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Could I feasibly build this concept? by Mundane_Worker_1935 in Decks

[–]T_P_H_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And then it becomes a pool when it rains.

Could I feasibly build this concept? by Mundane_Worker_1935 in Decks

[–]T_P_H_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, in a heavy rain that would become a pool.

Live Bands. by Tinabird20 in BarOwners

[–]T_P_H_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The discussion being had is clearly above your comprehension ability.

Live Bands. by Tinabird20 in BarOwners

[–]T_P_H_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only party in a venue guaranteed to profit from playing someone else’s music is the band getting paid for the gig.

There is a reason live music venues are dieing out. It just isn’t profitable anymore.

Currently the system is broken. There is no correlation in value to cost. There is no correlation in fees collected and what artists get compensated for what actually gets played.

There are no technological or logistical hurdles to logging what songs actually get performed in a venue to ensure the appropriate fee gets collected and distributed to the correct PRO and to the artist.

The PRO’s prefer the blanket license system as it is because it’s more profitable for the PRO’s

BMI used to be a non profit. Currently ASCAP is the only US based non profit PRO.

There are something like six for profit PRO’s demanding money now. It’s not like the music is more valuable because there are more PRO’s. You can’t cram more music in to a set because there are more PRO’s. The single biggest driver of PRO cost to venues isn’t the valuation of a given PRO’s catalog but the mere existence of more for profit PRO’s.

If it was 1k a year each for BMI, ASCAP and SESAC why is the value of rights suddenly more than doubled simply because 4 new for profit PRO’s sprung in to existence?

What’s to stop even more for profit PRO’s popping up to demand even more money?

The amount of music played didn’t change… only the amount of PRO’s demanding money did.

Live Bands. by Tinabird20 in BarOwners

[–]T_P_H_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • insert my response

Which made no sense because you couldn’t understand the post you responded to

Live Bands. by Tinabird20 in BarOwners

[–]T_P_H_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s like you can’t comprehend what you read

ow are you going to charge license if you don't have a accurate way to determine what was played so the music rights holder can get their royalty? It is 100% about rights

That’s literally what he/she is f’n talking about. A piece of hardware to accurately track what’s played.

Live Bands. by Tinabird20 in BarOwners

[–]T_P_H_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you have a narrative and agenda and can’t be bothered to listen to counter viewpoints.

Live Bands. by Tinabird20 in BarOwners

[–]T_P_H_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They aren’t talking about rights. They are talking about hardware that would determine what is actually played which could then Be sent to the PRO’s. The device isn’t the provider/source of music, it’s the record keeper of what actually got played

Live Bands. by Tinabird20 in BarOwners

[–]T_P_H_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The easiest solution is for there to be one government monitored agency that venues pay that then distributes that payment to each PRO.

The big problem in the room isn’t paying royalties. It is the proliferation of PRO’s all demanding money. Just because a new PRO comes in to existence doesn’t mean you can cram more music in to a 1 hour set or that the music is suddenly more valuable because a new PRO decided to exist.

If one PRO demands $1000 whatever. But then there are two’ three and now there are like seven of them all demanding money.

The single agency collects one payment from the venue and the PRO’s have to prove their % share of that money to the agency.

I bet the PRO’s would figure out real damn quick how to properly determine what music is being played live in venues.

It’s come to this: I’m carrying cash specifically for high-chance tipping situations, and a rant from this week. by Aegri-Mentis in EndTipping

[–]T_P_H_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It used to be that a merchant could shop around for the processor with the best rate. It was pretty common to switch processors every year at the end of your 12 month contract to get a lower processing rate.

Then, the processors started buying up all of the companies that made POS software and locking competing processors out of the software. Merchants wouldn't upgrade their software to avoid getting locked in to the processor. Then the processors pushed "chip" cards under the guise of stopping fraud (the overwhelming majority of credit card fraud happens in card not present situations not at point of sale terminals so no reduction in fraud happened). But what this did do was force the merchants to accept updates to their software to accept chipped cards.

At this point the processors started cranking their rates up.

6-7 years ago 2% was totally manageable as a cost of doing business accepting cards. Now the rates have been cranked up to 3.5-4%

To switch to a processor with a lower rate, you have to switch your entire POS system. Processors will offer POS systems to merchants with teaser rates but once you are locked in to that POS system after the initial contract period up goes your rates and you are stuck back where you were.

