I still don’t understand why Obama is leading the presidential election.
Are you Obama’s supporter? If so, tell me what’s so good about his tax plan.
Do you really agree with Rich people paying more taxes than poor people? So you are now socialist just like China and Russia?
His plan is just too socialistic. Or perhaps, he wants the U.S. to be that way?
Rich people are the ones who are hard workers and the ones who have been supporting the U.S. Economy today. They even produce our jobs, too.
However, the reward for that is paying more tax? Yeah it is socialism country.
Not only that, it looks like Obama wants to create more Government programs that will support the nation. Well, yeah I admit that idea is good.
But guess what? We’ll need a billion of dllars to support for those programs. Who will pay? Probably he will let us pay in the end by sucking our taxes. You think those cost will be covered by only 5% of U.S. citizens who are rich?? Nah, I doubt it. Isn’t it too much for 5% of U.S. citizen to support all those programs for years?
It also looks like we will end up being surrounded by so many government programs to control us; not WE control those programs.And again, it is like Socialism.
If you are Christians and supporting Obama, shame on you; Obama is not only pro for Abortion but also pro for Portion Abortion. Moreover, he is supporting to murder the babies who failed to die during the abortion process even after they come out from their moms.
What’n heck is women’s right??
You might ask me this question “what about rape women?”
Then, how about this? Did you know 90% of women who abort her babies are not rape victims? They got their babies because of their irresponsible activities. In other words, 9 out of 10 babies are murder just because their moms don’t need it.
Then you will probably ask me ” How about 10% of women who are actually raped?”
I still don’t agree with aborting her babies. First and foremost, those babies are completely innocent. Why do you give the right to women and why don’t you give any right to the babies? Is that because you can’t visually see them? Oh that’s too bad. As I said earlier, Obama is also supporting murdering babies even after they are born just because their moms simply don’t need it.
Secondly, rapists raped her as he ignored her feeling; in other words, she was treated just like a trash. What can she do at least this innocent babies? She shouldn’t treat the way the rape criminal treated her. In addition, even if they abort their babies, they will regret about what they have done rest of their lives because they are the ones who really felt the lives once inside of their bodies.
Do you really believe Obama can make a better decision regarding to the war? You mean Barak Obama who has NO experience in war and whatsoever? You mean the guy who said to his people openly “Iran is too tiny country to attack the United States?” as he ignored the warning by the general Petraeus who has the highest knowledge regarding to Middle eastern wars and has the right to make a decision for the war for the U.S.? ha ha ,,, give me a break..
Americans, especially if you are in Japan, you probably only get to watch CNN which is the democrats newsstation in general. You should get the information from both democrats and republican sources. Then judge the both plans equally without having any bias when you make a decision for vote.
We still expect America to be the strongest countries and hope you to lead all the nations in the world. Difference is we just don’t have a right to vote.
Finally, I really hate to see people making their decision based on the characters of those candidates. Presidential election is not about popularities but their political strategies.

People with bipolar disorder need information about the medical side of their condition but also project management skills to minimise the damage of an oncoming episode, as well as devising strategies to stay employed, married or in vocational education. IQ distribution is the same as the rest of the population.
There are literally a handful of courses around the world.
What would be your educational response to bipolar? It affects a minimum of 1.2% of all populations. Would you write a book? How would you develop a course, and what media would you use for the course? What other methods do you consider worth trying?
I’ve been looking for information to control my bipolar disorder since 1985. That has come from a huge variety of sources, mostly random. I am hoping to get an Australian Churchill Fellowship to research this point and this is part of my preliminary research.
Thanks folks.

