So tell me, exactly which vehicles have unlimited range?
Gasoline vehicles effectively do, owing to a sufficiently large infrastructure of gas stations, and a sufficiently low refill time that it does not significantly impact the duration of a trip that is long enough that requiring such range would matter.
And if an infrastructure for electric vehicles nationwide existed? And batteries, are thare never going to be any improvements? Seems to be happening pretty regularly these days.
But more to my point, there are places in the american west that you better plan your trip around some available fuel stations. That "Last Chance Gas" station meme is real.
Even in relatively highly populated Pennsylvania you can find yourself in trouble. One of my favorite fall rides along Route 555 to 120 runs through mountain valleys, and at 150 miles pre tank on my bike, I have ot be certain to stop in little Renovo PA to get gas, or be out of luck. A few years ago, I pull into the 1 gas station there, and it had went out of business. I about shit myself, fortunately, there was a garage that opened to allow people in town to get gas. Otherwise, I'd have to call my better half to bring gasoline for me from a few hundred miles away. They've got a couple stations now, so life is better on that drive. Takeawy is that no fueling system is unlimited.
Challenge accepted. No need to even look at your links. There is Racism in the south. I don't think anyone said there wasn't. There are also gang banging hood rats in the ghetto. If it is racist for me to treat all blacks in the ghetto like thugs, then it is JUST AS FUCKING RACIST for you to imply that all white southerns are racist.
What do you think Dr. King would say about you painting all white southerns as racist? I believe even in the 60s he would have disagreed with that supposition. Personally I hate racists no matter what their color.
What do you think Dr. King would say about you painting all white southerns as racist?
Do you have the quotes where I said all white southerns are racist? That's the problem with the internet. You can't make shit up as easily.
Second challenge, quote where I said anything close to saying that all whites in the south are racists that back to me.
Hell, I was talking specifically about Mississippi, and some activites that occured in the historical record, and are pretty hard to refute, and that is hwat was in the citation links Not once did I say that all white southerns or even all white Mississippians are racist.
Bill Maher has always said that he gets some of his most enthusiastic audiences when he goes down south. In an intyerview with Mike Huckabee, http://egbertowillies.com/2015...
He noted just that in reading off a listing of some of his favorite places to do standup. And they are in the south. And he pulls no punches anywhere, so both humorless conservatives and liberals tend to hate him.
But the image that is projected from down south would make you think that Maher would be lucky to escape with his life if he went down there, given his politics and his mouth. So no- not all Southern people are racist, or social conservatives, or want to secede from the Union, or think that Obama is the Kenyan Devil baby. Or want to establish a theocracy, or teach creationism in science class, or repeal the 16th, 17th and 18th amendments to the constitution. It would be foolish to think that those traits don't exist in quite a few people though. Because it seems that people holding those values are the ones who get elected to political office. Want people to stop thinking the south is full of racists? Do something about it, not declare anyone who dares to think there might be some racial issues there as a racist themselves, even if you have to make shit up.
Yep, and there's absolutely no racism outside of MS, good to know that. Sorry to bust your bubble, but I've been all over this nation, and there are bigots everywhere. And those who shout "racism" the loudest I've found tend to be the most bigoted.
So what exactly was I shouting? I've found people who try to claim they aren't racists while acting like one to be the worst. At least we knew where Cliven Bundy was about when he opened his mouth. A disgusting person, bad enough that Fox News got embarrassed by him when he went from conservative hero to but at least honest enough to not spew the "Some of my best friends are Negros" line.
The problem is, what good does it do to try to claim that people there aren't or weren't racist, and don't have a history of doing some god awful things to blacks? And try to claim that the racism somehow doesn't still exist in these places?
1.) What is the "connected class"? It sounds very elitist, like 1per centers.
You know, those people who like use the intertoobz, have smartphones and computers. Most of us probably.
2.) Electric vehicles will always be limited by their battery capacity. Nikola Tesla had shown, back in the Thirties, that resonance coupling can eliminate batteries all together.
So tell me, exactly which vehicles have unlimited range? If we had the infrastructure in place for electric vehicles now, would you say that someone wanting to start up with diesel or gasoline powered vehicles were always going to be "limited range/"
3.) Competing against the fossil fuel industry will go nowhere since the politicians are in the pockets of Big Oil.
