Are you getting stopped by the tiniest hurdles ever?

[Johnny boy]

In December I crucified a mom online in a private homeschooling group for expats living in Spain because she was posting "it's all hopeless and impossible" type stuff. I haven't got my feathers ruffled that badly and gone after anybody like I did that day for a LONG time. She left the group. Good riddance.


So thank you. A lot.

Every time someone acts like it’s hopeless just tell them they’re right and should give up.

“Yeah you’re right man sounds pretty hopeless you should probably just quit”

I dunno if you ever use this in church (or if you even go)

on my way to mass this morning actually

 

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[Primeperiwinkle]

Every time someone acts like it’s hopeless just tell them they’re right and should give up.

“Yeah you’re right man sounds pretty hopeless you should probably just quit”




on my way to mass this morning actually

Cool. I read a ton of Aquinas last year and I deeply wish more evangelicals studied him, especially my lil charismatic corner. Aquinas was a genius.

And I wanted to say "just give up then" but the lady has already given up and now she actively tries to get other ppl to join her misery. I know she feels guilty. She's been commenting on other people's posts with stuff like "It's actually a lot harder than that and if you don't want child services to come to your door you should probably reassess your choices" so.. she's actively diverting ppl from their goal AND sparking fear AND using intelligent sounding vocabulary to do it... in a HOMESCHOOLING group.

I told her if she was on Magellan's ship she'd be tossed out by now.

Ppl are terrified of starting a business, terrified of breaking rules, terrified to take responsibility, terrified of homeschooling, terrified of thinking for themselves and all that despite willing to abandon their home country (like Germany) to move just so their kids can get a better life. Parents are chronically frightened. Sigh

I have no idea what has made so many ppl in the 21st century so genuinely horrified. It's an epidemic of fear. Somebody on the forum should develop sone type of bootcamp to make ppl not afraid of doing hard stuff. It's awful how freaked out everyone is all the time. No base of confidence. Sad.

Blah! On that note I am going to go enjoy a nice novel about serial killers.

 

[Johnny boy]

Cool. I read a ton of Aquinas last year and I deeply wish more evangelicals studied him, especially my lil charismatic corner. Aquinas was a genius.

And I wanted to say "just give up then" but the lady has already given up and now she actively tries to get other ppl to join her misery. I know she feels guilty. She's been commenting on other people's posts with stuff like "It's actually a lot harder than that and if you don't want child services to come to your door you should probably reassess your choices" so.. she's actively diverting ppl from their goal AND sparking fear AND using intelligent sounding vocabulary to do it... in a HOMESCHOOLING group.

I told her if she was on Magellan's ship she'd be tossed out by now.

Ppl are terrified of starting a business, terrified of breaking rules, terrified to take responsibility, terrified of homeschooling, terrified of thinking for themselves and all that despite willing to abandon their home country (like Germany) to move just so their kids can get a better life. Parents are chronically frightened. Sigh

I have no idea what has made so many ppl in the 21st century so genuinely horrified. It's an epidemic of fear. Somebody on the forum should develop sone type of bootcamp to make ppl not afraid of doing hard stuff. It's awful how freaked out everyone is all the time. No base of confidence. Sad.

Blah! On that note I am going to go enjoy a nice novel about serial killers.

The problem here is you being on a “group” with losers talking and engaging with them. There will be an unlimited supply of losers in the world, you can try to argue with 0.1% of them and it would still take you lifetimes to get through half of that amount.

And there is an incredibly high percentage of losers per capita on fb groups.

 

[thehawkman]

Gold from me again! Every post it seems! To add, your thoughts are not always your own.. Who gets in your head and says "You can't do this, it will fail, it will get me in trouble, it's not worth it etc.." Surely not god!
God says "With me you can do anything, I am on the right path, its hard but I can do it, its the right thing to do, society says its wrong but I know its right etc.."
Don't listen to the enemy! Your thoughts are not your own! The easy/coward way is obviously coming from something that wants you to fail, be a loser, and fall into depravity!
The Hard/Hero way is coming from God, someone who wants you to rise to his level, who has to be strong, bring prosperity to others, and be a role model in your community.. From ALL Biblical stories, you would KNOW that only comes from overcoming insurmountable obstacles, running towards fear, and not being afraid of pain.. Next time bad thoughts come in, think about who they're coming from.. It ain't God! So don't listen!!!

