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by apalmer 13y ago
Newer record contracts often require a significant split of concert/endorsement monies. I don't know if 'most' of the money goes to artists or record labels under these new contracts... I would guess that the artists get
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by apalmer 13y ago
Are you claiming that music is a dying art form? Really? The music industry is at best a 100 year old historical anomaly compared to the at least 4000 year history of music. The life of musician has pretty much always been extremely unlikel
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by apalmer 13y ago
If I am understanding competition doesnt help the victim in a case like this. the victim isn't the consumer of the products produced, its the stock holders who own the company who are being fleeced. I guess it seems to me one can buy a
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by apalmer 13y ago
Right I think this is a very valid point, but I don't think however the thought of the vast majority of stockholders was that the ideal was to sell to Microsoft after losing almost all of its value. I think the fundamental issue most p
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by apalmer 13y ago
Understood, but thats not really what I am asking. I want to know what is SUPPOSED to stop this kinda thing from happening in a well run market, regardless of whether the US is or isnt a well run market.
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by apalmer 13y ago
Yes but that's kind of the whole conclusion of this arguement. Basically the behavior of a hardware manufacturer was so counter intuitive that to many people the only logical explanation is that the CEO must be trying to take the compa
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by apalmer 13y ago
The author really doesn't have enough information to provide that level of evidence
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by apalmer 13y ago
Perhaps the board was unable to attract a quality CEO because it was generally accepted that the downfall of Nokia (a la RIM) was unavoidable, so they attempted to make it attractive? i mean i dont really understand it just trying to come u
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by apalmer 13y ago
I would like some clarification, to me it seems very obvious that this Elop's tenure at Nokia accomplished exactly what it was intended to accomplish, and further it seems clear that the Board of Directors were in line with this plan.
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by apalmer 13y ago
problem is any prototype that provides say 75% of the functionality will end up being pushed to production as soon as someone above developer level gets wind of it.
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by apalmer 13y ago
Basically, from a fundamental investment analysis standpoint Tesla is way more logical than Facebook. Tesla makes a tangible good for sale with a straight forward business model. You can evaluate Tesla using the same criteria that Ford was
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by apalmer 13y ago
The main difference in my eyes is that its relatively easy to evaluate a business that bases revenue off sales of tangible goods. Twitter and Facebook are a much harder valuation because there isn't a clear standard way of evaluating t
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by apalmer 13y ago
Honestly Stock Market investing is not nor has it ever been for the common man. The hyper aggressive day trading & HFT sector is not for the common man. As for the slow long term investment route, the biggest section that gets abused by
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by apalmer 13y ago
Ehhhhh, honestly I am not fundamentally opposed to the concept but realistically our whole economic model that the US has run off of the last 100 years. If every job that is not directly producing a tangible good is eliminated frankly their
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by apalmer 13y ago
I am turning on Amazon, it just feels fundamentally unfair that they destroyed the brick and mortar book industry precisely because they operate on the principal of never having to turn a profit. Its almost a monopolist abuse of the market.
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by apalmer 13y ago
Nothing wrong with the 5 star rating system as far as it goes... the marketing 'usefulness' of a measure is not the be all and end all, in that regards it is very different from video game and movie reviews.
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by apalmer 13y ago
Ehhhh honestly real talk is 'controlled' economies have some of the absolute worst economic horror stories. I mean China during much of Mao's run experienced staggeringly bad management.
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by apalmer 13y ago
No
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by apalmer 13y ago
Honestly, if you going to selectively pick lines out of an information source that defend your argument then all hope of intelligent discourse is lost. Let me just say, I don't disagree with the source your quoting just with your selec
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by apalmer 13y ago
I disagree with you on points, but at least we seem to be operating from a shared logical framework. I think our fundamental disagreement however is i don't think a company 'stands' for anything but making money. I think furt
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by apalmer 13y ago
Why would you assume that Thoreau, Gandhi and King would be against my position? Individuals banding together for civil disobedience is completely different from commercial entities banding together. Hoping for commercial entities to break
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by apalmer 13y ago
honestly? I dont understand what you are arguing. Who said anything about no arrests, trials, or convictions? I do not have classified info on what is or isnt done within or outside the justice system based on NSA monitoring. I do know the
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by apalmer 13y ago
Not really, trusting/encouraging commercial entities to morally parse which laws they should and shouldn't obey seems absolutely crazy to me. Not sure what is going on with the massive cognitive dissonance being displayed. Governm
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by apalmer 13y ago
'rule of law' means something specific. To vastly summarize, if a law is unjust change the law.
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by apalmer 13y ago
Corporations have morals now? Just seems like a bad idea to root for, actually it sounds very similar to the argument that there is a serious moral imperative for the govt to ignore the 4th amendment to stop terrorism. You are either for th
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by apalmer 13y ago
What on earth are you talking about? The whole purpose of the NSA monitoring program is to provide actionable leads to enable intervention by law enforcement. You can think this is 'bad', you can think this is 'good', yo
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by apalmer 13y ago
Well I hope this is not the case. I am against the NSA monitoring program. I think powerful commercial interests colluding to purposefully break the rule of law is a huge negative. Lets disconnect this behavior from the specific instance&#x
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by apalmer 13y ago
'There's a lot of speculation about what could happen, but if we look only at what has happened, people aren't being snatched up off the streets because of the NSA's monitoring programs.' How can you possibly know t
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by apalmer 13y ago
Very few movers and shakers in the history of the world are intrinsically 'evil' in their own judgement. Whether Alexander is purposefully trying to harm the US or not is immaterial. Agree with you on the charicterization going on
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by apalmer 13y ago
Their opinion probably is along the lines of 'Show me the money'. Really wondering what 'zuckerberg' or 'brin' feel like is kind of besides the point.

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