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We will have a bloodied metal heart, but it's still a heart. Whenever Burzy writes to me from prison, it's a push that energizes me to keep going until the fateful day of Ragnarok that we are all waiting for. Come Fernir, come bite us with your fangs, we are waiting for you with open arms! PS (I still keep the studded sandals from the oratory. Jealously.)
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Yes, but your speech is delightful to listen to; I was only emphasizing the one thing I can discuss with you (the ISO) because I know about it. As for the rest that you mention, in my mind, there's an endless prairie rolling with tumbleweeds like in a Western movie. I will follow your advice on the channels to choose for gathering information. Regarding the 14000 issue, I can contradict your professors: every Italian production sector I know and follow (so obviously not all) has various trade journals where the certifying companies advertise the 14000. Every company that obtains the 14000 advertises the fact that they have achieved it quite a lot. Things like "bio" chrome, which no one cared about five years ago, are now essential; if you don't use ecological steel plating systems, you're considered a poor fool (as a reputation you carry around). Well, I speak easily because I work in a sector where in Italy we have always been, and for now it seems we will continue to be the leaders in the world for quite a while, so perhaps I see the situation in a more positive light than it is because money continues to flow in this field to carry these things forward.
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This album feels all too familiar, and there’s nothing wrong with that. If we think about familiarity, then from 1971 to today, we could save at most 30 records and discard the rest as rubbish. Everyone loves a genre (or three, or four, or four hundred) and they enjoy hearing that, even if they’ve already heard it. Just think, there are even some crazy people who have (already) listened to the same record not once, but twice! Surely, there’s some mentally unhinged person out there who has listened to a record three times. There’s no limit to human craziness.
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Yes, but if you produce on a large scale, you have large-scale problems. I can't even imagine how many lawsuits for non-payment Sony has going on, and how many millions go to lawyers just to give one of many examples. Be aware that the point of this discussion is not "they don't profit," but rather the profit margin. Above, Stoney wrote "400 times," which means forty thousand percent (I mean it). On such massive revenues, the net profit for shareholders (I’m talking about the final profit for the "owners") will be between 5 and 10 percent, if things go well. But with revenues in the billions of euros, even 0.1 percent is a lot of money to be reckoned with. However, it's 0.1, not forty thousand. And millions of people depend on these multinationals, from the worker in Taiwan to Mr. Giulio who fixes televisions in the basement.
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You could have said that half the world plays here; if I remember correctly, there are four drummers, and this album made news in 2002 mainly because one of these four was Alexander, who hadn’t played with Les and Primus for years. There are people from Gov't Mule, the first drummer of RHCP, and other various prominent figures. What you consider "filler" tracks are for others the best pieces, because it’s conceived as a varied album that touches on a thousand soundscapes played by people who know those sonorities well. In the end, it’s a sort of Holy Mackerel Deluxe edition, even though we’re missing that crazy Joe Gore (the guitarist for Tom Waits, not Jimmy The Fly Snuka) who played like a god on Holy Mackerel. I’m giving you one because by stating that all these million people are involved and asserting that the “different” things from the usual Claypool style are fillers, you don't encourage listening to this great album.
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Luk, I propose a game of rock-paper-scissors, Death version. Instead of Rock Paper Scissors, we can play the good old Boulder-Bondage-Medieval Axe. Do you remember how many joyful afternoons we spent in the shadow of the deconsecrated church, you, me, and Burzum? Ahhh... youth that never returns...
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And the unimaginable wonder when the Nintendo came out, that you inserted the big cartridge and the game... IT STARTED! Incredible, it started right away! I think I saw God that day, for the first time.
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Oh sorry, I forgot the main point: what does the Mediaworld Group gain from this? They have their costs too. And what does the guy who takes a Media World store on a franchise make? He has his costs as well. Do you really believe a television starts from Sony Taiwan at €900? If it starts at €200, that might even be too much. Not to mention that only 70% is sold, while 30% becomes obsolete before it’s sold, and either gets discarded or dismantled to recover still usable parts (more costs). You can figure out the production cost in three hours, but the final price takes days of analysis, calculating other people's percentages and making rough sales estimates, which then affect raw material purchase estimates, which in turn feed back into the production cost account. It may seem easy to you to just consider Taiwan, but that's just the beginning of a long day with the calculator and tons of estimates to analyze.
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Those damn little cartridges that never worked, bought at the newsstand along with a pack of ugly stickers, with 100 games on a cassette. Anyway, since you were at it, you could have started with the Vic 20.
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Check online, there are plenty of professors proposing various theories on how to create a price list, and the most infamous item to calculate is called "fixed costs." Educate yourself.