Frankly, being raised in a religious family (two hypocrites) I have to say that the beliefs about greed and "money is the root of all evil" (the actual quote is love of money is the root of all evil, but anyway), are also obstacles. There is a saying where I'm from "Do what the priest says, not what the priest does". Usually because they don't practice what they preach and they just as much love wealth accumulation as the laypeople (many of which are usually poor). Especially since where I'm from priests are REQUIRED to marry, so that turns everything on its head,

 

[EngineerThis]

Frankly, being raised in a religious family (two hypocrites) I have to say that the beliefs about greed and "money is the root of all evil" (the actual quote is love of money is the root of all evil, but anyway), are also obstacles. There is a saying where I'm from "Do what the priest says, not what the priest does". Usually because they don't practice what they preach and they just as much love wealth accumulation as the laypeople (many of which are usually poor). Especially since where I'm from priests are REQUIRED to marry, so that turns everything on its head,

There is absolutely nothing wrong with wealth in the bible, it's encouraged. God gifted wealth in countless stories upon characters. “Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
And to your point, men are fallible.. That's why we don't worship men..

 

[thehawkman]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with wealth in the bible, it's encouraged. God gifted wealth in countless stories upon characters. “Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
And to your point, men are fallible.. That's why we don't worship men..

True, but "provide" is relative. Someone like Bill Gates provides for his, just like a bus driver does. Besides, we gather here to discuss making money , and most people would label us as "greedy'.

 

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[Kevin88660]

True, but "provide" is relative. Someone like Bill Gates provides for his, just like a bus driver does. Besides, we gather here to discuss making money , and most people would label us as "greedy'.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VVxYOQS6ggk&pp=ygUTZ29yZG9uIGdla2tvIHNwZWVjaA%3D%3D

 

[MRiabov]

This is obviously unrelated to Fastlane, but last year I've decided to break a few rules in my bottom-of-the-crab-bucket college...

Basically attendance was around 10%, I had half of the staff hating me for talking... Because I've inserted a few comments here and there about which bullshit they teach us (in a business degree.. Obviously teachers were making about 2100€/mo..).

We were coming to uni to be taught about:

• 8 different types of bullying,
• how corporations like polluting the environment,
• how wealth should be redistributed from rich to poor (taught by a 110kg lady in 50s who drove a 10yo $5k second-hand car)...
• How to become a millionaire through investing in stocks... Taught by a lecturer who came from US to our second-world country because he couldn't afford living in US. Notably, the guy in 60s complained that he can't afford to live in the city either.
• That it's unfair that software engineers have more salary than economists...

Ad nauseam.

Well, so I had half of the staff hating me and as a result they didn't pass my bachelor thesis on raising VC. Without going into details, I'll have to pass it again this year. Because I still haven't finished the product which means I'm working but broke.

If I won't, I'll F*ck up my EU visa. If not now, a little later. (obviously I could migrate to some Bali later in case of bad failure, but that's require capital which I don't have rn.

Sometimes breaking the rules puts you in bad consequences.


...
Notably, to break the rules here, I could attempt to go and raise a small loan round and tell them to go F*ck themselves, but I doubt that anybody will loan me on pre-prevenue product, no matter the fact that it could make billions (see problemologist.ai).

Anyway, I'll get back to coding...

 

[Kevin88660]

• how wealth should be redistributed from rich to poor (taught by a 110kg lady in 50s who drove a 10yo $5k second-hand car)...

You are in Ireland?

Ireland is also a tax heaven just like my home country Singapore.

 

[Panos Daras]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with wealth in the bible, it's encouraged.

Everything is wrong with the act of accumulating wealth in the New Testament. I do not know which book you are reading. It is one of the rare cases where Christianity does not contradict itself. It is very judgmental of people who accumulate wealth, do not pay their workers (harvesters), and ask people to donate all their riches to charity. Early Christians sold all their property and gave it to the poor.

 

[MRiabov]

You are in Ireland?

Ireland is also a tax heaven just like my home country Singapore.

It was said in Slovakia (my first uni), which is a relatively poor country, with average income of about 800€/mo.

Ireland isn't a tax haven at all. Up to 52% effective personal income tax + high related to business costs, like insurance.
Though I must say, I'm not super-qualified to talk about this, since my tax education is that of Slovakia, and IE is probably different.

If I calculate taxes in IE the way I'd calculate them in Slovakia, they would be super-high.

