All that happened is that you didn't bother with the step of converting your shares to cash before donating them, and the charity didn't have to convert the money donated back into the original stock, with stock brokers taking at cut on either end. Congratulations, there are some stockbrokers' children going to bed hungry, tonight, by your actions:-)
Wrong. 1% of 1% is far more than enough to kill any company that would try to market something, unless, like some vaccines and orphan disease treatments, the government indemnifies the companies producing the drugs against all but blatant mistakes and deliberate malfeasance.
If you read the 1632 series of science fiction books, the West Virginians transported back in time to the Thirty Years War introduce a simple-to-make antibiotic that works against siege plagues like typhus, but which was never used in our timeline because of 1/100,000 chance of major reactions. Admittedly, if you were that one person who died from the drug you probably don't care about the other 99,999 people saved from a disease with a 30-50% death rate (at least in the 1630s).
Still no bleach-resistant bacteria, and using it in hospitals more widely is far better, long term, than developing a new antibiotic that is obsolescent before it gets through its trials.
Not until we ensure that they aren't ruined by misuse as prophylactics (spelled correctly without needing a spell checker! Wow!) for livestock. Or for lesser humans such as anti-vaccinators (however it should be spelled).
The Congress has been bought and they keep extending the length of patent and copyright protections.
Sorry, but the terms for copyright and for patents are wildly different and their extensions have been entirely uncorrelated. If you have a problem with the Mickey Mouse copyright length, discuss that in a copyright-related article. That, or convince Disney to buy a pharmaceutical company (so that the patents WILL be extended to match copyrights, and you will then have legitimate grounds for complaint, at the measly cost of screwing the rest of the world).
Patents for medicines that require ten years or more of testing before passing the trials required to bring them to market could well be argued as being too short at 17 years before the only renewal opportunity. The terms have not been extended in decades, though so clearly Congress hasn't been "enough" bribed by USA pharmaceutical companies, has it?
Of course, the other question is: if no USA pharmaceutical companies are working on new antibiotics, who cares, because much of the industry is located (headquartered, at least) in Europe? Bitch to Brussels, instead, and see what THAT gets you.
The best estimates are from 90% to 95%, but of course this all occurred long before the Office Of The Census started counting Indians. As I pointed out in my previous post, the diseases started affecting the numbers in the early 1500's, well before the Spanish founded Saint Augustine, FL. The estimates MAY be based on the death rates that the Spanish experienced on the islands as they settled them, since the RC Church had a desired to track convertible souls and the plantation managers a need to track available forced workers, and the "experiment" was run a number of times, for each island in the Antilles.
BTW, the Spanish were not actually notably worse than the English, or even the French, again implying that contact with European diseases far exceeded any deliberate efforts at killing the Indians.
So when the revolution comes and the rich bastards are being lined up for the firing squad,
Then the people making $70,000 per year will be included in those against the wall, not those doing the killing. Remember the Reign of Terror, Pol Pot, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution? Although you write more like someone supporting the Liquidation of the Kulaks (sp?) from the Stalinist 1930s.
European diseases killed the vast majority of the Indians, not the Europeans themselves. Cortez would have died a nasty death if the Aztecs hadn't started dying of the diseases that the Spaniards had inadvertently brought with them; it is much easier attacking warriors already dying than attacking them when hale and healthy. Likewise when the Virginia and New England colonies settled the land was almost empty from plagues that had hit five and ten years earlier from no apparent sources.
1) Very few were killed when they migrated over the land bridge, because at most very few were here, already (most evidence for a pre-Clovis population is sketchy at best - perhaps because the sea level rise at the end of the Ice Age drowned the good stuff).
2) Europeans didn't kill the 95% of the pre-existing Indian population, European diseases that even the Europeans themselves couldn't really treat did. Most of those diseases were borne by farm animals, which the Europeans brought with them. You can see the effects from the writings from a Spanish expedition into what would become the Deep South. They brought a herd of pigs with them rather than hunting the local animals that the locals would have needed, treated the Indians with no violence (as they were explorers, not conquistadores), and by the time that they returned the locals were already dying of mysterious plagues that seemed somewhat like Europeans childhood diseases gone crazy. The local adults had never had mumps, chicken pox, measles, etc., all of which are usually relatively harmless when experienced as children and terrible when an unexposed adult catches them. There were other diseases that hit the Europeans hard (smallpox, cholera, etc.) that still hit the then-unexposed even worse, but barring an offhand comment by Lord Amherst no one would have considered using, much like no one uses chemical weapons anymore if the wind can change directions and blow it back on one.
