Are you intentionally being dense, or do you truly believe that the government, while it does regulating the free availability of opiates, somehow regulates the price which drug makers charge hospitals and pharmacies for their product? Many, many drugs are regulated on who has access to them, as well as who can prescribe them, but their cost is between the manufacturer and the intermediary. Sorry to burst your anti-government, anti-regulation bullshit balloon.... although a basic education should have done that years ago.
As for your asinine idea that the government is lacing drugs with tylanol (i assume you mean acetaminophen) to kill people, well.. that's just asinine (as well as paranoid delusional bullshit). Some opiates are mixed with analgesics because the particular analgesic increases the affect of the opiate... but those differ between people; some people get better traction with acetaminophen, some with aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), some with nothing.... and those drugs just happen to come in those flavors.
You act like there is no cost to these regulations both in financial and human suffering. How many people live in excruciating pain or end up killing themselves because they can get cheap and effective opiates?
Here in the US we call that the free market, because the government isn't the one that sets the prices... the corporation making the drug is.
From past knowledge and a bit of googling and I knew they needed a course of steroids that cost about $4 for each kid. But I had to go to a doctor for each one and pay the copay and insurance to let them help my kid. So a night of suffering waiting for the doctors to get to work or spend 5 hours in an ER and that associated risk and cost as opposed to going to Walmart and picking up the prednisone.
... and by going to the doctor, you didn't inadvertently kill your children by being wrong. Just going to say this as simple as possible: your 5 minutes on google doesn't make you a doctor. You should be glad your doctor solved the problem, and at the same time didn't let you kill your children.
If there's a problem that politicians are taking bribes (be it campaign contributions or the promise of a well-paid job later), the party with the most guilt is the politician. We shouldn't let them off the hook by saying "It's the lobbyist's fault for offering the bribe!"
No, nor shouldn't we let the lobbyists off the hook... both of them should be put in jail, and forever barred from being in those positions again.
Actually it was pretty much settled in 1798 (by a congress containing 5 signers of the Constitution, no less).... it's simply that really stupid partisan hacks (who place their own need for power above the good of the people) can't be bothered to learn from history, that way they can keep their panties in a wad while pandering to idiots even more stupid than them who elect them into office.
I hope that sentiment of yours carries you through life if someone having a psychotic episode shoves a shotgun in the face of one of your family members and ventilates their skull. The Constitution doesn't demand we intervene... common fucking sense does. Alas, common sense isn't something that most people have.
.... if it wasn't for the fact that L Ron Hubbard was mentally ill, which is why his "religion"/money making machine/fraud is so set against psychiatrists.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi came to power during World War II after an Anglo-Soviet invasion forced the abdication of his father Reza Shah. During Mohammad Reza's reign, the Iranian oil industry was briefly nationalized under the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh before a U.S. and UK-backed coup d'état deposed Mosaddegh and brought back foreign oil firms
I'm not sure if i should point at you and laugh because you aren't capable of reading, or because you're not even as accurate as wikipedia..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Be that as it may, even the CIA has acknowledged what they did through FIOA releases. So please, feel free to argue with the CIA who, after 60 years, said "yeh, we did it" and see where that gets you. http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEB...
As for Reagan.. yeh, all that tells me is you probably weren't alive during the time, or too young to remember what was going on. He wasn't yet president, but as he confirmed in 1991, him and his republican posse were playing behind the curtain undermining Carter as they went. Pretty much everyone knew what had happened right afterwards anyway... right after Reagan was elected, the Iranian started accepting compromises to their "demands," and the hostages were released the day Reagan was sworn in.
So i'm sorry you have to read wikipedia to get a history lesson, and that you can't be bothered to actually read all of a single article on the Shah. You might check out the national archives to to see the CIA papers admitting what they did, unless of course, you think the CIA is lying bout that to cover up.. um.. i don't know, maybe a weather balloon traveling back in time to crash in Roswell after sucking ships in the Bermuda Triangle into an alternate reality to hide the existence of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the last rational conservative.
Now you're just being a fucking idiot. How about you do a little research into what the Shah and his merry little band of secret police did in Iran, WITH THE BACKING AND TRAINING FROM THE US; US backed dictators always seem to be the worst, most sadistic sociopaths we can find.... and you complain the Iranian people finally had enough and had a revolution against one of our depots? Seriously... learn some fucking history.
I think you're an idiot. Tell me, how is Obama the worst president ever? Is it his cleaning up of Bush's complete fuck up of the economy... or that he's not siding with sociopath murderers in attacking Iran.. or is it the millions of people who now have health insurance.... please, do tell. I get it, you're just a stupid fucking partisan hack who can't stand that Obama won, and your offshoring, company destroying, money sucking robot didn't win. Too fucking bad.
