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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #29 on: April 17, 2007, 07:22:19 PM »
yes it was really on their site..look at a previous post to a pic of the actual news item.
again, LOL @ AI.
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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #30 on: April 17, 2007, 07:24:45 PM »
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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #31 on: April 17, 2007, 08:21:56 PM »
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whats funny is that at one time Amiga fired Bill McEwen


Gateway did all that when they decided not to Amiga anymore. Everyone got fired. Then, Bill did the Amino thing. It's old news with no relevance.
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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #32 on: April 17, 2007, 10:13:21 PM »
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whats funny is that at one time Amiga fired Bill McEwen

Gateway did all that when they decided not to Amiga anymore. Everyone got fired. Then, Bill did the Amino thing. It's old news with no relevance.


True. The question why McEwen didn't already get fired during the last few years would be way more interesting to think about:

Amiga Inc does have investors. Investors (usually) invest for making profits. From the outside it appears that McEwen has done an incredibly bad job at that. None of the original goals were achieved and the few mobile games they are selling can hardly generate enough profits to run a business from, let alone make investors happy.

So why didn't they already fire either him or any other management staff?

Is the idea of Amiga Inc. functioning as a shell company for their investors really that abstruse?

edit: website finally got an overhaul
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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #33 on: April 17, 2007, 10:25:09 PM »
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No really, is this a joke or hoax? Was it ever really on Amiga Inc's website? I'm having a hard time with it, as it would be just about the most stupid, full of crap press release EVER in the history of press releases.


More than any other press release Ainc have made?
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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #34 on: April 17, 2007, 10:28:27 PM »
Now they updated Amiga.com with a new cheesy webdesign to give the impression they are a multimillion worldwide company..  :lol:
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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #35 on: April 17, 2007, 10:44:28 PM »
This is funny.  I live very close to Kent, It is indeed a small town just 16 miles south of Seattle.  It is technically a City but not a major one, since there is one just 16 miles north.  LOL

I will have to go check out this Amiga Center!  I will take pics and share them.  :)
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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #36 on: April 17, 2007, 10:48:54 PM »
How do you get the idea you want to create an "Amiga town"?  :lol:

Thats a real genius who comes up with those ideas  :lol:  :-P  :lol:
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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #37 on: April 17, 2007, 11:00:26 PM »
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No really, is this a joke or hoax? Was it ever really on Amiga Inc's website? I'm having a hard time with it, as it would be just about the most stupid, full of crap press release EVER in the history of press releases.


No its real, Amiga Inc, is going to give millions of dollars to name a conference center after themselves.  The cool thing is half the people at Amigans.net are already planning to go visit the conference center for the opening ceremonies, and may eventually face that direction whenever they kneel on there boing ball rugs to pray to "The McEwen"
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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #38 on: April 18, 2007, 12:06:03 AM »
Makes sense to me... they're not going to rely on us to recoup their huge financial outlays.  If they can pull this off, they will have a foot-hold in an emerging market.  Just look at what EA and Endemol announced recently: "Virtual Me".  Sure, it's a hackneyed rip-off of a million ideas that are already implemented in some way, but their partnership has the potential to make millions for them both.

I say, good luck.  MAKE IT WORK.  And after the 22nd of April, sign the bloody license for Sam440.  Damnit.


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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #39 on: April 18, 2007, 12:12:23 AM »
When is the unveiling of the center?  I will have to go for sure!!  I will bring a A600HD with me for the photo opp.  :P
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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #40 on: April 18, 2007, 01:20:24 AM »
HAHA i live on the other side of Washington State (4hrs away).  I think i may need to stop by and see it on my way to Seattle in a few months.  You know it would have been better if they were able to buy naming rights to the Space Needle and put a huge boing ball on the top of it :).  So the only thing we get from AInc is a stadium named after them.  Kinda funny.  Well who knows maybe in another 10 yrs we may getsome hardware (yeah right).  Well good luck to them anyhow
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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #41 on: April 18, 2007, 02:05:03 AM »
Fictional short stories, of course! :python:
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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #42 on: April 18, 2007, 02:06:49 AM »
Quote: Fleecy woke up and started writing short stories again?

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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #43 on: April 18, 2007, 04:30:40 AM »
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No really, is this a joke or hoax? Was it ever really on Amiga Inc's website?


Yeah, it's still up there as far as I can tell, maybe they took it down and put it back up?

The link to it is http://amiga.com/news/index.php?art=25

Or you can go to the News section on Amiga.com and it's the first link there.  

This great!!  Just like the good old days!   :lol:  :lol:  :lol:


Oh, I hear Doomy is doing all the building contract work.  Military Grade construction and all so this this thing should be able to withstand a nuclear attack!   :-D
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Re: City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga
« Reply #44 from previous page: April 18, 2007, 05:06:01 AM »
If this is for real, it could be really good exposure.


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