 

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[EngineerThis]

Everything is wrong with the act of accumulating wealth in the New Testament. I do not know which book you are reading. It is one of the rare cases where Christianity does not contradict itself. It is very judgmental of people who accumulate wealth, do not pay their workers (harvesters), and ask people to donate all their riches to charity. Early Christians sold all their property and gave it to the poor.

That's where the LOVE of money comes in. The bible clearly states you're a POS if you don't work hard, provide for your family, and community.. How do you do that without creating a business, helping people, and employing others? If your a lazy worker who feels entitled, you're sinning too! It's very clear on this... You reference "And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
This is not a contradiction, there is no contradictions in the word of god, Jesus is warning about the love of money and materialism, it's part of a story with a rich kid... There is zero qualifications to get into heaven besides faith in Jesus. Thats it.. This is context

 

[Panos Daras]

That's where the LOVE of money comes in. The bible clearly states you're a POS if you don't work hard, provide for your family, and community.. How do you do that without creating a business, helping people, and employing others? If your a lazy worker who feels entitled, you're sinning too! It's very clear on this... You reference "And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
This is not a contradiction, there is no contradictions in the word of god, Jesus is warning about the love of money and materialism, it's part of a story with a rich kid... There is zero qualifications to get into heaven besides faith in Jesus. Thats it.. This is context

Good response and just to wrap this up: Wealth accumulation is not encouraged in the Bible as a goal in itself. Instead, as you pointed out, the Bible emphasizes hard work, stewardship, and generosity, with warnings about the dangers of prioritizing wealth over spiritual and moral values. Wealth may be a byproduct of ethical living, but its accumulation is not presented as a virtue.

Sorry, I will not continue this conversation afterward it adds 0 value.

 

[Ravens_Shadow]

Appreciate the thread, all things come with potentially great risk. A couple of years ago I invested in my brother's business so he could start it up. His previous employer was pretty pissed and so they sued him for a variety of things, it's now in federal court and he's paid around $120k in lawyers fees right off the bat. Litigation is still ongoing.

My initial response to his barriers were "bruh, there's no way they would ever sue you.. just start the biz." Don't forget that some people out there are pretty petty towards competition and will drag you through the mud.

 

[Kevin88660]

Appreciate the thread, all things come with potentially great risk. A couple of years ago I invested in my brother's business so he could start it up. His previous employer was pretty pissed and so they sued him for a variety of things, it's now in federal court and he's paid around $120k in lawyers fees right off the bat. Litigation is still ongoing.

My initial response to his barriers were "bruh, there's no way they would ever sue you.. just start the biz." Don't forget that some people out there are pretty petty towards competition and will drag you through the mud.

If your brother is not making serious money yet, the ex-boss is just doing a lose-lose revenge stunt….

But some people do that.

In the chess scene in my country people actually sued other players for defamations..

 

[JordanK]

Ireland is only a high tax country if all your income comes from a salary.

If you have a business its brilliant.

 

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[StrikingViper69]

That's where the LOVE of money comes in. The bible clearly states you're a POS if you don't work hard, provide for your family, and community.. How do you do that without creating a business, helping people, and employing others? If your a lazy worker who feels entitled, you're sinning too! It's very clear on this... You reference "And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
This is not a contradiction, there is no contradictions in the word of god, Jesus is warning about the love of money and materialism, it's part of a story with a rich kid... There is zero qualifications to get into heaven besides faith in Jesus. Thats it.. This is context

It also talks about unicorns and opens with incest.

Then genocide, more incest, adultary, murder

You believe in unicorns, right?

 

[Kevin88660]

It also talks about unicorns and opens with incest.

Then genocide, more incest, adultary, murder

You believe in unicorns, right?

Intellectuals can discuss about theology but the end of the day it’s about the community.

I read from an interesting quote from a historian that a woman in a church community cares more about if her husband and neighbors can be trusted than what happened to dinosaurs millions of years ago.

 

[jarbasams]

This is a very interesting topic and I’ve thought about these things many times before. This is gonna be long, but I will write with my heart and soul.

Living in Brazil and having advised SMEs in M&A transactions and other complex negotiations, I can say that most entrepreneurs around me often depend on some kind of trickery to keep their businesses going. I am currently working with three clients who I am advising on potential negotiations. All of them, which are reputable companies owned by people of good character, are somehow circumventing one of the thousands of regulations in order to continue operating. From moving goods or making payments without an invoice, to hiring employees as if they were legal entities or receiving remuneration outside of their payroll, to irregularities in licenses, paying taxes, etc. The list could be huge. I am not a tax inspector or auditor, but it strikes me that no one works 100% within all the rules. In addition to running the risk inherent to their activity and their business, there is also the risk of non-compliance with some regulation. And it is not that I think this is due to bad intentions, but because it is really almost impossible to comply to everything, especially in Brazil where the regulatory complexity is absurd.

