FB: Liberty League

[dewcrew88]

That would be a sweet job, FR. Seriously. Doing something like that would be a huge undertaking, but if it took off, it was be huge. I'll definitely be the ad editor. Any type of PR, you just let me know.  

[Jonny Utah]

did Sirius and XM merge? RT doesn't understand what's going on. If they did, does that mean that RT, a loyal XM subscriber, will now have access to Sirius' "Hair Nation" station?

I heard the deal was falling through. (anti-trust stuff or something like that, or had to be approved by the FCC?)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_hi_te/sirius_xm_4

I dont see why the gov would care about this.  I mean, no one is stopping other companies from getting their own satellites right?

I think the only two companies anyone's ever heard of merging and therefore grabbing 99.99999% of the market is a pretty strong discouragement...

Im not that up on anti-trust statutes, but I would think some company could at least come up with some cheap music for $5 a month......

My guess for the next generation of radio...WiMax radio.  You can listen to any radio station in the world from your WiMax receiver (in-home or in-car) -- and an under-company would create feeds to each one for a monthly fee.  It would devistate satellite radio as soon as WiMax becomes nationally available.  Anyone with me on doing some VC for this?

How would you get the radio signals from all over the world though? And if you could do that cheap, why are cell phones still so dam expensive!

WiMax is just wide-area WiFi -- so the company putting the links together would be using the already-existing Internet feeds to do it and firing those to customers in a sensible, categorized way (perhaps the radio could have a "region" or "state" selecter, and then a selecter for zip code/city...and then list all the stations in or near that zone.  This would also allow all college radio stations on the Web to have their games heard by their fans in cars -- removing the need for a wide-range commercial radio station carrier in Division III.

Ok I get it.  You would still have to be paying for some sort of internet carrier though......

Right, but you wouldn't be limited to 100 stations - ANY online station would be available for you.  The underlying company would also be in a position to work with stations to get them to create CD-quality streams so that the quality is crisp for most, if not all stations picked up.

Ok.  Im sure the music industry would have some sort of say into how "free" music gets around though?  I dont even know how Satellite radio works in terms of playing songs off of copyrighted CDs.  They have to officially buy the album or single or something?

In the case of webcasts, there is a fee now for stations that webcast -- although higher educational institutions are exempted for now, in general.  Each station would have the right to limit its number of available streams if the desire to avoid any related fees became prevalent.  However, the underlying company could also work out a deal with RIAA to lower costs/royalties.

I'll make it 13x, tgp.

I would love to get involved in this type of venture.... I don't have any capital, but it's a great idea. 

DewCrew could be our VP in Charge of New Sales Avenues -- and our official advertising editor.  We could give you shares in this new conglomorae, DewCrew.

Taste it.

[Tags]

did Sirius and XM merge? RT doesn't understand what's going on. If they did, does that mean that RT, a loyal XM subscriber, will now have access to Sirius' "Hair Nation" station?

I heard the deal was falling through. (anti-trust stuff or something like that, or had to be approved by the FCC?)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_hi_te/sirius_xm_4

I dont see why the gov would care about this.  I mean, no one is stopping other companies from getting their own satellites right?

I think the only two companies anyone's ever heard of merging and therefore grabbing 99.99999% of the market is a pretty strong discouragement...

Im not that up on anti-trust statutes, but I would think some company could at least come up with some cheap music for $5 a month......

My guess for the next generation of radio...WiMax radio.  You can listen to any radio station in the world from your WiMax receiver (in-home or in-car) -- and an under-company would create feeds to each one for a monthly fee.  It would devistate satellite radio as soon as WiMax becomes nationally available.  Anyone with me on doing some VC for this?

How would you get the radio signals from all over the world though? And if you could do that cheap, why are cell phones still so dam expensive!

WiMax is just wide-area WiFi -- so the company putting the links together would be using the already-existing Internet feeds to do it and firing those to customers in a sensible, categorized way (perhaps the radio could have a "region" or "state" selecter, and then a selecter for zip code/city...and then list all the stations in or near that zone.  This would also allow all college radio stations on the Web to have their games heard by their fans in cars -- removing the need for a wide-range commercial radio station carrier in Division III.

Ok I get it.  You would still have to be paying for some sort of internet carrier though......

Right, but you wouldn't be limited to 100 stations - ANY online station would be available for you.  The underlying company would also be in a position to work with stations to get them to create CD-quality streams so that the quality is crisp for most, if not all stations picked up.

Ok.  Im sure the music industry would have some sort of say into how "free" music gets around though?  I dont even know how Satellite radio works in terms of playing songs off of copyrighted CDs.  They have to officially buy the album or single or something?

