Give me a break. Social graces are not a genetic trait. They can be learned, like any other skill. It is totally within a person's control to change this.
Valuations of as much as 30x revenues are not unrealistic, depending on issues like your content, your name recognition, the number and type of your revenue streams, and the demographics you attract.
However, since you only grossed 20K last year you probably will not be able to command the higher valuation levels.
That said, $250,000 does not sound unreasonable.
Please consult a CPA or attorney before you cut any sort of deal. And don't forget the potential tax implications of a sale. You can lose as much as 50% of the price in taxes if you don't structure it right.
>Heck, most Americans think that it's evil that China has a one child policy
Chin's one child policy has led to the killing or abandonment of an uncounted number of infant girls, because the Chinese culture values sons more than daughters.
I can't agree with that. What is wrong with a parent teaching a child about his/her religion?
I'm a Jew. I celebrate the Jewish holidays in my home, I attend synagogue, I support the state of Israel. If I have kids I will raise them as Jews. If you have a problem with that, tough.
It is a tremendous fallacy to suggest that participation in an organized religion somehow is a form of brainwashing or intellectual laziness. It is just as much an active choice to stay with and practice your family's religion as it is to choose one of your own.
And to say that religous training will somehow get in the way of a child's intellectual development is an insult to the memory of such towering intellects as Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and Albert Einstein, to name just two handy examples.
>>To put all the blame on the parents would be relieving the school of any responsibility of instilling morals and ethics into our children. It's not the school's responsibility to do that (except perhaps if the school is affiliated with a religious institution), it's the parent's.
If you truly believe that your child will suffer at school and that there is no school in your area, public, private or parochial that could possibly make a difference, then make plans now to homeschool him.
How many times does it need to be said? Killing is NOT an appropriate response to being an outcast.
I was going to go on a long rant about eugenics but I decided not to.
Instead, I'll just point out that people who are in favor of eugenics always seem to think that it's those "OTHER" people who need to be sterilized, aborted, or killed.
Who would you choose to eliminate, "Anonymous Coward"?
What about that teacher they shot as he was trying to get kids to safety? Are you suggesting that he deserved to die for trying to protect the killers' targets?
Are you also willing to argue that Hitler was right to murder millions of Jews, because in his twisted mind he thought the Jewish people had wronged him in his younger days (as he claimed in 'Mein Kampf')?
It is never OK to kill people based on the group they belong to.
Being treated poorly is NOT justification for murder. If you think it is, you need some serious help.
I went from being an unhappy, unpopular loner in junior high to a happy high school student with friends who shared my interests by joining first my school's choir and then the theater group.
My high school had a lot of cliques, but there was a lot of cross-pollenization too. It wasn't Utopia, but it wasn't hell either.
Obligatory "outsider" credentials: I got beaten up myself several times in junior high -- picture a shy, skinny girl getting punched and kicked by a group of guys and coming home with bruises the size of grapefruits on my body -- so I do know how terrible it is. I thank God the boys didn't think to gang-rape me instead. I was lucky.
That said, I have to say that something is deeply wrong here if we would rather blame the victims than the perpetrators.
Killing someone because of their non-lethal actions (e.g., taunting, social ostricism) is NOT proportional, NOT appropriate, and NOT justifiable. Someone who thinks it is has gone over the edge and needs some serious counseling. I would even venture to suggest that those who in their hearts felt happy that a bunch of "jocks" finally got what they deserved might want to take a long hard look at themselves as well.
You are powerless and trapped only if you allow yourself to be. That's as true in high school as it is anywhere else. It's also hard work to get there. But it is ultimately a better solution than hatred, blaming the victim, or giving up entirely.
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Newbie-friendliness was a key componant to PalmSource's decision to go with Jot.
Give me a break. Social graces are not a genetic trait. They can be learned, like any other skill. It is totally within a person's control to change this.
Like the subject of this post, censoring a troll is completely irrelevent to the issue here.
Valuations of as much as 30x revenues are not unrealistic, depending on issues like your content, your name recognition, the number and type of your revenue streams, and the demographics you attract.
However, since you only grossed 20K last year you probably will not be able to command the higher valuation levels.
That said, $250,000 does not sound unreasonable.
Please consult a CPA or attorney before you cut any sort of deal. And don't forget the potential tax implications of a sale. You can lose as much as 50% of the price in taxes if you don't structure it right.
NetSol doesn't exactly own DNS as a whole but it does have a good solid grip on the machinery.
With Thawte already acquired, I have some concerns that this deal is going to mean a world of hurt for the new alternate registrars.
>Heck, most Americans think that it's evil that China has a one child policy
Chin's one child policy has led to the killing or abandonment of an uncounted number of infant girls, because the Chinese culture values sons more than daughters.
Is that clearly needed as well?
I can't agree with that. What is wrong with a parent teaching a child about his/her religion?
I'm a Jew. I celebrate the Jewish holidays in my home, I attend synagogue, I support the state of Israel. If I have kids I will raise them as Jews. If you have a problem with that, tough.
It is a tremendous fallacy to suggest that participation in an organized religion somehow is a form of brainwashing or intellectual laziness. It is just as much an active choice to stay with and practice your family's religion as it is to choose one of your own.
And to say that religous training will somehow get in the way of a child's intellectual development is an insult to the memory of such towering intellects as Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and Albert Einstein, to name just two handy examples.
>>To put all the blame on the parents would be relieving the school of any responsibility of instilling morals and ethics into our children.
It's not the school's responsibility to do that (except perhaps if the school is affiliated with a religious institution), it's the parent's.
If you truly believe that your child will suffer at school and that there is no school in your area, public, private or parochial that could possibly make a difference, then make plans now to homeschool him.
How many times does it need to be said? Killing is NOT an appropriate response to being an outcast.
I was going to go on a long rant about eugenics but I decided not to.
Instead, I'll just point out that people who are in favor of eugenics always seem to think that it's those "OTHER" people who need to be sterilized, aborted, or killed.
Who would you choose to eliminate, "Anonymous Coward"?
What about that teacher they shot as he was trying to get kids to safety? Are you suggesting that he deserved to die for trying to protect the killers' targets?
Are you also willing to argue that Hitler was right to murder millions of Jews, because in his twisted mind he thought the Jewish people had wronged him in his younger days (as he claimed in 'Mein Kampf')?
It is never OK to kill people based on the group they belong to.
Being treated poorly is NOT justification for murder. If you think it is, you need some serious help.
I went from being an unhappy, unpopular loner in junior high to a happy high school student with friends who shared my interests by joining first my school's choir and then the theater group.
My high school had a lot of cliques, but there was a lot of cross-pollenization too. It wasn't Utopia, but it wasn't hell either.
Obligatory "outsider" credentials: I got beaten up myself several times in junior high -- picture a shy, skinny girl getting punched and kicked by a group of guys and coming home with bruises the size of grapefruits on my body -- so I do know how terrible it is. I thank God the boys didn't think to gang-rape me instead. I was lucky.
That said, I have to say that something is deeply wrong here if we would rather blame the victims than the perpetrators.
Killing someone because of their non-lethal actions (e.g., taunting, social ostricism) is NOT proportional, NOT appropriate, and NOT justifiable. Someone who thinks it is has gone over the edge and needs some serious counseling. I would even venture to suggest that those who in their hearts felt happy that a bunch of "jocks" finally got what they deserved might want to take a long hard look at themselves as well.
You are powerless and trapped only if you allow yourself to be. That's as true in high school as it is anywhere else. It's also hard work to get there. But it is ultimately a better solution than hatred, blaming the victim, or giving up entirely.