£900 in extra costs. so that's another 7-8 customers who won't get their money back.
ZX Spectrum reboot scandal biz gets £35k legal costs delayed
The directors of the company at the heart of the ZX Spectrum reboot scandal have been ordered to pay yet more legal costs as they keep trying to kick their financial woes into the long grass. At a hearing in London’s Royal Courts of Justice earlier today, David Levy, Suzanne Martin, Janko Mrsic-Flogel and Retro Computers Ltd ( …
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Sunday 19th August 2018 03:13 GMT Alan Brown
Re: Horace goes to Epping forest
"https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flirt-with-a-chatbot/x/17934435#/"
Erm. I had a cheribot running on my bbs in about 1991. It was basically an Eliza but randomly came up with gems like "I can suck a golf ball down a garden hose". Some users spent _hours_ talking with it.
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Monday 20th August 2018 14:01 GMT Flywheel
Re: Horace goes to Epping forest
The bizarreness doesn't end there though! I downloaded David Levy's thesis via a link on Indiegogo. It's title is "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners" which is bad enough, but he's then added "Dedicated to the memory of my mother". I'm not sure what to say about that...
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Sunday 19th August 2018 17:18 GMT Jason Bloomberg
Re: Janko Mrsic-Flogel
Thanks for the heads-up. I mistakenly assumed that as both appeared to have presented themselves in court representing RCL they were still directors.
So that just leaves Levy as the sole director. And RCL the only active company he is a director of. Though how long RCL remains active would be worthy of a sweepstake.
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Friday 17th August 2018 23:00 GMT DrBed
Humpty Dumpty Levy
Whenever I stumble to something about D. Levy, it always reminds me of Humpty Dumpty.
"Exclusive EGGHEAD Vega+ crap-games collection" is not of any help here. :)
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the King's men... Could not put Humpty together again.
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Saturday 18th August 2018 02:59 GMT Horaced
NEWS
In unannounced and fractious news, a dishevelled cloud-sprigged haired man was found dumped in a fit of derangement outside a courtroom building today. From decoded utterings it was ascertained he’d been assaulted by a gorilla and a baboon on at least one occasion, both these mammalian monsters wielding fuzzy implements intent on bowdlerising his manhood.
“*&$&$!(*)!” He exclaimed (hence exclamations), and “CUNS!” - as near as we can indicate.
Decoded, it appears he’d been sat upon by an old Floggie and a ‘Vanna. The Floggie having manhandled him into a state of prostrated submission, the ‘Vanna goosing him with a feather duster. Yes we know that’s quite a few animals and vague sounding names all told - but the man was deranged - and we’re doing our best. And: It was outside a courthouse where this kind of thing rarely plays well.
“!!!!!!” He spat, dusting himself off in obscene places (nb., not just outside the courthouse) then set to checking his most southerly ports, looking askance in random directions. These final fumbles sending a rake of trembling fear along his less shambolic parts and we did detect some weaknesses here.
“I’m not too lame!” He yelled, waving us off, staggering foot to foot, wiping his mouth with a torn shirt collar and breathing in rapid, halting gasps.
In later analysis we believe the old man had actually said: “I’m not to blame,” but this is contentious. We’ll have to wait until the next court date to get at the truth.
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Saturday 18th August 2018 06:52 GMT bpfh
dura lex sed lex and caveat emptor
becoming a “director” and being a company director named and registered with Company House are 2 different things. Me wonders if some people may have been a bit economical with the truth when handing out random directorships - and diluting overall responsibility - or even if they were aware of the sort of director they were becoming ?
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Sunday 19th August 2018 23:40 GMT General Purpose
Re: dura lex sed lex and caveat emptor
Generally speaking and in this particular case, it's not true that "a real director needs to own shares".
Company law doesn't say directors have to own shares, companies can be limited by guarantee and not have shares at all, the model articles for companies limited by shares don't say directors have to own shares, and the articles of Retro Computers (available at Companies House) don't require that the directors have shares.
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Monday 20th August 2018 09:08 GMT joewilliamsebs
Re: dura lex sed lex and caveat emptor
Absolutely no requirement to own shares, although they often do.
Directors are appointed by Shareholders to run the Company on their behalf. Owning shares clearly provides an incentive to perform, but it's perfectly possible to be a Director, registered as such as Companies House, without owning any shares.
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Monday 20th August 2018 10:23 GMT Cuddles
Re: dura lex sed lex and caveat emptor
"Me wonders if some people may have been a bit economical with the truth when handing out random directorships"
If they're officially directors, they must have signed a contract appointing them as such. Anyone who signs a contract giving them legal and financial responsibilities without knowing exactly what it says (and getting a lawyer to help with that if needed) has only themselves to blame.
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Monday 20th August 2018 17:56 GMT General Purpose
Re: dura lex sed lex and caveat emptor
"If they're officially directors, they must have signed a contract appointing them as such."
You're a director from the AGM or EGM at which you're appointed by the shareholders or from the board meeting at which you're co-opted. No contract's required.
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Monday 20th August 2018 15:28 GMT Lotaresco
Stinking barrel of fish
It became obvious that there was something extremely fishy about RCL last year when, having crashed out of Indiegogo they decided to try to raise money directly via Facebook. Many of the people replying to that "offer" were unaware of the history of RCL and were incredulous when warned that all was not as it seemed. Several declared loudly that they either wanted a console so badly that they would take the risk or that they thought that the warnings were from "trolls" setting out to blacken the names of the noble directors.
I wonder how much dosh they raised through that route?
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Tuesday 21st August 2018 17:57 GMT GrapeBunch
Mind Sport
There are a lot of people named David Levy. This one I know as a chess International Master, so IM David Levy. I was sympathetic to his plight in the fracas related to the mind competitions. Here is The Archive of a 2001 article referred to tangentially in the wikipedia, so truly a footnote to history:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=71910
What to make of this 17 years later? As another spectral line? I have no idea.