Yesterday I was at a client's who was receiving some visitors who were talking about a business opportunity. They were reporting how a certain businessman in a remote “nowhere land" made fortune through forging land title documents and extorting the people who cultivated the soil for their subsistence. I'm not involved in these businesses, I don't know the people involved and I don't have any proof of anything, but I keep thinking that I would really like to get away from an environment where "successful people" have this kind of attitude. On the other hand, I noticed that these people are bold, daring and aggressive. To a certain extent, this is something I would like to develop because I need it to conquer more territory, more self-confidence to achieve greater feats than the current ones.

In this regard, it is interesting to understand how these people think. My way of thinking tends to always be that you need to study, plan, and learn about something before doing it. This is because I have no room for loss, or so I understand. In fact, I don't think I'm wrong. But this client of mine, for example, is the opposite of that. A person who does a lot of practical work and doesn't study much. But he has had professional and business success, or at least has made progress in his projects and ventures . He has people like me at his service, and not only me. I am on the finance and business side, but he also hired a PhD for the product development part, in addition to other very qualified people on his team. He doesn't have a degree. And he has a PhD, in the company's area of expertise working for him. Therefore, if there is an opportunity or a project worth pursuing, the technical part can be overcome by hiring people specialized in each thing, in each topic. This much I know. But what would be the most relevant attributes of this client, then? Initiative? Confidence? Ability to mobilize others?

On the other hand, it is worth considering that perhaps his definition of success is different from mine. Because for me, success at any price is not important. What matters is progress, but as long as the family comes first, and for that to happen, it is essential that moral values are preserved at all times, because that is where the example I need to set for my children comes from. I am also not interested in being in situations of great insecurity that put the well-being of the family at risk. I know that this businessman, my client, has gone through ups and downs. Times when he suffered losses, got into debt, made bad deals. Of course, not all years are good, in any business. But putting the family home at risk, for example, is something that I consider incompatible with my concept of success. Nor is it part of my concept of success to live for appearances, buying cars and properties on credit. So I cannot compare myself to him in this regard, even though I have things to learn from him.

But getting back to the main point, what I have been thinking about is how to move forward without having to find "quick fixes". Of course, there are many competent and intelligent people moving forward in a correct and honorable way, but they may be a minority. Maybe I am being pessimistic or biased, but these are the thoughts in my mind right now. And what kind of business environment is being fostered if most people are complicit in these things? When a whole country gets used to doing something to bend the rules, because the rules themselves are absurd, unfair, abusive, how does this also affect the society in which we live and will live in many years from now? What kind of society will my son find when he grows up? I keep wondering if I am not in the wrong place living in Brazil, if I should not seek a different way to establish myself professionally, a way where wanting to do things correctly is not a self-inflicted handicap. I may be exaggerating, perhaps. Not sure whether it would be different anywhere else. There may be no perfect place, but there may be better options.

My parents' generation was poor and experienced hyperinflation, currency devaluation, price controls, etc. My generation lived through a period of greater economic stability and was able to go further than my parents’, to make relatively good progress. All these may happen again, and these are external forces against which fighting is useless. But I don't want to spend another 10 years selling hours of my life in exchange for money. I want something of greater value to society, and that at the same time will be converted into value for me in the future and empowers me to overcome a possibly adverse external scenario. But I don't want to give up on my values.

Could all this be a big excuse that keeps me from taking action? Am I being puritan, idealist, utopic? Or should I look for a different environment somewhere else where I can maximize my chances of trhiving?

 

[marfmarkus]

I cannot describe how good this thread is because it's the kind that i'd wake up to and read every single day to engrain it into my head with a hot iron.

If you were a teenager you could’ve smoked crack in the middle of class and punched your teacher in the face and you would actually have been fine. They would’ve yelled. You would be kicked out of the school. A cop would be really disappointed with you. A whole lot of threats and “talking to”, and then you’d be fine.

My favourite part

 

[Johnny boy]

I cannot describe how good this thread is because it's the kind that i'd wake up to and read every single day to engrain it into my head with a hot iron.



