Once every seven years I get a little "randy."
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Humble request to negative posters.
I know you have the God-given right to express your opinions. I do not deny you that. You may even be right about some of your allegations. But since most of the negative posts are rehashes of earlier posts and since the posts never offer any supportive facts would you mind terribly not posting more rehash?
I totally understand the need to vent frustration, but the time and energy that has been spent here must surely have better uses, yes?
I don't understand why the value of this board as relates the PPS is discounted so much. It is as if the good people who posts here do not imagine many would-be investors would ever stop in here to see what other investors might be saying. We all know better. We know this is, in fact, very valuable to look at as part of any DD effort, so why give others a horrible, even disproportionately bad picture of reality here? It can't be helpful to share value to be so negative so often.
As an example, one beef commonly aired here: There is no contract!..We see no evidence of a contract so there must not be one. It gets said here almost daily. In the same breath, the cry goes out: This is a scam!!! But there is no evidence of a scam either.
No contract because we see no evidence of one. But it is a scam even though there is no evidence of a scam. The contradiction is a stunner.
OK...Said my peace. Off to the holodeck to run LNET/Tivus merger simulations.
Spock out.
I was, of course, being facetious and deserved to have that post removed. I was feeling a bit frustrated so I had at it.
Spock out...and feelin'..................better.
I do have fun imagining Tivus technology getting militarized, I have to admit. If a person's (terrorist's) travel habits and preferences moved with him from site to site I can only imagine Officer Bickel sitting down with the NSA/Intelligence crew and crafting a nifty little data-mining algorithm that dovetails with Echelon's other software to hunt them down.
The, as they drive down the quiet country backroads in their rent-a-car, in comes a drone which has been circling overhead for the past week waiting for the right moment to do what drones do best.
Too much time with my head in Tom Clancy books? Maybe.
Spock....to the bridge, seeking birds of prey.
Look, if I may impart a thought...if Tivus went belly up later this afternoon, it would not even amount to a blip on the radar of the CVs of any of these men. They know that much going in. And as far as the idea that maybe one or more of them might put in some of their own bucks into Tivus, sure they could do it..easily. Perhaps they have or will...BUT... any success at this point would have the greatest measure of value and integrity if it happened because of their collective skills, talents...and the value of the concept.
When one has had a great success or two and making money is no longer the driving factor, the motivation becomes meeting the challenge and winning the game. Far more fun and fulfillment in that. Sure, they can take the loss if it comes to it but it would be a bitter pill to swallow. If they have the right strategy, the pop of the champagne cork is that much sweeter when they have won the game.
As for the guilty till proven innocent thing.... Come on. For the love of God, give it a rest, won't you? Please?(Vulcans hate to beg, but they'll do it when nothing else seems to work.) Your message has been received, don't ya know?
Chekov makes the same freakin' mistake in 3D chess all the time. Seems he has some sort of block. There is a series of moves I use on him in every game we play. He never sees it coming and he STILL has not even figured out what I am doing, but if I showed it to him he'd be so shocked he'd lose his accent. (The best move in the series happens OFF the board.)
Spock....learning how to taxidermy...with tribbles.
Personally, I see no point right now in averaging down after the company has done it so nicely for me already. What I don't getis what the harm or difficulty would be in reducing the A/S t,say, 17M.
If the company is going to wipe out all of its investors the way it did, then what is the bad part about reducing the A/S?
Or..does the company just hate its supportive people in general?
Spock out.
I wish I could figure out the point of this post. It escapes me.
SPock.....needing more coffee.
Kindly locate the EXIT door at the back of the room. Proceed through it. So lovely you dropped by. Have a great day.
Spock.....at transporter room console.
DMO I would say you're probably spot on, basically. It is no surprise to anyone here that SP has been between a rock and a hard place.
We must assume the OS is very high and that Tivus is essentially tapped out without authorizing another x billions for which there are likely few buyers. Combine that with Philly--which (as far as we know) still has not committed in writing but has no reason not to, the ten facilities in India who are expecting installations to be done and advertisers to be signed up, and with hoteliers in the Caribbean who may at any moment get the local approval for the work..which they'd love to start .
Lots of good irons in the fire and you're out of coal. Hell's bells. What are you going to do? Put the fire out and go home or find more coal... or anything else that burns?
Sp is getting another baptism by fire. I say another becuase he has been in a tight spot in the past. He seems to have that "Never say die" attitude.
