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Morning all! Last 5 day work week before two 4 day weeks in a row. Woot!
Ditto. Memorial Day is a 4 day weekend for me. The only downer is I am on call the Thursday before.
Not me!! I start vaca on the 25th!! Only 5 working days for me til vacation!
Morning gang. Wow what an awesome weekend! Could not have asked for better weather...and of course the company.
Got a ton to do before my mini vacation starts on the 27th.
Josh, when are you going to be in the area again? I'll mark it on my calendar so I can look for stuff to do or look into organizing an impromptu meet.
Well crap... (hand) That's during the work week. Meh, I can always ask for a day off or to get out around noon-ish.
Greenblurr93
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Score 1 for the little man: http://southflorida.sun-sentinel.com/features/fl-home-depot-inventor-20100511,0,7428560.story
WEST PALM BEACH - When a Home Depot executive was told that inventor Michael Powell might have a claim against the hardware giant for stealing an invention that keeps store employees safe, his reaction was swift and vulgar.
"[Expletive] Michael Powell," the executive said. "Let him sue us."
The crass response typifies the company's attitude toward Powell, who crafted a simple yet ingenious way to keep Home Depot employees from slicing off their fingers while they're cutting wood for customers, a federal judge said Monday.
"Home Depot knew exactly what it was doing," said U.S. District Judge Daniel Hurley. "They simply pushed Mr. Powell away and they did it totally and completely for their own economic benefit."
Calling the company callous and arrogant, he ordered it to pay the former Boca Raton man $3 million in punitive damages. That's on top of the $15 million a jury in March said the company should pay him for stealing his so-called Safe Hands gadget, which is now affixed to radial saws at nearly 2,000 Home Depots nationwide.
And the damages for Home Depot don't end there. Hurley ordered it to pay Powell's attorneys the $2.8 million they say they are owed. He also ordered the company to pay Powell an estimated $1 million in interest annually on the judgment. The interest began building in 2006 and will continuing accruing until Home Depot pays up.
The roughly $25 million judgment could have been avoided had the company in 2004 agreed to pay Powell the $2,000 he offered to charge for each of the devices. That bill would have come to $4 million.
Instead, Hurley said, they dispatched workers to duplicate the saw guards Powell allowed them to test in eight stores in Georgia and California.
"It's sad to say, but Home Depot literally organized a theft of the Powell invention," he said.
Powell, who now lives in North Carolina, declined comment on the verdict on the advice of his attorneys, Peter Herman and Alexander Brown. Home Depot attorneys Bart Starr and Eileen Moss also declined comment.
A company spokesman said Home Depot disagreed with the ruling and is considering an appeal.
"We have a strong commitment to dealing with our business partners fairly and with integrity, which is how we've maintained long-standing relationships with literally tens of thousands of suppliers over the past thirty-plus years," company spokesman Stephen Holmes wrote in an e-mail. "We would never condone actions that intentionally violate another company's intellectual property rights."
However, Hurley said, that's not what the evidence showed during Monday's daylong hearing or during a nearly monthlong trial.
Recognizing it was a Goliath to Powell's David, the company sought to cut him out of any profits for the invention that saved the company millions in workers' compensation claims. In the year before the devices were installed, the company paid out $1 million in claims related to injuries caused by the saw. In the year after the gadgets were installed, it paid out $7,000.
He also criticized Home Depot attorneys for their handling of the case, which he described as "nasty, mean litigation." For instance, when Powell's attorney asked for records of injuries caused by the saws, Home Depot attorneys handed over 6,000 documents. In a spot check of 2,300 pages, Powell's attorneys only found one document that dealt with a saw injury.
"This is the kind of activity that people look at that engenders outright disgust for the legal profession," Hurley told Moss. "It is shameful."
WEST PALM BEACH - When a Home Depot executive was told that inventor Michael Powell might have a claim against the hardware giant for stealing an invention that keeps store employees safe, his reaction was swift and vulgar.
"[Expletive] Michael Powell," the executive said. "Let him sue us."
The crass response typifies the company's attitude toward Powell, who crafted a simple yet ingenious way to keep Home Depot employees from slicing off their fingers while they're cutting wood for customers, a federal judge said Monday.
"Home Depot knew exactly what it was doing," said U.S. District Judge Daniel Hurley. "They simply pushed Mr. Powell away and they did it totally and completely for their own economic benefit."