My favourite part

And if you’re in Seattle you can do it as an adult and be fine too

 

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[thehawkman]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VVxYOQS6ggk&pp=ygUTZ29yZG9uIGdla2tvIHNwZWVjaA%3D%3D

Eh, honestly, I love that movie in a dark way ("It's all about the bucks kid, the rest is conversation"), but that guy was a dick. That is exactly the type of person people think of when thinking about businesspeople. "Why do you wanna wreck this company? Because it's wreckable, all right? I took another look at it and I changed my mind".

 

[thehawkman]

This is a very interesting topic and I’ve thought about these things many times before. This is gonna be long, but I will write with my heart and soul.


Could all this be a big excuse that keeps me from taking action? Am I being puritan, idealist, utopic? Or should I look for a different environment somewhere else where I can maximize my chances of trhiving?

I think it is. But I'd say as long as you're not scamming people out of their money, just go ahead.

 

[Z Dalvi]

"Don't get legal before you get rich"

Banger post

 

[Johnny boy]

This is a very interesting topic and I’ve thought about these things many times before. This is gonna be long, but I will write with my heart and soul.

Living in Brazil and having advised SMEs in M&A transactions and other complex negotiations, I can say that most entrepreneurs around me often depend on some kind of trickery to keep their businesses going. I am currently working with three clients who I am advising on potential negotiations. All of them, which are reputable companies owned by people of good character, are somehow circumventing one of the thousands of regulations in order to continue operating. From moving goods or making payments without an invoice, to hiring employees as if they were legal entities or receiving remuneration outside of their payroll, to irregularities in licenses, paying taxes, etc. The list could be huge. I am not a tax inspector or auditor, but it strikes me that no one works 100% within all the rules. In addition to running the risk inherent to their activity and their business, there is also the risk of non-compliance with some regulation. And it is not that I think this is due to bad intentions, but because it is really almost impossible to comply to everything, especially in Brazil where the regulatory complexity is absurd.

Yesterday I was at a client's who was receiving some visitors who were talking about a business opportunity. They were reporting how a certain businessman in a remote “nowhere land" made fortune through forging land title documents and extorting the people who cultivated the soil for their subsistence. I'm not involved in these businesses, I don't know the people involved and I don't have any proof of anything, but I keep thinking that I would really like to get away from an environment where "successful people" have this kind of attitude. On the other hand, I noticed that these people are bold, daring and aggressive. To a certain extent, this is something I would like to develop because I need it to conquer more territory, more self-confidence to achieve greater feats than the current ones.

In this regard, it is interesting to understand how these people think. My way of thinking tends to always be that you need to study, plan, and learn about something before doing it. This is because I have no room for loss, or so I understand. In fact, I don't think I'm wrong. But this client of mine, for example, is the opposite of that. A person who does a lot of practical work and doesn't study much. But he has had professional and business success, or at least has made progress in his projects and ventures . He has people like me at his service, and not only me. I am on the finance and business side, but he also hired a PhD for the product development part, in addition to other very qualified people on his team. He doesn't have a degree. And he has a PhD, in the company's area of expertise working for him. Therefore, if there is an opportunity or a project worth pursuing, the technical part can be overcome by hiring people specialized in each thing, in each topic. This much I know. But what would be the most relevant attributes of this client, then? Initiative? Confidence? Ability to mobilize others?

On the other hand, it is worth considering that perhaps his definition of success is different from mine. Because for me, success at any price is not important. What matters is progress, but as long as the family comes first, and for that to happen, it is essential that moral values are preserved at all times, because that is where the example I need to set for my children comes from. I am also not interested in being in situations of great insecurity that put the well-being of the family at risk. I know that this businessman, my client, has gone through ups and downs. Times when he suffered losses, got into debt, made bad deals. Of course, not all years are good, in any business. But putting the family home at risk, for example, is something that I consider incompatible with my concept of success. Nor is it part of my concept of success to live for appearances, buying cars and properties on credit. So I cannot compare myself to him in this regard, even though I have things to learn from him.

But getting back to the main point, what I have been thinking about is how to move forward without having to find "quick fixes". Of course, there are many competent and intelligent people moving forward in a correct and honorable way, but they may be a minority. Maybe I am being pessimistic or biased, but these are the thoughts in my mind right now. And what kind of business environment is being fostered if most people are complicit in these things? When a whole country gets used to doing something to bend the rules, because the rules themselves are absurd, unfair, abusive, how does this also affect the society in which we live and will live in many years from now? What kind of society will my son find when he grows up? I keep wondering if I am not in the wrong place living in Brazil, if I should not seek a different way to establish myself professionally, a way where wanting to do things correctly is not a self-inflicted handicap. I may be exaggerating, perhaps. Not sure whether it would be different anywhere else. There may be no perfect place, but there may be better options.

