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SydneyCarton

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  1. Based on the color of those blue jeans maybe 1984.
  2. I had like 1k in cash from my HS job. At the time, Apple Stock was at $1, and Steve Jobs had just returned. I thought about buying 1k in apple stock. Instead, I spent 500 on a receiver and speakers for music and watching movies. Good choice, Sydney.
  3. You and I are on similar timelines, although I'm nowhere near close to my required goal to be able to retire at 55. I've got 10 more years, and some things need to go right for me to get there, but I'm optimistic. Additionally, I want to be able to have a retirement nest egg and income large enough to be able to help our kid out. It seems to be a pretty shitty world he's going to inherit, so being able to send him to school debt free, and if necessary, help him get his first house early and help him into that, or help him weather whatever the job market looks like is on my list of priorities. Every plan I have is to be able to live solely off the retirement interest and still save some amount per year without touching the principle. So if my nest egg profit/dividends/whatever are 300k a year, after taxes, we'd better be able to live off 200k, for example. How're you going to get around the citizenship thing? She French?
  4. Even more insufferable, then. It's not like there's some kind of cap or top-out on egotism. For fuck's sake, look at the guy. He already thinks he can rock "disheveled hobo" as an adult male outside of Silicon Valley. The fucking hubris.
  5. Dont compliment him, he's going to become insufferable.
  6. Just a general heads up, boys, prepare your anus or maybe take the afternoon off. The child is back on the amphetamines again.
  7. I'd kill most of you if Manning's throwing motion resembled the ear level release of the 3rd photo. Gonna keep my tits nice and agitated, thank you.
  8. They’re 100% using it to bully. We’ve operated without issue for 5+ years. There are competitors that aren’t being targeted. But we wouldn’t agree to their contract terms to do business with them in this state, and they threw a fit and all of a sudden they’re threatening trademark litigation.
  9. Sure there are other ways to present it…but we do a lot of business online. Which means search terms in google are a big deal. You work to rank for those terms so you show up, because that’s what people type to find what we offer. We don’t decide what people search for to find services, we can just do our best to make our pages relevant for those search terms. Their behavior is the equivalent of saying we can’t write content for Best Houston Hamburgers. Your suggestion is akin to saying we try really hard to advertise for Houston Ground Beef Sandwiches. But no one searches for that so we won’t get any customers, if that makes sense.
  10. They do have a federal trademark. But it is also a generic term.
  11. Well, it matters. It basically removed our ability to advertise on the internet entirely. There’s a lot of nuance.
  12. I’m pretty sure they have in house trademark attorneys, so they probably don’t have the associated costs. also, you misunderstand, they’re not trying to get us to change our name. Our name is fine. They’re trying to say we can’t use those string of words anywhere on our website to sell services that aren’t their service.
  13. I am interested, please, thank you.
  14. Yes, Houston. We haven’t even got to a budget yet, but I mean we don’t have tons of cash lying around. My next question, as to being bully, if you can sue them for basically being Philly and get financial restitution. Sounds like no. And guessing without that no firm will take the case for a back-end win. Sigh. Edit: and yes they have a federal trademark.
  15. Thanks for trying to dox me bro.
  16. Or know a trademark attorney? I don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of all the surly attorneys and what they do, so I’ll tag a few and see if y’all can help direct me or direct me to someone @TwiceHorn @South Austin @Brisketexan @Ghost of LL @dcbc @Gatorubet. I know Twice is a patent guy, which isn’t the same but seems adjacent. anyway, we’ve got a big rich company trying to bully my small business over their “trademark” which is the equivalent of a state name and a general commodity, like Nebraska Corn or California Water or Texas Pecans or Maryland Crab Cakes and they’re saying we can’t use those select words next to each other in any way because it’s their trademark. It’s obvious bullshit, but they’re bullies. Every general attorney I’ve talked to laughs at the premise. So not sure if anyone can point me in the direction of someone who can help. So if I missed an attorney kindly tag them here. I’ve just got a couple simple questions.
  17. Pretty sure Sark said in one of his recent press conferences not to expect Mosely until October.
  18. These posts make me feel real good about the Weller CYPB I picked up on the cheap from TotalWine a couple years ago.
  19. Goddamnit that's right in front of my office. Of course, the construction has already fucked that whole area, so I'd be detouring to get home anyway.
  20. I'm sorry, what 7 wars did this fucking idiot end?
  21. You think that's bad, there's a house on TC Jester between 18 and 11th that has had a car drive through their yard and front of their house. Twice. In the last year. The first time, they dropped a couple huge boulders on part of their driveway to block a car from doing it again. This time they missed the boulders, somehow ran over an entire light pole, and still took out the front door of this place's house. I can't imagine the resale value is looking good. I'm not even sure I could live there anymore.
  22. Heading North on Shepherd I basically have to force remind myself when it goes from 4 lanes to 3 right at the end of that apartment complex.
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