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"They keep the cost low even though other drugs have increased considerably in cost."

I don't think so. Street value for an Oxy 80 is $80.00 or more..

Sounds like a cool TV show ...
http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/fall-tv/exclusive-watch-abc-fall-drama-last-resort-full-061122041.html

Or you get fubared pretty hefty!!! ;) Converting 500Kgs of matter to energy would be like putting around half the annual energy consumption of all of the US in 2009 under your seat...instantly! :) For ref, the sun produces about 10 more zeroes of energy every second: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070219102943AA0moQu -- No

Yeah, if you're going to base purchases on how workers get treated, you'll never buy anyone's products, Samsung included.

http://news.yahoo.com/samsung-accused-worker-abuse-eight-more-factories-215557712.html

We can't all agree apple is innovative. It's not even something that is upheld around apple, http://news.yahoo.com/former-apple-exec-apple-haven-t-invented-anything-151548130.html It's just something for fanboys to latch on to, so they feel like they are on the cutting edge of tech. Being successful and innovative are not necessarily linked at all.

Why would they say this?

Microsoft co-marketing dollars: http://biz.yahoo.com/msft/p19.html

Carriers are going to milk this. The iphone on 3G is already responsible for a ton of bandwidth. When the LTE enabled iphone 5 hits, that will go up. That means further strained networks, and customers burning up their puny data plans faster. I'd love to get a real smart phone, but with most carriers colluding on data pricing, a smart phone is an increasingly expensive luxury item.

What are you talking about? It's peaceful see? Look at their deaths. Hey look at those other deaths in Malaysia, or the hands being cut off, how about those deaths in Africa, hey look at that young Christian girl who was setup by the imam in Pakistan, because he hates Christians. Hey would you look at all those Copts being persecuted in Egypt my muslims(how about the one who had her house burned down because she burned a shirt). I've only used one link so far because it was really the only one the media followed in the news, though the stories are out there. But there was also the case of the 12 year old boy who was burned and dumped too. That one really didn't make the news here in the west. Fairly large news in asian media though.

This isn't anything new, not even. This is the religion of peace in action.

Alibaba isn't publicly traded.

First hit on Google:
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=1688.HK

That's a company called "Alibaba.com Limited" that's being publicly traded.

We use oil for power because it's orders of magnitude cheaper and easier to produce at the scales we need. We'll move on to something else, but that something else won't be nearly as desirable.

Cheaper, not better. Synthetic oils are better in almost every way. They're simply not used because they're expensive.

Sure, if you completely ignore the practical problems with paving half the country with solar panels. The only childish nonsense here is your insistence that because we have cheap power today we will be able to have cheap power indefinitely into the future. That's just not realistic.

Except that is reality. Hawaii is already at solar grid parity. And most of the US is projected to hit solar grid parity in 2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power#Grid_parity). And your "panels covering half the country" claims are way off the mark. Try one desert: http://voices.yahoo.com/mojave-desert-southwest-could-supply-solar-power-5802962.html

If you want "professional" you can buy Rational Application Developer for Linux from IBM for USD $2,280.00. It is basically Eclipse anointed by IBM for corporate dolts like you. Guess what even people at Microsoft working on the really hard problems like OS development use Emacs and Vim. You may continue to delude yourself.

Welcome to the real world. You could always work in a car factory for half the money. Strike that, not a good example. You could always work in another non-unionized job for half the money, and have to work just as hard, and with the same or even less job security. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. But I will agree that if you have the knack, know-how, drive and determination to be an entrepreneur, your reward potential is much higher.

While EA stock has evolved to deep discounts in the last year.
This policy will not turn things around.

http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/

Another alternative: http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/

If you don't have a real keyboard you don't have a real development tool - regardless of the IDE.

Someone else pointed out a more fundamental problem: you cannot write iPad software using your iPad. Even if it had a keyboard, that problem would kill the iPad as a software development platform.

+5 Shortsightful - First IPad Game Written in Codea on the IPad Hits the App Store

The government did pay them $8 per day per diem while they were in space, minus costs for accomodations since they were provided with beds and shelter.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apollo-11s-astronauts-received-8-141240938.html

> it's more likely it's something to do with start of school year though.

Yeah. I mean, have there ever been ups-and-downs in Samsung sales? I'm sure there has. Maybe it's just coincidental timing. I'd need to see a lot more numbers, more than just six days' worth, to draw any conclusions. If you want to see a "surge" in sales, look at iPhone numbers in about 2-3 weeks.

http://voices.yahoo.com/human-foreskins-big-business-cosmetics-201840.html

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/spray-skin-cells-heal-wounds-fast/story?id=16921765 , which was released August 4th of this year - what a strange coincidence!

