How do get online accounts for internal reparation projects?

jaqpott asked:


We want to build a number of futuristic businesses in the perverbial hood acroos the country. We are raising funds for an array of “development accounts” from proceeds from our online and entertainment businesses, community organized Limited Partner (LP) investments, and corporate/private donations. Once raised, each fund is then invested into small entrepreneurial projects focused on up to five organically built companies from which a large multiple is expected to be returned through an Initial Public Offering (IPO) or an acqusition by working with larger established companies online. Once an entire fund is returned, the fund is then distributed back to the LP’s at the same rate at which they invested and the cycle of payback in the hood takes on a new meaning. We want to do this in the cities where we have devices and people on our entertainment network.

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From this side by side analysis, who has more experience? Obama or Palin?

broke asked:


*I did not do this research

1980 - 1984
Obama: B.A. in political science with a specialization in international relations from Columbia University.

Palin: Wasilla High School, captain of the state-champion basketball team. Miss Wasilla, runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant, also Miss Congeniality, although that is now disputed.

1985 - 1990
Obama: moved to Chicago; became a community organizer as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization on Chicago’s far South Side. During his three years as the DCP’s director, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants’ rights organization.

Moved to Boston to attend Harvard Law School. Selected as an editor and then elected president of the Harvard Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the law review’s staff of 80 editors.

Palin: Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, with a minor in political science from the University of Idaho. Brief stint as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations; left to join her husband in commercial fishing.

1991 - 1995
Obama: graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School; received contract and advance to write a book (”Dreams from my Father”) as well as a fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School. Directed the Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers that achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, leading Crain’s Chicago Business to name Obama to its 1993 list of “40 under Forty” powers to be. Appointed as a Lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago. Joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development. Active in several community organizations, usually as a board member.

Palin: member of the Alasaka Independence Party which advocates “Alaska First”. Elected to Wasilla city council.

1996 - 2000
Obama: promoted to Senior Lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. Elected to the Illinois Senate. Sponsored more than 800 bills. In 2000, lost a Democratic primary run for the U.S. House of Representatives to four-term incumbent Bobby Rush by a margin of two to one.

Palin: elected as mayor of Wasilla (population 5,470), defeating the incumbent by a total of 616 votes to 413. Town budget, $8 million (3 millionths of the Federal budget), approximately 100 employees. Reduced property taxes but increased sales taxes. Fired the Wasilla police chief, citing a failure to support her administration. (He then sued Palin on the grounds that he was fired because he supported the campaign of Palin’s opponent, but his suit was dismissed when the judge ruled that Palin had the right under state law to fire city employees, even for political reasons.) Hired a DC lobbyist to bring $27 million in earmarks to the city. Wasilla had zero debt when she entered office but she left it with indebtedness of over $22 million, including $15 million-plus for construction of a hockey center which was built on a piece of property that the city didn’t even have clear title to, a matter that is still in litigation. Attempted to ban books from the city library.

2001 - 2004
Obama: reelected in 2002 and became chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee.

Publicly spoke out against the invasion of Iraq BEFORE the congressional authorization in 2002, and then again before the actual invasion in 2003.

Wrote and delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

November 2004: elected to the US Senate, receiving over 3.5 million votes, more than 70% of total.

Palin: elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors. Unsuccessful bid for lieutenant governor, coming in second in a five-way race in the Republican primary, receiving 19,000 votes. Appointed to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, served as chairman from 2003 to 2004 and also served as Ethics Supervisor. Resigned in protest over the “lack of ethics” of fellow Republican members. Exposed the state Republican Party’s chairman, Randy Ruedrich, for doing party work on public time and working closely with a company he was supposed to be regulating. Director of Ted Stevens’ 527 group.

2005 to present
Obama: Sworn in as the fifth-ever African-American U.S. senator. Worked with Republican Senator Lugar to author and implement a program to locate and dismantle stray Russian WMD’s. Designated by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the party’s point man on ethics. Worked with Russ Feingold to pass a major ethics/lobbying reform bill. Cosponsored, w
continuation: Cosponsored, with John McCain, the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. Called for increased fuel efficiency standards (3 percent every year for 15 years). Assignments on the Senate Committees for Foreign Relations, Veterans’ Affairs, and Homeland Security. Chairman of the Senate’s subcommittee on European Affairs. As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. Waged a tremendous battle to become the Democratic presidential nominee. Currently manages 2,500 campaign employees and a budget of $40-$50 million/month.

Palin: 2005: board member, Valley Hospital Association, which runs the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Wasilla.