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My professor gave us this assignment we have to do both individually and in teams. Can somebody explain in simple English what I should do in this assignment (our company is ebay)? thank you!
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As suggested in class:
The second report is individual write-up (internal analysis) about each of the competitors identified (a strategic grouping of competitors, in terms of market share/size will assist in this endeavor in providing for an industry comprehensive competitive picture). The focal company being investigated by the team is just one of the competitors, industry “players”.
While this may be a misnomer in terms of “individual report”, the completion of this report requires team work and all team members’ inputs.
To do an acceptable/good job, the team has to:
1. Produce an industry value chain (which would naturally result from a thorough industry analysis) depicting all value chain linkages from raw materials (inputs) to the end-customer(s). In operational “parlance”, the team should have in mind a complete BOM/BOS/BOA (Bill of Materials, Bill of Services, Bill of Activities) for each of the product/service. Just like a good procurement cycle requires a BOM/BOS/BOA you also need to identify all suppliers (in-sourced, outsourced, off-shored) and “buyers”, plural (beyond defining the end customer).
2. Each of the team member must develop his/her own assessment of the resources/capabilities of his/her company and its value chain configuration (Porter’s Value Chain is a generic one that must be adapted to the company)
3. The complete team has to get together and subject all of their companies’ internal analysis to a systematic company vs. company comparison of resources/capabilities/value chain activities, subject them to the VRIO criteria to “flush out” core competencies.
4. All individual assessments will be “aggregated” and the team is to submit one team report which shall consist of:
a) an industry value chain (team output)
b) under each of the respective competing company headings with the corresponding author’s name, the company internal analysis comprised of:
i. Resources identification (individual)
ii. Capabilities identification (individual)
iii. Company Value Chain (individual)
iv. Company’s core competencies with a table depicting the VRIO vetting process (team efforts to result in an individual report)
The completion of the first report and of this second report should more than establish the foundations for your strategies formulation and implementation (the next 50 to 70% of the final paper/project depending on organic vs. non-organic growth objectives/policies)

One of the main concern of the US government is national security, therefore it seems fair to the government to spend billions of dollars in regard of military spending. However, to the rest of the population it is nothing but a burden on the US economy. For example, the United States in funding the war in Iraq because they need to assure the safety of the US population. So why not improve national security strategies and built border fences if they have to. One might argue that this would compromise the United States relation with foreign countries. Besides improving security of the US to avoid threat, the United States could become a more independent country by building their own products instead of relying on foreign counties. The United States could build their own fuel power sources instead of relying on foreign countries for gas & oil. There is a realistic chance in redirecting military fund as I suggested, but there is one problem: it makes too much sense.
~Ruth Joseph~

So with all that technology back then… Add computers and other communications now….. How come, that the powers that be! Haven’t yet… or so we are told…. come up with an alternative fuel source for vehicles, that dont need oil or its subsidaries eg Petrol , Diesal, or kerosene?
I have heard that a car has been invented that runs on water.
Think about that!
I think maybe world governments have supressed this!
What would that do to global economies if such a car existed…
How much social and economic power would they lose if we could travel with just good old tap water!
What would happen to their supertaxes on fuel and global warming strategies?
The Global warming issue would nearly be resolved over night.
Me thinks that something is up!
Or am I just being cynical, in that, maybe certain countries and governments wouldnt ‘ welcome’ a hydro vehicle!
I’m just throwing this thought out there.
I’m sure lots more ideas will come of this.
Cheers!

I decided to be a computer scientist a long time ago when I wasn’t really thinking straight.
I love computers, and I love figuring out servers, administration, security, etc… but I HATE programming. and I am HORRIBLE at it!
I want to be a network administrator (design, installing, maintaining LAN’s or WAN’s) but I’ve heard they are, for the most part, self-taught and CSUF doesn’t offer a major/concentration in this area. I don’t think I would be a good game designer, either…. the concentrations I can choose from are here: http://cs.fullerton.edu/BSTracks.aspx#BS…
I was just going to take the internet track
I’m already a junior and don’t want to change majors..
——-> What job do you think I should shoot for, right out of graduation from CSUF, with a computer science degree that is not a programming job?
class I will have taken:
* CPSC 120 (Introduction to Programming)
* CPSC 121 (Programming Concepts)
* CPSC 131 (Data Structures Concepts)
* CPSC 223 (Object-Oriented Programming Language)
* CPSC 240 (Computer Organization and Assembly Language)
* CPSC 253U or 254 (UNIX or Open Source Systems)
* CPSC 311 (Technical Writing for Computer Science)
* CPSC 315 (Social and Ethical Issues in Computing)
* CPSC 323 (Programming Languages and Translation)
* CPSC 332 (File Structures and Database Systems)
* CPSC 335 (Problem Solving Strategies)
* CPSC 351 (Operating Systems Concepts)
* CPSC 362 (Foundations of Software Engineering)
* CPSC 440 (Computer System Architecture)
* CPSC 471 (Computer Communications)
* CPSC 481 (Artificial Intelligence)
* CPSC 431 (Database and Applications)
* CPSC 473 (Web Programming and Data Management)
* CPSC 474 (Distributed Computing using Web Service and .NET Remoting)
* CPSC 476 (Java Enterprise Application Development)
ah! What do I do?!

