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« on: July 12, 2015, 18:39 »
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« on: July 12, 2015, 18:27 »
I'll just mention this from my latest royalties report (June) at dissolve.
I had a big month,i couldnt literally believe my eyes in number of sales after only 6 months there but im not quite thrilled:
30% of my hd sales were discouinted sales with 19.88usd royalties (that's a 25% royalty) .
I was told that these bulk discounts have a meaning (big client offer,massive bulk purchases etc) and i can definitely relate to that,
but this is what shutterstock does more or less.Yes they bring sales (for me at least) but for how long and for how much?
And a day after comes as a coincidence this latest newsletter.
I truly believe that it is becoming very difficult for new agencies to not follow the ss path.
Why is that?I have my theories but it doesnt make me feel any better,and certainly i wont be cheering for another ss model agency even if it makes me big sales.
And of course i wont be uploading "everything" from now on.There are still ways where someone can receive a decent (financially but more importantly ethically) commission from his hd clips.
For the time being.
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« on: July 11, 2015, 19:09 »
Says the person who's been repeatedly banned, then comes back a few days later spewing misogyny.
Im still here and waiting for that apology, since im not that person apparently.
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« on: July 10, 2015, 14:01 »
The full announcement: Were optimizing the collection
Thank you for all your submissions more content than ever is getting submitted! Because we want to make sure your footage collections are as successful as possible, were revising our acquisition and curation process to optimize the collection.
Through our ongoing performance analysis, we know that the best-performing content shares similar qualities: commercially relevant, high production values, and contemporary styling. To make it easy for customers to find the content thats most relevant to their projects, well be fine-tuning the collection, selecting clips with the greatest potential based on these qualities.
What does this mean to you? Some content will be filtered out from the site and from incoming submissions. As a result, the saleability of your collection will be enhanced were confident youll soon see the benefits.
Please keep on submitting your incredible footage as we work to make Dissolves the best footage collection out there! And if you have any questions or concerns, please contact [email protected].
Pricing changes
Based on recent marketplace changes to 4K royalty-free pricing and our own internal performance analysis, were decreasing the price of 4K from $300 to $199. This price point should generate greater sales volume and revenue. Were also decreasing our base HD and SD prices by $1. These changes will take effect in the next two to three weeks.
Revised pricing structure
4K $199
HD $79
SD $49
(Prices for higher tiers and extended licenses also revised accordingly.) Looks like they will not only curate stricter but remove some clips from the site (if i understand correctly) . Remains to be seen which clips will these be.Would be nice to inform contributors beforehand (i.e differently graded same clips,editorials,"ducks in a pond" etc etc) Also 4K price changes and sd resolution introduction.
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« on: July 10, 2015, 12:01 »
Wow, I am not in videos but like their business model a lot... means 100% royalty thats awesome,
I think other agencies should think the same way. not 100% but maybe 80%, 90%, I am ok with both.
I actually like this a lot too and not just out of personal interest,since i havent yet decided if i will contribute to them. A lot of people seem to be going with them lately with big portfolios straight from the beginning and i cant ignore that. Yet there are 2 things that must be addressed.This business model means: 1) That this is a gimmick (for various financial reasons) ,or something worse (which i dont believe but lets, just for the sake of argument),and will blow over at some time in the future,and then we dont (or maybe we do) know whats coming. 2) That this is a completely new paradigm of business ethics and practice,and as a company they have decided to go with a completely different example even dilluting (perhaps) some big salaries,bonuses etc. 3)Cant think of a 3rd option really. The problem is that unless one wasn't born yesterday which scenario seems more likely? I wish the second scenario was the one but we haven't seen anything similar in this business,or any business in general.Even they themselves have been a bit cryptic as to how they hope to implement this successfulyl and over time,despite their good intentions (that i will take for granted for the sake of this conversation) . When you propose and enforce such a model you usually discuss very openly about it and dont go with wishful thinking and soothing talk,and i haven't seen something convincing from them yet. Am i being logical here,or just a big negative crybaby who feels like he is a victim of capitalism? . Doesn't matter i still might join them at some point if that will make me a positive person.
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« on: July 09, 2015, 18:04 »
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« on: July 09, 2015, 18:01 »
I seriously cant fathom how people in the video world on one hand advise others who upload to low paying or crooked sites telling them that they destroy their business and also harm their fellow photographers/videographers using the overplayed "solidarity" argument,and on the other hand scold those who post encouraging figures and info in public telling them that they dilute the sales and lose income.
