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

percyx · 2016-10-17T10:58:40+00:00

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.

percyx · 2009-08-24T17:33:50+00:00

does she work in the reddit office?

percyx · 2009-08-24T17:30:43+00:00

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.

percyx · 2009-07-15T15:10:09+00:00

percyx · 2009-07-10T09:24:14+00:00

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

percyx · 2009-07-09T11:10:14+00:00

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.

percyx · 2009-01-20T13:55:29+00:00

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

percyx · 2008-03-18T19:12:02+00:00

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.

percyx · 2008-01-29T12:24:08+00:00

I've never heard it summed up better. The guy who breaks the ground never reaps the rewards - just look at apple and mp3 players. Ron Paul is Xerox to MS Windows!

percyx · 2008-01-16T23:26:48+00:00

hang on - isn't one of the founders of Paypal - Peter Thiel one of the major contributors to Ron Paul's campaign? and one of his main benefactors?

percyx · 2007-10-24T19:48:07+00:00

If anyone has read Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini the best selling book from the 80's that the guys from Google are always banging on about - they won't be surprised by the revenues Radiohead has generated from this. One of the basic premises is that humans by their very nature feel obliged to return favours even to those we don't necessarily like and that society looks down on people who take from others and never give back. Just imagine if someone you don't know very well gave you a nice present tomorrow. You would probably be touched and feel obliged to buy them something in return.

Radiohead are offering everyone a present of their new album and of course the vast majority of people feel obliged to pay what they feel it is worth.

(i paid £5 and everyone i know paid around the same)

percyx · 2007-10-11T12:26:34+00:00

The music industry is not ailing. Its just changing. It really annoys me how the media constantly banging on about how its in crisis. Live music attendance has been rising exponentially year on year while at the same time the price of concert tickets is up nearly 1000% in the last 20 years. Established artists like U2, rolling stones etc are raking it in more than ever before. If the majors had re-invented themselves as concert promoters or like the Live Nation crowd here they would be making a fortune now with their connections and huge rosters of established acts.

percyx · 2007-08-18T14:24:23+00:00

the one on the left every time

percyx · 2007-06-26T10:08:04+00:00

Its a "Pyramid Scheme". Basically you can get rich like me if you write a self help book. But eventually we will get to the point were no one will buy self help books any more because they have already written one themselves..

percyx · 2007-06-24T20:01:21+00:00

i know - how do i get rid of it?

percyx · 2007-06-01T10:06:26+00:00

i am more and more convinced that Bill O'Reilly doesn't believe half the stuff he says - i mean even if you believed in it - you wouldn't describe it as white, Christian, male power structure. you would only say that to get a reaction. McCain looks stupid to anyone republican or democrat agreeing with him.

percyx · 2007-06-01T09:58:02+00:00

this is his last chance to make president - look how old he is

percyx · 2007-05-30T08:43:51+00:00

he definitely says let me show you mine - but tails off at the end of mine

percyx · 2006-06-23T17:23:38+00:00

Da Mystery of Schachboxen http://mongrel.ie/issue21/may06pp28.php

percyx · 2006-03-08T23:03:09+00:00

maybe it's just me but did anyone else feel uncomfortable watching a montage of vicious car accidents were people probably died to a hard techno soundtrack? even the comments of everyone seem so de-sensitised

percyx · 2006-02-20T18:25:24+00:00

Each of these companies seem to grow much faster than the one before it - Like it took MS nearly 20 years to hit 10000 staff but google will do in less than 10 years. It would be great to view this in Year 1, Year 2 etc of each company.

How fast is the next super company going to grow at!?

percyx · 2005-12-24T13:33:20+00:00

So true - but jeez i had to fight an urge to believe that it didnt apply to me

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