Coal is having some issues at the moment, and they have/had a seriously powerful lobby. Remember, time does not stand still, and what seems to you a fact that will last forever, is changing .
As more and more players enter the EV market, it is simply getting harder to hang onto the old paradigms as to why they are an utter failure.
Up for a challenge? Read my reply to kenai_alpenglow, and tell me what I posted that was was inaccurate. Hell, when the students of your state at ol miss University rioted after the Magic Negro president was re-elected, 50 years after they rioted because a "Nigra" was first enrolled there, an American who had served his country, but in Mississippi he was not good enough to go to Ol' Miss, then a couple years later they shot him, Hey, show the lies I told.
And there have been some racists occurances outside of the deep south, Hell, Indiana is another racial embarrassment, with a large part of their legislature and a Governor, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... members of the Klan in 1929 for cryin' out loud. But that doesn't mean it's anywhere near the level of Mississippi, past or present.
To claim that that shithole of a state is not racist is living in an almost inpenetrable bubble.
Challenge accepted? Or just going to say more dumb shit, stick your fingers in your ears, and go "NANANANANANANA - I can't hear you"?
"So are you sayiong that a Black American citizen can just show up in some all white village in rural Mississippi, and everyone will shower him or her with gifts? Invite them into their home for a nice dinner? Ignore them?"
Hate to burst your stereotypical statement, but I've seen multiple Black (& other ethnic) folks "just show up" here in MS. They didn't get showered with gifts, but were treated very politely (yep, invited to, and attend local churches)--much better than how I've seen the same color folks treated in other "more enlightened" places. Maybe you better get your news from someone w/o an ax to grind...
Oh sorry, THere is no racism in Mississippi, and everyone is a kind person, accomodating to all other races and religions. A true REniassance state of the new south, where all men and women are created equal, and all creeds colors and sexual preferences ar etreated with the utmost respoect.
whereas those northeren states blacks and other minoritiys are merely kept around so we have someone to hang when we get out th bedsheets foro our Klan meetings.
These folks at ol Miss must have been celebrating Obama's 2012 win, no doubt.
Oh wait. Hey, maybe it was a 50th Anniversary celebration of their riots when theyy were very happy that the first black student, James Meredith was enrolled in Ol Miss. Hopefully they invited him to church.
A former serviceman, y'all really wanted to thank him for serving his country I guess:
Even your Governor welcomed him with open arms by a personal escort making certain he got to class. Oh wait, your governor was blocking the doorway to not allow him in the building. I guess your Governor wanted to be certain this man who risked his life for our country, got a lot of that fine Mississippi air.
Y'all liked him so much, one of ya gave him his very own personal bullet for his very own in 1966. Damn - southerners sure do know how to treat people who are different than you/
At Brandon High School, which is apparentlly a proud school that trains young men and women to invite African-Americans to come to church, in 2012, 19 year old Deryl Dedmon got two life sentences for killing a black man by running over him with his pickup truck:
The official story is that he and some friends were partying, when they decised they were going to go look for some black guy to harass.
You and I both know it was an accident that happened when Dedmon, was trying to invite the dead guy James Craig Anderson to come to church with him and his friends.
This year was a minor thing with another Brandon Student tweeting stupid racist comments on school time. Not a huge thing, but between us chachalacas, I don't think tshe cares for people based on their skin color.
And in the spirit of being ahead of the curve, Mississippi did not outla slavery until february 7, 2013. Or maybe 1995. If you believe in States Rights, you could legally own a person in Mississippi. until 2013.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he...
See you in church.
Oh, bullshit. I have lived in many areas of the country, and found one important thing - people are the same everywhere.
And, shut the hell up with the racist crap.
Yeah, I have often found myself having problems distinguishing people from rural Mississippi from say, people from Boston or New York. Like identical gaddamned twins, I'll tell you what!
So are you sayiong that a Black American citizen can just show up in some all white village in rural Mississippi, and everyone will shower him or her with gifts? Invite them into their home for a nice dinner? Ignore them?
Pointing out racism isn't racist, merely a description of what is.
