ChezGiven

Just read my pm's. I feel guilty now, as i was being sarcy about the illegal sharing of these honest artist's music (in reference to the recent thread on here). However, seeing as those who requested it are good lads, i will endeavour to share it. When i work out how to do it....

Chilli sauce ? Hummus. Yeasty?

You can talk. I can, with aplomb, gravitas and flair. a plumb more like.

Came out on download today, there is a free mp3 on the site and its $8.99 for the album. But fuck that, if you want a copy, pm me and i'll send you the rapidshare link. http://www.everythingthathappens.com/ Have tried to embed the video but have failed but theres one on the site.

Louise Taylor loves him remember.... Louise is sexy. Her card is marked this season.

You can talk.

Google has revenues of $16bn and makes a profit of $4bn, which is a larger ratio than a drug's company. Typically, with a revenue of around $40 bn (Roche, Novartis, Pfizer, GSK), they can expect to make $6-9bn in profit. Marketing costs also include the salaries of the 50,000 people they employ in marketing related activities. Thats a benefit to the UK he hasnt even looked at. It also supports the salaries of the other 50,000 involved in R&D and Manufacturing Google are more profitable because of their business model. However, the rate of return to their shareholders cant be a problem as their motto is 'Dont be evil'. Rawlins may well be correct but we'd have to drop the price by 70% to get it approved in the UK. That would eradicate all profits if implemented across the board. I agree that some of the new cancer drugs are too expensive and as an economist working on the inside, i spend a lot of my time arguing for lower prices to gain better access to markets (watch this space on kidney cancer). One of the other things Rawlins has no experience of is corporate finance and investment. No investor in the world backs a risky business for an average return. The higher the risk, the higher the return required. I'm not going to argue about this as it all boils down to one philosophical question; are healthcare and profit incompatible? If you include health in Amartya Sen's 'capability set' (google it), then you can argue that they arent compatible and that healthcare is a fundamental right of man. There are parts of me that are sympathetic to that view. However, as a trained economist, i would point to the lack of an incentive to invent new drugs in the first place. Its facile and idiotic to say that medicines dont bring huge value to a society too fop (just anticipating your typical view).

You have to hand it to Shepherd, he knew how to keep the interest levels up.

I sometimes add that to my work email signature, just to show the breadth of my skills.

Nice use of the subjunctive tbf.

I dont think Cath enjoyed my holiday story yesterday, the one about the suicidal cat anyway.

Well as fop will tell you, i'm an evil duplicitous cunt who knows a good PR campaign when he sees one and Ashley's focus intitially was on this completely. This view is wholly supported by Mort's comments on his own role and where his focus lay in the first few months and in all honesty, his full tenure at the club. What is so fitting about this thread is the notion of lost opportunity. I think Ashley mis-read and mis-judged more than just the financial side of things when he took the club over. His priority was to win over the geordie public as an outsider, he was a non-football, non-local trying to take over a loyal and very local club. He knew Shepherd was unpopular but what he failed to realise was that simply replacing him as a personailty and as a business leader would bring stable support. People have been hungry for success for too long and are not going to be won over by words in the new official magazine, they want proof that he can take the club forward. Its no surprise that the PR wizard has just broken our record for a defender the week this article is released. That said, cant wait for my copy tomorrow.

Definitive proof of something anyway.

Tilleys, not the Trent? Fine by me, will be there as early as poss.

Muntari is a big loss for them.

Well he's up there with Guthrie on pre-season performances then, good sign for you.

I'm intersted in signing a creative playmaker all this other stuff bores me tbh. For the record, i think Modric will have a shit season and get injured. Oh dear. Probably best not to say things of that nature "on the record" Knew you'd bite though. If i'm wrong, then its as expected, if i'm right i get to laugh at you. Win win tbh.

Sorry to hear that mate, you still around a week saturday?

He went to Prison for 3 year and West Brom sacked him? Thats upstanding morality for you! I wonder how long he had on his contract when he went down?

I'm intersted in signing a creative playmaker all this other stuff bores me tbh. For the record, i think Modric will have a shit season and get injured.

Stop shitting yourself, it'll be fine.

The Colucinni saga has gathered a fair amount of pace. Not just half-hearted speculation, mind. I am aware it is the nature of the market these days and there will be haggling over some of the deals, but even with Spiderman I believe we still don't have the registration. 50p 5p 50p 5p 50p 5p

I presume teed is short for tedious.

For an irate Newcastle fan there are two perspectives, either you think he should either leave the club or you think he should be banned from football. The former is just hypocrisy. The latter is basically saying that Barton should be the first footballer in history to be banned from playing the game for breaking the law (in this way, you can probably be banned for substance abuse etc). The logic of this position is that we want to impose moral codes on players in the same way we would expect a politician to resign. For irate fans of other clubs, only the second perspective makes any sense...until you actually think about it for 2 minutes. Doesnt surprise me that people dont get this.

Aye well Jonny, try and not have an all nighter on the friday so when i turn up this time you can a) talk b, stand up and c) walk.