3) No one was very nice to anyone else in those days. If the Indians had a more extensive bacterial load than Eurasia they would have had no qualms about crossing the oceans and settling the depopulated European forests and the steppes, adopting wheat, barley,and rye to supplement their own maize and potatoes, and violating treaties with the whiteskins whenever the press of migration was too heavy.
First, does the Kingdom of the Netherlands actually HAVE a Separation of Powers doctrine in its constitutional documents?
Second, are these "promises" or are they signed and ratified treaty obligations? I don't know about there, but in the US Constitution a treaty, once ratified by the Senate, has the same legal force as the Constitution itself. If this is true there, someone with proper standing could probably bring a suit demanding that the KoN fulfill its treaty obligations.
Thirdly, how did any court grant standing to a non-signatory organization? Can its decision that a bunch of busybodies have standing be appealed to a higher court?
Fourthly, does the KoN have the doctrine of Sovereign Immunity? If so, it cannot be sued without its prior consent. If it doesn't have that, now, can it create that right as existing in the past, as the UK can and has done, by an Ex Post Facto law? Actually, the UK removed a right (to compensation for war damages in enemy-controlled territory) in the case that I know of, but the principle that Ex Post Facto laws are legal can be extended ad infinitum.
Fifthly, I must quote that SoB, Andrew Jackson, after the Cherokee Tribe won (in the US Supreme Court) the right to stay in the East despite the Indian Removal Act, "They have made their ruling. Now let them enforce it." The point being that the judge's marshalls, baliffs, constables, whatever they are called, are not equipped to force the government to do what its military or the rest of its police forces "decline to acquiess" (to quote Capt. Barbossa from the first Pirates Of The Carribbean movie).
Some success has already been achieved in chickens. Fiddling with gene expression has allowed scientists to produce chicken embryos with teeth and chicken embryos that retained their dino-tails - though in neither case was a chicken successfully hatched.
Hen's Teeth were successfully produced by transplanting the tooth buds from chicken embryos to frog's mouths. Apparently, although both species are toothless, the mechanisms which suppress tooth maturation are different enough between the two species that they do not interfere with the other species' suppression mechanism.
I assume that some have purchased ammunition, and guns for that matter, before money stops meaning that you are entitled to exchange it for goods or services.
Actually, the local Mercedes-Benz dealership doesn't do body work, so my parents had to go to the local Cadillac/5others dealer a couple years ago when a deer committed suicide by running into and bouncing off our front bumper and grill. It looked like almost no damage, but it took months to get everything fixed, since the Cadillac dealership/bodyshop didn't have any official trained MBenz mechanics to do the work that they would have had to do.
So, no, your official repair shop might not handle your windshield crack or fender scratch, even now.
The only automakers mentioned in the article (yes, I occasionally read them, so sue me) were GM and Ford, which are oddly enough the only two US companies left (left as US companies, at least). Whether Chrysler Fiat or any of the US manufacturing Japanese companies AREN'T doing this, aren't doing this YET, or just weren't worth mentioning since engineering decisions are made out of the country and thus beyond reach of mail campaigns, is anybody's guess.
The copyright isn't "theft" it is Nazi memorabilia. Note, not the words or books of the words, which are in libraries all over Germany, apparently, but the *copyright* on the words. Yes, this is logically nonsense, but if all the courts agree to the same nonsense then it becomes legal (cf, Generally Accepted Accounting Standards) or at least a legal fiction.
Actually the Jews were more commonly the agents for the actual lenders, a position that required them to pay those lenders for bad debts assigned to the Jewish agents to administer and collect, putting them in an even harder position.
The problem with your statement is that it is irrelevant, as the suit is against the German Random House (presumably a subsidiary of a Random House holding company, rather than an independent company sharing the same name) in Germany. Thus, no law but German applies in this case. Definitely not US laws passed after the rights passed from the criminal to whoever are his heirs.