I'm trying to imagine anyone going anywhere and yapping about the internet of things, mobile computing, the cloud, and Moore's law at any Rotary meeing, much less one in Rural Mississippi.
Just make certain your of the right ummmmm, heritage, if you know what I mean. And don't shut off the car.
I wouldn't be surprised if you aren't even lying, you could be plausible deniability bait.
That would imply there's someone else behind the scenes, hidden from me and subverting my work. But there's simply no room for that to be true.
Which still wouldn't imply that I or many others believe you.
I mean, why wouldn't Google do this? Seems this design is coming out about the same time as more people are becoming savvy to the invasion of trackers, and maladware and are installing software to get around the practice.
Any group I was involved in, especially the one who is the biggest player in monetizing users internet habits, would want to preserve their cash cow, and work at ways to defeat the tracking - indeed - just imagine "total user internet awareness" with the only way to defeat it being not to use it. Complete internet dominance, with no choice for the user
Viola, a chip with baked in "ET phone home" that cannot be defeated.
He dies, right on schedule, but with almost $300,000 of additional debt from "the treatment."
Experimental medicine the "gift" that keeps on giving. (Translate gift from German for the true meaning...)
Ugh - a gift indeed! Since no one gets ot of here alive, I see no reason to enable a few months of incredibly expensive life extension in the form of chemical torture. Even if you survive, you're broke.
In one of thoae weird little quirks of unintended consequences, the people I know who are most adamantly against any health care reform, are also most adamantly against any inheritance tax. So they unwittingly support a health care system that is designed to leave with no estate to tax. I offer that as no political statement, merely one of those funny things in life.
...what are Meems? Capital M, so I guess it's a person? Who is Meems? And what social media did they own?
And how is "out" government spending insane amounts of money when they've only been here for a week?
ONE WEEK!!!
All you have to do is look to America. Within a day after the election in 2008, The magick Negro president was responsible for World War 1 and 2, the dot-com bubble, Mexicans with diseases coming into America, and every known problem in the world.
And that damn itchy spot on my big toe - Thanks Obama!
Canadian here,
Harper had nothing bad going on. He just got ousted by social media Meems
SRSLY? Tell me deaer Canadian., are you in favor of squashing dissent? When the gummint wants your opinion, they will tell you what it is?
Or is all of the evidence of that muzzling just some sort of lbersocialcommunistcal hogwash?
There is a real problem when you muzzle scientists. And that is that despite youre idealism, despite what you know as God's unvarnished truth, and your higher cause in making sure that no one hears the devil - who is conveniently anyone who doesn't share your politics - the laws of physics comes along and bitchslaps your sorry ass, the the more you try to vote on things like golbal warming, the harder it slaps ya.
I'd guess that fundamentally new medicines are becoming harder to discover, because the easy ones are already known.
Yes, there is that. And wages and stuff. But personal experience shows that as we shift to an accountant based economy, where the majority of the wealth goes to non-producing people, someone has made a (probably flawed) assessment that short term profit versus lives, the profit wins out. Sending a few people into a jungle to discover possible new antibiotics is less important then this quarter's profit or CEO bonus or even catering for the shareholders meetings.
Sounds cynical, but most people don't dive a damn if anyone they don't know kicks off, so imagine how less likely they would be to give damn if they have no idea who it is who dies for lack of medicine.
In addition, lawyers seeking an undeserved fortune are out seeking ways to sue drug companies. No day goes by that I don't hear their radio ads.
And TV ads as well. There is something very very odd about those commercials. If we take say, the vaginal mesh commercials, I've seen them for 5 some years now, but they say "Time is limited", and one thing is for damn sure, they are showing many more of those commercials than there are women who had that procedure. Or Mesothelioma - hell most of the people involved are dead of old age by now. Or stents - you're supposed to sue even if you don't have a problem. And of course, the medicine side effects. I looked up some of the lawsuits against some of the meds, and it's like the lawyers just went down a list of known side effects and are trying to sue for them. Something so odd, and some of these things just gotta be fishing expeditions.
But keep in mind that the big money is in the maintenance drugs, and the lawsuits against those. Drugs that we aren't even certain if they are working or not. Antibiotics are a small one time shot, so kind of under the radar for the lawyers.
