We all heard about Harry Potter being delayed by the studio from the christmas season to the next summer

WHAT THE FUCK

There is absolutely no reason to do this, it was one of the most anticipated movies of the year They could release it on anyday of the year and it would still make gangbusters money

all they are doing is pissing off all of there loyal customers,

movie companies need to learn that unless there putting a movie against another blockbuster (which harry potter would overpower anything except maybe 007 but that would have come out 2-3 weeks before hand)

WHY DID THEY MOVE IT DAMN IT

NASDAQ CEO : Perjury or Ignorance?



The following is 55 seconds of Bob Greifeld,CEO of NASDAQ being asked if he understands the definition of “gross profit margin” in a lawsuit over an unpaid balance on a $611,000.00 family vacation.The nasdaq CEO claims the trip was based on “cost plus 38% mark up” and the plaintiff claims the experience was “cost plus a 38% Gross Profit Margin”. The Attny,Richard Mackiewicz asks Bob if he knows the most rudimentary business question and you decide if he is lying (to win) or is he really that ignorant of basic,basic business principles. Remember, this guy is buying the London Stock Exchange which would make him in charge of the “market confidence” and reporting of companies equaling $11 trillion worth of your stocks.



Türkiye İş Bankası is Turkey’s first public bank and premiere national financial institution, ranked 102nd in the Top 1000 World Banks survey of Financial Times’ The Banker and 371th in the Forbes Global 2000 lists as of 2008, with a Gross Profit for the Year 2006 TRY 2,540 million and USD 6.8 billion in Tier I Capital, as defined by Basels Bank for International Settlements. The company offers some of the largest services in Turkey, and operates 891 branches domestically, twelve branches in Germany, two branches in the Netherlands, and one branch each in France and Switzerland and one representative office in China.

The inception of the country’s first truly national bank following the promulgation of the Republic dates back to 26 August 1924, mandated by Atatürk, consequent to the First Economy Congress in İzmir. Isbank begun to operate with two branches and 37 staff under the leadership of Celal Bayar, the first General Manager to run the bank. The bank was partly aided by India through the Imperial State Bank of India in 1927, which was part of generally larger sum given to aid the Turkish Liberation Movement.

The Grand Victory which preceded the proclamation of the Republic order entailed a period during which resolutions to the state’s economic and social problems were sought. There was a growing and deeply rooted sentiment signalling the need for a truly national establishment and the birth of a banking system that was capable of the financing means to back up economic activities, managing funds accumulated as a result of policies providing savings incentives and where necessary extending resources which could trigger industrial impetus.

The birth of a new country heavily depended on the presence of banking activities nation wide, the drive for industrial development, animating national savings, financing fundamental economic breakthroughs and the means to meet financial borrowings. The aftermath of World War I culminated in a wide array of progress, including financial services which soon took off with an accelerated pace leading to technological advances and the designation of previously unheard methods and criteria governing business. Turkey was to suffer deprivation from such innovations and lacked qualified and skilled human resources. Isbank began operating at a time of such economic strain.

http://www.isbank.com.tr/english/

wikipedia about money



I AM a conservative to be sure. However, i feel that the American people are becoming slaves to large corporate entities and big banks. I believe in profit. It is a good thing. I just feel that the big guys are ignoring us and doing just what they WANT to do. Am i wrong?
I do not believe that my political idol, Barry Goldwater, would ever want this environment we live in now.

A1 – Like_A_Rose



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Big Black – Precious Thing



One of the first songs that I ever heard from Big Black Precious thing.
This is Steve Albini at his best!

They sold a quarter million copies! Here is the math that will explain just how fucked they are: These figures are representative of amounts that appear in record contracts daily. There’s no need to skew the figures to make the scenario look bad, since real-life examples more than abound.