If this were done in the UK, the estate could very well win, and then Parliament pass a law that no member of the Nazi inner circle ever had any rights to their writings. Note the "ever had" -- the British Parliament has no limits upon its powers but what it agrees to (or what a conquerer imposes on it), so they can and have passed ex post facto laws depriving Germans or companies with German properties during a World War (I forget which, in the one case that I knew about) of rights to compensation for damages received from British actions during that war after British courts awarded those damages. Too bad, mein Herr, perhaps you shouldn't have started a war and then lost it.
Likewise, the German courts could just redefine the copyrights G's diaries as Nazi memorabilia or some such, and if it is agreed by any court that could reverse it in Germany (don't know how their courts are organized) then it stands. Since Nazi memorabilia cannot be sold or displayed in German jurisdictions, the copyrights cannot be enforced. I assume that the German government cannot just make an ex post facto law covering the situation like the British could, of course, since that is the simplest way to go if one can get away with it.
The metal remains after the fire is out -- they used to burn extreme clipper ships after a few years in service to get the fittings back, as the hull was too stressed for the wood to be usable.
This is more like what they did with the ship in the original article. They destroyed it in a fashion that got them data on how these ships would be destroyable (or not) in future combat, then sunk them too deep to be recoverable.
Um, they were not diesel engines, they were oil fueled steam turbines. Just like the Missouri and unlike the African Queen or your local 40 foot sailboat. Also unlike Liberty ships, which used an older steam plant because turbines were too difficult to produce in the number required.
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All that happened is that you didn't bother with the step of converting your shares to cash before donating them, and the charity didn't have to convert the money donated back into the original stock, with stock brokers taking at cut on either end. Congratulations, there are some stockbrokers' children going to bed hungry, tonight, by your actions :-)
So you're saying it'd be really hot if math and biology got together?
Not if he thinks that math is male. Then it would just be math wanting to screw biology, which would want nothing to do with math.
Now if biology got together with exobiology . . . (lascivious grin)
Well, ain't that a pain in the neck! There goes the treatment for Ebola stains.
Wrong. 1% of 1% is far more than enough to kill any company that would try to market something, unless, like some vaccines and orphan disease treatments, the government indemnifies the companies producing the drugs against all but blatant mistakes and deliberate malfeasance.
If you read the 1632 series of science fiction books, the West Virginians transported back in time to the Thirty Years War introduce a simple-to-make antibiotic that works against siege plagues like typhus, but which was never used in our timeline because of 1/100,000 chance of major reactions. Admittedly, if you were that one person who died from the drug you probably don't care about the other 99,999 people saved from a disease with a 30-50% death rate (at least in the 1630s).
Still no bleach-resistant bacteria, and using it in hospitals more widely is far better, long term, than developing a new antibiotic that is obsolescent before it gets through its trials.
Not until we ensure that they aren't ruined by misuse as prophylactics (spelled correctly without needing a spell checker! Wow!) for livestock. Or for lesser humans such as anti-vaccinators (however it should be spelled).
The Congress has been bought and they keep extending the length of patent and copyright protections.
Sorry, but the terms for copyright and for patents are wildly different and their extensions have been entirely uncorrelated. If you have a problem with the Mickey Mouse copyright length, discuss that in a copyright-related article. That, or convince Disney to buy a pharmaceutical company (so that the patents WILL be extended to match copyrights, and you will then have legitimate grounds for complaint, at the measly cost of screwing the rest of the world).
Patents for medicines that require ten years or more of testing before passing the trials required to bring them to market could well be argued as being too short at 17 years before the only renewal opportunity. The terms have not been extended in decades, though so clearly Congress hasn't been "enough" bribed by USA pharmaceutical companies, has it?
Of course, the other question is: if no USA pharmaceutical companies are working on new antibiotics, who cares, because much of the industry is located (headquartered, at least) in Europe? Bitch to Brussels, instead, and see what THAT gets you.
