SkipM’s Comments

• May 15th, 2013 @ 2:14pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Hollywood Suffering? Why Are Their Execs Making More Than Pretty Much Everyone Else?
  Saw a comment relative to newspapers that might apply. If you are stuck in a dying business model the best you can do is drive it profitably to death.
• Jul 7th, 2012 @ 10:48am

  Critics of new entertainment business models

  on Could Louis C.K. Make His TV Show Using The Direct-To-Fan Model?
  These critics had genetic forebears when the printing press first came into use.
• Jul 7th, 2012 @ 10:37am

  1) Hanlon's Razor 2) Principle, Process, Policy

  on Can't We All Get Along: Principles Over Policy; Ideas Over Ideology
  1) Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity (or ignorance)
  2)=Declaration of Independence->Constitutional Convention->Constitution
• Apr 4th, 2012 @ 1:09pm

  Read Franklin

  on Freakonomics Obsession With Patents Strikes Again: Says If More Women Got Patents The Economy Would Grow
  All one has to do is read Ben Franklin's Autobiography and you'll discover his thoughts about patents:
  
  That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.
  
  We've really lost that message.
  
  The founding fathers didn't trust monopolies or anything in perpetuity either.