American Entertainment 1982 - Chapter 132

  Chapter 132 Attempt for the first official contact

  Holly handed Tommy a small California beef hamburger sitting on the bench by the street, then sat down next to him, and looked at the white-tailed deer by the lake in the distance:

   “Are you sad?”

  Tommy nodded, opened the wrapping paper, and took a bite of the burger: “There are some.”

“You seldom have such low moments.” Holly also opened the hamburger in her hand, took a bite, and turned her head to look at Tommy: “Sometimes, I even suspect that you were researched by those weirdos in the computer science department.” A robot has no emotion, when Renee and I talked about this matter, she didn’t say that you would be sad too, she just said that you persuaded her that it’s okay, and I’ll contact you after this matter passes.”

   “Renny?” Tommy recovered from his thoughts when he heard Holly’s words, swallowed the food in his mouth and asked, “What’s wrong with Renee?”

Holly looked at Tommy in surprise: “Look at this bastard, what happened to Renee? It wasn’t because you were in a lawsuit that Rennie was persuaded by your parents to separate from you temporarily to avoid trouble. Lawyer’s investigator looking for trouble? Now you’re asking me what happened to Rainey?”

   “Looks like we weren’t on the same channel just now, Renee…Yes, Renee and I have temporarily separated, but I’m not sad, anyway, BDP still has so many Goldilocks.” Tommy said while biting his burger:

   “But if there is really no one else, would you pay to patronize me?”

  Holly rolled her eyes speechlessly: “You are not sad because of the breakup, so why do you put on an expression of remembering your old relationship in the sunset?”

“Bob’s direct TV sales company is suspected of selling some low-quality products and needs to be temporarily supervised. Only products that pass the review can continue to appear in the live broadcast of the advertisement. Can you guess which ones have not been approved for the time being?” Tommy bit his hamburger, his voice was vague Said.

   Holly thought for a while: “Whatever there are, including our OSS?”

Tommy nodded: “Yes, there are only two products that have not passed the review for the time being. One is our OSS. The reason is that most consumers will not be able to verify the quality of the product because they do not have a computer, so they will choose qualified software. The reviewers will verify it and allow it to be released after confirming that it is correct. The other is a spiritual drink developed by a company affiliated with the fundamentalist church. It is said that drinking it can increase spiritual power and feel the existence of God.”

   “That is to say, you are not sad at all because your girlfriend broke up with you. You are sad mainly because you can no longer sell software to make money.” Holly sighed: “Rennie is still worried that you will be sad.”

“Superficial, Holly, I taught you never to use too superficial words to talk to people. I don’t care how much money I make, okay? I am sad that Lotus has used their connections to cut off the access to knowledge for ordinary people in Florida. I’m sympathetic, not because I’m making too little money, and we’re still running ads.” Tommy took a few bites of the burger, then wiped his mouth with wrapping paper, and handed it to Holly in a ball:

   “Remember to throw it away after eating.”

  Holly sighed: “You just said that OSS was taken off the shelves, and then you said that you placed advertisements? What are you selling? Without software, the only thing Actor can sell is Jason’s Cowherd service.”

“This is not a conflict. Our advertisement does not sell software. Instead, it is directly fundraising. Let Bob continue to promote conspiracy theories and tell everyone that some people have shot at Actor. Actor has encountered a lot of resistance. Now it can no longer sell software. Therefore, the family members in Florida can only donate to support us now, but I am afraid that the donation will not be too much.” Tommy said a little sadly:

   “It’s like when you helped your parents do housework to earn some extra money when you were young, you could always get paid in full, but if you didn’t contribute and just simply asked them for money, you obviously didn’t get much money.”

Holly looked at Tommy in surprise: “Tommy, OSS has sold more than 40,000 units in Florida. Even if the tax is deducted in the company account, there should be nearly a million funds, and then you let those people Take money out to support you?”

   “I can’t live up to everyone’s enthusiasm. Counting the money Jason made in Mississippi, there are currently about 1.3 million, and I’m about to hand it over to you.” Tommy looked at Holly:

“Except for the necessary expenses and investigator’s fees, the remaining funds should be contacted with Compaq or Commodore at the lowest possible price to purchase a batch of cheap computers, equipped with the same amount of software, and when the signal appears, all of them will be allocated to those who have University of the SSD Chapter.”

   “What is a signal?” Holly frowned: “You didn’t say that before.”

Tommy shook his head confidently: “I don’t know, maybe the other party withdrew the lawsuit? Maybe it was the other party’s infighting, maybe we got some key testimony? The signal is not fixed, so I can only judge according to the situation. I’m not a real robot, why? Might guess what the signal was.”

“I wanted to talk to you about Renee, and then you talked about work.” Holly ate her hamburger, looked at the sunset in the distance and said, “Rennie said, she doesn’t know what you’re up to , although you spend time with her every weekend, she doesn’t know about your work, and you don’t seem to have thought about talking about it with her.”

   “Rennie is a good girl. Her parents made the right choice. Why would they let their daughter get involved in such unnecessary trouble?” Tommy said indifferently:

   “So, do you now feel that you are actually more important to me than her? If I pursued you to be my girlfriend back then, the situation would be completely different, and the situation would definitely not be as peaceful as it is now.”