The best estimates are from 90% to 95%, but of course this all occurred long before the Office Of The Census started counting Indians. As I pointed out in my previous post, the diseases started affecting the numbers in the early 1500's, well before the Spanish founded Saint Augustine, FL. The estimates MAY be based on the death rates that the Spanish experienced on the islands as they settled them, since the RC Church had a desired to track convertible souls and the plantation managers a need to track available forced workers, and the "experiment" was run a number of times, for each island in the Antilles.
BTW, the Spanish were not actually notably worse than the English, or even the French, again implying that contact with European diseases far exceeded any deliberate efforts at killing the Indians.
So when the revolution comes and the rich bastards are being lined up for the firing squad,
Then the people making $70,000 per year will be included in those against the wall, not those doing the killing. Remember the Reign of Terror, Pol Pot, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution? Although you write more like someone supporting the Liquidation of the Kulaks (sp?) from the Stalinist 1930s.
European diseases killed the vast majority of the Indians, not the Europeans themselves. Cortez would have died a nasty death if the Aztecs hadn't started dying of the diseases that the Spaniards had inadvertently brought with them; it is much easier attacking warriors already dying than attacking them when hale and healthy. Likewise when the Virginia and New England colonies settled the land was almost empty from plagues that had hit five and ten years earlier from no apparent sources.
1) Very few were killed when they migrated over the land bridge, because at most very few were here, already (most evidence for a pre-Clovis population is sketchy at best - perhaps because the sea level rise at the end of the Ice Age drowned the good stuff).
2) Europeans didn't kill the 95% of the pre-existing Indian population, European diseases that even the Europeans themselves couldn't really treat did. Most of those diseases were borne by farm animals, which the Europeans brought with them. You can see the effects from the writings from a Spanish expedition into what would become the Deep South. They brought a herd of pigs with them rather than hunting the local animals that the locals would have needed, treated the Indians with no violence (as they were explorers, not conquistadores), and by the time that they returned the locals were already dying of mysterious plagues that seemed somewhat like Europeans childhood diseases gone crazy. The local adults had never had mumps, chicken pox, measles, etc., all of which are usually relatively harmless when experienced as children and terrible when an unexposed adult catches them. There were other diseases that hit the Europeans hard (smallpox, cholera, etc.) that still hit the then-unexposed even worse, but barring an offhand comment by Lord Amherst no one would have considered using, much like no one uses chemical weapons anymore if the wind can change directions and blow it back on one.
3) No one was very nice to anyone else in those days. If the Indians had a more extensive bacterial load than Eurasia they would have had no qualms about crossing the oceans and settling the depopulated European forests and the steppes, adopting wheat, barley,and rye to supplement their own maize and potatoes, and violating treaties with the whiteskins whenever the press of migration was too heavy.
First, does the Kingdom of the Netherlands actually HAVE a Separation of Powers doctrine in its constitutional documents?
Second, are these "promises" or are they signed and ratified treaty obligations? I don't know about there, but in the US Constitution a treaty, once ratified by the Senate, has the same legal force as the Constitution itself. If this is true there, someone with proper standing could probably bring a suit demanding that the KoN fulfill its treaty obligations.
Thirdly, how did any court grant standing to a non-signatory organization? Can its decision that a bunch of busybodies have standing be appealed to a higher court?
Fourthly, does the KoN have the doctrine of Sovereign Immunity? If so, it cannot be sued without its prior consent. If it doesn't have that, now, can it create that right as existing in the past, as the UK can and has done, by an Ex Post Facto law? Actually, the UK removed a right (to compensation for war damages in enemy-controlled territory) in the case that I know of, but the principle that Ex Post Facto laws are legal can be extended ad infinitum.
Fifthly, I must quote that SoB, Andrew Jackson, after the Cherokee Tribe won (in the US Supreme Court) the right to stay in the East despite the Indian Removal Act, "They have made their ruling. Now let them enforce it." The point being that the judge's marshalls, baliffs, constables, whatever they are called, are not equipped to force the government to do what its military or the rest of its police forces "decline to acquiess" (to quote Capt. Barbossa from the first Pirates Of The Carribbean movie).
Some success has already been achieved in chickens. Fiddling with gene expression has allowed scientists to produce chicken embryos with teeth and chicken embryos that retained their dino-tails - though in neither case was a chicken successfully hatched.
