Monday, March 26, 2012

We use Infants' Tylenol to try to relieve our toddler daughter from the fevers caused by her current Hand, foot, and mouth disease, which is a human illness and not to be confused with the infamous Foot-and-mouth disease, an animal illness.

Tylenol doesn't contain aspirins. It seems that Tylenol is more popular than aspirins in treating fevers because the latter tend to irritate the stomach while the former doesn't. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylenol#History.

I don't have any knowledge about the following topic.

But my guess is that the most essential distinction between enterprises and public interest groups is not about for profit or not for profit. It's that the individual clients of enterprises pay at least the total costs of the consumed products and services to enterprises, while the individual clients of public interest groups do NOT pay them at least the total costs.

Throughout the outbreaks of labor disputes in Canada during this recession, we see that unions have been greatly hampered and weakened by the ever relatively increasing bargaining power and freedom businesses and organizations possess, in both the private and the public sector.

It seems now marks the beginning of the end of labor unions as we know them.

Can you hear the deep howls of grief and regret in people's hearts? Can you see those via their behaviors?

Thursday, March 22, 2012

The national motto of France is "Liberty, equality, fraternity", which is thought-provoking.

By contrast, its Canadian counterpart is "From sea to sea" (see http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/a-mari-usque-ad-mare), which is, well, not quite thought-provoking.

China has been such a hot market pursued by many foreign companies.

However, as one who was born and grew up there, I'm not sure if some sorts of bringing home of the inherent inefficiencies and risks of its economic and political systems will happen in the future.