Not too long ago John Yates and Morris, Manning & Martin launched MMM Tech Law. It's nice and they have a quickly growing MMM Tech Law LinkedIn group with over 1,200 members to go along with it. The group is a who's who of the Atlanta tech scene. Yesterday MMM Tech Law issued an alert […]
Continue reading →While not universally loved Robert Scoble is world renown. He is an influential social media author and technology journalist. It is what the technology world thinks about Georgia. It thinks Georgia is anti-worker. It thinks Georgia's smart technologists are going to leave for greener pastures. It thinks we are backwards. And it will […]
Continue reading →Over the past six days FoG has become a bit political. I typically try to avoid such topics here but I believe Georgia amendment one is worthy of discussion by voters. I believe this for three reasons. First, the wording of the amendment to be intentionally misleading. What is being presented on the ballot as […]
Continue reading →Yesterday Brett Grayson of Jobs of Tomorrow stopped by FoG and commented on my Georgia Amendment One article. In his comment Brett stated that the purpose of the amendment was to protect businesses. I asked him for clarification on some other questions and Brett was kind enough to take the time to respond to me […]
Continue reading →For the well articulated reasons below. Amendment 1: “Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to make Georgia more economically competitive by authorizing legislation to uphold reasonable competitive agreements?” HR 178 was the resolution that placed this amendment on the ballot. HB 173 is the enabling legislation for this amendment, which passed both […]
Continue reading →Simply amazing. The image below is the Google first page results of a search on "Georgia Amendment One." All of these say vote no or are neutral. The only exception is the Equal Time For Amendment One article. It is written by Jobs of Tomorrow because Peach Pundit is against ammendment one. The comments by […]
Continue reading →It is not what its supporters are telling you. It's really a restraint of employee movement amendment. It will result in contracts that limit worker options. It will effect all skilled workers. It will authorize employee non-compete contracts that are currently not enforceable in Georgia. These contracts will limit worker mobility, drive down salaries, stifle innovation, and result […]
Continue reading →The VoteNoOn1 social media effort came together shortly after I published Georgians Should Vote No in a flurry of DMs late Thursday night with Sanjay Parekh. What sparked the whole thing was Jobs of Tomorrow robo-calling to support the amendment. Yesterday Jim Galloway of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published the content of the robo-call: Georgia progressives […]
Continue reading →An email I received yesterday: results = records[“top_5”].inject({:labels => [], :total => []}) do |h, v| puts v.to_s h[:total] << v[“total”] h[:labels] << v[pivot] h end Shit, thats ruby not paper. Paper: http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/newthinking/francomitchell.pdf
Continue reading →For quite some time I have known that I was going to vote No on Amendment 1 on election day next Tuesday. I have kept pretty quiet about this personal decision. I tend to stay away from politics on FoG. The combination of a well funded vote Yes campaign complete with robocalls and an article […]
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