Is this not a cash grab???

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[quote author=David Jimerson link=board=Offtopic;num=1102721012;start=15#19 date=12/10/04 at 17:44:17]You know, I'm just not seeing the crime against humanity here. Instead of charging the fee, they could have sought injunctive relief and a host of other possible remedies.[/quote]


Did you mean, instead of paying the fee David?
 
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[quote author=David Jimerson link=board=Offtopic;num=1102721012;start=15#19 date=12/10/04 at 17:44:17]You know, I'm just not seeing the crime against humanity here.  Instead of charging the fee, they could have sought injunctive relief and a host of other possible remedies.[/quote]

Absolutely. The company has every right to try and charge retroactively. I was just pointing out a way for the daycare to try get their way. The press is not famous for being indifferent. ;)
 
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No, I'm talking about the options Criterion had.  Charging the fee was probably the least burdensome.  They could have been *real* jerks if they had wanted to be.

And might be, if they're pushed.
 
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Also, as an attorney David I'm sure you are aware it always comes down to right and wrong ;)
 
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That's a pretty nebulous concept, don't you think? Is someone wrong to enforce his property rights? Is someone right to infringe them, to take without permission?
 
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Criterion has a right to charge, with this I have no problem. But when groups like Variety club and jerry lewis's telethon and many others work so hard to infuse cash to keep this daycare afloat (it is also a special needs facility) it seems somehow wrong to me for money to be paid in fees to people who have huge piles of cash already. And to be perfectly clear, this is my ***** more than the daycare...They just write the check to make it go away.
 
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The answer, by the way, to your question is "no." This is not a cash grab.

Besides, don't assume they have "huge piles of cash." Most companies, no matter how big, are not cash-rich.

And if this is Criterion the DVD producer, they're not even that big of a company. In fact, infringing on them might draw the ire of quite a few hardcore movie fanatics.
 
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[quote author=David Jimerson link=board=Offtopic;num=1102721012;start=15#28 date=12/10/04 at 18:11:02]The answer, by the way, to your question is "no." This is not a cash grab.
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Fair enough David. Maybe my view is twisted. I look at it this way. The film makers upon release quite often make huge amounts of return on their investment at the box office and in after market sales. Somewhere in the trickledown process there are a lot of other people riding the coatails of this financial success who want a piece of the action... and at the bottom of the food chain sits this facility that tries to provide the best service they can for children. Maybe I'm I'll informed or nieve here, it just seems unballanced
???

PS It probably is a miopic view and would't be my first :)
 
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Why would the daycare center be in the chain at all? They had nothing to do with the creation or production of the films. They're not entitled to any part of it.
 
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Correct. I didn't mean to imply they were. I meant in the trickledown from rich to poor, in that respect they are at the bootm of the food chain.
 
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Here I'm starting to feel like some kind of twisted Robin Hood :D
 
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That's not what "trickle down" means.

I understand what you're saying. Emotionally, it doesn't seem "fair" or "right" when people are trying to do something nice.

But it's just not that simple.
 
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Nothing ever is. Somewhere in the dark recesses I knew about the trickle down thing but thanks for pointing it out. :)
 
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Here's a little example of the grey nature of a lot of things.

There's this intersection near where I live, the conjunction of two busy roads. The busier road has an exit which ramps up to the less-busy, two-lane road, and the exit has a stop sign instead of a stoplight.

In the evenings, when everyone is driving home from work, the less-busy road is usually filled with a long line of unbroken traffic, which means people waiting at the stop sign have to wait for a long time.

Sometimes, a "good samaritan" on the road will stop, so that everyone behind has to stop, and lets some of the cars at the stop sign through.

Sounds fair enough, right? A nice thing to do? I'm sure the driver feels that way.

But think about the long long cars behind him who aren't doing anything wrong, just minding their own business, and suddenly, traffic stops because someone way up ahead is actually breaking the law. This will be a larger number of cars than those waiting at the stop sign.

So, in one sense, the driver who stops is doing a good thing. But in a larger sense, that driver should not stop.
 
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So it takes someone to point the problem out to the city engineers who then theoretically asses the problem and design a sytem that is fair to both traffic lines....No!
 
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Well, they could put in a stoplight . . . but it would be overkill for the problem. It only happens for about a two-hour period once a day, on weekdays.

But that's not the point. ::)
 
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They could put in a stoplight that only activated during peak hours.

But you're right , thats not the point.
 
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I go to these places sometimes cos I have a real simplistic view of the world.

How can you ever have world peace when you sometimes can't get people on the same cul de sac to get along?

I tend to boil it down into it's lowest common denominator :-/
 
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