Hen's Teeth were successfully produced by transplanting the tooth buds from chicken embryos to frog's mouths. Apparently, although both species are toothless, the mechanisms which suppress tooth maturation are different enough between the two species that they do not interfere with the other species' suppression mechanism.
I assume that some have purchased ammunition, and guns for that matter, before money stops meaning that you are entitled to exchange it for goods or services.
It was the recommended place, and all the local high-end dealers send their body work to them, supposedly.
Actually, the local Mercedes-Benz dealership doesn't do body work, so my parents had to go to the local Cadillac/5others dealer a couple years ago when a deer committed suicide by running into and bouncing off our front bumper and grill. It looked like almost no damage, but it took months to get everything fixed, since the Cadillac dealership/bodyshop didn't have any official trained MBenz mechanics to do the work that they would have had to do.
So, no, your official repair shop might not handle your windshield crack or fender scratch, even now.
The only automakers mentioned in the article (yes, I occasionally read them, so sue me) were GM and Ford, which are oddly enough the only two US companies left (left as US companies, at least). Whether Chrysler Fiat or any of the US manufacturing Japanese companies AREN'T doing this, aren't doing this YET, or just weren't worth mentioning since engineering decisions are made out of the country and thus beyond reach of mail campaigns, is anybody's guess.
Yes, then the people rightly feeling entitled would be the ones with lots of ammunition :-)
So the game designers screwed up, and it is humanity's fault that we're too stupid?
The copyright isn't "theft" it is Nazi memorabilia. Note, not the words or books of the words, which are in libraries all over Germany, apparently, but the *copyright* on the words. Yes, this is logically nonsense, but if all the courts agree to the same nonsense then it becomes legal (cf, Generally Accepted Accounting Standards) or at least a legal fiction.
Actually the Jews were more commonly the agents for the actual lenders, a position that required them to pay those lenders for bad debts assigned to the Jewish agents to administer and collect, putting them in an even harder position.
The problem with your statement is that it is irrelevant, as the suit is against the German Random House (presumably a subsidiary of a Random House holding company, rather than an independent company sharing the same name) in Germany. Thus, no law but German applies in this case. Definitely not US laws passed after the rights passed from the criminal to whoever are his heirs.
If this were done in the UK, the estate could very well win, and then Parliament pass a law that no member of the Nazi inner circle ever had any rights to their writings. Note the "ever had" -- the British Parliament has no limits upon its powers but what it agrees to (or what a conquerer imposes on it), so they can and have passed ex post facto laws depriving Germans or companies with German properties during a World War (I forget which, in the one case that I knew about) of rights to compensation for damages received from British actions during that war after British courts awarded those damages. Too bad, mein Herr, perhaps you shouldn't have started a war and then lost it.
Likewise, the German courts could just redefine the copyrights G's diaries as Nazi memorabilia or some such, and if it is agreed by any court that could reverse it in Germany (don't know how their courts are organized) then it stands. Since Nazi memorabilia cannot be sold or displayed in German jurisdictions, the copyrights cannot be enforced. I assume that the German government cannot just make an ex post facto law covering the situation like the British could, of course, since that is the simplest way to go if one can get away with it.
The metal remains after the fire is out -- they used to burn extreme clipper ships after a few years in service to get the fittings back, as the hull was too stressed for the wood to be usable.
This is more like what they did with the ship in the original article. They destroyed it in a fashion that got them data on how these ships would be destroyable (or not) in future combat, then sunk them too deep to be recoverable.
Um, they were not diesel engines, they were oil fueled steam turbines. Just like the Missouri and unlike the African Queen or your local 40 foot sailboat. Also unlike Liberty ships, which used an older steam plant because turbines were too difficult to produce in the number required.
In an EARTHQUAKE ZONE? Are you CRAZY? Do you really WANT to reenact all those crappy 1970s Irwin Allen disaster films?
Godzilla was metaphor for the United States. Each of the monsters represented a national power.
Then for what was Mothra a metaphor?
King Ghiddrah?
The big turtle monster whose name I forget?
Seriously, I never thought about this before, but it is now blindingly obvious (faceplants).