SP must know that even if he did do an RS it would be a more painful way to fall on the sword than going for debt relief via restructuring (bankruptcy) or putting his children up on Ebay. Well ,maybe not the Ebay thing. The reverse split would only sour people more. We have to think, then that Mr. Bickle sees the lay of the land and knows the way through it safely.
Ship's computer just whispered sweet nothings in my hypocampus. Later, kids.
Spock out.
I have speculated before that , perhaps, the new guys buy up some stock BEFORE they sign on with the company. That way, the purchase does not have to be reported as insider buying. (God forbid we let anyone actually know the people trying to grow the company are actually buying company stock.) Maybe it is an oversimplification, maybe it is their friends doing the buying, maybe..most likely, I am 100% wrong, but it seems plausible.
What a spunky, mouthy Vulcan am I this morning.
Spock.......mind-melding ship-board computer again. She's an intellectual hottie. I push her buttons, she flips my switch.
@spidermandaman
Let me explain why we are sooooooooooo happy. First, when one comes to this forum and day after day we have to read what a criminal SP is and what a day in SEC history it's going to be when it finally comes to suspend Tivus for all of the egregious treasonous acts committed, it is not that much fun for starters.
Bear in mind, we longs tough it out month after month with no hard numbers with which to assess our investment other than the PPS, which, all by itself, can be something of what one might call a "bummer", if you catch my drift.
SO.... with this information now firmly in the forefront of your mind, imagine that some business people with track records and experience , having been approached by SP to come on board, look over the lay of the land, see what they see and -presumably with no firearm pressed into their temples- decide to join Tivus and to see if their talents can add some value to the venture.
It would be analogous to making a trip to Zeta Reticuli on impulse power only (which would take quite some years) and then along the way you suddenly get handed a freshly mined set of Dilithium crystals to load into your ship's power plant. Now the arduous journey has been reduced to the better part of one day. It makes you feel Soooooooooo happy.
Sure your crystals will wear out, but maybe before that happens, other good things might transpire and Zeta Reticuli is now just a fun place to drop by from time to time rather than being a multigenerational marathon with no worthy goal at the end of the trip.
Does this sort of clear it up?
SPock...feeling a little frosty this morning.
FWIW..I think it is positive that there is new blood coming into the fold here. Of course, we have no idea ( because we are never allowed to know)how long either Mr. Brenner or Mr. Bickel have been at hand or how influential they have been in any recent developments, but suffice it to say that they are here, they have some experience and seeing what they see, they choose to be a part of it.
This can only be positive.
Mr. Scott wants to be a consultant, but I have have told him to wait just a bit. We have some drill coming up in a couple of weeks and something always fails during one of these drills. We need to have him handy and not distracted. He has an idea for a transparent CEO, which I think is brilliant.
Spock out.
Studying Dynegen now. Interesting....er, fascinating. Cool crowd this gentleman runs with. Depending on what any of them may think of the Tivus concept could have a phenomenal impact on "the next phase" of Tivus.
Spock..standing by.
Hallelujah! The cavalry has arrived!!!
Gotta tell y'all. I have a mountain of respect for anyone who comes out of West Point. This ought to be absolutely fascinating to see how things evolve now. (Remember, StarFleet modeled itself after WP.)
IF.....SP let's this man utilize the training and experience he brings to the table, this could be the greatest thing to happen here in quite awhile.
Did I say....
"Fascinating"?
Spock, standing by, sensors on maximum range.
So then, KMAG remains worth every penny it was before the suspension. What a crime this ever even happened. Let's get it back up to where it was pre-suspension a.s.a.p.
What a strange place pinky-land is. Like having a wormhole inside of a black hole inside of a multi-dimensional tesseract at superluminal incongruities as a temporal pseudo-ether repolarizes its dialectric potential creating a reverse phase-conjugate shift in the spatial relations of all x-ons and y-ons, doesn't it?
So to speak.
How could we not have seen that one coming?
Spock out.
Are we helpless victims?
No.
Do I think Tivus will run soon?
You want MY opinion?
Hmm. Doubtful.
Anyway... My expectation is this: I know SP wants to uplist at the earliest possible time despite all of those activities which have undermined this effort. In Mid October we should get out Q3. The Q3 should spell out how much more money Tivus is now making thanks to ad insertion at the very least in Philadelphia. (I expect it will be a pleasing bit of datum, really.)