And everyone is asking the same question over and over "Why are agencies so crooked and why cant we photographers unite and create a just and honest community se we can sell our work with pride and dignity?"
Surreal (to say the least) .
Im upset now.
I think i will join vb just for the heck of it, to dilute sales and pursuade others to join when (or if) the sales come.
P.S Imagine my surprise when i will see my vb sales grow exponentially like they do at p5,ss and ds,all these sites with huge amounts of clips (ds smaller compared to ss and p5) growing constantly. (this was for the argument of "diluted sales")
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« on: July 08, 2015, 12:53 »
I was curious and looked at the guidelines of Pond5. This is what they say:
Exporting to .MOV
We prefer HD footage to be saved ProRes 422 or in the photo-jpeg format, which is a low-impact, high-quality quicktime container and can be exported from most editing and conversion programs. If you're not sure how to export photo-jpeg files from your editing programs, just export a full-quality uncompressed .mov, then run it through the Mpeg Streamclip workflow to make a file for our collection.
No mention of Motion Jpeg. It is not even listed in their list of accepted codecs.
Then do a pjpeg and an mjpeg export, compare size and quality, and go with which suits you best.
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« on: July 08, 2015, 12:15 »
My appologies. It should be Photo Jpeg vs Motion Jpeg.
From Shutterstock:
PhotoJPEG - Non-DV progressive scanned video. Use the 75% / high quality level.
MotionJPEG - Non-DV interlaced video. Use the 75% / high quality level.
Oh i see,but nonetheless disregard these guidelines theyre almost archaic. But if you want to use these use mjpeg as it works for both video sources but not at 75%.Seriously this is not 2005.
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« on: July 08, 2015, 07:42 »
Why mjpeg and not ajpeg? I always though mjpeg is best for interlaced video and ajpeg for progressive video. Most videos these days are progressive, certainly those from a DSLR are progressive.
No idea what ajpeg is.Mjpeg can be interlaced as well as progressive. I dont do mjpeg except for a few times to upload to cc,so the only flavours of it available on my encoders are mjpeg1 and mjpeg2.To be honest i consider this a crappy format as well,but it is compatible with all nle's and offers a good quality/size ration,and agencies prefer that. But my advise is go with proresHQ or plain prores even if you shoot/finish at 8bit.Everyone can export prores at this point even for free.
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« on: July 07, 2015, 15:17 »
The container is mov.A codec is something else. Everything ss downconverts is a flavour of h264 thats why you see such a small file size. My opinion is forget about their downconversions they will be irrelevant in the future (seriously h264 as a professional format?) and upload your work as prores or as mjpeg in a mov container at 90% quality at the very least,unless you have serious bandwidth restrictions. I think they accept avi and wmv containers too but mov is more universal as a container,so stick with that. Maybe this helps. http://submit.shutterstock.com/tutorial/Also they have a sticky post on their forums (i think)
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« on: July 06, 2015, 18:42 »
Thank you, but the thing is i already had at least 1-2 4k sales a month there since i started uploading,and i was kind of counting on those 90usd commissions because sod's and el's lately (last 2 months) are nonexistent.Dissolve sells the same if not more 4K for me with the old ss commissions.
Two or three 4K sales a month at ss to me financially is still a major fail,(not to mention close to what i get for selling hd at p5) ,and i dont see why 4k sales should grow anyway.4K is still irrelevant pretty much and price is still high.
And if the price gets even lower the same principle applies,let alone a very likely price restructure on hd.Catch 22, but i like the enthusiasm.
Oh boy, i love stock.
My concern is that everyone else will now do the same price cutting to compete. Same mentality that drove images into the tank.
Thats everyone's concern and it shouldn't be really because it's inevitable one way or another.It may take a different form (like at pond5 for example where a lot of people willingly lower their 4K prices including me lately) but ultimately thats how business is done in this world and we all go with it one way or another. Still, being enthusiastic about it in public and cheerleading these practices is my major issue (not talking about you of course) because it avoids the detrimental question of "what is success and for whom exactly" . If i was in stock and wanted to draw people by my side and not become a hypocrite at the same time (ie:"dudes if we lower your prices more sales will come man,no, for real, -in that tone-") i would do a price drop on 4K and raise the commission (only for 4K) so there is the same earnings for sellers.I would keep this raised commission for as long as necessary until it becomes clear that 4K has indeed started to become relevant in this world.We would see then if the "more sales more growth for both" argument holds water. Plus it would make every other agency who drops prices with the "it's good for both" argument look like a clown,and set an example. Am i dreaming? Yes. Is it doable though? Yes. Then why? Thats the real question.