Please follow the link and read the entire lesson details before answering.
Do you think more users in this immigration section need to read this lesson?
Over and over again we see anti-immigration people use some really disturbing sources, even after they’ve been informed of their racist/hate ties, but continue to use them. Are they misinformed? or are they wanting to spread this propaganda on purpose? If so, what’s the reason?http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/re…
Propaganda Techniques on Hate Sites
Overview:
In this lesson students learn about the propaganda techniques commonly used on Web sites that promote hatred or intolerance (hate sites). The lesson begins with a class discussion about what propaganda is and how it works, followed by a deconstruction of war posters as historical examples. The class then focuses on the role of propaganda as a persuasive tool on hate sites. For homework, students analyze printouts of Web pages from hate sites to identify the propaganda techniques that are used. In an extension activity, students learn about “logical fallacies” and how these are used by those seeking to misinform.
Images and messages that play on patriotism, pride, self-sacrifice and loyalty are common propaganda tools used by governments during times of war. These tools are effective because they appeal to basic human values and needs. Unfortunately, the success of this kind of propaganda – which pits “us” against “them” – comes at the expense of other groups who may not deserve to be stigmatized. In addition, those same strategies may be co-opted by others – such as hate-mongers – to manipulate and misinform.
On the Internet, hate propaganda is only one of the many different types of misinformation we might encounter. But there are serious, real-world consequences when people believe what hate-mongers say. (Show the “Propaganda” overhead and review and discuss terms with students.)

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Codex Alimentarius Summarized in 7 Points
There is much misinformation about Codex Alimentarius on the internet, and we have endeavoured to check our sources of information to bring you the most correct data possible. If you have any specific questions or queries you can email us at our email address here.
Codex Alimentarius is most important to understand as it will have very serious impact in longer-term, especially if the risk assessment system that it proposes to use to establish maximum allowed dosages is not changed over the coming months.
With the Codex Alimentarius Commission set to put in place international standards we could see:
The degradation and undermining of organic standards so that “organic food” can contain various chemical additives and processing aids.
Flagrant disregard of their own directive to protect consumer safety by setting standards that allow for significant residues of pesticides in foods (as much as 3275 including those that are suspected carcinogens or endocrine disrupters)
An understatement of nutritional requirements for long term optimum health of the consumers it seeks to protect by setting unnecessarily low Nutrient Reference Values
The forcing of therapeutic grade vitamins and minerals to be reclassified as drugs by default by setting very low maximum level dosages for supplements using flawed risk assessment methods
The way paved for implementation of GM food plants and GM animals by arguing that world food requirements cannot be met without global implementation of GM animals
World agricultural populations economically vulnerable to crop failures during natural disasters, droughts or floods by approving “Terminator” seeds for international trade
If we allow Codex to implement these strategies eventually:
The world population will not know what it is eating
The world population will not know why it is getting sick
The world population will not have access to information, natural nutrients or natural medicines that can make it well
Codex Use Junk Science to Declare that “Nutrients are Toxins”
The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has two committees which impact nutrition. One of them is the “Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses” (CCNFSDU). The host government for this committee is non other than the Federal Republic of Germany!
This committee is chaired by the Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, a German physician who believes that nutrition has no role in health. This is the “head hauncho” for Codex nutritional policy, and he has stated that “nutrition is not relevant to health”.
In 1994, as “barking mad” as it may sound, Dr. Grossklaus has also instituted the use of toxicology (Risk Assessment) to prevent nutrients from having any therapeutic impact on humans who take supplements in the name of “Public Safety”! The science of toxicology or Risk Assessment is the current method for assessing pharmaceutical drugs and is completely absurd and unscientific to apply to nutrients.
While Risk Assessment is a legitimate science (it is a branch of toxicology), it is the wrong science for assessing nutrients! In fact, in this context, it is actually junk science. Biochemistry, the science of life processes, is the correct science for assessing nutrients. Codex Alimentarius treats nutrients as toxins, which is literally insane.
Nutrients are not toxins – they are essential for life.
http://www.healthfreedom.co.nz/codex_alimentarius.htm
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=184

