Recent content by fishmonger12

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    Why are commenters in online newspapers total nutjobs yet the people here are sane?

    I like to read the news. Sometimes I scroll too far down and read what people have to say about the news. They say some pretty tin-foil hat stuff. Why have you guys not desensitized me to this bs.?
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    Why don't these big execs get paid based on stock price?

    that's where a large chunk of executive compensation comes from. and the answer to your question is market forces. if company A pays its executive only in company equity, while company B pays similar compensation but half stock and half equity, executive will choose company B because his...
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    How much to set up a hotdog stand ? And how much profit ?

    P&N IS THAT WAY -> EDIT: THAT WAY <-
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    How much to set up a hotdog stand ? And how much profit ?

    Nahhh a local butcher couldn't supply 10-15 pounds of BULK beef the size of an ALTERNATOR. I think I need to go visit a farm somewhere...
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    How much to set up a hotdog stand ? And how much profit ?

    How about a chunk of beef say... the size of an ALTERNATOR? 10-15 pounds. I need a place to buy 10-15 pounds of beef. Bulk. The size of an Alternator.
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    How much to set up a hotdog stand ? And how much profit ?

    So about the size of... an.... axle? or maybe a cylinder?
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    How much to set up a hotdog stand ? And how much profit ?

    How much beef is considered bulk beef? Around the size of a transmission? A place where living on uppers is considered ideal.
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    Having a lot of trouble choosing a major...

    I thought i wanted to major in chemistry. The department at my school was full of a-hole professors though. So now i'm majoring in economics. Cuz it pays better than english and it's easy. But since economics was too easy I decided to add math. Which is like pounding your head against the...
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    How much to set up a hotdog stand ? And how much profit ?

    Ok in my kid's 14th grade microeconomics class, the equation went like this . . . profit = pq - c(q) max profit with respect to quantity: d (profit) / dq = p - c'(q) Assuming cost structure is linear, we get somethin like this: d(profit) / dq = p-a where a is non-negative...
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    How much to set up a hotdog stand ? And how much profit ?

    THere's a few stands in the upper living place, like malls, and I see them selling things, hotdogs to be exact, that I find really cheap at the Safe-Way. The question is, to be exact, how much is an average rent for a place like that (upper living place), approximately. There's a place (upper...
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    This forum is full of morons

    Bye! Bye. Red Dawn Anandtech Senior Moderator
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    Ontario raises Beer prices...right before xmas

    The cigarette tax was effective. Consumption decreased... The tax was also particularly effective among teens, which was the group policy makers were targeting. For sources see: Reducing cigarette consumption in California: tobacco taxes vs an anti-smoking media campaign. T W Hu, H Y...
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    Long term stock market question

    No time. Correctly responding to stupid of that magnitude would require 2 well written, cohesive pages. With references.