Government regulations requiring proof of safety and effectiveness may have gotten tougher.
I hear that a lot. Is there some super tough stand-in-the-way Government regulation aimed specifically at antibiotics? This government intrusion doesn't seem to have any impediment on maintenance drugs. Seems to be a new one or two maintenance drug out every month. I've seen at least three psoriasis control drugs in the last year.
The only one I've seen that isn't a take every day until you die drug was one which apparently can cure Hep-C. I wonder how such an important drug that is taken only for one course ever got past the actuaries? As in my original post, it probably had something to do with a CEO or large shareholder's personal life experience.
It's all profit related. If the customer can be convinced that they have to take a drug every day for the rest of their life for cholesterol maintenance, then they are the target. A one week course of antibiotics? Who gives a damn? It's the difference between a few hundred dollars, and tens of thousands of dollars or likely more per consumer.
Tracking you will be much more efficient. Built in, unblockable analytics.
No.
I work on the Android security team, and we actively block any attempt to build tracking into the core platform.
There's only one problem. No way in hell I believe you. I wouldn't be surprised if you aren't even lying, you could be plausible deniability bait. But in a world where us civilians are the product to be monetized, or where the government wants to know all about us, it's almost impossible to believe that either group isn't trying to make their job as easy and convenient as possible.
Anyways, the reason nobody works on these is probably because our existing antibiotics already work really well,
Don't get MRSA. Our present antibiotics hardly do shit against that. I had two relatives and a friend's fgzther rot away form that.
Hell by the time MRSA was done with them, they weren't too pretty. But which antibiotics is it that you know that works "pretty well" so we don't need more? Let us know, and I'll tell the doctors, and make certain you get full credit. I see a Nobel prize in your future, given teh lives you'll save.
You have billions of dollars, and a business that makes billions more per year.
Do you choose to continue that business and rake in personal rewards like a G5 and an island to fly it to, or do you invest the billions on a risky venture that might pay off some time in the next 10 to 15 years?
Answer from the perspective of a 60 year old with multiple cancers.
That probably depends on it there is a massive MRSA outbreak among the stockholders. Even then, who knows. There are always more stockholders where they came from.
Do not for a minute think that the Stockholders and Corporate members of Pharmaceutical companies give a rats ass about your continued living, only as far as they can still find maintenance drugs to pump you full of in the Nursing, home, and you lay there demented, shitting yourself and catherterized for a few more years.Their latest human torture drugs are the ones designed to "slow the progress" of Alzehimers. That's a sweet gig, it's like taking years to drown, instead of a short time. Either way, your still living corpse is a fine profit model to drain your estate.
You'll note that there is a plethora of maintenance drugs that you go on for life coming out every year. Hell, antibiotics just cure you, and how in the fuck can they monetize people with that?
Now maintenance drugs, which guarantee them a continued source of revenue without any real promise of actually working - that's the ticket.
Thank you so much anti-nuke extremists. Thanks to your inability to look at the bigger picture, we get to enjoy nuclear reactors using designs from the 1950's well into the 21st century instead of actually using safer, modern designs.
It's like if the safety problems with the Corvair had been used to shutdown all production of newer car models.
Oh, well played sir. So you figure that after all the money they spent on making this reactor they wouldn't try to extend it's lifetime? Makes no financial sense that they would decommision thise reacter tear it down, then spend billions more building a new safer modern designed one H^H^H^H^H^H^
Wait a second!!!!! You just said that nuc reactors online today are unsafe. Turn in your nuc card ya bastard, there are some sins that cannot be forgiven, and you just commetted the worst one
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It's the web equivalent of an infomercial, completele with the "Everything now sucks, SUCKS SUCKS!
"But we here at Skylon, we have the improvement needed to transform those sucky rocket based systems into a awesome never look back Skylon System!"
Which by the way, in no way eliminates those rockets they go way out of their way to tell us - suck.
Come back when your web page wasn't designed and populated by the Marketing department and some ad agency.
Gasoline vehicles effectively do, owing to a sufficiently large infrastructure of gas stations, and a sufficiently low refill time that it does not significantly impact the duration of a trip that is long enough that requiring such range would matter.
