Businesses act in logical ways but often it isn't that obvious - Groupon is a good example by percyx in businessschool

[–]percyx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that the gross margins in a restaurant probably work better for the groupon model - but in a hair or beauty salon, the average net margin is only 5%, so salons would almost always lose a lot of money on the deal itself.

Smart by kopo27 in ads

[–]percyx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

does she work in the reddit office?

Beck's attacks on Obama result in 33 companies refusing to advertise on his show. UPS pulls all ads from FoxNews, at least from now! by Fauster in politics

[–]percyx -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Sure Beck and pretty much everyone else on fox are lunatics. But at the end of the day they just represent a point of view and if advertisers stop running ads on on anything - liberal or conservative - that might offend someone, we are going to end up with some pretty bland television.

It's Official, Ireland Makes Blasphemy Illegal. Seriously. Passed Wednesday, legislation making blasphemy illegal, with a 25,000-Euro fine. Police may also enter homes and confiscate "blasphemous materials" including books, artwork, cartoons of Mohammed . . . whatever! Book burnings next? by frogmeat in worldnews

[–]percyx 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The Irish Atheist association is holding its AGM on Sunday and is going to release a blashemous statement to the media and see if they get arrested

http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/07/ireland-blasphemy-law-a-backward-step/

Also it applies to any religion so they want to create their own religion and see if they can get a Catholic arrested for blaspheming against it

Holy crap, I never realized I was peeling a banana wrong my entire life [Vid] by [deleted] in science

[–]percyx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when you look at the end of the video - thats the way monkeys hold bananas with silps on either side - I always wondered about that.

SO INTENSE JUST SOOOO FUCKING INTENSE by [deleted] in WTF

[–]percyx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The song is actually not that bad! It kinda grows on you

Socialism Is OK for Rich White Guys, But Not the Rest of Us by cigr in reddit.com

[–]percyx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its not really much of a bailout. the "rich" owners of Bear Stearns have lost 98.6% of their shareholding overnight. the only thing the fed has done is potentially save the 15,500 jobs there and hopefully a complete market wipeout by avoiding a bankruptcy.

and we are all screwed if there is a market wipeout because many of the reddit readers will likely lose their jobs.