Obama's made some mistakes, yes... but all his mistakes combined don't add up to any given year of Bush II's. But yeh, you're still a fucking idiot and partisan hack. You don't need optimism, you need surgery to have your head removed from your ass. Maybe Obamacare will pay for it.
Perhaps you weren't alive during that time period, but Iraq invaded Iran at the behest of their sponsor.... uncle Ronnie... who then made mint selling weapons to both side, AND supplying Iraq with the chemical weapons it would use against Iran.
The CIA ousted the pro-western, democratically elected government of Iran in 1953, and put in place a sadistic dictator who used secret police squads to round up and jail/murder opposition. The Iranian Revolution finally through out that sociopath, and the US's response to that was.... install another sadistic murderous dictator in Iraq, and have him start a war with Iran. Then while trying to save their own cities from capture, his military used chemical weapons repeatedly to kill tens's of thousands. Of course, given the USA supplied them with the weapons, the USA was then nice enough to block any condemnation from the UN about their use.
After all that crap, do you actually not understand why the Iranian government generally has a bad taste in their mouth when it comes to the US?
Actually you are, just like you always do. Your rant post is a laundry list of bullshit talking points from mental midget conservative talk shows and "pundits." I'm sorry you're a fucking brainwashed idiot, but don't try to disguise your fucking idiocy as anything other than that.... most everyone else here isn't as stupid as you are. Quit projecting your fucking failures onto other people.... us leftists are tired of you conservatives fucking everything up.
Housing prices are going to go up regardless.... same land, more people... an idiot could figure that out; unless of course you crash the entire economy like Shrub did.
Crime? Seriously, you are a fucking idiot. Crime is dealt with from min to max, not the other way around. Cities, Counties, States, Federal. If you think either of the parties has much control over criminal activity, you are too fucking stupid to ever be taken seriously on anything. One thing that has increased when democrats are in charge is an increase in right wing terrorist groups http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06...
I'll add one more note.... THE most progressive event since the signing of the Magna Carta was a group of citizens deciding they didn't need a king, but they needed a government where everyone had representation, and where the rights of everyone where not theirs by the whim of someone else. So you say you don't like the United States? Go fuck yourself.
If you had read the counter argument, you'd see that their concern is with the U239 that's created when the U238 inner sheath is bombarded by neutrons from the actual fusion blast... which is what causes the heat that's used. While yes, h2+h3=H+He is basic fusion, the counter article is talking about the U239... which is radioactive.
That aside, i think the counter argument is a bit premature, as the engine itself is a pipe dream at this point.
No, we mean science... not the pseudo-science, philosophy, psychology bullshit you've posted. So i guess the biggest problem is, we have people who don't understand why science research is important because they're so stupid they don't even know what science is.
It seems to me that in this case, it's the citizens of the country standing up and saying that THEY should not have to pay for investors losses. The investors have managed to privatize gains, and socialize loses to that there is no more risk in investing. You invest, you know that your investment carries a risk; don't want to shoulder the possible loss... don't invest.
Here, it doesn't matter. Investors can't lose because Merkel and the IMF are saying they MUST be paid, instead of simply suffering a loss like investors have throughout the ages... and the cost of covering those losses fall squarely on the citizens shoulders, citizens who DID NOT have a say in this. THOSE CITIZENS are now telling those investors that THEY aren't going to give them more money.
People bitch and complain about the bailouts here in the US... but consider if they'd happen like they've happened in Greece, where all that money.. TAXPAYER MONEY... was simply given to private investors so those investors wouldn't lose anything, with a guarantee that taxpayers wouldn't be paid back at all. 10:1 all the idiots on this thread saying Greece is trying to walk away from it's debts would be complaining.
Investing is risky... let the investors take the loses, instead of socializing those loses onto the citizens. You want to talk thieves... those investors are the thieves in the matter. You should pay attention to the things that the IMF has said about the dealings the past few days.. where they acknowledge they've handled it miserably, assuming you can get off your rightwing bullshit pedestal long enough to listen to reality telling you to pull your head out.
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Supposedly you have a brain... try using it for a change.
This could be a good thing, because i definitely have a few relatives i wish weren't related. Wait... what?
So.... it's the same as marriage. Got it.
...and a person discharging a firearm where it's illegal to discharge one shouldn't be surprised when he's arrested for it.
This thread is just filled with stupid.