And if an infrastructure for electric vehicles nationwide existed? And batteries, are thare never going to be any improvements? Seems to be happening pretty regularly these days.
But more to my point, there are places in the american west that you better plan your trip around some available fuel stations. That "Last Chance Gas" station meme is real.
Even in relatively highly populated Pennsylvania you can find yourself in trouble. One of my favorite fall rides along Route 555 to 120 runs through mountain valleys, and at 150 miles pre tank on my bike, I have ot be certain to stop in little Renovo PA to get gas, or be out of luck. A few years ago, I pull into the 1 gas station there, and it had went out of business. I about shit myself, fortunately, there was a garage that opened to allow people in town to get gas. Otherwise, I'd have to call my better half to bring gasoline for me from a few hundred miles away. They've got a couple stations now, so life is better on that drive. Takeawy is that no fueling system is unlimited.
Challenge accepted. No need to even look at your links. There is Racism in the south. I don't think anyone said there wasn't. There are also gang banging hood rats in the ghetto. If it is racist for me to treat all blacks in the ghetto like thugs, then it is JUST AS FUCKING RACIST for you to imply that all white southerns are racist.
What do you think Dr. King would say about you painting all white southerns as racist? I believe even in the 60s he would have disagreed with that supposition. Personally I hate racists no matter what their color.
What do you think Dr. King would say about you painting all white southerns as racist?
Do you have the quotes where I said all white southerns are racist? That's the problem with the internet. You can't make shit up as easily.
Second challenge, quote where I said anything close to saying that all whites in the south are racists that back to me.
Hell, I was talking specifically about Mississippi, and some activites that occured in the historical record, and are pretty hard to refute, and that is hwat was in the citation links Not once did I say that all white southerns or even all white Mississippians are racist.
Bill Maher has always said that he gets some of his most enthusiastic audiences when he goes down south. In an intyerview with Mike Huckabee, http://egbertowillies.com/2015...
He noted just that in reading off a listing of some of his favorite places to do standup. And they are in the south. And he pulls no punches anywhere, so both humorless conservatives and liberals tend to hate him.
But the image that is projected from down south would make you think that Maher would be lucky to escape with his life if he went down there, given his politics and his mouth. So no- not all Southern people are racist, or social conservatives, or want to secede from the Union, or think that Obama is the Kenyan Devil baby. Or want to establish a theocracy, or teach creationism in science class, or repeal the 16th, 17th and 18th amendments to the constitution. It would be foolish to think that those traits don't exist in quite a few people though. Because it seems that people holding those values are the ones who get elected to political office. Want people to stop thinking the south is full of racists? Do something about it, not declare anyone who dares to think there might be some racial issues there as a racist themselves, even if you have to make shit up.
Yep, and there's absolutely no racism outside of MS, good to know that. Sorry to bust your bubble, but I've been all over this nation, and there are bigots everywhere. And those who shout "racism" the loudest I've found tend to be the most bigoted.
So what exactly was I shouting? I've found people who try to claim they aren't racists while acting like one to be the worst. At least we knew where Cliven Bundy was about when he opened his mouth. A disgusting person, bad enough that Fox News got embarrassed by him when he went from conservative hero to but at least honest enough to not spew the "Some of my best friends are Negros" line.
The problem is, what good does it do to try to claim that people there aren't or weren't racist, and don't have a history of doing some god awful things to blacks? And try to claim that the racism somehow doesn't still exist in these places?
1.) What is the "connected class"? It sounds very elitist, like 1per centers.
You know, those people who like use the intertoobz, have smartphones and computers. Most of us probably.
2.) Electric vehicles will always be limited by their battery capacity. Nikola Tesla had shown, back in the Thirties, that resonance coupling can eliminate batteries all together.
So tell me, exactly which vehicles have unlimited range? If we had the infrastructure in place for electric vehicles now, would you say that someone wanting to start up with diesel or gasoline powered vehicles were always going to be "limited range/"
3.) Competing against the fossil fuel industry will go nowhere since the politicians are in the pockets of Big Oil.