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« on: July 06, 2015, 17:03 »
Thank you, but the thing is i already had at least 1-2 4k sales a month there since i started uploading,and i was kind of counting on those 90usd commissions because sod's and el's lately (last 2 months) are nonexistent.Dissolve sells the same if not more 4K for me with the old ss commissions.
Two or three 4K sales a month at ss to me financially is still a major fail,(not to mention close to what i get for selling hd at p5) ,and i dont see why 4k sales should grow anyway.4K is still irrelevant pretty much and price is still high.
And if the price gets even lower the same principle applies,let alone a very likely price restructure on hd.Catch 22, but i like the enthusiasm.
Oh boy, i love stock.
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« on: July 06, 2015, 11:52 »
Just got a 59.70 sale of a 4K clip although im not sure if this is the 4k commission or an HD sod/el or whatever.
Has anyone else got such a commission since the price change to verify this?
SS is 30 percent which is 59.70 of $199, so very likely a commission for 4k.
Yes.Remains to be seen whether 4K sales will grow and whether the growing of discounted 4K sales will yield a better revenue in total.I have my doubts.
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« on: July 06, 2015, 09:42 »
Just got a 59.70 sale of a 4K clip although im not sure if this is the 4k commission or an HD sod/el or whatever.
Has anyone else got such a commission since the price change to verify this?
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« on: July 05, 2015, 21:33 »
Greece's internal affairs have nothing to do with the whole economical conundrum
IMHO you are wrong, because if Greece does not become sustainable, it will ask for more and more money. They ask for debt restructuring because obviously they can't pay for it. Greece had already an haircut on 2012. And they will always remember the german debts from the world war II. If Greece leave the eurozone, which I hope not, it will be worse. Don't even expect IMF to loan more money to the country since Greece didn't repay them on June 30.
It's like if the portuguese would expect debt forgiveness from France because of the napoleonic invasions.
If Greece had already implemented significant changes, that would make the country sustainable, another debt restructuring could be expected, but without measures, it sounds like they will ask for it every 3 years because the debt will not stop increasing.
I am not defending the financial system here, I despise it. That's why I believe the countries need to be sustainable for themself, to be free from it.
Again everything is mixed up here.You despise the financial system but dont understand it at all.Including very basic politics.You said in an earlier post that people of Europe should vote now if they accept the Greek referendum vote results.Thats was cute but hillariously out of context.You dont even understand how democratic countries work and what are the limits and rules of the Eurozone as a constitution and the limits of executive and legislative powers in one's country,and yet you negotiate this political situation in this thread without the basic tools like most people here who unlike you at least are so certain of their ideas,and logical conclusions disregarding the fact the in other places their ideas would be laughable at best.Then i guess im stupid for posting here,but thats my error which i will correct after that post. Look,noone can and will pay for it's debt never, never ever.The debt is irrelevant (unless ones political system is stupid enough to make others use it as a leverage against it like papandreou in Greece who suicided politically dragging the political system along with him) Thats why every country in the Eurozone has started whistling indifferently about its debt (coming from various bubbles,loans,banks,public debt etc etc) and succumbed to the primary surplus rule (struggling its economies to an extend) because that way everyone has in a sense stated that sometime in the near future he will start repaying its debt,which he wont.Argentina btw payed imf in full like some Asian countries,Turkey included, but they had their own currency and are different situations to the point that i cant analyze this here. So every country has a big debt (germany's debt is HUGE if you look at the public hospitals debt alone) i have mentioned this in earlier posts but if you dont understand what any of this means im sorry,you can continue this discussion with your peers where everything is prertty much justified in a logical manner.I have explained a whole lot including why Greece in 2011 jumped in the $hit and how Papandreou decided to pay the public debt like a moron while everyone else was whistling (and rightly so) and why Greece has to repay the the IMF (a price a few economies can pay) .Thats why it is forced to get loans not to support its economy but to repay its debt,that shouldnt have been repayed in the first place.If Papandreou hadnt done this we would be in the same boat as Portugal actually even better. When that moron Papandreou introduced IMF, germany was horrified.Then why did they agree you ask since they knew that this would struggle Greece and force the Eurozone to start loaning Greece's debt?I mean it would make them look like Darth Vaders if they were to start this trend (thankfully noone followed but there was pressures nonetheless). And thats where the big question that everyone should ask is.But this is a mixture of politics and economy,and most people here dont want to do that.Their fantacies about the world dont consider this kind of talk relevant,and sadly this community here is not a place for such talk.A guy a few posts ago considers the economy a science,which is nothing more that an empirical social science (science coming last) . Well scr#w that i have better things to do than typing 5000 words every time.