Calling the company callous and arrogant, he ordered it to pay the former Boca Raton man $3 million in punitive damages. That's on top of the $15 million a jury in March said the company should pay him for stealing his so-called Safe Hands gadget, which is now affixed to radial saws at nearly 2,000 Home Depots nationwide.
And the damages for Home Depot don't end there. Hurley ordered it to pay Powell's attorneys the $2.8 million they say they are owed. He also ordered the company to pay Powell an estimated $1 million in interest annually on the judgment. The interest began building in 2006 and will continuing accruing until Home Depot pays up.
The roughly $25 million judgment could have been avoided had the company in 2004 agreed to pay Powell the $2,000 he offered to charge for each of the devices. That bill would have come to $4 million.
Instead, Hurley said, they dispatched workers to duplicate the saw guards Powell allowed them to test in eight stores in Georgia and California.
"It's sad to say, but Home Depot literally organized a theft of the Powell invention," he said.
Powell, who now lives in North Carolina, declined comment on the verdict on the advice of his attorneys, Peter Herman and Alexander Brown. Home Depot attorneys Bart Starr and Eileen Moss also declined comment.
A company spokesman said Home Depot disagreed with the ruling and is considering an appeal.
"We have a strong commitment to dealing with our business partners fairly and with integrity, which is how we've maintained long-standing relationships with literally tens of thousands of suppliers over the past thirty-plus years," company spokesman Stephen Holmes wrote in an e-mail. "We would never condone actions that intentionally violate another company's intellectual property rights."
However, Hurley said, that's not what the evidence showed during Monday's daylong hearing or during a nearly monthlong trial.
Recognizing it was a Goliath to Powell's David, the company sought to cut him out of any profits for the invention that saved the company millions in workers' compensation claims. In the year before the devices were installed, the company paid out $1 million in claims related to injuries caused by the saw. In the year after the gadgets were installed, it paid out $7,000.
He also criticized Home Depot attorneys for their handling of the case, which he described as "nasty, mean litigation." For instance, when Powell's attorney asked for records of injuries caused by the saws, Home Depot attorneys handed over 6,000 documents. In a spot check of 2,300 pages, Powell's attorneys only found one document that dealt with a saw injury.
"This is the kind of activity that people look at that engenders outright disgust for the legal profession," Hurley told Moss. "It is shameful."
Tim (Zimmer) came up and we washed our cars and tinkered with a few things on his car and my truck. Took a few rides in each car to feel how they are different and to see if Tim liked the rear sway bar. Overall it was a good weekend but sorry I didn't make it down to the cape, my niece had her sweet 16 party that was at 5 and didn't want to have to get down there and leave soon after.
Once I get my yard cleaned up and get this tree I took down recently cut up, maybe I will be able to have more people over next time.
Once I get my yard cleaned up and get this tree I took down recently cut up, maybe I will be able to have more people over next time.
Ya thanks for having me Zach. Great spot you have. It was a nice drive out there - good little break to get out of the city. I think I'm convinced about swapping the motor mount to the filled stock mount. Your car felt so smooth. The sway bar was definitely noticeable. Too bad I didn't see the fogs at night. Looks like, and Zach confirmed, I probably have worn sway bar bushings as my car clunks A LOT. In addition, I became a victim of COBB's notorious broken bracket for their SRI. I didn't notice this until a few weekends ago so I'm glad I got him to look at it. So at some point I'll have to address this . . . and it may explain that rediculously loud snap I heard at the the track that one time (gtfo)
Did a little wash and I forced him to clean his exhaust tip against his will! He threatened to paint it black so he'd never have to clean it again.
Looks like you guys had a great time at the clean meet!
Greenblurr93
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Define... motorcycle...
Greenblurr93
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damn... ill all except 1....
Greenblurr93
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Actually bruce... its registered, insured, and im licensed as a 'motorcycle' if you run the VIN, its a 'motorcycle'
it just looks like a scooter and has a 'small' engine (150cc)
but i tend to look past that when im going 75mph and getting 86mpg...
it just looks like a scooter and has a 'small' engine (150cc)
but i tend to look past that when im going 75mph and getting 86mpg...
Atleast in MA any bike with a 50cc or more engine is a motorcycle
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