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Mike Godwin is probably just enjoying his success as managing director, Mövenpick Ice Cream, if I understand this piece in Eat Out magazine. I know some of you are saying "That's not the same Mike Godwin" (and "That's not how I pictured a magazine named Eat Out"), but check out this quote: QUOTE With an array of exquisite flavours, combined with our highly knowledgeable sales team, I'm sure we can continue the positive momentum throughout the Winter period, and capitalise on current consumer trends for premium products. Clearly a lawyer.
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QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Wed 20th October 2010, 7:10am) QUOTE(NuclearWarfare @ Tue 19th October 2010, 2:37pm) Quite interesting that they wrote up a Q&A summary that anticipated most of the usual questions. Have they done that before?
I did not heretofore understand that FAQ meant Frequently Avoided Questions....and three days notice? WTF? I'm currently reading an account of the Tlatelolco Massacre of '68. After the event one of the students described the way they read the newspapers as "Why is my government telling me this particular lie at this particular moment?" 3 days notice and a severance package tells me that he was pushed, and pushed hard. And the list of things that are not the reason leave a lot less to speculate on. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/wtf.gif)
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QUOTE(carbuncle @ Tue 19th October 2010, 2:07pm) Mike Godwin is probably just enjoying his success as managing director, Mövenpick Ice Cream, if I understand this piece in Eat Out magazine. I know some of you are saying "That's not the same Mike Godwin" (and "That's not how I pictured a magazine named Eat Out"), but check out this quote: QUOTE With an array of exquisite flavours, combined with our highly knowledgeable sales team, I'm sure we can continue the positive momentum throughout the Winter period, and capitalise on current consumer trends for premium products. Clearly a lawyer. Now he can be the Emperor of Ice Cream. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif) Let "be" be finale of "seem". Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups concupiscent curds. Let the wenches dawdle in such dress As they are used to wear, and let the boys Bring flowers in last month's newspapers. Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
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QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Tue 19th October 2010, 5:05pm) QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 19th October 2010, 2:11pm) Someone pointed out to me the very peculiar characteristic of this line:
"The Wikimedia Foundation believes Mike has always acted in what he believes to be the Wikimedia Foundation’s best interests."
This was probably intended to be the next best thing after "If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all."Yes, I noticed that line also. My take? God WIN Mike FAIL
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QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Tue 19th October 2010, 4:20pm) QUOTE(TungstenCarbide @ Tue 19th October 2010, 4:40pm) meh ... sounds like he got laid off - fired without cause. That's the official line, of course. But the reality is that he was shoved out the door for being incompatible with Sue's vision of what Wikimedia is about. It'll be interesting whether Erik gets shoved next. He's pretty much the last of "Jimmy's people" (defined as people who were part of the Foundation before Sue came along). Jimmy himself better be watching his back; it's a matter of time before Sue and Company decide that he, too, is redundant. Indeed. In a sense, you pay taxes (whether on income or property) as the price of having the government recognize you as the OWNER, with owners' rights (or at least title rights). If you don't pay the taxes, you don't get that. By refusing to own anything you can escape both taxes and legal risk (the risk of lawsuit from an unrelated civil suit back in 2001 apprently being ultimately why Jimmy does not own Wikipedia today). But all this comes with a penalty.
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