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[Steve Wargo] “I guess it would be OK if someone that used to work for you put all of your private business on the web. right?”
It’s always funny how people’s judgment changes when it is about them or their family or friends.
They hold one set of value standards when weighing others but hate it when anyone applies the same standard to them.
I think the word here, Steve, is hypocrisy.
These guys who agree with Flagler would be morally outraged were it their dirty laundry being hoisted up the flagpole, recorded for all the world to see by someone paid for 30 years as a trusted confidant.
I hate to get crude here but where I live there’s an old saying that people use when expressing their contempt, that I wouldn’t pee on them if they were on fire.
When it comes to Flagler and those that agree with them, I wouldn’t.
Robert
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[Steve Wargo] “I think that if Photography Studios had a sign on the door that said “We own the copyright to every photo we take of you and your family”, they would all be gone in about a month.”
I remember when my wife found out this hard lesson when she paid over $1,000 for some family pictures and years later wanted to have some more prints made. Since she didn’t have the negative, she took the photo to the local photo lab to have them make a negative to make prints from. They refused and told her she needed to go back to the photographer for prints. She called and was given a pricetag of over $350 for what she could have got at the local drug store for about $40.
She has become the woman that every time the subject of photos comes up with her girlfriends, she warns them of her experience. Now she gets the kids pictures taken at studios where they are willing to sign that she owns the copyright.
Robert
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This company reminds me of someone wanting to rob a bank. Even if they did not have a written contract, they knew that Wal-Mart had not hired them to tape this for the world.
The fact that Sam Walton hired them on a handshake long ago speaks better of Sam Walton than it does of this company.
I don’t agree with Ron that all corporate video will go in-house or to agencies, but I do agree that it will make many corporations more cautious about video in the future.
Robert
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I loved the NAB battle here. I learned more than I ever knew about NAB. Enough that I won’t be going this year. Going to save my money and buy something I’ve really needed instead.
Robert
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[Steve Eisen] “The Orleans Hotel & Casino has a Spring deal with rooms for $30 a night during NAB.”
Yes, they are getting ready to burn the place down after the recent body lice episode. The police and health departments found a body there that had been drained of all fluids. In the upper corner of the room was the largest louse that anyone had ever seen.
The district attorney wanted to try the louse and the hotel owner (who looked as if the two might be related) in court on charges of first degree murder but the defense attorney argued that a case could be made for suicide as the victim knowingly stayed there without duress.
A National Guard unit was brought in to capture the louse (and the hotel manager), after two Las Vegas policemen were killed in the line of duty when they were crushed as the louse sprung toward the door. Only the quick wit of the hotel manager — holding up a bill for room service, charging the louse for all he had eaten — restrained the louse long enough for the Guard unit to arrive.
For $40, they will give you a room that records show recently had the sheets changed.
Robert