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I agree. In general principle-no. But I think I understand the caveats.

Sue...you thanked me for helping to simplify a concept. I believe I showed you a simplified way of how to get around it, if you think you can get away with it. Among my many other weird adventures I've done business in Hong Kong. I'd be surprised if your teacher thought my methods were sound. I honestly don't know where I explained the nuances of the concept at all. Ergo, what did I simplify? The point here is to learn to think out of the box. You got some good responses. You also got ragged, which is exactly what would happen to anyone going to school putting up something for grabs had they asked the questions at the dorm or the bar. You got some answers, and got picked on for fun. Life is. Don't get so personal. As this is an elective, why take something you have to devote this kind of energy to? Devote the brain drain to your core subjects and take remedial basketweaving for a filler. I still can't get how you are taking International Business without at least a fundamentals of business course for background. Just my $.02, but I try to be practical.

We're not idiots, we're a$$holes!

Been awhile, huh guys? Right. (Eryn lives with a pack of red headed females. We understand the subterfuge... )

It goes back to the Japanese concept of the "Co-Prosperity Sphere" of the thirties. In short, they planned for the Pacific to be a Japanese lake. Main reason was raw materials for their industrial base, mostly out of Indonesia (oil). You either agreed or you were gotten out of the way. Ask China. There ARE mid-east parallel implications, once you take the "Islam" out of the equation. The difference with Dien Bien Phu (besides idiotic tactics) is that the French had colonialized Indochina for a long time with no benefit to Indochina. There was much more of a united effort. Iraq, in spite of all the rhetoric, is mostly populated by ambivalents and the true upheaval is being done by a relative few with support from outside entities. Giap did not destroy his own infrastructure to make a point.

When have you ever known Tom to resist a statement like this, nuptuals or not? Of course, his brain might be a little softer given the blood loss...

Sue, if you follow my advice you run a good chance of getting indicted. That's why it's a good idea to do homework.

Sue, I think the gist is that maybe one question is understood, but you are coming across like you need the semester done. How is it you are taking this course without any fundamental application knowledge? Wasn't there a pre-requisite course? As these are really some fairly basic scenarios some cursory background research should give you a heck of a lot better understanding than anyone here. The flavor of your questions indicates that whoever is in charge is challenging you to look at a bigger picture than what is obviously at hand. Figuring it out yourself is the mental exercise required to apply the knowledge in the real world.

You do know that if you keep this up you'll have Tom in here...

And stupid enough to locate an indefensible fort in a valley surrounded by high commanding terrain with no viable means of resupply or reinforcement. That's how French heros are made.

We could, except for the touchdown part. Unless you're counting the opponent's TD on the fumble recovery. I think we all look fondly on those days, when the Bills had some balz.

Well, truth of the matter is that real life rarely resembles the classroom, so it's pretty well moot if someone elects to take a class that they don't even understand the questions in.

I've been a fan since the mid sixties. This has been debated ad nauseum, but I'm not in the "nothing wrong here, folks" camp. They aren't going to a playoff game, much less a superbowl just because I want them too, because I'm a fan. This team needs some fixing. Real soon. And where the heck did two games come from? This team has been a train wreck since the middle of the season two years ago.

So, whatever thought happens to enter your mind at anytime is considered intelligence? Since your take(s) on things often times appears to be so much dust blowing in the wind, which intelligent position have you held over the past six months or so that I can sink my teeth into and learn from?

Got your resume into the Kerry campaign yet?

Anyway, prediction? Bills lose by 4 in another heartbreaker.

I think he was trying to make some talking points... But, it's on FOX. Hook, line and sinker, just like CNN or CBS.

No one is going to let the Bills run. They have smarter people than us watching film. It would be nice to see Buffalo go long a few times to try to open something up, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

And don't forget the dash for the cup, for us NASCAR fans as well.

(Same thought balloons above both) "When I get a hold of the SOB at that on-line dating service..."

Film at 11. Ice? Thought you left.

The one I got out of my nose was THIS big!

If I can nurse this one for another hour and buy him six more, I'm bound to look a lot better and I can get him to sign an absentee vote. Of course when he wakes up in the morning...

Nope, just the end of me. If something like that is going to happen, it's going to happen. Really hard to figure out what the world would do with 48 hours. Mass rioting and panic? What good would that do? You think that there would maybe, for the first time in history, be a sense of general calm over the planet? Someting like that sort of puts things into another perspective, doesn't it?

What bothers me a little is the level of awareness at a nuclear power plant. I kinda hope QA/QC is a little bit more on the ball.