If we get a decent board disclosed by the end of this month and the TA gets ungagged I would expect some sort of run, yes.
If anything, though, it has been a lesson in expecting the unexpected when it comes to Tivus. Every opportunity Tivus had to make a splash it shot itself right in the foot. Every single time..at least since I started snooping around in February or thereabouts.
From having seen how this market seems to work, a serious run can begin for no obvious reason. The company need not be sound, or even viable. We could all wake up and log on tomorrow morning and witness the start of a meteoric, historic run with no PR, no tweet (BTW there is no twitter feed on the website today. Why?)no rumor of anything at all.
A run is very overdue. It would not surprise me to see a run within the next few days. Honestly.
Spock..... being very illogical.
Mr. Kayne...I am 100% certain this is EXACTLY what we are seeing here. All of these men secretly met sometime before the of 2010 and they concocted this multi-year scheme to defraud as many investors as possible for as long as possible with a no-bid scam.
No one in this group has any sort of reputation to uphold that could possibly be worth the zillions of dollars they will ultimately have wrangled out of this thing.
There is NO DOUBT whatever!!!! LOL WEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
GIve me a freakin' break.
Spock...out.
As for the dumping: SP addressed this in the CC. According to someone he called "management", ongoing operations would be financed by the sale of shares until such time as more conventional financing could be obtained.
Now, I don't know who this "management" is, but I actually thought it was him, but it would be inappropriate to refer to ones' self in another person in this context.
I must laugh at those who desperately want to price per share to rise but who post in negative, disparaging, even libelous terms for all new potential investors to read. I acknowledge a need to vent, believe me, I do. But it should be handled in a different way, IMO.
I had hoped that the shareholders made it abundantly clear in the CC that the frequency and quality of communication from Tivus MUST MUST MUST improve. For a short time it almost seemed as if we were going to enter a new stage of improved communications, but alas, this was short-lived.
For me, the reality is that because of how things have gone, I am "on hold" as far as investing any more. As long as there seem to be folks who are eager to grab up all those .0001s, I think there is reason to be hopeful.
I'll be back later with a Federation update. Spock ...out.
LOL WEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Whatever. 3B!! LOL Ha.
Racism on Ihub.
Man....this is a real shame. It embarrasses all of us and calls all of us out as the knuckle-draggers we are.
SPock out.
Joe, the track record here is far more than enough upon which to base an investment decision. It may be true that few actually know what is going on today, but the past, extensive as it is, speaks all one really might need to know.
SPock...out.
Hello, all! Hadn't been around these parts in quite some time and I fully expected to learn that MDGC was shut down with lots of pending lawsuits and such. That it still exists in any manner says something about how such "companies" are monitored in terms of stock market activity anyway.
When I got out many months ago now I was sort of sad to do so because it had a good run after I left, but, alas, the run was built upon literally nothing but...well, lets just say "nothing".
To anyone considering making an investment here, I would say go back a good six months on this very board and read for a little while. Then compare what you have learned to what you expected to find.
Before the year is out, I would still bet that MDGC is closed for good. There are only so many times you can crank this machine with no oil or gas and expect power to be produced.
Special thanks to Cassandra and choate for keeping things in proper perspective for the very benefit of those coming by looking for a good opportunity.
thv
spock...out
Ya, LOL Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Hoot. Whatever. Lol Ha.
....and i would like it clarified why, if the BOD insurance was in place a week ago, why the board was not announced at that time. Did someone "waffle"? THAT is something we may never know.
I can tell you if I was in SP's shoes and had no idea who pissed in my Wheaties just when I was trying to eat a healthy breakfast to start my day..well, I would a most irritable Vulcan. Further I would spend some energy to find out what happened.
As I said in an earlier post, if a competitor really wanted to spook SP by doing this, it would not have taken too much money. They'd have gotten a decent bang for their buck. That being said, it would ONLY be undertaken by someone who viewed Tivus as a serious threat.
At this moment in timem from where we sit, Tivus does not come across as such a threat, but in the Gordon Gecko world where information is worth more than gold, someone may know something the rest of us don't yet...and they've seen fit to send a photon torpedo right into the USS Tivus' bridge.
It sounds like drama, but honestly ,we all know that when someone is sufficiently motivated, they can wreak horrible damage anytime and in any number of ways.
R3 is making some good points here, too. read some of his posts an cogitate on them.
Spock....plucking pieces of Klingons from deep space after having shown them our not-so-neutral zone.
