money would a company make from licensing models, and (b) how much money would they have to spend on lawyers etc. to get the licensing program up and running? If b>a, the only people who'll profit are the lawyers...

Reply to
Harro de Jong

"Harro de Jong" wrote

If they are already employed by the company, the labor expense is fixed, even if they do nothing. Undoubtedly there is a legitimate requirement for at least one IP lawyer at a large firm, so you can't say they would save money by firing him. A lawyer is also undoubtedly an "exempt" employee, meaning he gets paid a fixed fee without additional overtime compensation (typical for professionals, engineers, accountants, procurement people, managers, and other white collar labor). So, the more work you can get out of him the better because other than the infinitesimal amount of electricity he uses working 'til 10 PM each night, any money he brings in over the fixed expense is "extry".

Look at exempt employees as machine tools. You are paying off the loan you spent to buy them 24/7 whether they run or not, so it's in your interest to run them - making things that you can sell for money - 24/7 as well. Yes, the maintenance cost will increase, but usually not enough to matter. Besides, when the machine is too clapped out to work and maintenance gets to be to high, you can scrap it and get a kid right out of college for less salary. . . Er. . . mixed up my metaphor there. . .

KL Exempt Employee

Reply to
Kurt Laughlin

The same percentage will believe that as believe that OJ really didn't slaughter his ex-wife and her lover.....

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

Reply to
The Old Timer

If there's one thing you're not, Al, it's ignorant.

As for the probability that a 'creep' (as opposed to a client you really feel good about) has probably done something else if not the crime in question, answers to questions like "would I leave my child out of sight with Michael Jackson for any measurable length of time?" will tell you pretty much all you need to know.

Mark Schynert

Reply to
Mark Schynert

That, and because he is one wierd SOB. Kim M

Reply to
Royabulgaf

Yes but it won't stop people from thinking that way.

Perhaps but he seems to enjoy this free publicity. What talent he had seems to have withered away and this way he stays in the public consciousness. On the whole I'd rather stay anonymous, but that's just me.

That won't stop people from feeling he is. If Ken Lay manages to evade prison time it won't stop people from considering him a crook.

Bill Banaszak

Reply to
Mad-Modeller

Thanks. I think... ;)

Indeed.

Reply to
Al Superczynski

Maybe. Or maybe he's making the best of a bad situation.

On this we definitely agree!

I'd rather stay anonymous too. And AFAIK Jackson didn't ask to be indicted.

Yeah, I know. More's the pity.

him a crook.

Ditto. Lots of people think OJ's a murderer despite his acquital. I don't know one way or the other since I wasn't privy to the jury's deliberations. Lots of people are dirtbags but that in and of itself doesn't make them criminals.

Reply to
Al Superczynski

True, but how many of those in upper management are so soaked in warped legalese themselves as to be indistinguishable from lawyers?

Rob

Reply to
Rob van Riel

Andrew's sentiments and his impolite representation thereof aside, these words neatly sum up why so many people loathe lawyers. In our societies, the law has become so convoluted, and truth and justice so insignificant compared to that law, that ordinary people just can't compete against the specialists anymore (if ever they could). It has all become a game for lawyers, with everybody else's lives as playing pieces, and the pieces don't like their part in all this.

Rob

Reply to
Rob van Riel

The same holds for professional hitmen. This is a non-argument.

If the legal system hadn't been built by lawyers, for lawyers to enjoy, you wouldn't need a lawyer to send such frauds packing.

Rob

Reply to
Rob van Riel

Not necessarily true. I went to court Pro Se in my child support case. The Arkansas DHS sent *three* (count 'em!) lawyers. I won. :)

Reply to
Al Superczynski

Rob van Riel wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mail.com:

That's why God gave us scoped rifles. And shotguns.

Reply to
Gray Ghost

"Digital_Cowboy" wrote

If they killed you because you not only don't prune the needless dreck from your posts but add even more, it would still be murder but a conviction would be unlikely.

:-|

KL

Reply to
Kurt Laughlin

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