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<blockquote data-quote="W. Mark Hellinger" data-source="post: 84936" data-attributes="member: 692">Re: Competition: fair/unfairYes, I believe those are significant questions. I&#039;ll suggest that where the line is drawn oftentimes comes down to who&#039;s drawing the line. I&#039;ll suggest that if I&#039;m lying on my death bed... I suspect that I&#039;d prefer to draw the line of when to resuscitate (me) be somewhere other than where my heirs (or whoever is paying the bills after my finances run out) would consider it reasonable to have the line drawn. Those in-charge of a company who are drawing the line of spending cuts in a company that is in need of some belt tightening are likely the last to instigate a significan pay reduction or pink slip for themselves (regardless of where the most glaring belt tightening opportunities might be).Leave it to a publicly funded institution (or most anyone else) of where to draw the line, and I suspect they&#039;ll draw the line where-ever they see fit to do so... regardless of what anyone else thinks because thinking and doing are two different things.Really: I never considered, while pursuing my previous target market of biker parties and production work in night clubs (bars), that my strongest competitor would be a college (from a different state)… my mistake. I have no idea where they (the college) might perceive the line be drawn now as I moved on after they came stampeding into that market. For all I know they might own and operate a string of strip clubs and casinos by now (heck, why not?).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="W. Mark Hellinger, post: 84936, member: 692"] Re: Competition: fair/unfair [COLOR=#222222][FONT=Verdana]Yes, I believe those are significant questions. I'll suggest that where the line is drawn oftentimes comes down to who's drawing the line. I'll suggest that if I'm lying on my death bed... I suspect that I'd prefer to draw the line of when to resuscitate (me) be somewhere other than where my heirs (or whoever is paying the bills after my finances run out) would consider it reasonable to have the line drawn. Those in-charge of a company who are drawing the line of spending cuts in a company that is in need of some belt tightening are likely the last to instigate a significan pay reduction or pink slip for themselves (regardless of where the most glaring belt tightening opportunities might be). Leave it to a publicly funded institution (or most anyone else) of where to draw the line, and I suspect they'll draw the line where-ever they see fit to do so... regardless of what anyone else thinks because thinking and doing are two different things.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#222222][FONT=Verdana]Really: I never considered, while pursuing my previous target market of biker parties and production work in night clubs (bars), that my strongest competitor would be a college (from a different state)… my mistake. I have no idea where they (the college) might perceive the line be drawn now as I moved on after they came stampeding into that market. For all I know they might own and operate a string of strip clubs and casinos by now (heck, why not?).[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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