Seriously, I can't make this shit up.

Both Dell and HP are making billions. They mostly cater to the business sector. I mean sure Apple has a 25% profit margin, which is insanely high for a hardware company. Most of that is from iPhone and iPad, and those items come and go based on the whims of consumer taste. 10 years, 20 years is a long time in the computer industry; companies rise and fall during those times. Anything can happen. 15 years ago, Apple was nearly bankrupt, and now they're the most valuable company by market cap. IBM was taking massive losses nearly 20 years ago, now they're the 3rd largest tech company. In the meantime, Compaq is gone, DEC is gone, Wang is gone, etc. HP and Dell have been reinventing themselves, and they're closer to what IBM looks like rather than Apple.

Both Dell and HP are making billions. They mostly cater to the business sector. I mean sure Apple has a 25% profit margin, which is insanely high for a hardware company. Most of that is from iPhone and iPad, and those items come and go based on the whims of consumer taste. 10 years, 20 years is a long time in the computer industry; companies rise and fall during those times. Anything can happen. 15 years ago, Apple was nearly bankrupt, and now they're the most valuable company by market cap. IBM was taking massive losses nearly 20 years ago, now they're the 3rd largest tech company. In the meantime, Compaq is gone, DEC is gone, Wang is gone, etc. HP and Dell have been reinventing themselves, and they're closer to what IBM looks like rather than Apple.

Both Dell and HP are making billions. They mostly cater to the business sector. I mean sure Apple has a 25% profit margin, which is insanely high for a hardware company. Most of that is from iPhone and iPad, and those items come and go based on the whims of consumer taste. 10 years, 20 years is a long time in the computer industry; companies rise and fall during those times. Anything can happen. 15 years ago, Apple was nearly bankrupt, and now they're the most valuable company by market cap. IBM was taking massive losses nearly 20 years ago, now they're the 3rd largest tech company. In the meantime, Compaq is gone, DEC is gone, Wang is gone, etc. HP and Dell have been reinventing themselves, and they're closer to what IBM looks like rather than Apple.

I realize I'm zombying (sp?) this thread, but here's what the WADA chief had to say. There is also the fact that the USADA is the body responsible for enforcing the world anti-doping code in the USA (by an acto of Congress, no less) and all signatories of this code (like the UCI) have to abide by their decisions. I think the UCI is trying to make the best of a bad PR situation, and will quietly agree with the USADA ruling when the spotlight is no longer on. As for the comments about heart below, it just seems strange that Armstrong would fight all the insinuations about doping so hard, but the first time there is a real trial, he bows out. If anything, this was his best chance to prove his innocence.

And a great pilot. You will be missed.

One thing worth pointing out was that a great pilot was all Armstrong ever was. That, and a dinosaur.

He could have been supportive of people like Elon Musk who are trying to pick up the ball that the government has dropped.... but he wasn't. Since he had nothing nice to say about SpaceX, he could have STFU and said nothing at all. But he didn't do that either.

Armstrong has been a hero of mine since childhood, but at this late date, there are other heroes. I see no reason to spend even five more minutes thinking about Neil Armstrong and anything he did. When he used one of his rare public appearances to trash SpaceX's work without offering any better alternatives, he voluntarily consigned himself to the past

One good thing that comes from the old man's death? Maybe all of those clouds he's been yelling at can hear him now.

If you think a Coelacanth picture is so easy to get, go take one.

Sure there's already pictures, and video on YouTube. But for the longest time science had never got it's hands on one, they're still fairly "new" as these things go. And they live very far down. This isn't like scooping a fish out of a river or a lake. And there's none in captivity so you can't just take a picture of one; they're endangered now too from overfishing. Stupid as the flesh is pretty much inedible containing waxes, oil and urea at the very least. Things were different half a billion years ago when they evolved (then stopped).

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070730222707AA2bVkB
"Where can I buy a Coelacanth for my aquarium" (you can't)

http://www.dinofish.com/
All things Coelacanth.

"Many expeditions ,often amidst controversy, have sought out the elusive coelacanth, and an extensive bibliography of published papers has emerged."

These new photos are the best ever taken of the fish. They're quite something.

Let me address the only points in your attempt to Fisk me that were not about my misspelling names.

The Lance Armstrong Performance Program, Chris Carmichael with Lance Armstrong

99 test for cortisone was idiotic because he was cleared by cycling officials to use it, of course it showed up in his urine.