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« on: July 05, 2015, 20:07 »
The money does not only come from Germany.
For example, 2 millions are from Portugal.
"to recognise this clever bargaining move." That's the problem. It's only about moves. We don't see him doing anything anyway.
And Varoufakis moves are about taking pictures all smiling and sexy with his wife for a VIP magazine and playing the hero on his twitter account.
Look at him. He acts like he still is at the high school classes.
I was expecting this government would do a real change. For months, what measures have they implemented to combat corruption, tax evasion, to increase tax revenue, to lower public expenses?
What you should be asking ist why is it getting loans who pays for them who collects interest and what does it mean for other countries? Varoufakis is a narcissist alright and with a self imposed "cool teacher" style but aesthetic criteria do not belong in a political discussion because seriously look at that druncard clown Juncker who is making appearances in Eurogroups drunk out of his mind while behaving like a moron and slapping everyone thinking eurogroups are a hotel party. Whom would you trust? Exactly,this is irrelevant. I was too expecting the government to do a real change too,but that is not the point of this conversation because these changes have nothing to do with the point in discussion here.They have to do with me my friends and my family but not you -directly- . Spain is making reforms by kicking elderly people out of their houses,giving them to the banks,and obligating them to pay the rest of the loans as well,it could just as well do a top down payment cut to create this logistics positive surplus that is the goal in this tight corset that is the monetary policy of the Eurozone, and noone would have given a * if they called this socialism communism or Darth vader politics.But misanthropic policies such as these are seen as "reforms" as we have witnessed here.I rest my case. Greece's internal affairs have nothing to do with the whole economical conundrum the rest is germany's ethical talks to dress the fact that austerity policies happen to bad boys.Again i am waiting for the day where merkel will have to convince germany's middle class that they were lazy as the Greeks and lived above their capacity.
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« on: July 05, 2015, 19:30 »
The economic theory is not a religion you have to believe in, but a science.
And your belief that there is something beyond the obvious, only understood by some "Illuminati", is the real fallacy!
And it's not hilarious, since so many are fooled by it! Fooled by the illusion that wealth will fall from the sky, after an "oxi" vote, in some referendum!
I'll continue to keep it simple for you: what EU wants you to do, is for you to go first to a photography class, before lending you more money to buy even more fancy cameras and lenses.
Simple again: there is nothing wrong to borrow money when you have a sound business plan and your s**t in order. Money lending with interest is the very engine that pushed mankind forward.
I have a mortgage nobody forced me to take. I'm paying my debts every month as I agreed to do, when I signed my contract.
Same goes for Germany at the macro level. Get it? Simple economics!
Countries DO default. Obviously, it doesn't mean the Greeks will be fired from Greece, but rather that Greece will be fired from the international trade as untrustworthy. And believe me, this means that, one way or another, as history proves, Greece will have to adjust. It looks like Greeks have chosen the hard way out!
My only hope is that EU will stay strong, continuing to refuse to fall for Tsipras' bluff, and throw my money into the Greek chaos.
You oversimplify things like loan/debt etc by stripping the economy apart from the driving force that validates its authority ans existence and that force is politics and not the scientific truth in economics,because there is no scientific truth in economics.
Haven't heard that one i bet.
And that belief is your biggest problem!
Your belief illustrates very well what's wrong in Greece!
Leftist central planners, like Tsipras, try to govern by substituting politcs for entrepreneurial judgment and true economics.
They play referendum games, while missing the whole purpose of individual action, competition and efficiency in free markets.
Their politics fool people in believing that no change is needed from within,
because it's always somebody else's fault.
That's politics, indeed. And this has nothing to do with a healthy triving economy. These irresponsible politics are the root cause of all bubbles and crisis. And todays Greece is the perfect example.
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Yes apparently everything is pretty clear in your mind. Politics destroy the free market who knows whom to reward and whom to condemn.Physical laws is all the economy is,but the politicians came and ruined this simple cause/effect balance sciense perfect system thingy. You can live and thrive in this existensial crisis (funny that you are the theologist here and you are totally oblivious),and i hope the best to you. Just bear in mind that one day you might wake up and open a book (which i find unlikely) and realize that the market that you are evangelizing as being diluted by leftists and communists is the best you are going to get because if im not mistaken the western world is being ruled by liberals during the last 40 years with the same ideas as you. 40 years these poor men had to implement their ideas and they get sabotaged all the time by socialists and leftists thats why this model isnt working to its full potential. And Greece is the last communistic/capitalistic country i suppose and tsipras has put a veto to its reforms so that we will never join the rest of the western world and insted bring you all down with us? Seriously what else am i going to witness in this thread as undisputed truth....
