Everything posted by SydneyCarton
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What new UT gear are you looking to buy this year?
Based on the color of those blue jeans maybe 1984.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
It’s Spider2yBanana.
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What is your biggest business regret?
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.
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Do you FIRE? Financial Independence, Retire Early
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?
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2025 Tailgate Thread - Let's Party
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.
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2025 Tailgate Thread - Let's Party
Dont compliment him, he's going to become insufferable.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Just a general heads up, boys, prepare your anus or maybe take the afternoon off. The child is back on the amphetamines again.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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.
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
You think they like you now?
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Anyone Here A Trademark Attorney?
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.
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Anyone Here A Trademark Attorney?
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.
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Anyone Here A Trademark Attorney?
They do have a federal trademark. But it is also a generic term.
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Anyone Here A Trademark Attorney?
Well, it matters. It basically removed our ability to advertise on the internet entirely. There’s a lot of nuance.
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Anyone Here A Trademark Attorney?
Thanks gents
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Anyone Here A Trademark Attorney?
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.
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Anyone Here A Trademark Attorney?
I am interested, please, thank you.
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Anyone Here A Trademark Attorney?
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.
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Anyone Here A Trademark Attorney?
Thanks for trying to dox me bro.
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Anyone Here A Trademark Attorney?
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.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Pretty sure Sark said in one of his recent press conferences not to expect Mosely until October.
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Bourbon
These posts make me feel real good about the Weller CYPB I picked up on the cheap from TotalWine a couple years ago.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Houston? Non-CR thread
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.
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Epstein and Maxwell
I'm sorry, what 7 wars did this fucking idiot end?
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Heights/Garden Oaks/Oak Forest
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.
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Heights/Garden Oaks/Oak Forest
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.