Re: Grease and waxes

On 7/8/2024 12:09 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Sun, 07 Jul 2024 17:26:03 GMT, Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

That's right Liebermann - I was making $233,000/yr because I don't know what I'm doing but you were making barely enough to feed yourself because you're such a genius.

By his own admission:
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/hicB2nXjlr4/m/G2axqs0k_IwJ
cycl...@yahoo.com Aug 9, 2013, 11:11:36 AM
" Trouble is that while I was out of it I sold or gave away almost my entire bicycle collection. And all of my wardrobe and most of my tools! And now on Social Security I have to VERY slowly make it up."

 Nice change of topic.  In case you missed it, paper shuffling is an
important part of engineering and very difficult to avoid.  You
claimed to have been a "professional management consultant", which is
100% paper shuffling.  If you believe that you could be paid for
verbal advice, you're highly mistaken:
 08/13/2023
<https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/os7AghdvUBA/m/-i474K9uBAAJ>
"I was a professional management consultant - remember? Companies that
ignored my advice failed rapidly."

Yeah, that was a good laugh. Someone who never went to college and had absolutely no references to business management on his resume suddenly became a "professional business consultant".

 Anyone who pays you for consulting wants the results in writing, so
they can show something to their management team to verify your advice
and get additional opinions.  If I were paying $233,000 for your
advice, I most certainly would want to at least have a few 2nd
opinions.
 For a short time during the dot com era (1990's), I was doing research
on the viability of some of the more marginal amazing products being
proposed by startups for a venture capitalist.  The problem was that
most of the business plans covered everything except if the device was
going to work.  He was quite capable of evaluating the business plan,
but because he knew little about technology, he needed help.  My
instructions were to concentrate on the product and ignore the
business aspects.  I did quite well, with a good batting average until
I made a huge mistake.  The product turned out to be the Apple iPod.
There were previous portable media players (Diamond Rio), all of which
had technical problems.  I only saw only the problems and discounted
the possibilities.

apple was looking for venture capital for the Ipod project? I know they weren't struggling a bit at the time but seems to me they would have managed that NRE finanacing in-house.

Yes, I wrote a long and detailed evaluation also
known as "paper shuffling".
 However, if you want to discuss your amazing gross income instead, I
can offer a little insight.  At your income level, when you were
allegedly a "professional management consultant", your federal taxes
would have been about 25% and CA state about 15% before deductions.
Before deductions, you would have been paying about $93,200/year in
taxes.  To get that down to a tolerable level, you would have been
buying anything that offered deductions, such as rental houses, move
to a larger house, stocks, bonds, municipal bonds, new cars, 401(K),
solar power, etc.  I don't recall you ever complaining about paying
high taxes on your high income, which suggests that you didn't buy any
of the aforementioned.  If that's true, you're likely a financial
incompetent and have a masochistic desire to support the federal and
state governments.
 

It must be hell to be so smart and have nobody else agree with you.

 Well, since nobody in RBT agrees with you, you must have some
experience living in hell.

Ha! nice. Of course I'm not so sure we can quantify toms level of intellect as 'smart'.
  It's good to know that you understand the

meaning of, "May you rot in the hell of your own creation".
 As for being smart, may I remind you that "I judge people by their
willingness and ability to learn new things".  That's a key component
of being smart.  How does being 99.9% wrong on almost every topic, not
learning from anyone, and not learning from your own mistakes
contribute to you being smart?
 

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