why should corporations do R&D? one company invents something they might keep it for themselves and not license it. a university will license to anyone
most of these contracts are very similar. that's why they have the musician organizations like ASCAP that you join who negotiate royalties on your behalf and send you a check. and that's why you hire an agent.
get the governments to support western investment into the business structure to put people to work. people who have a life tend to not become terrorists.
look at the US. military recruitment falls with a good economy
that's the point of cable, lots of niche channels where you only watch a few that you like
of course it has been bastardized to where you get a channel with one good show and all crap reruns or reality shows for almost every subject or sports. as it is now cable is mostly for sports fans since netflix/hulu has enough content for a lot of people to watch
and even then netflix fucked you over more than comcast ever did since they license content to netflix as well. dozens of streaming services work fine, except netflix
they tell cable companies to sell you the bundles. and even then you still have to pay for the cost of the wiring which cost a lot of money to lay down. so buying one service won't be very much cheaper
or other for no other reason than they have to pay them. over the decades they have hated oil companies, drug companies and i forgot who else. i even made up a formula
take product A that people love and is sold at high margins, but needs a product B or service to work that is sold at low margins. product A is SUV's, smartphones, high margin products people love and like the companies product/Service B is ISP's and oil companies and are both relatively low margin. Apple has something like 15% net margins and comcast around 5%. car companies used to sell SUV's at insane profits and people somehow hated the gas companies after buying these behemoths
NYC the cheapest cable internet is 15/1 and time warner is upgrading the lowest tier to around 30/3 in a few months same in other bigger suburbs and larger towns. you can get 20mbps internet for $50 a month
The internet is just fine if you live close to civilization. No reason why my bill should pay to run cable for people who live in the middle of no where
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why should corporations do R&D?
one company invents something they might keep it for themselves and not license it. a university will license to anyone
so what happens when someone a thousand miles away plays YOUR music for their PROFIT without paying you?
because no one wants to negotiate with a thousand different people
why do people buy from amazon or big box stores instead of visiting a dozen different mom and pop stores? because it saves time and a lot of gas money
most of these contracts are very similar. that's why they have the musician organizations like ASCAP that you join who negotiate royalties on your behalf and send you a check. and that's why you hire an agent.
so all you do is make music, record and perform.
yeah, because someone who wants to spend their days making music should spend 20% of their time negotiating contracts as well
you can say google is evil,but spotify doesn't let anyone upload videos for free for the whole world to see
get the governments to support western investment into the business structure to put people to work. people who have a life tend to not become terrorists.
look at the US. military recruitment falls with a good economy
the company that owns The History Channel also runs a lot of other channels and tells the cable companies they have to license all of them or none
go look at their financial releases
comcast is $2.5 billion profits on revenue of $65 billion
that's the point of cable, lots of niche channels where you only watch a few that you like
of course it has been bastardized to where you get a channel with one good show and all crap reruns or reality shows for almost every subject or sports. as it is now cable is mostly for sports fans since netflix/hulu has enough content for a lot of people to watch
and even then netflix fucked you over more than comcast ever did since they license content to netflix as well. dozens of streaming services work fine, except netflix
blame disney, viacom, discovery
they tell cable companies to sell you the bundles. and even then you still have to pay for the cost of the wiring which cost a lot of money to lay down. so buying one service won't be very much cheaper
or other for no other reason than they have to pay them. over the decades they have hated oil companies, drug companies and i forgot who else. i even made up a formula
take product A that people love and is sold at high margins, but needs a product B or service to work that is sold at low margins.
product A is SUV's, smartphones, high margin products people love and like the companies
product/Service B is ISP's and oil companies and are both relatively low margin. Apple has something like 15% net margins and comcast around 5%. car companies used to sell SUV's at insane profits and people somehow hated the gas companies after buying these behemoths
this is the internet you fool
you get netflix and steal the rest
i rarely watch netflix so i don't really care about their self made problems
NYC the cheapest cable internet is 15/1 and time warner is upgrading the lowest tier to around 30/3 in a few months
same in other bigger suburbs and larger towns. you can get 20mbps internet for $50 a month
The internet is just fine if you live close to civilization. No reason why my bill should pay to run cable for people who live in the middle of no where
the more accessible you make it the more people get into it and the more of a commodity it will become
even now developing and coding is a commodity in a lot of fields or a secondary skill to being a math whiz and working with algorithms on data sets
every carrier in the USA gives you unlimited minutes and texts
what's voip supposed to be used for again except international calls?
of the perp
the police tracked him down with no search warrant
it's $35 per customer and it is the content guys driving up the prices
netflix pays out 75% of revenues for content
and being that they will have proof from the phone owner they can start ticketing and arresting people the next day
silicon valley used to live on defense contracts until the cold war ended and they had to reinvent itself in the 90's
any town can call in a favor with its congress people to send some defense work into the area to make it livable for white collar people
except me
i can imagine the banner ads i'll start seeing once i take a few of these
i suspect that like with the internet of things, the consumer feature was secondary to the primary feature, to get your data
i make sure to be as slow as the pay by check people in supermarkets