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[CNF2002]

Waffles or the running shoes?

[Gummiente]

Waffles or the running shoes?

Running shoes. He used the waffle iron to mold the tread pattern on them.

[totalmotorcycle]

Waffles or the running shoes?

Running shoes. He used the waffle iron to mold the tread pattern on them.

That's ingenious!

It's like the guy who invented the post-it note! Dam, if only I could go back in time and invent it before he did... Let's see, some paper too small to really use for much, a little skim of glue on the back and Ta-Da people buy them in the millions!!

Ok, who invented it? Were they from a rich family before they did so?

Mike.

[Gummiente]

Ok, who invented it? Were they from a rich family before they did so?

IIRC, Post-It notes were accidentally invented by a two person team at 3M while they were working on another project.

[JC Viper]

It's a shame that nowadays there are so many unchecked patents and copyrights floating around which makes it harder to create and innovate without fear of a major lawsuit.

Millionaires who own or run companies get even more greedy to the point where they would hire people overseas so they can pay them less, but not peanuts as many people in India and China can make it to middle class fairly easily (but their government still gets in the way).

[BuzZz]

On the un-used patent floating around topic....

Discovery channel is doing a series this fall where they dig up old and/or un-used patents and try building the item and then testing it.

One of them appears to be drilling out the face of a golf club and inserting a shotgun shell in there, then wacking a ball with it. Increased range is the goal, I assume, but I have my doubts as to it's effectiveness. Worth watching just to see that, IMO.

[MrGompers]

Re-Read that without the loosing attitude and rethink some of it.

To think that the "Master Class" are idiots is a falacy, while you might not like their current life style, most of the wealthiest of the US worked VERY hard to get there.

Could you name some of the wealthiest of America that worked very hard to get there ? I'm drawing a blank.

Well...

Bill Gates (like him or not, he worked hard)
Ed Rust
Ross Perot
Donald Trump
Ivan Seidenberg (CEO of verizon, started as a line tech)
Steve Jobs
Michael Dell

I would challange you to find a truly wealthy person that didn't WORK to get where they are. And when I say wealthy.. I mean INDEPENDATLY wealthy, not the playboy/playgirl children of the truly wealthy.

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I'm not sure who all those people are. I do know that Bill Gates and Donald Trump didn't work hard to get rich.

Bill Gates was handed his fortune by the stupidity of IBM. If IBM kept his work/research they would have been microsoft instead.

Donald Trump inhereted his real estate business from his father.

To Gummiente - Oprah I'll agree. I wouldn't have thought of her.

[MrShake]

Re-Read that without the loosing attitude and rethink some of it.

To think that the "Master Class" are idiots is a falacy, while you might not like their current life style, most of the wealthiest of the US worked VERY hard to get there.

Could you name some of the wealthiest of America that worked very hard to get there ? I'm drawing a blank.

Well...

Bill Gates (like him or not, he worked hard)
Ed Rust
Ross Perot
Donald Trump
Ivan Seidenberg (CEO of verizon, started as a line tech)
Steve Jobs
Michael Dell

I would challange you to find a truly wealthy person that didn't WORK to get where they are. And when I say wealthy.. I mean INDEPENDATLY wealthy, not the playboy/playgirl children of the truly wealthy.

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I'm not sure who all those people are. I do know that Bill Gates and Donald Trump didn't work hard to get rich.

Bill Gates was handed his fortune by the stupidity of IBM. If IBM kept his work/research they would have been microsoft instead.

Donald Trump inhereted his real estate business from his father.

To Gummiente - Oprah I'll agree. I wouldn't have thought of her.

Your living in a dream to think that they didn't work hard. As I said, even running a small buisness is tough, the bigger they get, they harder they are. The only reason I can think of to propigate the idea that the wealthy buisness owners of the world didn't work to get there is pure jealousy

[CNF2002]

On the un-used patent floating around topic....

Discovery channel is doing a series this fall where they dig up old and/or un-used patents and try building the item and then testing it.

One of them appears to be drilling out the face of a golf club and inserting a shotgun shell in there, then wacking a ball with it. Increased range is the goal, I assume, but I have my doubts as to it's effectiveness. Worth watching just to see that, IMO.

I think to have any patent you should have some kind of proof that you have built a prototype and are attempting to market it somehow.

Just coming up with an idea, writing it down, and filing it for 30 years should not be legal, IMO. Its inevitable that regardless of how 'good' your idea is, someone else will come up with something similar eventually...out of pure coincidence.

[Big B]

Right, what about that guy who founded Nike, then? I remember reading about how he started out with a waffle iron and some running shoes, selling them out of the back of his station wagon.

Phil Knight. great example gummi, started with basically nothing