Coal is having some issues at the moment, and they have/had a seriously powerful lobby. Remember, time does not stand still, and what seems to you a fact that will last forever, is changing .
As more and more players enter the EV market, it is simply getting harder to hang onto the old paradigms as to why they are an utter failure.
And there have been some racists occurances outside of the deep south, Hell, Indiana is another racial embarrassment, with a large part of their legislature and a Governor, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... members of the Klan in 1929 for cryin' out loud. But that doesn't mean it's anywhere near the level of Mississippi, past or present. To claim that that shithole of a state is not racist is living in an almost inpenetrable bubble.
Challenge accepted? Or just going to say more dumb shit, stick your fingers in your ears, and go "NANANANANANANA - I can't hear you"?
"So are you sayiong that a Black American citizen can just show up in some all white village in rural Mississippi, and everyone will shower him or her with gifts? Invite them into their home for a nice dinner? Ignore them?"
Hate to burst your stereotypical statement, but I've seen multiple Black (& other ethnic) folks "just show up" here in MS. They didn't get showered with gifts, but were treated very politely (yep, invited to, and attend local churches)--much better than how I've seen the same color folks treated in other "more enlightened" places. Maybe you better get your news from someone w/o an ax to grind...
Oh sorry, THere is no racism in Mississippi, and everyone is a kind person, accomodating to all other races and religions. A true REniassance state of the new south, where all men and women are created equal, and all creeds colors and sexual preferences ar etreated with the utmost respoect.
whereas those northeren states blacks and other minoritiys are merely kept around so we have someone to hang when we get out th bedsheets foro our Klan meetings.
These folks at ol Miss must have been celebrating Obama's 2012 win, no doubt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Oh wait. Hey, maybe it was a 50th Anniversary celebration of their riots when theyy were very happy that the first black student, James Meredith was enrolled in Ol Miss. Hopefully they invited him to church.
A former serviceman, y'all really wanted to thank him for serving his country I guess:
http://www.history.com/this-da...
Even your Governor welcomed him with open arms by a personal escort making certain he got to class. Oh wait, your governor was blocking the doorway to not allow him in the building. I guess your Governor wanted to be certain this man who risked his life for our country, got a lot of that fine Mississippi air.
Y'all liked him so much, one of ya gave him his very own personal bullet for his very own in 1966. Damn - southerners sure do know how to treat people who are different than you/
At Brandon High School, which is apparentlly a proud school that trains young men and women to invite African-Americans to come to church, in 2012, 19 year old Deryl Dedmon got two life sentences for killing a black man by running over him with his pickup truck:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
The official story is that he and some friends were partying, when they decised they were going to go look for some black guy to harass.
You and I both know it was an accident that happened when Dedmon, was trying to invite the dead guy James Craig Anderson to come to church with him and his friends.
This year was a minor thing with another Brandon Student tweeting stupid racist comments on school time. Not a huge thing, but between us chachalacas, I don't think tshe cares for people based on their skin color.
And in the spirit of being ahead of the curve, Mississippi did not outla slavery until february 7, 2013. Or maybe 1995. If you believe in States Rights, you could legally own a person in Mississippi. until 2013. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he... See you in church.
Oh, bullshit. I have lived in many areas of the country, and found one important thing - people are the same everywhere.
And, shut the hell up with the racist crap.
Yeah, I have often found myself having problems distinguishing people from rural Mississippi from say, people from Boston or New York. Like identical gaddamned twins, I'll tell you what!
So are you sayiong that a Black American citizen can just show up in some all white village in rural Mississippi, and everyone will shower him or her with gifts? Invite them into their home for a nice dinner? Ignore them?
Pointing out racism isn't racist, merely a description of what is.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tw...
That's just from the recent past, you'd perhaps like to discuss going back a few years?
Just make certain your of the right ummmmm, heritage, if you know what I mean. And don't shut off the car.
Really? Like women have in Saudia Arabia?
A lot of them probably don't have arms at all any more.
Right to own and bear arms.
Right to own and arm bears?
Now that would be an awesome sport.
I wouldn't be surprised if you aren't even lying, you could be plausible deniability bait.
That would imply there's someone else behind the scenes, hidden from me and subverting my work. But there's simply no room for that to be true.