In the case of webcasts, there is a fee now for stations that webcast -- although higher educational institutions are exempted for now, in general.  Each station would have the right to limit its number of available streams if the desire to avoid any related fees became prevalent.  However, the underlying company could also work out a deal with RIAA to lower costs/royalties.

I'll make it 13x, tgp.

I would love to get involved in this type of venture.... I don't have any capital, but it's a great idea. 

DewCrew could be our VP in Charge of New Sales Avenues -- and our official advertising editor.  We could give you shares in this new conglomorae, DewCrew.

I'll take some convertible preferred stock please.

[Tags]

In response to RT's original comment - Yes, XM & Sirius merged in Q1 of this year.

[mattvsmith]

TGP- Do you really think Reg can stop working and still support MR?  I spoke to the director of admissions at GWU today who has 23 of about 35 seats filled for his spring part time accellerated program.  The deadline to get in the application is Thursday.  Reg explained his situation (haven't studied but still wants to start the program and just came out and asked him if I was in or not with a 550....he told me that with my undergrad, work experience and good looks that a 550 would do it.  Plus it would be pretty hard for a college with only 60% of it's seats filled to turn down someone paying full tuition, don't you think?

Deadline for the GMAT is 12/07/07 if Reg wants to get in in time for the spring semester, otherwise he pushes the MBA another year out.  That's why I asked what was possible.

The Rev rolls hard core.  If you have the brains, take the test and don't even worry about studying.  That will tell you how well you will really do in grad school.  The Rev thinks grinds who go to the study schools are giving false scores.  anyone who sits there for three hours a night for three months at Kaplan can get a good score.  Only those with truly native intelligence can walk into the GMAT (or any test) throw it down, and walk out like you just conquered the world.

The Rev's feeling: a 550 with no studying is better than a 600 with a lot of studying.

Unfortunately schools don't feel that way.  The Rev is the same person who tried to convince a priest at school that he should grade us on a sliding scale based on how long we take to finish the test.  Those of us who are done in a few minutes get the better score than those who take an hour.  He didn't go for it.

[Tags]

TGP- Do you really think Reg can stop working and still support MR?  I spoke to the director of admissions at GWU today who has 23 of about 35 seats filled for his spring part time accellerated program.  The deadline to get in the application is Thursday.  Reg explained his situation (haven't studied but still wants to start the program and just came out and asked him if I was in or not with a 550....he told me that with my undergrad, work experience and good looks that a 550 would do it.  Plus it would be pretty hard for a college with only 60% of it's seats filled to turn down someone paying full tuition, don't you think?

Deadline for the GMAT is 12/07/07 if Reg wants to get in in time for the spring semester, otherwise he pushes the MBA another year out.  That's why I asked what was possible.

The Rev rolls hard core.  If you have the brains, take the test and don't even worry about studying.  That will tell you how well you will really do in grad school.  The Rev thinks grinds who go to the study schools are giving false scores.  anyone who sits there for three hours a night for three months at Kaplan can get a good score.  Only those with truly native intelligence can walk into the GMAT (or any test) throw it down, and walk out like you just conquered the world.

The Rev's feeling: a 550 with no studying is better than a 600 with a lot of studying.

Unfortunately schools don't feel that way.  The Rev is the same person who tried to convince a priest at school that he should grade us on a sliding scale based on how long we take to finish the test.  Those of us who are done in a few minutes get the better score than those who take an hour.  He didn't go for it.

Tags would like to ask for some help from his friends at the LLPP in regards to grad school. If Tags goes part-time, can he defer his student loans taken out in undergrad???

[mattvsmith]

I think the only two companies anyone's ever heard of merging and therefore grabbing 99.99999% of the market is a pretty strong discouragement...

That's only if you consider that satellite radio competes only against satellite radio.  But both XM and Sirius compete against free radio, and given that, they have a very small market share.

[Jonny Utah]

TGP- Do you really think Reg can stop working and still support MR?  I spoke to the director of admissions at GWU today who has 23 of about 35 seats filled for his spring part time accellerated program.  The deadline to get in the application is Thursday.  Reg explained his situation (haven't studied but still wants to start the program and just came out and asked him if I was in or not with a 550....he told me that with my undergrad, work experience and good looks that a 550 would do it.  Plus it would be pretty hard for a college with only 60% of it's seats filled to turn down someone paying full tuition, don't you think?

Deadline for the GMAT is 12/07/07 if Reg wants to get in in time for the spring semester, otherwise he pushes the MBA another year out.  That's why I asked what was possible.

The Rev rolls hard core.  If you have the brains, take the test and don't even worry about studying.  That will tell you how well you will really do in grad school.  The Rev thinks grinds who go to the study schools are giving false scores.  anyone who sits there for three hours a night for three months at Kaplan can get a good score.  Only those with truly native intelligence can walk into the GMAT (or any test) throw it down, and walk out like you just conquered the world.

