Actually, there is a difference. A bank will give you a loan and expect you to pay it back with a certain interest rate. When you've paid that back, you just have to pay your other costs, rest of your income goes into your pocket. With a record label you're forever stuck with only getting a small cut, and sometimes they even withhold a part of this to cover costs they think belong to the artist.
This is different. I don't think anyone would ever take a loan from a bank that demands that 90% of all future income from the investment go straight to the bank.

Also, the bank hopes to see you succeed(for obvious reasons), but can't really impact your success, and would be indifferent of your success if you went to another bank. Record labels on the other hand will try to block independent artists from breaking into the mainstream radio playlists(RIAA labels probably tolerate eachother though), unless they can force/convince you to sign, because you're their competition.

They NAILED the IPO, and neither undersold the stock(like LinkedIN did) and lose money that way nor did they value it too high and scare off any potential investors. I'm surprised and impressed.

Sure, for the guys holding the stock at FB it's a letdown, but the company nailed it.

I'm guessing with proper tuning, you'll get exactly the kind of performance you want.
They are raising the efficiency at which the engine burns gasoline. This can be used to propel a commuter car to same speeds with same acceleration, but using less fuel.
Or, increasing the amount of power you get out of a certain engine size, since the power is constrained by the amount of air-fuel mixture you can burn, which then depends on RPM/engine volume and possible use of turbos/superchargers.
So if you suddenly improve the amount of energy you get out of the same amount of fuel, it's not a bad thing.

Being filmed in 48fps and having a draw rate of 60fps on something filmed in 24fps is VERY different!

I find it more important what date it's on than what month.
"When is your party?"
"On the 9th".
It's understood that it's the upcoming 9th. Just like it's understood that it's this year. Unless we need to specify.
"9th of May"
or even
"9th of May, 2013"

The American equivalent would be:
"In April", which basically a useless bit of information for an event taking place on one night. Sure it's covers longer events "The roadworks will be done in May" or when you're not bothered to give specifics. "Eh, in April?"

All in all this all depends on how much detail is needed. "When does your flight arrive?"
For some, the answer "around midnight" will suffice, but some need to know "Twenty past midnight".
And as such, the point that the spoken language should control the order of the date/month/year setup is ridiculous.
Logic > Language

But if Americans can't pay enough attention to grasp the information in the sentence "9th of May" because of the word order, who am I to judge?

If the tablet is bought from a retailer outside of the injunction area, no one can touch them, since the injunction covers SELLING, not buying. Mind you, this injunction covered all of EU except The Netherlands(IIRC), so the Germans would only have to shop from a Dutch webshop to go around it.