Which still wouldn't imply that I or many others believe you.
I mean, why wouldn't Google do this? Seems this design is coming out about the same time as more people are becoming savvy to the invasion of trackers, and maladware and are installing software to get around the practice.
Any group I was involved in, especially the one who is the biggest player in monetizing users internet habits, would want to preserve their cash cow, and work at ways to defeat the tracking - indeed - just imagine "total user internet awareness" with the only way to defeat it being not to use it. Complete internet dominance, with no choice for the user
Viola, a chip with baked in "ET phone home" that cannot be defeated.
And "ethics" doesn't cut it as an excuse.
He dies, right on schedule, but with almost $300,000 of additional debt from "the treatment."
Experimental medicine the "gift" that keeps on giving. (Translate gift from German for the true meaning...)
Ugh - a gift indeed! Since no one gets ot of here alive, I see no reason to enable a few months of incredibly expensive life extension in the form of chemical torture. Even if you survive, you're broke.
In one of thoae weird little quirks of unintended consequences, the people I know who are most adamantly against any health care reform, are also most adamantly against any inheritance tax. So they unwittingly support a health care system that is designed to leave with no estate to tax. I offer that as no political statement, merely one of those funny things in life.
Building a business by offering a free service tier is really very unlike a custom labour contract where the compensation is $1.
Right. Exactly 1 dollar different.
...what are Meems? Capital M, so I guess it's a person? Who is Meems? And what social media did they own?
And how is "out" government spending insane amounts of money when they've only been here for a week?
ONE WEEK!!!
All you have to do is look to America. Within a day after the election in 2008, The magick Negro president was responsible for World War 1 and 2, the dot-com bubble, Mexicans with diseases coming into America, and every known problem in the world.
And that damn itchy spot on my big toe - Thanks Obama!
Canadian here, Harper had nothing bad going on. He just got ousted by social media Meems
SRSLY? Tell me deaer Canadian., are you in favor of squashing dissent? When the gummint wants your opinion, they will tell you what it is?
Or is all of the evidence of that muzzling just some sort of lbersocialcommunistcal hogwash?
There is a real problem when you muzzle scientists. And that is that despite youre idealism, despite what you know as God's unvarnished truth, and your higher cause in making sure that no one hears the devil - who is conveniently anyone who doesn't share your politics - the laws of physics comes along and bitchslaps your sorry ass, the the more you try to vote on things like golbal warming, the harder it slaps ya.
I'd guess that fundamentally new medicines are becoming harder to discover, because the easy ones are already known.
Yes, there is that. And wages and stuff. But personal experience shows that as we shift to an accountant based economy, where the majority of the wealth goes to non-producing people, someone has made a (probably flawed) assessment that short term profit versus lives, the profit wins out. Sending a few people into a jungle to discover possible new antibiotics is less important then this quarter's profit or CEO bonus or even catering for the shareholders meetings.
Sounds cynical, but most people don't dive a damn if anyone they don't know kicks off, so imagine how less likely they would be to give damn if they have no idea who it is who dies for lack of medicine.
In addition, lawyers seeking an undeserved fortune are out seeking ways to sue drug companies. No day goes by that I don't hear their radio ads.
And TV ads as well. There is something very very odd about those commercials. If we take say, the vaginal mesh commercials, I've seen them for 5 some years now, but they say "Time is limited", and one thing is for damn sure, they are showing many more of those commercials than there are women who had that procedure. Or Mesothelioma - hell most of the people involved are dead of old age by now. Or stents - you're supposed to sue even if you don't have a problem. And of course, the medicine side effects. I looked up some of the lawsuits against some of the meds, and it's like the lawyers just went down a list of known side effects and are trying to sue for them. Something so odd, and some of these things just gotta be fishing expeditions.
But keep in mind that the big money is in the maintenance drugs, and the lawsuits against those. Drugs that we aren't even certain if they are working or not. Antibiotics are a small one time shot, so kind of under the radar for the lawyers.
Government regulations requiring proof of safety and effectiveness may have gotten tougher.