If you do not want to help. Please do not post. I am asking for input on this assignment. I will post the answers to the questions that I have finished. Again, do not post if you do not want to help me.
Here are the questions.
1. Can a monopoly exist in a small town and give an example?
2. Why does the marginal revenue curve lie below the average revenue curve for a monopolist?
3. How do economists predict the rate of output for a monopoly? Is this the same when the monopoly uses price discrimination?
4. Can a monopoly make an economic loss in the long-run?
5. If a cartel like OPEC restricts the output of member nations to less than they are capable of producing with their existing levels of capital equipment, does the social cost of a monopoly increase? Explain.
6. What are the key characteristics of a monopolistically competitive industry and what is an example from reality other than the ones in Chapter 26?
7. What are the key characteristics of oligopoly?
8. Why is there only one model in economics to predict firm behavior in competition, monopoly, and monopolistic competition, but more than one in oligopoly?
9. What does strategic behavior mean with respect to oligopoly firms?
10. How can firms deter market entry by potential rivals?
11. Why do we want to have the government regulate natural monopolies?
12. What are the main reasons that government regulates businesses?
13. What theories explain the behavior of regulators?
14. What are the short- and long-run effects of deregulation?
15. Given that the foundations of antitrust reflect a history of increasingly specific provisions, what are the difficulties with enforcing it?
16. Explain why the marginal revenue product curve represent a firm’s demand for labor.
17. What factors influence the price (i.e., wage) elasticity of demand for labor and why?
18. How are equilibrium wage rates determined in a competitive labor market for perfectly competitive firms?
19. Assume that perfect competitive firms are bought up and consolidated into one firm by a monopolist. If the labor market is competitive, what happens to the wage rate and why?
20. Why is the market demand curve for labor not just a simple horizontal summation of individual marginal revenue product curves?
21. Did the American labor movement ever have political problems?
22. Discuss the goals and strategies of labor unions in the context of a mining town with one large coal mine as the dominant employer of labor.
23. What effects have labor unions had on wages and productivity and why?
24. What is the current status of labor unions in the United States and what will likely occur in the future?
Here are my answers until this point.
1.Yes, because a monopoly exists when there is only one firm in a particular market for a specific good. A firm like this is called a monopolist. A monopolist has market power and control. This means that the firm’s actions can have a real influence on the price of a specific good. An example of this would be if in a small town there is only one well with no other source of water. The owner of the well has a monopoly on water.
2.Because the monopolist faces the industry demand curve which is by definition downward sloping its choice regarding how much to produce is not the same as for a perfect competitor.
3.Because output is set at the point in which marginal revenue equals marginal cost. Yes because a monopolist is able to charge different people different prices and a firm usually engages this in order to increase profits that are unrelated to differences in marginal cost.
4.*Can a monopoly make an economic loss in the long-run?*?????????
5.*If a cartel like OPEC restricts the output of member nations to less than they are capable of producing with their existing levels of capital equipment, does the social cost of a monopoly increase? Explain.*???????????
6.Monopolistic competition is defined as a market situation in which a large number of firms produce similar but not identical products. Entry into the industry is also relatively easy. So the key characteristics are a significant number of sellers in a highly competitive market, differentiated products, sales promotion and advertising, and easy entry of new firms in the long run. Examples include the markets for restaurants, lunch meant, cereal, clothing and some service industries in large cities.
7.An oligopoly is defined as a market structure in which there are very few sellers. Each seller knows that the other sellers will react to its changes in prices, quantities, and qualities. Therefore it is characterized by having a small number of independent firms that constitute the entire market.
8.The number of models is relative to the amount of firms engaged in the market. The reason competition, monopoly, and monopolistic competition only have one model is because there is only one firm. Where as in an oligopoly there can be multiple models dependin

A school counselor recently informed me that she routinely sees kids as early as 3rd-5th grade who describe their greatest source of stress as grades, standardized tests, and what college they’re going to get into. (!) I was floored that kids that young have such things on their radar at all.
Does your child in that age range already care about standardized tests and colleges? Do they worry about grades?
What are your personal strategies for balancing reasonable expectations for best effort with avoiding undue pressure on your kids? Does anyone else think it’s madness to have our kids worrying about such things when they can barely divide two numbers or write legible cursive?