Business Law and the Regulatory Environment
Before I get to the real meat and potatoes of the issue at hand, I'd like to dispell a myth. Amritha left the following comment as a reply to my last entry:
hehe, to be perfectly honest many times I don't even read your entry and just read your words and their definitions to see whether they have any correlation to your mood or anything/anyone that you interract. Now I must say when I saw that definition I honestly thought you were talking about me because of my outrageous antics! Is my theory right????
No, your theory is not right. The words-of-the-day are not indicative of how I or anyone else is feeling. Any corrolation is purely coincidental. The words-of-the-day are not chosen ahead of time, I choose the first word I see that catches my eye, and has a nice, reasonable definition that we could all learn a little from.
Speaking of learning a little. I spoke to Michelle this afternoon, and she asked me to solve a problem that's been going on amongst the members of her family. Fresh off a disappointing dead-end in my investigation of an M&Ms scandal, I was desperate to get back in the game, so I hastily agreed. As it turns out, her family has been at odds with each other over the number of Hallmark cards made each year. Her brother, Alan, seems to think that Hallmark manufactures 33 billion cards per year. She seems to think that figure is a little high. So, Michelle, and the rest of the Rochkind family, here is your answer:
American Greetings (Hallmark's direct competitor) manufactures approximately 2.4+ billion cards a year. Doing a simple mathematical conversion, this would mean that Hallmark sells just about 3.3 billion cards per year.
My theory? Alan looked right past that decimal point. To the word of the day!
su·per·erog·a·to·ry \soo-peh-rih-rahg-ih-tohr-ee\ adj. : performed or observed to an extent not enjoined or required; superfluous
hehe, to be perfectly honest many times I don't even read your entry and just read your words and their definitions to see whether they have any correlation to your mood or anything/anyone that you interract. Now I must say when I saw that definition I honestly thought you were talking about me because of my outrageous antics! Is my theory right????
No, your theory is not right. The words-of-the-day are not indicative of how I or anyone else is feeling. Any corrolation is purely coincidental. The words-of-the-day are not chosen ahead of time, I choose the first word I see that catches my eye, and has a nice, reasonable definition that we could all learn a little from.
Speaking of learning a little. I spoke to Michelle this afternoon, and she asked me to solve a problem that's been going on amongst the members of her family. Fresh off a disappointing dead-end in my investigation of an M&Ms scandal, I was desperate to get back in the game, so I hastily agreed. As it turns out, her family has been at odds with each other over the number of Hallmark cards made each year. Her brother, Alan, seems to think that Hallmark manufactures 33 billion cards per year. She seems to think that figure is a little high. So, Michelle, and the rest of the Rochkind family, here is your answer:
American Greetings (Hallmark's direct competitor) manufactures approximately 2.4+ billion cards a year. Doing a simple mathematical conversion, this would mean that Hallmark sells just about 3.3 billion cards per year.
My theory? Alan looked right past that decimal point. To the word of the day!
su·per·erog·a·to·ry \soo-peh-rih-rahg-ih-tohr-ee\ adj. : performed or observed to an extent not enjoined or required; superfluous