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Sorry, you are going to have to explain how "the rest of the world" buying a branded, 100% genuine, drug for a fraction of the US price drives up the price in the US. You also might give an example where patents are being ignored in those same markets.

Here's a recent example of a man being charged $3,766 for Zovirax cold sore cream in hospital. The same product could be bought in Walmart for $181.66 . UK price $7.

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140728/GJNEWS_01/140729484

Drug prices in the US are entirely down to the insane US health system.

... if it were simpler. Why is the Federal Tax Code 3.7 million words? If the tax code were simpler, then those servers would have a much easier time of it.

      Scanning today's news turns up a lot of good examples for how the code could be simplified.

The five dumbest parts of the U.S. tax code

1) Ethanol credits increase the price of food, and give paper manufacturers more money in credits than they make from selling paper.
2) Exemption for inherited stock-gains.
3) Mortgage-interest deduction encourages people to buy as much house as they can afford, and encourages owning over renting to the detriment of other investments.
4) Exemption on employer-provided health insurance encourages employers to give more health insurance instead of wage increases, and discourages health insurers from competing on price.
5) Municipal-bond-interest exclusion gives more benefit to rich bond owners than it does to the municipalities that issue the bonds.

Congressman Wyden leads effort to simplify tax code

Taxes: There is a Better Way by U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg

I also had the same problem with one of my employers in the past. I simply explained to him that it was illegal and that they can lock you for it. Lucky for my a had a local example http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080514/NEWS10/720447000 of what can happen. I find the articles I found of him rather interesting since people around here were told he was locked up. While the articles seem to just say he's nowhere to be found.

The senate voted to remove the Real ID requirement from the bill. However this was not enough to save the legislation, it still failed.

http://news.com.com/Senate+takes+step+away+from+Re al+ID/2100-7348_3-6193735.html
http://news.com.com/National+ID+plan+may+have+kill ed+immigration+bill/2100-7348_3-6193916.html

BTW New Hampshire officially rejected Real ID yesterday, that makes six states...

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/ 20070627/NEWS0201/70627059

Questioning the theory of relativity and the theory of evolution is something that is frequently done by educated people.

This is how we get a better and more refined understanding.

It's not unethical, either. You should know the risks involved with updating your firmware, whether it removes functionality or not.

By this logic, it's ethical for somebody to be a crook as long as we all should know that he's a crook. So I guess you should call up Sanford Wallace and tell him that his latest scam was ethical.

Personally, I'd say that knowledge and consent are a big part of ethics. Apple presents themselves as the nice guys, as the underdogs. Intentionally and silently removing a capability from a product they sold to somebody, as they are alleged to have done, without saying, "Hey, if you get this update you can't listen to your music," doesn't strike me as in any way ethical.

What, like SpyWiper and Spamford Wallace? His credentials are very well known, and I have never had any doubts about his decency.

He's currently under a TRO to keep him from marketing his "spyware removal tool" which was advertised by spam and spyware, and which appears to do lots of harm but to be no help at all in removing spyware.

Who would have thought that a slimeball like him would lie to people that way?

His partner in the Spy Wiper business is Rob Martinson. Rob, like Spamford, is also salt of the earth. You can read his history in this article "A Hated Man".

Dr. Yanhui Zhang ... at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Ill., ... has perfected a continuous thermochemical conversion process to produce fuel oil from livestock manure.

Actually car manufacturers do make parts for each other and not just the ones that are owned by the same parent company (in your above example I know some of the Mazdas, Rovers, and Volvos now use quite a few Ford parts in them these days). GM made a pretty big deal with Honda (the two are independent companies) to provide engines for some or all of the Saturns: Saturn VUE uses Honda engine. Business is business I guess. In these cases I guess both Honda and Microsoft realize that the people that choose to buy a Saturn or Macintosh respectively probably aren't potential customers but both companies see the opportunity to still make some money of them.

Yeah, TollCollect really should be on the list. Here's some information about it for non german audiences that want to share the laughter:

TollCollect
Fosters Article
They were also given the "BigBrother Award"(google translation)

Condolences from all of us who wish him well in his new life. I hope this worked out ok.

Check out the club's webpage at
http://www.clubplumcrazy.com/

(Which amusingly has a free vip signup via email...)

Or just wish him well via email. it lists an address of:
masterwebfanclub@aol.com
(I guess he did not want to deal with spam on his own domain, thus the aol account.)

Finally, there is a newsgroup if you wish to find out more about the club itself:

http://pub89.ezboard.com/bclubplumcrazy

Lets be mature about this and not abuse these points of contact.

New Hampshire's Supreme Court just ruled a couple weeks ago that information in the garbage is off limits. However, according to a 1988 US Supreme Court ruling anything in the garbage is not private because it is unreasonable for people to expect their trash to remain private, given that "plastic garbage bags left on or at the side of a public street are readily accessible to animals, children, scavengers, snoops, and other members of the public." So, unless you live in NH, you're probably screwed.

In a recent survey at the public high school in my city, over 40% of the students said they'd tried smoking weed, and almost 20% said they smoke weed on a weekly basis. And those are just the ones who admitted to it. Don't believe me?

Go read some independant studies about weed, and some truthful information. There'd be better information out there if the government would permit independent or even government studies involving marijuana, but they have been reluctant to do so.

I work 40 hours a week and bought my own car, paid for my own insurance, pay for most of my own food and all of my own gas, and pretty much any other expenses of mine: I'm hardly taking my parents to the cleaners. And if going to catholic school means I live in a comfortable little suburban world, than how come yours has a heroine epidemic? I don't like hard drugs, have never tried them, and don't even smoke cigarettes. I don't smoke cigarettes or do hard drugs because I know they're bad for me. I am confident enough that weed is not that I will smoke some on occasion, and I am not a stupid person so don't even suggest it.