Didi Didi~ Didi Didi~ Tommy’s pager rang, he took a look at it, then got up and walked towards the nearby phone booth: “Thank you for your comfort, although the comfort is wrong, I am very relieved , it’s just that there’s no time to be sad because of Renee, and Susan called me.”

  ”Susan?” Tommy walked to the nearest phone booth and dialed Susan’s calling number: “What’s wrong?”

   “There is a high-class girl named Dorothy, who still has some impressions of the Jim Manz you mentioned.” Susan said.

  Tommy asked, “Where are you and that chick?”

   “San Francisco.”

   “Very well, find a hotel, open a room and wait for me, I will have a long enough conversation with her.” Tommy hung up the phone and looked at Holly who was walking: “I think the signal is about to appear.”

  …

“Tommy Hawk.” Jim looked at the photo of Tommy in the “Stanford Daily” in his hand: “Before the age of seventeen, he was a happy country youth with meager grades. Since the age of seventeen, because his mother died, his sister Taken away, this guy who would have been an ordinary worker after graduating from high school was forced to be reborn by this son of a **** society, his academic performance continued to improve, and he did everything he could to get his resume, and became a co-producer of Nickelodeon , held a Caribbean summer camp, helped high school and myself make a fortune, and got an acceptance letter from Stanford.”

“My father was a worker before, unemployed. He first worked as a ship breaking worker, and then he started a small ship breaking factory. My brother is a car mechanic, and my sister is in elementary school. How did that guy learn these skills? Equal rights in technology, equal rights for women… “

While talking, he picked up the remote control and pressed the play button, and the commercial video on the TV immediately played again, in which Tommy Hawk threw his suit jacket at the crowd, shouting inciting words .

  Robert pointed to Tommy Hawk on the TV and said: “They sold 43,000 sets in Florida, and it took just over two months. What is the level of sales in the software industry?”

   “Garbage level, Lotus sold 60,000 sets in a single month last month.” Jim said a statistic.

  Robert shrugged: “In other words, they made nearly a million dollars. Before the plagiarism lawsuit was resolved, they made so much money from this allegedly plagiarized software. It was enough for the court to lose their impression.”

   “Is there nothing worth digging for his father? The impression points lost by plagiarism and making money can easily be made up by the two gimmicks he throws out.” Jim stared at Tommy in the photo and asked.

Robert shook his head: “No, poor people at the bottom, the more they dig this kind of people, the more dissatisfied the court and jury will be with us, thinking that we are oppressing each other unfairly, and what we dig out has little impact on this case. The gun is not directly related to the plagiarism software he started the company. His father can’t even tell the difference between a computer and a game console, and the other party has arranged a professional lawyer to guide his father and relatives. They all know how to deal with this kind of court investigation, not to mention that the people in that place are fierce, Leonard’s car was stolen four times in two days.”

“It is necessary to restrain this little guy named Tommy Hawke so that he really stops. He has no time to put on various protective clothing for Actor Company. Do you have any suggestions?” Jim looked at Robert and said asked.

  Robert shrugged: “According to previous case experience, if there is really no other way, some employers will arrange some accidents and send him to the hospital for a period of time, but Jim, that is when rich people are involved in criminal cases…”

“No, no, no, I won’t do stupid things that get me into trouble.” Jim interrupted Robert: “Look up what he did after earning that money, equal rights in technology, equal rights for women, giving poor ghosts like pros Like Mitheus, he brought the kindling of knowledge… If this guy donates all the money in addition to the lawsuit, I think the best option is to contact privately, reconcile and withdraw the lawsuit.”

“This feeling is a bit dangerous. All the software companies are eyeing Lotus, but only this Actor company jumped out to trouble us. It’s like bait. I always feel that there are other companies behind it, but the investigation shows that Actor Company and these guys are completely Haven’t been exposed to those big software companies.”

  ”Ringlingling~” The phone on the table rang, and Jim picked it up: “I’m Jim, I…”

   Seeing that Jim didn’t finish speaking, he was stunned on the spot with a surprised expression. Robert asked in surprise, “What happened?”

   After a long time, Jim hung up the phone and looked at Robert: “National Review magazine, my old colleague called, and the other party came to the door with a permission letter, routinely asking about me and that article…”

   “Are you worried?” Robert asked puzzled, “Worried about a college student?”

  Jim looked at Robert and said as a matter of course: “Of course I am afraid. The other party has nothing, understand? I have Lotus behind me. We may look like the same bastard, but the weight on our shoulders is completely different at this moment.”

   “So what are you thinking about?”

   “Try the first formal contact between the two parties to see if there is any possibility of reconciliation and withdrawal of the lawsuit.” Jim said seriously: “At least let me understand how much appetite the other party has and how much money they want.”

Let’s watch the third one tomorrow, and the second one today… I’ll write a chapter first, and then a movie will only last up to two hours. If you want to watch it, you can watch it. It’s five or six thousand when you come back from twelve to three. Words, I went in at 10:10, and walked out at 1:00. The movie was three hours long, and it was almost two o’clock when I got home…

   Only 3,000 words have been rushed out~ I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’ll make up the promised one tomorrow

   But Wandering Earth 2 is really great~~recommended~

  (end of this chapter)