Secondly, those same samples were the source of the EPO testing I detailed:

Even in 1999, the year of his first Tour de France win, there were already objective suggestions that Armstrong's success may not have been entirely on the up and up. That year, his urine sample showed a small trace of a banned steroid used to assist muscle recovery, but he was cleared when his team produced a medical certificate showing that the chemical was present in a cream Armstrong used for "saddle sores."
In 2005, a French newspaper reported that Armstrong's 1999 urine samples had retroactively tested positive for the "blood booster" Erythropoietin (EPO), a banned substance that couldn't yet be detected in urine tests in 1999. But because the 2005 urine tests were not conducted according to official standards, the results had no effect on Armstrong's standing.

http://news.yahoo.com/did-armstrong-busted-212732618.html

As for the "Cool story bro"

World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) chief Dick Pound has rejected the independent investigation which cleared Lance Armstrong of doping allegations.
Pound said Wada is considering legal action over the verdict into L'Equipe's claims that Armstrong's samples on the 1999 Tour de France tested positive.
He said the investigation headed by lawyer Emile Vrijman and the Dutch law firm Scholten "bordered on farcical."
Their report exonerated Armstrong and blamed anti-doping authorities.
It accused the Wada agency of behaving in ways "completely inconsistent" with testing rules, and determined the testing procedures at the French national doping laboratory LNDD had been insufficient to label the American's sample positive.
Vrijman also stated that Wada and the LNDD had effectively pronounced Armstrong guilty of a doping violation without sufficient basis.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/5043260.stm

In a rebuke considered rare because it involves one of its own members, the International Olympic Committee officially reprimanded Pound for comments that might have damaged the legendary cyclist's reputation. The Los Angeles Times first reported the story on Saturday.

But Pound seemed unfazed by it all. "This has nothing to do with either the IOC ethics commission or the IOC board,'' Pound told The Associated Press by telephone from Montreal. "Anything I do or say in relation to doping is done in my capacity with WADA.
"I'm responsible to WADA, not the IOC," he added. "Everything I've done has been in accordance with instructions or approval from WADA."
Pound also said he will discuss the matter with the IOC.
"I'll tell them with the greatest of respect, 'I think you've got it wrong,'" Pound said. "People are going to wonder if the IOC is serious or not."
According to the IOC's decision, dated Feb. 2, the organization's ethics commission recommended that Pound had "the obligation to exercise greater prudence consistent with the Olympic spirit when making public pronouncements that may affect the reputation of others."

Oh, and one last thing: How does an organization keep a guy like Dick Pound around with quotes like this:

In January 2007, Pound responded to Floyd Landis' testosterone test following stage 17 of the Tour of France, an event (and a stage) which Landis initially won, but of which he was stripped after failing a dope case and losing at arbitration. Pound declared "I mean, it was 11 to 1!" referring to the tes

"during Apple’s closing arguments in the Samsung (005930)-Apple patent trial on Tuesday, Apple attorney Harold McElhinny held up a Nokia Lumia device to demonstrate that “not every smartphone needs to look like an iPhone.”"

You're an idiot. We get it. Next you'll be question evolution, quantum mechanics and whether the Earth is round.

It's very well established that Americans avoid even going to doctors because they can't afford to pay for either what must come out of their pockets, whether they have insurance or not because it's that uncertain. They don't even get up to bat to be denied.

• 
  Major Medical Mystery (sic) why people avoid doctors

  Do Americans avoid going to a doctor because it will cost them money?

  Avoiding the Doctor's Office

And yes Virginia, Americans absolutely do get turned away from hospitals and doctors:

• 
  Uninsured Americans Still At Risk For Getting Turned Away By Hospitals
  Critically ill uninsured Americans still at risk of being turned away from hospitals despite law
  Ambulance Diversion

People to do manage to get care also go bankrupt primarily due to medical bills (not covered by insurance)

• 
  Medical bills prompt more than 60 percent of U.S. bankruptcies

  Plaintiff challenging healthcare law went bankrupt – with unpaid medical bills

  Towering Medical Bills Leave Many Americans Bankrupt

The fact is that America has the WORST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM of ANY developed or even most developing countries. The only par countries are the lower rungs of developing countries and undeveloped countries. Other far less wealthy nations manage to deliver far better healthcare than the US. I know personally because I've lived overseas in these countries.

Your ship has sailed for specious and ignorant rhetorical tricks and debating games. The facts are clear.

BTW I don't even bother getting health care in the US any long. I have group insurance that covers international providers so my primarily care doctors are in Mexico, Thailand and Germany now. Even with airfare it's still cheaper, less stressful, better quality and more certain than getting the same in the USA now! I only carry insurance in the US for being hit by a bus - my group plan is set up to transport me overseas once I'm stable in such situations (again still cheaper than standard US insurance).