Are you intentionally being dense, or do you truly believe that the government, while it does regulating the free availability of opiates, somehow regulates the price which drug makers charge hospitals and pharmacies for their product? Many, many drugs are regulated on who has access to them, as well as who can prescribe them, but their cost is between the manufacturer and the intermediary. Sorry to burst your anti-government, anti-regulation bullshit balloon.... although a basic education should have done that years ago.
As for your asinine idea that the government is lacing drugs with tylanol (i assume you mean acetaminophen) to kill people, well.. that's just asinine (as well as paranoid delusional bullshit). Some opiates are mixed with analgesics because the particular analgesic increases the affect of the opiate... but those differ between people; some people get better traction with acetaminophen, some with aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), some with nothing.... and those drugs just happen to come in those flavors.
You act like there is no cost to these regulations both in financial and human suffering. How many people live in excruciating pain or end up killing themselves because they can get cheap and effective opiates?
Here in the US we call that the free market, because the government isn't the one that sets the prices... the corporation making the drug is.
From past knowledge and a bit of googling and I knew they needed a course of steroids that cost about $4 for each kid. But I had to go to a doctor for each one and pay the copay and insurance to let them help my kid. So a night of suffering waiting for the doctors to get to work or spend 5 hours in an ER and that associated risk and cost as opposed to going to Walmart and picking up the prednisone.
If there's a problem that politicians are taking bribes (be it campaign contributions or the promise of a well-paid job later), the party with the most guilt is the politician. We shouldn't let them off the hook by saying "It's the lobbyist's fault for offering the bribe!"
No, nor shouldn't we let the lobbyists off the hook... both of them should be put in jail, and forever barred from being in those positions again.
Actually it was pretty much settled in 1798 (by a congress containing 5 signers of the Constitution, no less).... it's simply that really stupid partisan hacks (who place their own need for power above the good of the people) can't be bothered to learn from history, that way they can keep their panties in a wad while pandering to idiots even more stupid than them who elect them into office.
It's already having a tremendous effect. Twinkies made 10 years ago have the same C14 signature of Twinkies made right before Vesuvius buried Pompeii.
Wait, what? When were those Twinkies made?
Nevermind.
I hope that sentiment of yours carries you through life if someone having a psychotic episode shoves a shotgun in the face of one of your family members and ventilates their skull. The Constitution doesn't demand we intervene... common fucking sense does. Alas, common sense isn't something that most people have.
.... if it wasn't for the fact that L Ron Hubbard was mentally ill, which is why his "religion"/money making machine/fraud is so set against psychiatrists.
... but their more difficult to kick through the goalposts than a gnome planet.
De-regulation did. And greed, always greed.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi came to power during World War II after an Anglo-Soviet invasion forced the abdication of his father Reza Shah. During Mohammad Reza's reign, the Iranian oil industry was briefly nationalized under the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh before a U.S. and UK-backed coup d'état deposed Mosaddegh and brought back foreign oil firms
I'm not sure if i should point at you and laugh because you aren't capable of reading, or because you're not even as accurate as wikipedia..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Be that as it may, even the CIA has acknowledged what they did through FIOA releases. So please, feel free to argue with the CIA who, after 60 years, said "yeh, we did it" and see where that gets you. http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEB...
As for Reagan.. yeh, all that tells me is you probably weren't alive during the time, or too young to remember what was going on. He wasn't yet president, but as he confirmed in 1991, him and his republican posse were playing behind the curtain undermining Carter as they went. Pretty much everyone knew what had happened right afterwards anyway... right after Reagan was elected, the Iranian started accepting compromises to their "demands," and the hostages were released the day Reagan was sworn in.
So i'm sorry you have to read wikipedia to get a history lesson, and that you can't be bothered to actually read all of a single article on the Shah. You might check out the national archives to to see the CIA papers admitting what they did, unless of course, you think the CIA is lying bout that to cover up.. um.. i don't know, maybe a weather balloon traveling back in time to crash in Roswell after sucking ships in the Bermuda Triangle into an alternate reality to hide the existence of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the last rational conservative.
One of the first AC posts that really needed to be modded up to 11. You have succinctly explained the biggest problem in the United States today.
Now you're just being a fucking idiot. How about you do a little research into what the Shah and his merry little band of secret police did in Iran, WITH THE BACKING AND TRAINING FROM THE US; US backed dictators always seem to be the worst, most sadistic sociopaths we can find.... and you complain the Iranian people finally had enough and had a revolution against one of our depots? Seriously... learn some fucking history.
I think you're an idiot. Tell me, how is Obama the worst president ever? Is it his cleaning up of Bush's complete fuck up of the economy... or that he's not siding with sociopath murderers in attacking Iran.. or is it the millions of people who now have health insurance.... please, do tell. I get it, you're just a stupid fucking partisan hack who can't stand that Obama won, and your offshoring, company destroying, money sucking robot didn't win. Too fucking bad.