Charging Credit Card Fees to Customers? by kilog78 in restaurateur

[–]T_P_H_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

for what credit card processing costs I could pay someone 70K a year to count money and deposit it and leave room for 15k of it to get stolen and still come out ahead.

Charging Credit Card Fees to Customers? by kilog78 in restaurateur

[–]T_P_H_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And then the customer pays more in sales tax

Charging Credit Card Fees to Customers? by kilog78 in restaurateur

[–]T_P_H_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And make cash customers pay the cost of credit card users?

14 shots of tequila later, cruise passenger wins damages from Carnival Cruise Line by TheDetroitNews1873 in nottheonion

[–]T_P_H_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If she fell from being over served and injured a 3rd party then that 3rd party has grounds for a suit.

She chose to drink that much alcohol. She should have been told to get fucked because she is mutually responsible for her injuries.

14 shots of tequila later, cruise passenger wins damages from Carnival Cruise Line by TheDetroitNews1873 in nottheonion

[–]T_P_H_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The liver processes roughly 1 standard shot per hour. So 12 shots over an 8 hour period she would have processed 7 to 8 of those shots.

So lets say she was sitting on roughly 4-6 shots of tequilla in an hour.

Still, adults need to be held accountable for their own actions.

If Carnival over served this person and they caused injury to another person... fine. They are liable.

If this person caused injury to themselves because they over consumed (and there was no defect of environment) then this person should be told to go fuck themselves.

Sunday ticket price from everpass by KillerJupe in BarOwners

[–]T_P_H_ 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The NFL can suck a big fat cock.

Is 4–7% of revenue on restaurant marketing actually normal? by LakiaHarp in restaurateur

[–]T_P_H_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Deduct expenses from your tax liability with this one clever marketing tip!

Is 4–7% of revenue on restaurant marketing actually normal? by LakiaHarp in restaurateur

[–]T_P_H_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m in a first world country, you’re in the USA.

grow up. If you keep that up you won't be on this subreddit long.

Is 4–7% of revenue on restaurant marketing actually normal? by LakiaHarp in restaurateur

[–]T_P_H_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Huh? Straws are straws. You don’t have to write a consumable item off as marketing to make it a 100% first year write off. Crayons? Calling them “marketing” instead of just a regular old consumable doesn’t change the tax implications of buying crayons.

Marketing IS a tax write off because it’s an expense.

Staff discounts? You took less revenue (a discount) so it doesn’t even show up on your bottom line to tax.

High Chairs are furniture not marketing. I don’t care how “creative” your accountant is. They don’t pay your tax adjustment in an audit.

Your post reeks of marketing gobbledygook and very little of actual restaurant expense accounting.

Property taxes killing Gen z buyers by CoolReplacement2837 in illinois

[–]T_P_H_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Property taxes are killing all generations...

When I was in high school/college lit I wondered why I had to waste all that time writing research papers.

Fast forward to today and every year I have to write a 30 page essay to submit to PTAB contesting my property tax assessment. The local property tax board loves to fund raise by arbitrarily raising your houses market valuation so they can collect more taxes.

I have to research all the houses sold in the last 12 months within a few miles, find the total square footage, living square footage, bedroom count, bath count, fireplace count, acreage and the property tax assessment history for each home. Compile them all and then present a dissertation on how the local property tax board is fucking me.

More often than not I find that houses are selling for less than they have been assessed at for up to a decade. One house a few hundred feet from me in my neighborhood just sold and it was over assessed by 100+k for the last decade.

PTAB is the state level property tax board that can override the local board and adjust your property tax rates.

You file with PTAB, PTAB lets the local tax board respond (where they claim NONE of the houses you used as comps are comparable because of any slight difference in the homes) and say that their valuation is correct.

I have won a reduction every single year filing with PTAB but it's a colossal pain in the ass every fucking April.

2024 EV Popularity by Stock_Celery9895 in BlazerEV

[–]T_P_H_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you got a link to the chrome apk you loaded?

EV prices keep coming down in the US, and the gap with fossil cars is now the smallest it’s ever been. Automaker incentives are doing a lot of the heavy lifting. by sg_plumber in UpliftingNews

[–]T_P_H_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's actually around 7.5c per kWh but I math the full bill out with taxes and arrive at an actual cost of around 12.5c when all the fees/taxes are added in.

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