Became youngest and first female Governor of Alaska, taking office in December, 2006. Received 114,600 votes. The population of Alaska is 683,478 and more than 50% of the state budget comes from oil revenues, not taxes as in other states.
continuation: Gross State Product: $44 billion (including the oil revenue). Ranking 45 of 50.
Auctioned off the Governor’s jet on eBay. Took on fellow-Republican Senator Ted Stevens to come clean about the federal investigation into his financial dealings. Promoted oil and natural gas resource development in Alaska. Helped pass a tax increase on oil company profits. Formed a sub-cabinet group of advisers to address climate change but does not accept that it is man-made. Objected to listing polar bears as an endangered species because it might hurt oil and gas development in the bears’ habitat. Was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it. However, Alaska kept the federal money. Denied her daughter was pregnant before she confirmed it. Supported abstinence-only education.Currently under a bipartisan investigation for abuse of power for dismissing Alaska’s Public Safety Commissioner.
continuation: Commander-in-Chief of the Alaska National Guard, but has played no role in national defense activities, even when they involve the Alaska National Guard. (The entire operation is under federal control, and the governor is not briefed on situations.)

Obtained her first passport in 2007 to perform visits to the Alaska National Guard in Kuwait and Germany. (Foreign experience so limited that a stopover in Ireland listed on her resume.)
Let me tell you what I got from this:

Obama is NOT inexperienced. He has done a LOT and has shown a lot of potential. I posted this because of republicans thinking Palin had the same amount of experience as Obama. They are blatantly wrong.
IF YOU DIDNT READ THE INFORMATION KINDLY SHUT YOUR MOUTH. IF YOU ARE HONESTLY SO BLIND AS TO NOT SEE THE SITUATION THEN YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO EVEN ATTEMPT TO DEBATE ANYTHING, EVER. I AM TYPING IN CAPS TO GET YOUR ATTENTION SINCE YOUR TOO LAZY TO READ ANYTHING ELSE.
Honestly guys, executive experience doesn’t mean jack shit, especially less than 2 years of it. I’m getting a little tired of that point.

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I am looking for seed money to prepare a proposal suitable for lenders/equity investers in a retirement home?

Jonathan L asked:


This project would be in Greece, where the demographics show, as throughout Europe, that the Age structure is such that more and more people will have to live in some sort of assisted homes.
We have an ideal place to position the community, we require the seed money to attract the real capital for the purchase and development.
Does anybody know with whom we should contact to discuss financing?

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Where do I find African American Investors?

Ruby B asked:


I am the director of Individual Familay and Community Development. We went through the neccesary steps for a local hospital, who does community development. We are up for approval for our grant. The problem seems to be our organization is in the start-up phase (in this area) although we have been in business for over 4 years. They are going to help with the project!!!!! but………………We need an investor for the rest. The project has income making potential.

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Want to learn and earn in Bangkok. I did masters in Linguistics?

Zeenat asked:


I am currently working on multilingual education development project with a minority language community in the North-east India.

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How do measure the wealth generated from free online projects?

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What Web Technologies will I need to know for this project?

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Resistivity Meters for ground water detection, are they accurate and reliable? Are they hard to interpert/use?

MARK C asked:


I’m developing a rural community project with my brother in Guatemala and water development is a big need. We would like to know reliable ways to detect ground water to best use resources in well construction. thanks mark

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As a small business owner can I write these things off on my taxes?

Shaun D asked:


I started a business 1 year ago and am not bringing in much money from it as of now. Every tax write off I can get would be important. I would like to know if I could write off the following things.

- All work related gas mileage for meetings.
- Purchased Laptop.
- Multimedia Development for Non-Profit Community Project.
- Blackberry Business Monthly Data Plan
- Website Hosting Fees

I of course have documentation of the listed.

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Why does the software development community fragment itself, particularly the open-source side of it?

. asked:


Why for example does it duplicate (divert, waste) effort on designing parallel separate projects like MySQL and PostgreSQL instead of agreeing to continually refine a single standard application?

Why does it come up with Ruby, Python, PHP (and then, separate “frameworks” for all of these as well), etal, instead of focusing on continually refining a single language?

Why does it have competing markup, styling, etal, standards and competing browsers?

Can you imagine if all this duplicated effort ended, a standard was chosen and refined, and developers could then focus more on solving ~other~ problems?
If you didn’t have to undertake research into what to USE, then what else could you focus your intellect on instead?

For businesses, if all software was eventually standard and not a research project to decide on, what other activities could you instead focus on, how else would you compete with one another in your products/services?
Even within communities that arrive at a consensus on software, competition is present in arriving at the consensus.
When a standard is community-driven, input is still inherently incorporated. No one is choosing anything for you; by agreeing to develop, for example, one database management system, you’d be choosing to direct your input into that effort rather than trying to get MySQL to add triggers and things PostgreSQL can already do … and besides having to figure out how to convert a database (and perhaps scripts accessing it) to PostreSQL when you suddenly realized MySQL wasn’t powerful enough.

I guess I don’t understand how this would be taking away choice if everyone chose to end the duplicated effort.
As another example, the world’s air traffic controllers have settled on a standard language (English) — and therefore they aren’t all scrambling for dictionaries at critical moments.
There are also different ways of competing … for example, spending time trying to workaround the inconsistent implementation of CSS in browsers isn’t making any one browser go away, but it is taking away time from competing one what matters, the web application (server side) itself, rather than the presentation (client side).

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