{"id":612,"date":"2009-07-12T16:57:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T20:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2009-07-12T16:57:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T20:57:35","slug":"when-youre-u2-you-dont-sign-restictive-covenants-or-non-competes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"When you&#8217;re U2, you don&#8217;t sign &#8216;restictive covenants&#8217; or &#8216;non-competes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XA8SM_ivqpY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XA8SM_ivqpY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nApple and Blackberry may be direct competitors in the world of mobile phones, and Bono&#8217;s image may be indellibly and permanently stamped onto every iPhone and iPod Touch, but do you think Blackberry cares about that?\u00a0 And U2 needs as much extra scratch as possible to help pay for all those nice folks helping to move <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fj_mejias\/3704273423\/in\/pool-atu2\">The Claw<\/a> all around the globe on this tour.\u00a0 If Steve Jobs is feeling bad that his former pitchmen are now selling Blackberry, well, that&#8217;s too damn bad.\u00a0 Because when you&#8217;re U2, you don&#8217;t sign a restrictive covenant or an agreement not to compete.\u00a0 Pretty good video too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple and Blackberry may be direct competitors in the world of mobile phones, and Bono&#8217;s image may be indellibly and permanently stamped onto every iPhone and iPod Touch, but do you think Blackberry cares about that?\u00a0 And U2 needs as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=612\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[310,555,559,556,557,558,181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}