I hear that a lot. Is there some super tough stand-in-the-way Government regulation aimed specifically at antibiotics? This government intrusion doesn't seem to have any impediment on maintenance drugs. Seems to be a new one or two maintenance drug out every month. I've seen at least three psoriasis control drugs in the last year.
The only one I've seen that isn't a take every day until you die drug was one which apparently can cure Hep-C. I wonder how such an important drug that is taken only for one course ever got past the actuaries? As in my original post, it probably had something to do with a CEO or large shareholder's personal life experience.
It's all profit related. If the customer can be convinced that they have to take a drug every day for the rest of their life for cholesterol maintenance, then they are the target. A one week course of antibiotics? Who gives a damn? It's the difference between a few hundred dollars, and tens of thousands of dollars or likely more per consumer.
Don't get MRSA. Our present antibiotics hardly do shit against that. I had two relatives and a friend's fgzther rot away form that.
Vancomycin.
Tell the doctors that, not me. All of those folk died, and you had the answer all along, eh?
Tracking you will be much more efficient. Built in, unblockable analytics.
No.
I work on the Android security team, and we actively block any attempt to build tracking into the core platform.
There's only one problem. No way in hell I believe you. I wouldn't be surprised if you aren't even lying, you could be plausible deniability bait. But in a world where us civilians are the product to be monetized, or where the government wants to know all about us, it's almost impossible to believe that either group isn't trying to make their job as easy and convenient as possible.
Here in the frozen Tundra was a real life example.
Scientists must really be on to something if they aren't allowed to talk about it.
Oh... Canada.
The real problem is that the market probably can't really bear the cost of recovering the R&D price of new antibiotics.
Isn't it strange that once upon a time, we used to be able to do this kind of stuff? I wonder what changed?
Probably like how we used to be able to hire American workers and pay them a decent wage.
This.
Anyways, the reason nobody works on these is probably because our existing antibiotics already work really well,
Don't get MRSA. Our present antibiotics hardly do shit against that. I had two relatives and a friend's fgzther rot away form that.
Hell by the time MRSA was done with them, they weren't too pretty. But which antibiotics is it that you know that works "pretty well" so we don't need more? Let us know, and I'll tell the doctors, and make certain you get full credit. I see a Nobel prize in your future, given teh lives you'll save.
You have billions of dollars, and a business that makes billions more per year.
Do you choose to continue that business and rake in personal rewards like a G5 and an island to fly it to, or do you invest the billions on a risky venture that might pay off some time in the next 10 to 15 years?
Answer from the perspective of a 60 year old with multiple cancers.
That probably depends on it there is a massive MRSA outbreak among the stockholders. Even then, who knows. There are always more stockholders where they came from.
Do not for a minute think that the Stockholders and Corporate members of Pharmaceutical companies give a rats ass about your continued living, only as far as they can still find maintenance drugs to pump you full of in the Nursing, home, and you lay there demented, shitting yourself and catherterized for a few more years.Their latest human torture drugs are the ones designed to "slow the progress" of Alzehimers. That's a sweet gig, it's like taking years to drown, instead of a short time. Either way, your still living corpse is a fine profit model to drain your estate.
You'll note that there is a plethora of maintenance drugs that you go on for life coming out every year. Hell, antibiotics just cure you, and how in the fuck can they monetize people with that?
Now maintenance drugs, which guarantee them a continued source of revenue without any real promise of actually working - that's the ticket.
Tracking you will be much more efficient. Built in, unblockable analytics.
Google wrecks everything fun.
And that's why we can't have anything nice.
Thank you so much anti-nuke extremists. Thanks to your inability to look at the bigger picture, we get to enjoy nuclear reactors using designs from the 1950's well into the 21st century instead of actually using safer, modern designs.
It's like if the safety problems with the Corvair had been used to shutdown all production of newer car models.
Oh, well played sir. So you figure that after all the money they spent on making this reactor they wouldn't try to extend it's lifetime? Makes no financial sense that they would decommision thise reacter tear it down, then spend billions more building a new safer modern designed one H^H^H^H^H^H^
Wait a second!!!!! You just said that nuc reactors online today are unsafe. Turn in your nuc card ya bastard, there are some sins that cannot be forgiven, and you just commetted the worst one