ObarmaCare is a day late and dollar short as far as I'm concerned. But the Republican alternatives are even much worse. Basically criminality of political and immorality of leadership dominates both parties completely. To regain my trust it will take decades of a clean track record and that clock has yet to even start.

Have you considered putting Block Story on RIM's PlayBook platform? Since version 2.0 of the PlayBook OS, they've supported Android executables (although you do have to repackage them). It seems to help with downloads and sales.

It's a trivial "port" if your app doesn't require native code, so it's not a huge investment on your part. BlackBerry 10 is going to support Android apps too, so you won't be limited to just the PlayBook for long.

Disclosure: I work for RIM.

I just had to look it up, and amazingly, it's not a spelling mistake as long as they are different species. Probably not intended by the author, but enough to protect him from grand ma's brownshirts.

I am assuming that you heard about the Total Information Awareness initiative that was defunded in 2003 by congress. Luckily for those wanting to be totally information aware Silicon Valley's own CIA venture capitalists IN-Q-TEL forked out some cash in 2004 to help get Facebook up and running. Thankfully no one is now starving for information in the ASA(Alphabet Soup Agencies) as hundreds of millions are prepared to give away their darkest secrets to anyone who offers to help water their plants.

GP link
2011 Annual revenue for AT&T = $126B

AAPL
2011 Annual revenue for Apple = $108B

But you're right, in the last quarter ending June 30 Apple outsold AT&T. In fact, over the last 4 quarters, Apples revenues were $148.8B versus $127.4B for AT&T

GP link
2011 Annual revenue for AT&T = $126B

AAPL
2011 Annual revenue for Apple = $108B

But you're right, in the last quarter ending June 30 Apple outsold AT&T. In fact, over the last 4 quarters, Apples revenues were $148.8B versus $127.4B for AT&T

AT&T actually have bigger revenue then Apple and net profit in billions of USD, they could do a whole lot better job.

Not relevant. Obama 2010: "One in 10 Americans still can't find work. That's why creating jobs has to be our number one priority in 2010."

Unemployment.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-unemployment-rate-rises-8-130044686.html

"Still, the unemployment rate has been above 8 percent since his first month in office — the longest stretch on record."

Bears repeating: "the longest stretch on record.", now that's saying something. Obama, lots of talk and no delivery. Do. You. Get. It?

I am pointing to this particular statistic because it is related to tech workers and this is a tech oriented site. That is all.

Besides, in a vibrant, healthy economy job loss in one or a handful of businesses would be absorbed by all the other successful businesses, which, seemingly, we DO NOT HAVE.

I don't care for one second that this is "Not the US government's fault.", it is not the job of the state to create jobs.

Obama's policies however do result in an economy where businesses cannot succeed, focusing I might add on small businesses where most all people are employed. If you do not see this then you are a moron. Not my fault.

True:
XOM's total assets: $329B
AAPL's total assets: $162B
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=XOM
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=AAPL

However, over the last 4 years, Apple has grown it's assets roughly 50% per year. Exxon has grown it's assets by about 15% per year.

So, in about 3 years, Apple will over take Exxon for most total assets. Obviously assuming that they grow roughly the same over the next 3 years. Which people have been arguing Apple can't do for at least 5 years now.

True:
XOM's total assets: $329B
AAPL's total assets: $162B
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=XOM
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=AAPL

However, over the last 4 years, Apple has grown it's assets roughly 50% per year. Exxon has grown it's assets by about 15% per year.

So, in about 3 years, Apple will over take Exxon for most total assets. Obviously assuming that they grow roughly the same over the next 3 years. Which people have been arguing Apple can't do for at least 5 years now.

I'm just curious about one thing though... TFA mentions shareholders. Who the fuck would be crazy/stupid/naive enough to still be clinging to shares of SCOX? It's not like it's worth anything (it currently trades at $0.02, FFS)

A bunch of people who jumped on it when it was 18, 19 bucks a share just before it took the swan dive into the cesspool. Once it started down, no smart investor would touch it, and once it was delisted, even the 'pump & dump' scams couldn't move it a millimeter. I'm thinkin a lotta people tried to sell, but nobody was buying at any price; their brokers warned them off fast.

Most folks have.

I'm just curious about one thing though... TFA mentions shareholders. Who the fuck would be crazy/stupid/naive enough to still be clinging to shares of SCOX? It's not like it's worth anything (it currently trades at $0.02, FFS)

"So, this means the US almost hit the targets of the Kyoto Protocol. Interesting.