The Rev's feeling: a 550 with no studying is better than a 600 with a lot of studying.

Unfortunately schools don't feel that way.  The Rev is the same person who tried to convince a priest at school that he should grade us on a sliding scale based on how long we take to finish the test.  Those of us who are done in a few minutes get the better score than those who take an hour.  He didn't go for it.

Tags would like to ask for some help from his friends at the LLPP in regards to grad school. If Tags goes part-time, can he defer his student loans taken out in undergrad???

Tags, from my experience you can defer loans for basically whatever reason you want.  As far as the interest being defered........I think you might have to be full time.

[mattvsmith]

Tags would like to ask for some help from his friends at the LLPP in regards to grad school. If Tags goes part-time, can he defer his student loans taken out in undergrad???

You can defer the Federal student loans if you are taking at least 6 graduate credits per semester.  A normal graduate courseload is 9 credits.

Interest will accrue on the unsubsidized loans.

[Tags]

If I go part-time, I would only have to pay interest?

I'm paying the full shot now, 3 years removed... Think I can still do that (that being pay only interest now)?

[Jonny Utah]

If I go part-time, I would only have to pay interest?

I'm paying the full shot now, 3 years removed... Think I can still do that (that being pay only interest now)?

You wouldnt have to pay anything.  But the interest would accrue when you started paying them back again yes.

[Tags]

If I go part-time, I would only have to pay interest?

I'm paying the full shot now, 3 years removed... Think I can still do that (that being pay only interest now)?

You wouldnt have to pay anything.  But the interest would accrue when you started paying them back again yes.

Sweet lord - I thought I would still have to pay in full b/c it was only part time.

[Jonny Utah]

If I go part-time, I would only have to pay interest?

I'm paying the full shot now, 3 years removed... Think I can still do that (that being pay only interest now)?

You wouldnt have to pay anything.  But the interest would accrue when you started paying them back again yes.

Sweet lord - I thought I would still have to pay in full b/c it was only part time.

I can't remember exactly how it works, but I defered my college loans about 2 or 3 times (2-3 years).  Each of those years I didnt pay a dime, and when the year was up, the coupon book was in the mailbox.  Same payments as before I had defered them.  And if you look for the reasons, one of them is "financial hardship".  It doesn't really say what "financial hardship" is, but I checked it, and didnt have to pay my loans.  In fact, the amount I owed was the same the year later, and I didnt see the interest change either.

Id like to tell you that you could call the company and talk with someone, but that someone is going to be some guy in Bangladesh that you cant understand.

[Tags]

If I go part-time, I would only have to pay interest?

I'm paying the full shot now, 3 years removed... Think I can still do that (that being pay only interest now)?

You wouldnt have to pay anything.  But the interest would accrue when you started paying them back again yes.

Sweet lord - I thought I would still have to pay in full b/c it was only part time.

I can't remember exactly how it works, but I defered my college loans about 2 or 3 times (2-3 years).  Each of those years I didnt pay a dime, and when the year was up, the coupon book was in the mailbox.  Same payments as before I had defered them.  And if you look for the reasons, one of them is "financial hardship".  It doesn't really say what "financial hardship" is, but I checked it, and didnt have to pay my loans.  In fact, the amount I owed was the same the year later, and I didnt see the interest change either.

Id like to tell you that you could call the company and talk with someone, but that someone is going to be some guy in Bangladesh that you cant understand.

I've consolidated all of my loans w/ citibank - so I will give them a call.

What are the chances of me being able to defer right now, even if there isn't a real immediate "financial hardship"?

[Jonny Utah]

If I go part-time, I would only have to pay interest?

I'm paying the full shot now, 3 years removed... Think I can still do that (that being pay only interest now)?

You wouldnt have to pay anything.  But the interest would accrue when you started paying them back again yes.

Sweet lord - I thought I would still have to pay in full b/c it was only part time.

I can't remember exactly how it works, but I defered my college loans about 2 or 3 times (2-3 years).  Each of those years I didnt pay a dime, and when the year was up, the coupon book was in the mailbox.  Same payments as before I had defered them.  And if you look for the reasons, one of them is "financial hardship".  It doesn't really say what "financial hardship" is, but I checked it, and didnt have to pay my loans.  In fact, the amount I owed was the same the year later, and I didnt see the interest change either.

Id like to tell you that you could call the company and talk with someone, but that someone is going to be some guy in Bangladesh that you cant understand.

I've consolidated all of my loans w/ citibank - so I will give them a call.

What are the chances of me being able to defer right now, even if there isn't a real immediate "financial hardship"?

I dont think they care.....