My parents' generation was poor and experienced hyperinflation, currency devaluation, price controls, etc. My generation lived through a period of greater economic stability and was able to go further than my parents’, to make relatively good progress. All these may happen again, and these are external forces against which fighting is useless. But I don't want to spend another 10 years selling hours of my life in exchange for money. I want something of greater value to society, and that at the same time will be converted into value for me in the future and empowers me to overcome a possibly adverse external scenario. But I don't want to give up on my values.

Could all this be a big excuse that keeps me from taking action? Am I being puritan, idealist, utopic? Or should I look for a different environment somewhere else where I can maximize my chances of trhiving?

I don’t consider compliance with some arbitrary rule morality. I consider our actual net effect on others morality.

Was wearing a mask during Covid a moral thing? No of course not. It was retarded. But rule compliance is morality for retarded sheep.

I don’t follow any stupid gay rules for the sake of them just existing, and I try to only hurt my enemies.

Would you run a stop sign to get your bleeding daughter to a hospital who has minutes until she loses consciousness? I hope you would. I would call you a massive embarrassment of a father if you didn’t.

Bbb…but…but the RULES.

That’s how I look at nearly everyone else.

I look at them like they’re the type of person who would go stop at a stop sign and drive the speed limit with a dying daughter in the car seat saying that they don’t want to break the rules.

I think successful people look at everyone around them in this way a bit.

Lazy
Full of excuses
Sticking to sheep rules too much
Needing some balls.

Just my opinion, I cant generalize how everyone thinks but I’ve noticed the pattern with people I know, and it’s usually to the proportion of their success.

 

[ThomasTLM]

If you want to succeed, you actually need to want to succeed. If you are going to let tiny insignificant setbacks sideswipe you, you never wanted it anyways.

Just revisiting this thread.

If I ever write a book and I include quotes at the beginnings of chapters, this quote is going in one of them.
Or perhaps I need to print it out and post it somewhere.

The theme here has just been reoccuring for me recently.

"Oh, you can't do it that way because...

...that violates our copyright."
...we can't give you permission."
...that's not our policy."

Ok then please tell me how I can 'get permission' or whatever. I'm not putting a gun to your head and robbing you, but I'm also not someone who is going to email you once, be told "no", and then toss my hands up.

I don't care. I have a goal and I am going to get there if I have to leave everything but my bones behind.

 

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[StrikingViper69]

Just revisiting this thread.

If I ever write a book and I include quotes at the beginnings of chapters, this quote is going in one of them.
Or perhaps I need to print it out and post it somewhere.

The theme here has just been reoccuring for me recently.

"Oh, you can't do it that way because...

...that violates our copyright."
...we can't give you permission."
...that's not our policy."

Ok then please tell me how I can 'get permission' or whatever. I'm not putting a gun to your head and robbing you, but I'm also not someone who is going to email you once, be told "no", and then toss my hands up.

I don't care. I have a goal and I am going to get there if I have to leave everything but my bones behind.

Are you trying to use someone’s IP?

 

[Johnny boy]

Just revisiting this thread.

If I ever write a book and I include quotes at the beginnings of chapters, this quote is going in one of them.
Or perhaps I need to print it out and post it somewhere.

The theme here has just been reoccuring for me recently.

"Oh, you can't do it that way because...

...that violates our copyright."
...we can't give you permission."
...that's not our policy."

Ok then please tell me how I can 'get permission' or whatever. I'm not putting a gun to your head and robbing you, but I'm also not someone who is going to email you once, be told "no", and then toss my hands up.

I don't care. I have a goal and I am going to get there if I have to leave everything but my bones behind.

Easy flowchart for knowing if you should worry about IP.

Are you worth more than a few million dollars?

If yes, worry about IP and don't use others' IP because you can get in trouble and things can be taken from you.

If no, F*ck it we ball.

 

[ThomasTLM]

Easy flowchart for knowing if you should worry about IP.

Are you worth more than a few million dollars?

If yes, worry about IP and don't use others' IP because you can get in trouble and things can be taken from you.

If no, F*ck it we ball.