guyz….i need some help with this question…any help will be greatly appreciated..
1) Classify the following markets as perfectly competitive, monopolistic, or monopolistically competitive, and explain your answers.
a. wooden #2 pencils
b. bottled water
c. copper
d. local telephone service
e. peanut butter
f. lipstick

(a) and (c) are perfectly competitive: many small producers of a homogeneous good

(b), (e), and (f) are monopolistically competitive: many producers who can differentiate their products from the other firms in the market.

(d) This used to be a monopoly, but now it’s probably more monopilistically competitive, since people can get phone service from cable tv providers, Voynage, as well as their local phone company.

I am interested in starting a mobile hot dog cart business. How would I go about doing this? How much money would it probaly take?

Depends on how you want to roll?
A new one will be between…..$3000 to $15,000
then the food….depends on what you want to sell.

You have to get a permit. You just cant hang out and sell food.
Health Dept., Police.

Pick a good location…location, location, location.
Courthouse, Industrial area, car wash.
Make sure you ask the people first.
1. Here’s a Crazy "Hot Dog" starting book"
http://www.hotdogbook.com/
2. Here’s a book how to BUY a hot dog stand.
http://www.ehow.com/how_108029_buy-hot-dog.html
3. Here is a place that had funny good colorful carts.
most kind.
4.http://www.worldsbesthotdogcarts.com/cart_gallery.html
Here is another site, that goes a little further.Looks virtual
5.http://www.americandreamhotdogcarts.com/hot-dog-carts/malibu/malibu-features.php
This one gives info on what you can sell and price sheet
6.http://www.cateringtruck.com/hot_dog_cart_pricing_web.htm
Here’s "Willy Hot Dog" Carts.
http://www.willydogs.com/
Here’s a Cheesy looking Cart Company American Hot Dog…….
7. http://www.allamericanhotdog.com/chicago.htm
Here’s another Comparison
8.http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=+hot+dog+cart&um=1&ie=UTF-8
Here’s a comparison from the other.
9. http://www.aaahotdogcarts.com/

I have dial up through my local hometown telephone company for $5 a month and i only can download at 2-3kbps which i have to take my laptop to a local coffee shop to download simple files only 14mb or more without having to wait hours for it to be done… I looked into cable but its unavaible where i am no cables under ground where i am! would another dial up provider be a little faster at least? netzero and all those others for example.

why dont you just get high speed internet

I need a phone for my home as cheap as possible. Incoming call should be free. I have internet connection in my house. so if any internet phone is cheap,its ok too.

thanks

You can visit this site it has lots of Great Information on Free Calls and Cheap Calls
http://voipsms.blogspot.com

Is there a GSM/GPRS cellphone network or a blackberry service that works for UK devices? Or is it a case of being reliant still on satellite phones?

(Asking in military as hopefully some of you that has served or are serving would know).
I meant generally available as opposed just through the military.
why is this sensitive info? Either there is a civilian mobile phone network or there isn’t.
Oh my you are a paranoid little lot. I am a paediatrician and ED doctor and am volunteering to go. I am non military and want to know if I should take my satellite Iridium phone or my standard UK mobile.
PAD-D… trust me I’ve been to far worse places!

I can’t believe you’re getting all these retarded responses. For what it’s worth, I’m sorry. All of you who gave bogus answers should be ashamed of yourselves. If any of you had an ounce of decency, you’d have taken your lives for shame long ago.

There is a civilian GSM cellular network available in Iraq. It’s called IraQna: http://www.iraqna.com/ and it’s quite reliable. Satellite phones of course work (I’ve used one myself on several occasions) but there’s simply no need for them if you’re going to stay in or around urban areas. Iraq may have trouble with electricity and running water, but satellite dishes and cellular networks are rife.

You should have roaming available for your cellular phone from the UK. The cost is likely to be prohibitive. My advice to you would be for you to take your UK phone with you, so as you touch down in Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey (wherever you’re entering Iraq from) and staging out, you can still call people.

Once you get to Iraq, have one of the local nationals (interpreter type) help you get you a phone off the local market.

Good luck.

Since privatisation the capacity for water storage in the UK has decreased due to water companies selling state assets, risks are being taken with our power needs and mobile phones make children a target for crime and the potential harm of microwaves on a childs brain is one big corporate experiment.

Given that ‘New Labour’ are now working for the Neo cons, & to think they once claimed to stand for the people of this country, should we lobby parliament to buy back our utilities and say ‘I’m sorry, we made a mistake, Thatcher convinced us selling off our countries assets to America (the main shareholders of UK Ltd) would make things better, sadly, we can’t trust big business with our lives, Telcom tower needs to belong to the post office again.’?

NB; As the inventor of The Fast Dial Telephone (Not to be confused with speed dial, Windows or I Phones ‘no stylus’ nonsense.) I confirm my position (renationalise BT + our utilities) in the interest of propriety.

I do think you have a point.

No need to nationalise in the 1970’s terms, but certainly create and enforce some form of national strategies for anyone that wants to play in these businesses.

water is in a highly visible mess, we all know that.

Power, i’m not sure we can trust people who are interested in short term gain to plan such long turn alternative strategies.

telecoms, i can talk more about this as i own a telecoms business.

Once again the infrastructure is failing us. The freeing up the last mile has just disenfanchised BT from trying to maintain it. They have just moved it to an seperate company. OpenReach cannot afford, not do they have the will, to address the copper issues.

Whitehall claims they understand the need for national comunications infrastructure but there is nothing in any incentives to ensure the country is wired up.

I’ve had a few letters printed in telecoms mags about this:
i think we are moving again to a market where people have to migrate to the cities. more and more we reply on broadband and network for business to work. How does this help the people who are stuck at 512K in the countryside, who’s going to have the drive to sort that out ? The countryside almost caught up over the last 20 years, but once again it will be sidelined because the comms infrastructure cannot cope, just like the roads could not cope in the past.

I won’t repeat all my arguements here, but , yes i agree, its about time someone grabbed the nettle and sorted this stuff out.

I use T-Mobile. If you get A Family Plan between Two Lines it’s 69.99 (Without Tax). You can call any other T-Mobile phone for free, Calling on weekends is for free and from 9 PM to 6:59 AM on weeknights are free also.

My spouse wouldn’t consent to counselling of my 9 year old son who has grown aggressive due to his brainwashing targetted at me. He beats, kicks, doesn’t listen to me at all. We have separated and share legal custody. To protect myself and kid i called child mobile response services offered by state government. Now i am concerned if he can stop me or my son from getting counselling from child mobile services? Please help?

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What happens if a mobile home gets foreclosed on when it is on rented property? What would we be looking at happening?
In California - if that makes any difference.

I have worked with many Mobile home lenders selling repos. Lenders always try to leave the home in the park. The cost to tear down and move a home is to great for what they can sell it for in the park. So unless the buyer wants to move the house it will always stay where it sits.

Also when a mobile home is taken back by a lender, they will always try to sell it to the park owner first. Park owners never want homes to leave their park.