Not exactly.. Kyoto Annex B.. US target is 7% below 1990 levels or 4.65 Billion tonns..
Verses current 2012 estimate of 5.2 billion tonns of CO2 emissions..

Achieving this goal would require cutting coal consumption by another 50% or so.
Note: Coal is still responsible for 1.5 billion tonns of 2012 US CO2 emissions.

is structured in a way to implies that the government making things safer is a bad thing. It's a loaded comment with a surprising amount of things implied, and the sentiment behind it is why we get stuff like this.

Plus it's ridiculously well documented that the government makes things safer.

What, do I look like a librarian? It's the glasses, right?

Operational power reactors, worldwide: Approximately 430

Research reactors: Approximately 250

Ship/submarine reactors: Approximately 180

Formerly operational but decommissioned commercial and research reactors: Approximately 350

Total # of scary asploded nucular reactors I can think of offhand: 3
(including Three Mile Island which resulted in negligible radiation leakage and no deaths)

Source: Yahoo Answers and associated links to world-nuclear.org

even bigger than the chance of the air living the entire MS headquarters at random, and suffocating everybody there

Didn't that already happen about ten years ago?

Watch this. Grow a brain and wake up.

GRACE can resolve nearly uncorrelated mascons that are blocks 400km on each side with a noise floor of ~1cm equivalent water height. (This is latitude dependent because GRACE's denser ground tracks near the poles allow for better resolution.) Each mascon has a mass of ~1.6 gigatons, and a fully-loaded coal train is ~10 kilotons, so GRACE falls short by about five orders of magnitude.

The improved laser ranging on the GRACE follow-on will increase sensitivity, and David Wiese analyzes improvements due to lowering the satellites' altitude and/or adding more satellites to the GRACE system.

You're right to suspect that detecting a tiny change in local gravity is limited by uncertainties in models such as atmosphere dynamics. I've discussed how GPS occultation data (among many other data sources) can be used to reduce these uncertainties.

Other anthropogenic effects such as groundwater depletion can already be detected with GRACE. Rodell et al. 2009 (PDF) and Tiwari et al. 2009 (PDF) observed this in northern India, and Famiglietti et al. 2011 (PDF) recently observed similar groundwater depletion in California.

If all that you say is true, government not collecting taxes, rich not paying taxes, the almighty IRS being helpless facing the godlike tax preparation advisers - why did those rich folks then continuously lobby to have the taxes lowered?
So the little guy would hate them more?

Your "truisms" are actually more like fallacies.
Errors in reasoning due to misconception or a presumption.

The fact is that a massive number of genetic mutations in a population within a few generations from something like ionizing radiation or some other agent does not lead to greater fitness, but almost inevitably to lesser fitness; deleterious morphological changes (ie. malformed wings, eyes, internal organs) and increase in various cancers.

That is not a fact, that is a scaremongering theory that was popular directly after the Chernobyl incident. A quarter of a century later we have quite a lot of facts rather than FUD to look at.

Wildlife Thrive in Chernobyl's No-Go Zone
Despite Mutations, Chernobyl Wildlife Is Thriving
Wildlife defies Chernobyl radiation
Wildlife thriving after Chernobyl’s nuclear disaster – study

Yes, individuals might die and suffer horribly. (It might be hard to find bad mutations since they are often eaten at early age.) but the benefits from having a zone humans avoid outweighs this when we look at population strength.
If the Chernobyl disaster is any indication then the Fukushima disaster is a blessing for Japanese wildlife and the result we will see in a couple of decades is not a "population much less fit to related populations outside the environment that caused this."

..the US population is still well fed, watered, and sheltered.

You're either being ironic or are more sheltered than most:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/more-americans-chinese-t-put-food-table-132752601.html

This is one of the most important things you should know - independent of any other factors, such as getting regular exercise, etc., sitting for long stretches will increase your chance of a heart attack by 54 percent .

* Go for frequent short walks. Go to the water cooler a lot, drink lots, go to the toilet regularly.
* When you're on the phone, stand.

Other than that, sit in a good position - shoulders back, arms parallel to the desk, etc.

He used Open Source to write the original app and on leaving the company took his own code with him.

"The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Sergey Aleynikov, a naturalized US citizen from Russia, was not guilty of stealing computer code under the Economic Espionage Act (EEA)". link Feb 2012

"A defense lawyer, Kevin Marino, argued in his opening statement that Aleynikov intended to strip out pieces of open- source software" link

"During a two-week trial, Marino told jurors that his client was merely trying to copy parts of the companyâ(TM)s software that were taken from public software codes". link