..and for what it's worth...you don't run to your own neighborhood looking for a good opportunity to screw people. You go to show off. SP is a family man and surely has family in India. He is not going to take Tivus over there if the headlines are going to the last thing he reads before the local police come to take him to jail for defrauding his friends and neighbors in his homeland.
NO, I will stand by my regular assertion that SP is working as hard as he can to advance all prospects for Tivus. My hope now is that the incoming board can bring the clout and business sense Tivus has needed more of in the past. perhaps then we will get the sorts of Prs which clearer and more informative, worded to address obvious questions from the outset rather than raising them in the aftermath.
I feel I do need to sit down with an experienced broker for a few minutes to get a better understanding of how the numbers of shares I see in various categories move. It is not simple addition and subtraction as I used to think. It is way more sophisticated and less obvious...which is a shame. It should be completely transparent.
...in this Vulcan's very humble opinion.
Spock.... starting the day by giving a Bird of Prey a little "what-for".
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! LOL 0.0001 Dump, dump, dump. Hoot. lol weeee. Whatever. Hoot LOL. Billionz. Weewee. HAHAHAHAHAHA LOL.
What a great video on India.. fantastic. Not going there, though.
SPock...off to neutral zone.
Ya. Weeeee! LOL Great Dumping. Hoot. LOL Weeeee! Ha. ha. 0.0001s LOL.
Looks like it's time to convert all those .0001s of yesterday into the .0002s of today. The money-doubler is hard at work. Where do I apply? Looks as though we'll have a billion shares trading hands this week and none of us hardly made a dime.
I don't know, but this stock-market thingy does not work the way momma said it did.
I admit to being "bumfuzzled". (McCoy's term, not mine.)
Spock out.
FWIW: I have heard of this insurance expense. It is a pretty important component of assembling and maintaining a respectable board in most circles.
SPock... "non-expert in business matters."
Source: Post# 50252
S. O. a.k.a. "damned fool", per c'ya.
Expect the Unexpected.
This seems to be the rule of law here with Tivus. I will, for the moment, take SP at his word that the sale we saw yesterday was not his doing. Here is why. When you are trying to do everything in yor power to look like a "leading turnkey provider of IPTV technology in the hotel industry", then dumping all your bid support for your stock doesn't really make a great deal of sense does it?
I would be willing to bet he could find out whose behind it..and it would cause me little surprise that it is the handiwork of a competitor who saw a stunning opportunity to hand his competition a nice black eye for a very humble price. Maybe this makes me sound paranoid, but people will be miserable to each other when they are motivated to be so....especially when it comes to business.
As for the PR, they way it is edited or presented seems to be something of a recurring problem. It comes across as being ambiguous, confusing. I went into September thinking the board was completely seated and that procuring the insurance was the final step prior to public disclosure. Now, it seems that MIGHT not be the case. I don't think my view is different now because SP lied. I think the PR has some wording issues which are easily avoidable if anyone would just take the time to see the big picture prior to release.
If I go back and review other previous PRs, other examples of this odd ambiguity reappears. Perhaps it is nothing more than Enlish not being SP's first language. I am not sure.Most of us understand though that business is a very fluid environment and short of walking around with a master database in your head monitoring all details at all times, any CEO does the best he can at the moment when making a public statement.
It is completely laughable to see posts like "Tivus is dead, or Watch your back P., I'm coming for you. Before having any information, hit squads and assassins are on the streets seeking to take out this evil CEO...the devil incarnate, himself. Come on. We're not in 7th grade anymore, kids.
I'm as disappointed as anyone that my investment hasn't gone well with Tivus,but I still feel very confident that the service will do well, probably very, very well. Like Buffett says, forget about the day to day stuff, if it's a good investment, value will follow.
In other news, I drank McCOy under the table last night...badly. He is now getting rehydrated by nurse Chapel's liter of saline with vitamins. (loser.) I am fine, ready for round 2...but it looks like I'll have to find another partner for that. McCoy's vital signs are approaching incompatibility with life.
Spock..on duty... feeling sickeningly chipper.
Recall the SP said that someone called "management" determined that dilution would be how funds were to get raised until more conventional financing was an option.
My only problem with this statement is how he seems to place something called "management" into a sort of box. Well the problem is that SP IS management and attempting to place the blame for a questionable decision on "management" comes off as SP wanting to be excluded from liability for such a decision.
