D
dane
Audioholic Intern
I'm an engineer who tends to keep to myself working in my office checking some forums on break-time. I'm not as savvy in searching legal proceedings as you are -- I've never had to deal with "the law" except when I was in high school many years ago to go pay a speeding fine. I am interested in the legal proceedings, but I didn't know I could call up a court clerk and ask for an update-- sorry. This forum is where I've looked, about once every 3 weeks or so, to see what's being posted.. That tells you how much of my time is involved in all this mess--- not much.If you've been following the legal proceedings then you know at his last court date he had finally retained a lawyer and his next court date is June 29th. So, really if you wanted to follow the legal proceedings you could just wait until shortly after that date to either read about it here or pick up your finger and dial the court clerk herself for an update. Or you could just call that pathetic excuse for a human being and get his side.
It was a nice and simple post requesting that I not be lumped in with "TADG" or other conspiracy theories.. I don't think I'm the one flying off the handle on this one.And really. What is this sh!t about liberties taken with your name? Suddenly you've become sensitive about what's been said? Jeez, I expect that from naive, impressionable, insecure teens, not an adult.
I'm sorry you feel this way.To me, your next writings, suggest to me that you are naive and foolish.
Thanks-- didn't know that. As you can tell, I only have a handful of posts here. I don't come here often.The search function here doesn't work properly and you may have to go back or ahead a couple of pages.
Nobody can please everyone..To say I'm disappointed in you is an understatement Dane.
Your replies above speaks otherwise, IMO.I wish you no personal harm...
Thanks for that post Darren.Chu, you are way out of line on this one.
[...]
You are absolutely right when you say that Dane was lucky his company didn't get any "business" from AV123, but to imply that he wanted to sacrifice the company he works for and his standing in it for MLS??? Other than a few unhappy customers and some rumblings about the raffles, none of that was public knowledge when Dane was trying to get MLS to work with his company. All that most of us saw was that AV123 was having lots of problems with their electronics, and they wanted desperately to fix those problems. That may not have been reality, but that's what we knew at the time.
Then you run off the rails and say that he's "betrayed the remnants of the AV451 community and [has] next to no integrity."
I would refer back to geekinthehood's post here..There's no way you didn't know he was a crook in December 2009. I knew by summer 2009 because there's so much info on this out there I found out by accident.
- Yes, there were grumblings about problems with raffles at that time.
- There were even grumblings of legal actions.
- Sometimes people grumble about legal action just because they're upset.
- I PM'd a few people "in the know" to try and find out other sides of the story (to make up my own mind, rather than just assuming everything that was posted was true) and they said they were tired of it all and didn't want to stir it all back up again.
- Given that MLS and AV123 are not central to my life, I did not (and still do not) spend anywhere near the amount of time on these issues as Chu and others.
- If my lack of placing these issues above other priorities in my life (work, family, etc) somehow puts me in y'all's eyes as "in cahoots" with all these goings on or as somehow being a public enemy to fellow audio enthusiasts, then I'm terribly sorry but you're wrong.
- The reality is that I don't think about this stuff but once or twice a month, and that's even in passing.
- Yes I still deal with AV123 -- I'm trying to get a co-worker's Tyke speaker fixed, and I'm trying to get information on the Dayton plate amp mod to wrap up a sub repair for a local audio buddy. And like it or not, their forum still has a high-traffic classifieds section that I have been using regularly.
The long and short of it this-- Maybe I don't know 'the whole story.' I know bits and pieces from different sides. They conflict. Whatever I believe has no bearing outside my own mindset, so I have stopped sharing it. I'm not involved, I'm not owed monies, I'm not a judge, and I'm not a fly on the wall of any room remotely close to these proceedings. And when I have approached those involved I've been shut out. So how can I make a judgment one way or another? So I don't.
Am I calling MLS guilty? No. Am I calling him innocent? No. When I heard he was arrested a while back and was spending the night in jail I wrote Suzanne a letter and asked her to deliver it to him. The letter basically said that now is his time to stand up and tell the truth, whatever that may be. That everything is in God's hands, and whatever God wants to let happen will happen.
My prior attempts to secure a business deal to build subwoofer amplifiers with AV123, I think, have no bearing on MLS's legal proceedings. Can AV123 exist without MLS? I have always thought so. Maybe that's another naive mistake on my part though. And as Darren has already reminded everyone, the last conversation with MLS about any potential opportunity was back at the turn of the year.
I say all of this only to remind everyone that I have nothing to hide, have done nothing wrong, and am enemy to no-one here. It is clearly obvious that Chu and others here know a *LOT* more about all of this stuff than I do. And that's fine. As I said, I don't spend much of my life's time here or on this topic. I just wanted to clear the air that I am not the "D" in TADG, or anything else. The replies that have followed have taken things unfortunately far past that point. Maybe it would have been better to have continued to ignore the jokes made at my expense.
As for me, I'd love to read the transcript of the court proceedings. If that's something I just call up the clerk and ask for, then that's new information for me. (I didn't know it would be so simple.)
To go and question my employer is a gross mis-step and I hope you were joking about that.. The only reason I have ever shared who my employer even is, is to both acknowledge that I do not work for AV123 or any related industry, and to get the name of our small company "out there" in hopes that someone reading may ever think "hey, we've got a need for a ..(insert name of widget here).. maybe I'll see if LIT can quote it." LIT provides quality work at a fraction of the cost of other larger companies, and we are willing to take on less-than-100pcs projects (some larger company won't even shake a stick at you unless you're talking hundreds of thousands of units), and I do my (very small) part trying to get our name out there by mentioning it in various forums. I'm quite proud of who I work for. We're an absolutely wonderful little company that can really get the job done right.I'm seriously concerned that a company that deals with national defense issues would even consider partnering with a criminal and con artist. That kind of judgement call really worries me and I hope it's an isolated brain fart on your part. Seriously dude, you make some real important stuff - why risk messing it up by partnering with a confessed criminal?
As mentioned, when I was talking with MLS about bringing the plate amplifier back state-side, none of this legal stuff had exploded yet. It was still in the grumblings stage, and as I've already mentioned above, I tend to ignore grumblings because the unfortunately reality is that online, everybody grumbles about something.
The fact that all of this raffle and other business has had enough merit to actually make it to trial is quite disturbing. But I still do not see how I somehow become a disgusting excuse for a human just because I was trying to win a business contract and in turn provide my audio enthusiast friends with a more reliable plate amp for their subwoofers.
Hahaha... no, it simply links all of the launchers together with the command station. All communications there are very timing sensitive and we designed an extremely deterministic communication mechanism to ensure those communications are always done properly and at exactly the right time.Is that so we can surf the web while waiting for the enemy to explode? awesome!![]()
More on the PFOM can be found here:
lewisinnovative . com/pfom.html
..dane