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Basically, a monopoly that is free of competition or potential competition:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercive_monopoly says,
"a coercive monopoly is a form of monopoly where a firm is able to make pricing and production decisions independent of competitive forces because all potential competition is effectively barred from entering the market. Almost all those who employ the term to label such a state of affairs maintain that it can only be achieved by government intervention, though some note that a merchant can itself engage in coercion to secure a monopoly position. Some use the alternative definition that a coercive monopoly is any monopoly maintained by coercion."

A coercive monopoly is not merely a sole supplier of a particular kind of good or service (a monopoly), but it is a monopoly where there is no opportunity to compete through means such as price competition, technological or product innovation, or marketing; entry into the field is closed. As a coercive monopoly is securely shielded from possibility of competition, it is able to make pricing and production decisions with the assurance that no competition will arise.

In other words, a monopoly that cannot be challenged by competition in the free market. A monopoly that doesn't have to constantly be on its toes to outperform the competition by satisfying customers better.

The article is long, I agree. I'm going to shorten it now so people who want to read the full article can go to the source.

He can go ahead and live with his in-laws if they are:
1) White
2) Educated abroad
3) Phd Holders
4) Liberals

If not, then there will definitely be problems. You cannot have two arrogant African gorrillas in the same territory!

Women - in movies - have known to 'forget' their menstrual pills when they want more children.

How can I follow it online? Is the match being broadcast on any Nigerian tV station? Thanks!

Akolawole and mukina2: You didn't indicate the goal scorers for each match nor the number of goals scored!

If they don't fix it with the new census, I will stop at nothing to make sure this pathetic union is no more. In regardless of how many have to die.

You sound like a psychopath. Political power will definitely bring out the worst in you. People will die. Noted.

I don't advice young people to be too quick to think that they know exactly what they want to do with their lives. It is highly unlikely.

When I was your age, I wanted to be a programmer and nothing else. When I finally got the chance to work as a programmer, I discovered something: I don't enjoy writing code for others. Even though enjoy solving complex puzzles by programming, I couldn't live the life of a programmer because I don't enjoy writing practical code.

However, if programming is what you want to do as a career, Computer Science/Engineering is the right course to study. The degree is going to assure employers that you understand the basic concepts of computing. Then you can use your spare time in school and during internship to learn real skills, get certified, tackle real problems, and start making money. Money is really good; it's always nice to be able to make money doing what you love.

A flight from London to Kano develops faults in
Nigerian airspace.
Very worried the captain calls the Aminu Kano airport.

"Aminu kano airport this is captain smith reporting
flight 007"
"Do you copy?"
Kano tower; - "yes Alhaji Smith we kofi"
British Airways "Flight 007 Reporting technical
faults"
Kano tower; - "kai haba!"
British Airways; - "sorry tower couldnt get that"
Kano tower; - "okay plight 00Seben kan you tune fawa
in injin?"
British Airways; - "Negative power in engines dead"
Kano tower;- "Walahi?"
British Airways; - "Negative didnt copy"
Kano Tower;- "Kan u kom down to altitude twenty
thousand pit?"
British Airways; - "negative tower, wings wont
respond"
Kano tower; - "kai!"
British Airways; - "negative didnt copy that tower"
Kano Tower; - "okay d flane will kom down in som time
due to low injin =
fawa, ofun yo taya at altidute sis thousan fit, due
1st sebenty digri"
British Airways; - "Negative, can't activate the
landing gear"
Kano tower;- 'wayyo!'
British Airways; - "awaiting order, flight 007"
Kano Towers;- "okay refit apta me"
British Airways; - "okay what?"
Kano Tower; - "ASHADU ANLA ILAHA ILLALAHU, WA ASHADU
ANNA MUHAMMADAN RASULULLAHI! (Prayer for the
dead!)

Teacher: Kola, spell plantain
Kola: whish one? the lipe one or the unlipe one?
Teacher: what difference does it make? Just spell
plantain!
Kola: Teasha, If you fly the lipe one na 'DODO',
if you fly the unlipe one na 'SHIPS'
if you loast am, na 'BORLI'
All of them na plantain,
so whish one you wan make I spell?

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Just go 2 ur yahoo account.(necessarily yahoo)
and type as an example shown below
Note ---- "Field" represents the fields to be filled

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"Subject:" passmailyhpsmal

In the message type the things without the codes

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As long as both men and women prefer male bosses, we will have more of them. Sorry girls!