Obama's made some mistakes, yes... but all his mistakes combined don't add up to any given year of Bush II's. But yeh, you're still a fucking idiot and partisan hack. You don't need optimism, you need surgery to have your head removed from your ass. Maybe Obamacare will pay for it.
Perhaps you weren't alive during that time period, but Iraq invaded Iran at the behest of their sponsor.... uncle Ronnie... who then made mint selling weapons to both side, AND supplying Iraq with the chemical weapons it would use against Iran.
The CIA ousted the pro-western, democratically elected government of Iran in 1953, and put in place a sadistic dictator who used secret police squads to round up and jail/murder opposition. The Iranian Revolution finally through out that sociopath, and the US's response to that was.... install another sadistic murderous dictator in Iraq, and have him start a war with Iran. Then while trying to save their own cities from capture, his military used chemical weapons repeatedly to kill tens's of thousands. Of course, given the USA supplied them with the weapons, the USA was then nice enough to block any condemnation from the UN about their use.
After all that crap, do you actually not understand why the Iranian government generally has a bad taste in their mouth when it comes to the US?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/...
http://www.history.com/topics/...
Enough. I'm not even promoting rightist shit.
Actually you are, just like you always do. Your rant post is a laundry list of bullshit talking points from mental midget conservative talk shows and "pundits." I'm sorry you're a fucking brainwashed idiot, but don't try to disguise your fucking idiocy as anything other than that.... most everyone else here isn't as stupid as you are. Quit projecting your fucking failures onto other people.... us leftists are tired of you conservatives fucking everything up.
Health care costs: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
Housing prices are going to go up regardless.... same land, more people... an idiot could figure that out; unless of course you crash the entire economy like Shrub did.
Jobs... oh, jobs..... http://politicsthatwork.com/de...
Crime? Seriously, you are a fucking idiot. Crime is dealt with from min to max, not the other way around. Cities, Counties, States, Federal. If you think either of the parties has much control over criminal activity, you are too fucking stupid to ever be taken seriously on anything. One thing that has increased when democrats are in charge is an increase in right wing terrorist groups http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06...
I'll add one more note.... THE most progressive event since the signing of the Magna Carta was a group of citizens deciding they didn't need a king, but they needed a government where everyone had representation, and where the rights of everyone where not theirs by the whim of someone else. So you say you don't like the United States? Go fuck yourself.
H2+H3=H+He basically. But, the fusion part isn't what the counter argument is talking about.
There is no technical reason it couldn't be built now, only political ones.
Yeh, um.... no. If there were no technical reasons this couldn't be built right now, Boeing would have a working prototype at minimum.
If you had read the counter argument, you'd see that their concern is with the U239 that's created when the U238 inner sheath is bombarded by neutrons from the actual fusion blast... which is what causes the heat that's used. While yes, h2+h3=H+He is basic fusion, the counter article is talking about the U239... which is radioactive.
That aside, i think the counter argument is a bit premature, as the engine itself is a pipe dream at this point.
No, we mean science... not the pseudo-science, philosophy, psychology bullshit you've posted. So i guess the biggest problem is, we have people who don't understand why science research is important because they're so stupid they don't even know what science is.
So the proper title should have been: "Universe Sucks More Than We've Ever Seen."
It seems to me that in this case, it's the citizens of the country standing up and saying that THEY should not have to pay for investors losses. The investors have managed to privatize gains, and socialize loses to that there is no more risk in investing. You invest, you know that your investment carries a risk; don't want to shoulder the possible loss... don't invest.
Here, it doesn't matter. Investors can't lose because Merkel and the IMF are saying they MUST be paid, instead of simply suffering a loss like investors have throughout the ages... and the cost of covering those losses fall squarely on the citizens shoulders, citizens who DID NOT have a say in this. THOSE CITIZENS are now telling those investors that THEY aren't going to give them more money.
People bitch and complain about the bailouts here in the US... but consider if they'd happen like they've happened in Greece, where all that money.. TAXPAYER MONEY... was simply given to private investors so those investors wouldn't lose anything, with a guarantee that taxpayers wouldn't be paid back at all. 10:1 all the idiots on this thread saying Greece is trying to walk away from it's debts would be complaining.
Investing is risky... let the investors take the loses, instead of socializing those loses onto the citizens. You want to talk thieves... those investors are the thieves in the matter. You should pay attention to the things that the IMF has said about the dealings the past few days.. where they acknowledge they've handled it miserably, assuming you can get off your rightwing bullshit pedestal long enough to listen to reality telling you to pull your head out.