Maybe "need to survive" wasn't the best choice of words, limbs and teeth certainly have important functions which could severely impact life quality, but I stand by what I said on purely appearance-based items. During my teen years I had horrible volcanic acne, I've always been ugly (and geeky) and on top of that my family was poor when I was a kid - so I'm not yelling it at you from an ivory tower of beauty and cultural acceptance.
You know I tried to write a post describing how what these countries are doing is worse, but the only thing they do that's worse is put people to death in some cases.
Also:
Kazakhstan was added to the list after being said to have cut communications around the city of Zhanaozen during a riot
And what is routinely done in first-world countries in cities where the G8/G20 is being held?
No amount of marketing can change the number of people who need a drug. That is fixed.
Correct, Viagra is an exception to the rule (along with things like eyelash extending drugs, acne suppression drugs and other vanity shit) as you don't need it to survive. Savings only applies for drugs you don't need.
Pharma is a lot like digital media in that production and distribution is dirt cheap, and all the costs are in development. You can pretty much look at any pill in a pharmacy and they all cost peanuts to actually produce, like software it's just a matter of pricing it so that the expected sales pay off. And like digital media if there are people who want it and can't afford it, there's a very good chance that the vendor is screwing themselves by pricing too high.
I thought of this, but isn't there a very good chance of the 6% royalties being a greater income than the drugs that would have been sold to the rich few in India? Similar to the idea of selling games for less, better to get 1m purchases at $1 than 10k purchases at $20. Maybe this will be the "L4D Steam sale" moment of the pharma industry.
Those little round circles are just basic short-range proximity sensors, not the same thing as the advanced traffic radar some Mercs have or the optical systems that help guide driverless cars.
What? Driverless cars would be great. Instead of a bunch of morons tooling around at low speed while texting and smacking into each other, we could have cars flying around the roads at proper speeds just inches apart, like a synchronized stunt driving routine, while passengers inside do something more productive and enjoyable with their time. It would be the biggest advancement in transportation since the invention of the car itself.
Speed limits are generally a bad idea. They could be useful for some situations, such as a blind rise or reducing-radius corner, but in most situations they just don't improve safety. If they were used judiciously then people would take them seriously too.
It's news that it's being done on a relatively small scale, but many large industry groups use similar astroturfing tactics. As soon as androids (the robots, not the phones) become cheap you'll see them pile out of buses to stage protests too.
The details of Slashdot's inner workings are like Google's search algorithms, they're dark and mysterious and we can only understand them by outside observation - by design, to stop people from gaming the system. I don't know if losing mod privileges due to downmodding ever gets reversed, but you will definitely get permabanned from modding if you get consistently metamodded as an unfair moderator.
This guy trolled everyone good and hard. The bad thing is that the denialist nutjobs will absorb this into their conspiracy theories. Or maybe it's a good thing, at least they'll be more entertaining.
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Hardly news for nerds...
They better not have rounded corners.
Why didn't the marine biologist hipster want to see the preserved giant squids at the museum?
He'd already seen 'em live, before they sold out.
And they've got the political will too, no shortage of angsty and nihilistic spiky-haired teenagers.
I've posted little to nothing about rockets, maybe you have me confused with someone else.
What other vehicles could not be suited to either batteries or an onboard reactor?
Maybe "need to survive" wasn't the best choice of words, limbs and teeth certainly have important functions which could severely impact life quality, but I stand by what I said on purely appearance-based items. During my teen years I had horrible volcanic acne, I've always been ugly (and geeky) and on top of that my family was poor when I was a kid - so I'm not yelling it at you from an ivory tower of beauty and cultural acceptance.
...for hunting the most dangerous game >:)
Where do you live and what are your immigration policies like?
You know I tried to write a post describing how what these countries are doing is worse, but the only thing they do that's worse is put people to death in some cases.
Also:
Kazakhstan was added to the list after being said to have cut communications around the city of Zhanaozen during a riot
And what is routinely done in first-world countries in cities where the G8/G20 is being held?
Ah I think I understand now, if cash can be speech then why not bullets and tanks? They convey much more of a message IMO.
Not RTFA'ing is fair game, but it's clear that you failed to RTFS.
The purest form of free speech allows censorship?
You're right about the large aircraft, but nothing else.
Also, better hope any patents on this tech don't suffer the same fate as those on large NiMH batteries...
Hey you could go kinetic->thermal->electric using friction and thermoelectric materials XD
No amount of marketing can change the number of people who need a drug. That is fixed.
Correct, Viagra is an exception to the rule (along with things like eyelash extending drugs, acne suppression drugs and other vanity shit) as you don't need it to survive. Savings only applies for drugs you don't need.
Pharma is a lot like digital media in that production and distribution is dirt cheap, and all the costs are in development. You can pretty much look at any pill in a pharmacy and they all cost peanuts to actually produce, like software it's just a matter of pricing it so that the expected sales pay off. And like digital media if there are people who want it and can't afford it, there's a very good chance that the vendor is screwing themselves by pricing too high.
I thought of this, but isn't there a very good chance of the 6% royalties being a greater income than the drugs that would have been sold to the rich few in India? Similar to the idea of selling games for less, better to get 1m purchases at $1 than 10k purchases at $20. Maybe this will be the "L4D Steam sale" moment of the pharma industry.
Those little round circles are just basic short-range proximity sensors, not the same thing as the advanced traffic radar some Mercs have or the optical systems that help guide driverless cars.
s/productive and enjoyable/productive or enjoyable/g
I think people are plenty productive enough already, if they want to be even more productive that's up to them.
What? Driverless cars would be great. Instead of a bunch of morons tooling around at low speed while texting and smacking into each other, we could have cars flying around the roads at proper speeds just inches apart, like a synchronized stunt driving routine, while passengers inside do something more productive and enjoyable with their time. It would be the biggest advancement in transportation since the invention of the car itself.
Kudos to Google for spending money on R&D. It's too bad they need to keep it secret from short-sighted shareholders.
Speed limits are generally a bad idea. They could be useful for some situations, such as a blind rise or reducing-radius corner, but in most situations they just don't improve safety. If they were used judiciously then people would take them seriously too.
It's news that it's being done on a relatively small scale, but many large industry groups use similar astroturfing tactics. As soon as androids (the robots, not the phones) become cheap you'll see them pile out of buses to stage protests too.
The details of Slashdot's inner workings are like Google's search algorithms, they're dark and mysterious and we can only understand them by outside observation - by design, to stop people from gaming the system. I don't know if losing mod privileges due to downmodding ever gets reversed, but you will definitely get permabanned from modding if you get consistently metamodded as an unfair moderator.
This guy trolled everyone good and hard. The bad thing is that the denialist nutjobs will absorb this into their conspiracy theories. Or maybe it's a good thing, at least they'll be more entertaining.