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« on: July 05, 2015, 19:19 »
Why are the countries whose citizens live worse than the Greeks, that pay more taxes than the Greeks and retire later that the Greeks be in solidarity with the Greeks who vote in a government that blatantly flirts with a Russia that is a direct threat to safety of some of these countries?
Syriza won in Greece. And it has a mandate to govern in Greece. Not the money of European taxpayers and the EU.
I consider your questions honest but sadly you are typing a long sentence with 4 different ans contradictory things mixed in and conveniently oversimplified at that, and seriously who can discuss like this without making this thread an irrelevant twitter feed? There are countries who live better that Greece as well and corruption comes in all forms which point does this prove?if we disccuss the Eurozone Greece's bubble bursted harder that Portugals for example (and for different reasons) ,and for reasons i explained vaguely in my earlier post,and that burst made more noise that any other country in the Eurozone. Spain's bubble for example was the housing loans and in Greece it was the public sector. Spain is a huge economy unlike Greece and there was as much corruption there like in Greece and like in Germany if i may say so (siemens,dirty money by bribing governments) .Christoforakos is a wanted fugitive in Greece sheltered by germany who refuses to extradite him to Greece to save siemens some face as well as the political system of germany (and huge public outrage) . The other thing about Russia.If you dont understand basic politics and why a politician has to create a "media event" by staging bargains and negotiations with other countries then i cant help you with that.If it wasn't Russia but brasil would it make a difference?Yes it would because apparently Russia has struck a sensitive chord in your mind.Maybe thats what Tsipras was going for and i cant help it ,as much as i loathe him, but to recognise this clever bargaining move. The last sentence makes no sense whatsoever.Do you understand what is happening at all and who is giving loans to whom,for what exactly,where do these go,and what is the catch 22 of the whole situation?Do you really understand where the European constitution begins and ends, and to WHOM does the judiciary and the executive power of each country belong ?You are so oblivious as to what is happening and yet you feel like you need to follow the curve and bash a country to which you have no attachment and knowledge of its happenings because the whole eurozone fracas scares you personally? I see people in this thread shouting "The Greeks steal my money" . I can understand that but that doesnt mean that people aren't directly and wholly responsible for being ignorant,and in this thread they try to pass this as logical and wide known facts. Goddamnit i feel like defending a government which i dont like ONE BIT (but for different reasons that most people here) .
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« on: July 05, 2015, 18:21 »
The economic theory is not a religion you have to believe in, but a science.
And your belief that there is something beyond the obvious, only understood by some "Illuminati", is the real fallacy!
And it's not hilarious, since so many are fooled by it! Fooled by the illusion that wealth will fall from the sky, after an "oxi" vote, in some referendum!
I'll continue to keep it simple for you: what EU wants you to do, is for you to go first to a photography class, before lending you more money to buy even more fancy cameras and lenses.
Simple again: there is nothing wrong to borrow money when you have a sound business plan and your s**t in order. Money lending with interest is the very engine that pushed mankind forward.
I have a mortgage nobody forced me to take. I'm paying my debts every month as I agreed to do, when I signed my contract.
Same goes for Germany at the macro level. Get it? Simple economics!
Countries DO default. Obviously, it doesn't mean the Greeks will be fired from Greece, but rather that Greece will be fired from the international trade as untrustworthy. And believe me, this means that, one way or another, as history proves, Greece will have to adjust. It looks like Greeks have chosen the hard way out!
My only hope is that EU will stay strong, continuing to refuse to fall for Tsipras' bluff, and throw my money into the Greek chaos.
You oversimplify things like loan/debt etc by stripping the economy apart from the driving force that validates its authority ans existence and that force is politics and not the scientific truth in economics,because there is no scientific truth in economics. Haven't heard that one i bet.
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« on: July 05, 2015, 18:06 »
@cobalt
... politically naive - to be precise -
..fritz already explained it - endless loans are sophisticated way of occupation...
Please explain why they have asked for all those loans and still want more then. At some point when you keep borrowing money, you have to take responsibility for your own debt. They could of got out of the mess they created but now they have the option to print their own currency and that looks like all they have left now.
