A mortgage can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on the financial situation of the person who takes it out. As for " the debt exists because the lenders believe in the company", that is in the wrong tense, it should be "believed" at the time they made the loan. We don't know whether or not they still believe in it, but Getty's admission that it failed to produce the performance it said it would must have gone some way to undermining the original belief.

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They must have lost a lot of exclusives to SS this year, it's not like them to play anything other than hardball.

It's kind of reassuring to see the RC system bite them on the arse, other agencies should take note.

Quote from: EmberMike on November 19, 2013, 16:53

Still waiting for them to do for photographers what they did for vector artists and just drop the RC system.

Won't happen if people keep uploading.

It's true. Vector uploads plummeted (the review queue went from several days down to several hours despite no additional reviewers being added) and lifting the upload limit didn't give them the numbers they wanted from the people who continued to upload. They finally had to relent and give back the 20% rate to get uploads back on track.

On a side note the hearts and minuses things is pretty silly when I get 1 negative and your post gets 5 hearts for agreeing with me, glad I stopped paying any attention to that.  I can say for sure now that some people give negatives without reading what I've written so even less of a reason to pay attention to it.  Too bad Leaf doesn't offer an opt out.

I can't speak for everyone, but when I've given you minuses I've read every word.  (I've also given you pluses on the rare occasions you provide useful info)

Quote from: tickstock on November 20, 2013, 10:18

On a side note the hearts and minuses things is pretty silly when I get 1 negative and your post gets 5 hearts for agreeing with me, glad I stopped paying any attention to that.  I can say for sure now that some people give negatives without reading what I've written so even less of a reason to pay attention to it.  Too bad Leaf doesn't offer an opt out.

I can't speak for everyone, but when I've given you minuses I've read every word.  (I've also given you pluses on the rare occasions you provide useful info)

Same here

I never got banned. Told you that before.

I see you cant handle up votes. I will vote you down then from here on out, so you feel right at home again.

 

See its happening to me too. Lisa gets 3 votes up, I agree with her, I get 4 votes down.

Its about who they like not about what is being said.

No, it's probably because Lisa CONTRIBUTES to the discussion. You just seem to write hundreds of nothing posts. Look at your last 4 above. Not one word about the subject of the thread.

Few random comments..

Grandfathered, get to keep my 15% 

@tickstock, despite disagreeing with you on virtually everything, have never given you a minus (the only time I ever do it is to prats who minus me for speaking the truth)

Read a comment from the founder of a company I used to work for about his disappointment that the company he founded and built over 20 years had been "managed out of existence" - sound like a familiar story?

+1

yes my rates have dropped too