How would unemployment fit with your plan for your own business? You haven't mentioned that recently.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 2 May 2012, 12:58, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

I worked up the numbers a few weeks ago
I would need a minimum of £7.5 million to get anywhere further than research and computer modelling.
I have no fucking idea how to get that money. And unfortunatly it's not something that can be done incrementally. Open up a landfill and you need to either clear it all out or clear out a bit and then seal it again. The seals are hundreds of thousands of pounds just for the plastic and clay, let alone the labour costs.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 2 May 2012, 13:03, Reply)

That's a pisser.
So paperclips it is then.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 2 May 2012, 13:04, Reply)

Yeah,
might just save up and get a patent on it and hope someone decides to buy it before I die.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 2 May 2012, 13:07, Reply)

won't work.
You can't really patent something you don't intend to develop yourself - it would be seen as patenting simply to stop someone else doing it, which is rather frowned upon.

Plus, where were you planning on finding the £100,000 to half a million you need to file and defend a patent?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 13:19, Reply)

I'll pretend to die running a marathon.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 2 May 2012, 13:22, Reply)

Oh, sick burn.

I did chuckle, but then I'm a total cunt.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 13:31, Reply)