Advance: $ 250,000
Manager’s cut: $ 37,500
Legal fees: $ 10,000
Recording Budget: $ 150,000
Producer’s advance: $ 50,000
Studio fee: $ 52,500
Drum Amp, Mic and Phase “Doctors”: $ 3,000
Recording tape: $ 8,000
Equipment rental: $ 5,000
Cartage and Transportation: $ 5,000
Lodgings while in studio: $ 10,000
Catering: $ 3,000
Mastering: $ 10,000
Tape copies, reference CDs, shipping tapes, misc. expenses: $ 2,000
Video budget: $ 30,000
Cameras: $ 8,000
Crew: $ 5,000
Processing and transfers: $ 3,000
Off-line: $ 2,000
On-line editing: $ 3,000
Catering: $ 1,000
Stage and construction: $ 3,000
Copies, couriers, transportation: $ 2,000
Director’s fee: $ 3,000
Album Artwork: $ 5,000
Promotional photo shoot and duplication: $ 2,000
Band fund: $ 15,000
New fancy professional drum kit: $ 5,000
New fancy professional guitars [2]: $ 3,000
New fancy professional guitar amp rigs [2]: $ 4,000
New fancy potato-shaped bass guitar: $ 1,000
New fancy rack of lights bass amp: $ 1,000
Rehearsal space rental: $ 500
Big blowout party for their friends: $ 500 Tour expense [5 weeks]: $ 50,875
Bus: $ 25,000
Crew [3]: $ 7,500
Food and per diems: $ 7,875
Fuel: $ 3,000
Consumable supplies: $ 3,500
Wardrobe: $ 1,000
Promotion: $ 3,000
Tour gross income: $ 50,000
Agent’s cut: $ 7,500
Manager’s cut: $ 7,500
Merchandising advance: $ 20,000
Manager’s cut: $ 3,000
Lawyer’s fee: $ 1,000
Publishing advance: $ 20,000
Manager’s cut: $ 3,000
Lawyer’s fee: $ 1,000
Record sales: 250,000 @ $12 =
$3,000,000
Gross retail revenue Royalty: [13% of 90% of retail]:
$ 351,000
Less advance: $ 250,000
Producer’s points: [3% less $50,000 advance]:
$ 40,000
Promotional budget: $ 25,000
Recoupable buyout from previous label: $ 50,000
Net royalty: $ -14,000
Record company income:
Record wholesale price: $6.50 x 250,000 =
$1,625,000 gross income
Artist Royalties: $ 351,000
Deficit from royalties: $ 14,000
Manufacturing, packaging and distribution: @ $2.20 per record: $ 550,000
Gross profit: $ 7l0,000

The Balance Sheet: This is how much each player got paid at the end of the game.

Record company: $ 710,000
Producer: $ 90,000
Manager: $ 51,000
Studio: $ 52,500
Previous label: $ 50,000
Agent: $ 7,500
Lawyer: $ 12,000
Band member net income each: $ 4,031.25

The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000 on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month. The next album will be about the same, except that the record company will insist they spend more time and money on it. Since the previous one never “recouped,” the band will have no leverage, and will oblige. The next tour will be about the same, except the merchandising advance will have already been paid, and the band, strangely enough, won’t have earned any royalties from their T-shirts yet. Maybe the T-shirt guys have figured out how to count money like record company guys. Some of your friends are probably already this fucked.

- Taken from
THE PROBLEM WITH MUSIC written by STEVE ALBINI

Now go! Do your homework, research Steve Albini and learn something about good quality music! Stop watching fucking MTV.



Correct me if I’m wrong here on these points:

-Big Government that regulates more business limits competition by its laws so that only the bigger corporations can profit. Such as the Pharmaceutical industry that controls the medicine. It makes it difficult for smaller business’ such as herbal or energetic to make money. But how else does it restrict it though?

-The above also restricts what the national wealth could get from all different kinds of business’ profiting. And with restricting what a business’ pays its customers, it makes it even more difficult for the business to make a lot of money and therefore add on to the national wealth.

-Big Government increase the spending and thus increases the taxes on us.

-Big Government limits people’s personal freedoms to choose from all kinds of products because big corporations took over all of them so the people can’t choose what they truly want.

Is there more?



I need to ask a big coorporate office to donate a vehicle for the use of a non-profit organization. The company requested a proposal, I’ve never written one myself, help. The vehicle is necessary to conduct communtiy education programs due to the large amount of material and sometimes equipment.

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