I know there is a board now. Management is this board..and they must've collectively looked at their present needs and declared this "dump' as the proper way to meet some financial needs.
While I do not know..or have a great deal of faith in SP's business acumen, I do have faith in Mr. Truckenmiller's. I am also hopeful that these other, still unknown, boardmembers are very experienced and business-savvy.( I do hope that the shift of Truvk from VP to consultant did not occur becuase he did not like some part of the make-up of the new board, but this is not anything we will know anytime soon I would imagine.)
I am going to sit tight, learn for all of this and see what comes of it. As I watch the various applications following Tivus, many things are happening I have never witnessed before so I hope to find out what it is all about.SOmehow, he has gotten Tivus from a concept to a contracted service provider to nearly a dozen hotels now so let's keep that part of all of this clearly in mind.
SInce SP now sees that when he does not communicate very well with those supporting Tivus, it turns into nasty posts for his children to read, perhaps he'll decide to offer some news that will help calm the nerves of everyone here who are as dumbfounded as I am.
I have "shore-leave" tonight so I will likely be "mellow" in the morning when I come on shift. Dr. McCoy says he knows a great little bar down there that I may find..interesting. We'll see.
Spock out.
Ya.......Weeeeeeeee! LOL Whatever. Wow! Ha.
Just wondering what would prevent SP from raising A/S to 9B.
Or 12B.
Seems he raised that last 3B by waiving a wand. Just curious.
Spock... dizzy.
I am not going to panic, at least not yet. SP did say we'd be spending dough on the India contract to get that ball rolling, We know that even though we have cash coming in, we don't know how much or how quickly. Further he also did day that the situation in Puerto Rico was moving forward...we may have to be spending some coin there as well to keep everything on track.
So while the shock of seeing a dump that big is curious, we owe it to ourselves to keep in mind we have contracts to honor. I'd much rather see that than to see Tivus get a bad rep in the industry just as it is starting to make real headway. This all may be little more than a bridge loan to get Tivus from point B to point C. We don't know. I do NOT for a second believe it is a sign of trouble.
Now, where are my sedatives?
SPock to sick bay...then happy hour ... a bit later.
My most intelligent speculation is that we just purchased , as mentioned in a recent PR, equipment to install Tivus in 10 hotels in India, OR we just paid a massive insurance policy premium for the Board.... or it's a typo.
Spock ...<twiddling nervously with dials, knobs, keyboards and mice.>
What just happened? 500 M shares? This like getting beamed into a nuclear reactor core. I don't think I have ever seen anything like this.
Beam me up right not, Mr. Scott.
Spock ou.........
To the Tivus crew: Kick back this weekend. Enjoy a fine scotch, a well-made cigar, some tender, nicely - grilled meats, some pleasant sun and a couple of cool, moonlit nights. Refresh yourselves. Have some laughs. On Tuesday, rock our world. We're ready. Tivus is ready. Show us what you're really made of.
Boldly go where Tivus has never gone before. Make us proud.
Spock.....swinging in a hammock.
Nobody can tell how thin it really is anymore. After weeks of countless millions of cheap shares showing up the minute 2s are sold one is left to conclude that the number of additional cheap shares could reach into the.....billions.
Is this a setup for a perfect storm? NOAA Weather Radio remains unclear.
No doubt equipment and personnel are being secured to fulfill the India installations....as well as any other installations whose announcement are still pending. Ya gotta spend money to make it, no? And now that the board is appropriately and properly insured, there is every expectation that they'll hit the ground running if they're not already.
Tried my hand at barbeque-ing (sp?) on the holodeck. All the damn smoke detectors and sprinklers went off. I thought it was supposed to be a rather smoky sort of thing to do. I didn't have any chicken so I thawed out some bundles of what I thought was frozen brisket in the galley freezer. Well it wasn't brisket. Whatever it was, it was NOT SUPPOSED to be in the ship's freezer.
Whatever it was, it was in hibernation, not preservation. It came to life at about 450 degrees F....and man was it NOT HAPPY with ME. Before it could catch me and then banged an escape route out the side of the ship (into free space)...I ran the program backwards about 20 minutes too far. That's another whole episode by itself.
Suffice it to say, my grilling days are done for the time being. McCOy is asphyxiating laughing so hard. And some still unknown yeoman has some explaining to do regarding his creative, yet unsanctioned, use of ship's kitchen resources.
Spock .... off duty, in quarters...not taking any calls right now.