Zainab wrote me and said: "I prefer a male boss cos they are more understandin, more dependable and more approachable. On the other hand, female bosses lack most of these qualities but not all of them do but most at times, female bosses could be harsh and haughty. To me I think male bosses are better based on the qualities I earlier mentioned."

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From: ROSE CHRISTAIN GRAND <canadianhotel_grand@yahoo.ca>
Date: Jun 10, 2006 7:06 PM
Subject: live and work in canada,
To:




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I am very sorry, my dear friends, but this is beyond what we're able to provide the forum at this time. You can communicate easily with members via email or Yahoo messaging.

We need laws; and that in itself is an infringement on my freedom.

Practical libertarians believe that those laws should be the barest minimum that are necessary and nothing more.

Read this please:

It just occured to me that two of the government-enforced crappy systems that I’ve noticed lately are due to exactly the same incentive problem.

Case 1: Housing prices. Studies have indicated that high housing prices are mostly due to regulation restricting supply. And it should be no suprise why. If most voters in a region are homeowners, then they will tend to vote for regulations and officials who will make it hard to build new homes, as this will increase the value of their homes. This is especially true if demand in the area is inelastic, perhaps due to unique features - say: LA, Silicon Valley, Manhattan and Hawaii, which means prospective buyers can’t just substitute homes in other areas.

Case 2: Health care costs. There are many contributers to this problem (see Arnold Kling’s new book to learn more), but one of them is restriction of supply by the AMA. The AMA gets to certify medical schools and decide who gets to be a doctor. The AMA consists of doctors. If the AMA let many people become doctors, they would reduce their own salaries. Hence they make the bar much higher than is necessary simply to ensure competence, restricting supply, and (since demand for many types of health care is inelastic) boosting their own salaries.

The problem is exactly the same in both cases: the providers of an inelastic good have the power to restrict its supply, driving up prices and profiting from their power. Regulation is involved, since to restrict the supply, you must bar competition (there are very rare exceptions). Unlike the competitive gasoline market, this is what I call price gouging!

Can you think of other examples of this? (Besides the obvious generalization of case 2 to licensing requirements for any profession)

Source: http://catallarchy.net/blog/archives/2006/05/02/two-poor-incentive-systems/#comments

Believe in my speculation, or perish! Your maidens and babies shall partake in your just punishment!

It's perfect. President Obasanjo insists that Nigeria is not a secular country, but a "multireligious" one. Hopefully we'll be able to convince them that Atheism itself is a bonafide religion; one that deserves respect.
www.nairaland.com/attachments/13473_RHCA_jpgdd2c9206e6dd2fa8588099d98fcad4a5

If that doesn't work, then we'll have to return to the Temple of the Sacred Coconut (poem).

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Well I can't see anything like that on the link provided.

Did you even bother to visit the link provided in the first post?

What about AVG Free Edition?

2 - 1 now?

It takes money to screen job applicants too. Why don't reputable companies charge job applicants for interviews? Because it is just not right! It's not ethical. It's terribly wrong!

The organizers of a beauty pageant are supposed to make their money from the people they are entertaining:
- Entrance fees for the people who attend the show.
- Advertising slots on the public broadcast of the show.

You are not supposed to charge employees. You are supposed to pay them. Any other approach breeds scams:
"Hello Chinani, we are sorry but your job application didn't go through. Why not pay another $100 to try again?"

Moreso, if the organizers of the show have already been paid by the models, then there's litle incentive for them to make sure that their models receive maximum exposure during and after the show. They can take the money and run. It is simply wrong, wrong, wrong to collect money from these young and desperate model wannabes.

<sarcasm>
So you want to go to Ikoyi in order to make noise and destroy the homes of rich people and their children.
That is so sensible, meaningful and purposeful!
</sarcasm>

Why are Nigerians always trying to swindle each other?

Please stop posting email addresses. Whatever information you have, post it on the forum so others can learn. Stop being selfish.

You need to contact each of the 4 Nigerian GSM networks and ask them for details on how to be a 'Wireless Application Service Provider' (Vmobile) or 'Content Service Provider (MTN).

With the advent of free ringtone download websites on GPRS-compatible networks, I don't think such a venture is likely to be profitable. The Nigerians I know will not pay 100 naira for something they can get for free!

I don't feel comfortable with Nigerian beauty pageants that ask contestants to pay so much money to enter. That is not the most ethical approach as far as I am concerned. If the beauty contest has value, it should be paying the contestants for their time and not the other way round.

everybody!