3 The simple and widely known answer is what George Papandreou did in 2011.In 2011 in the Eurozone every country was ready to start whistling about its debt (which everyone knew from back then that it is unsustainable for every European country) and about to embark in a controlled game of economical inflation (kicking down the can) ,as long as there is primary surplus (on paper) .That was the deal (euro coin monetary policy) And what did that neoliberal halfwit do instead?He decided that greece should be the only country that should jump in first in a puddle of crap and start repaying this debt that noone has,can,and will repay ever ever. Then came the IMF (had already agreed to the imf deal even before the elections) and the rest is history.
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« on: July 05, 2015, 12:50 »
Why do the few people here defending the Greeks constantly attack the person who doesn't agree with them, instead of the comment. I've seen Cobalt talk more sense than anyone else in the last 3 pages.
Speak for yourself and dont try to encapsulate (conveniently) who talks more sense here, and who gets attacked by whom and for what reason.
You are the one in this thread that steps in and tries to moderate the conversation when you feel that is steering away from the general consensus.
I know that you like cobalt's views but thats your business and if cobalt or anyone else posting here makes sense or not that here is for us(EDIT:for "ME to judge" is more appropriate) to judge,this conversation is not a live political debate.
You never go off topic dragging P5 into every conversation, right? You never have a squabble with anyone, right?
Anyway, carry on, the playground is yours.
This thread is about Greece. If you want to talk about Portugal, its best to open a new thread. Please.
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thank you for proving my point.
And Are you now showing a quote from me trying to keep the thread on topic and twisting that into something it's not?
My my
Are we playing a game of verbal ping pong here,or is this personal to you for some reason that i cannon comprehend? Is this a thumbs up war? because it looks like so. Quoting me and saying that im just doing the same thing as you did just proves my point as well,but i am not acting as a moderator here or defending/cheerleading others. Again stop being anyone's lawyer. You could just as easily explain why germany's debt got a "haircut" then and why not now (or would it now if there is/was one?) but you have jumped in this thread in defcon mode from the start spewing ignorance and coveted hate disguised as realistic opinion and knowledge. No wonder this thread feels and is extremely one-sided.
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« on: July 05, 2015, 12:23 »
All these leftist economist believe that if you throw money into a unsustainable economy, it will magically get better. No, it will not! Not without structural reforms.
To keep it simple, if you don't sell your photos on Shutterstock, borrowing money to buy more fancy cameras and lenses, will most probably not improve your sales. You better get your s**t together and improve your photography skills first!
Part 1.Throwing money in an "unsustainable hole" (because of the public debt, the newly discovered boogeyman of the post 1998 economy) is exactly what the eurozone forces the Greek government to do and we are forced to under the monetary policy.You are totally confused here.You havent understood anything about the Eurozone's monetary policy yet you embark on this conversation with convenient half truths at best and expect people to continue this conversation seriously.Have you seen charts of Germany's public debt (its HUGE) and have you understood why or how this is conveniently hidden "in a closet" and makes Germany act like they can dictate the monetary policy to others and not themselves?because if they do hang tight. Ill help you understand this by giving hints.What upsets Merkel if Greece leaves the Eurozone and why?If Spain were to leave what would happen?If italy had capitals controls who would interest from that and who wouldn't? Part 2. To keep it simple?You make the hillarious fallacy that everyone who has no knowledge of politics and economy makes.You confuse a nation's economics with an individuals economics. Hints to embark further. Countries do NOT default.Individuals and corporations do.Banks do or did until 2008.Why is that? So structural reforms are politics and public debt and borrowing is economics right? Wrong. Both are politics.When i said in another thread that these moronic neoliberals in Brussels dream of a neo-feudal Europe i wasnt joking.
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« on: July 05, 2015, 11:51 »
For a truth democracy, all the people in the eurozone should now vote in a referendum if they agree with the future new decisions, whatever they are.
I thought i had read everything until i saw this. Other countries to vote whether or not the internal decisions affecting a country should be applied and be executed through its own institutions or not? Do you realize what is the Eurozone exactly (by its own standards not mine) and what is happening in the world in general? I mean the basics of the Eurozone constitution? Do you reazile what is it that makes a country, a country in the Eurozone, and not just some piece of land belonging to a country called Europe (Europe is not a country,yet) . Does your country have its own courts and parliament or they have suddenly moved to Brussels? Guys seriously this is no joke.
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« on: July 05, 2015, 11:15 »
Oh thank god,it looks like we might get that 3rd memorandum after all.
Wait what.....
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