but I don't think there is some big conspiracy to block it or actual cures. I think the much simpler solution is that curing most diseases is much harder than curing it. And drug companies do come out with things like antibiotics that do in fact cure disease.
With all due respect, like most people inside and outside the medical community, you've been fed a line of complete bullshit.
I've got karma to burn so here goes (this is just scratching the surface):
There is pretty clear evidence that without patents, big parma does not produce tested drugs.
Perhaps not... but to argue this is very much a case of the 'debate having been framed' and ignores an even more important issue: Big Pharma primarily produces drugs intended to treat symptoms.
On the one hand, they expend relatively little to no effort researching the actual causes of those symptoms; on the other hand, they are actively engaging a very well-funded campaign intended to stifle awareness of disease prevention.
With them, competition is forbidden until they expire, then they're public domain.
Without them, competition is allowed immediately, everything is public domain for the reverse-engineering of it, and competitors are free to invent their own, possibly similar, designs.
'You'll get home some day & ur b**ches throat will be cut & ur son will be gone.'
I agree with others; the story smells. Anyway, if it'd been me, my concern would've evaporated the minute I'd read the "ur" instead of "you're" - fucking imbeciles just don't have what it takes to make me feel truly threatened, I suppose; imagine being approached by a mugger... and suddenly the mugger suffers a loud, explosive bout of diarrhea: any and all "streed cred" they might've possessed... just ran down their pant leg.
A friend of my brother's was cranking Neil Young really loudly in his dorm room. Someone began to pound on his door and my brother's friend yelled "Come in!"
Imagine his surprise when the door opened and Neil Young poked his head around the door and yelled "Turn that down!"
YOU are the reason that there will never be "the year of Linux in the desktop".
Speak for yourself, troll; for me it was last year and for my customers it was this year. The "the year of Linux in the desktop" has already arrived... but as usual with such things, the clueless majority aren't - and don't necessarily have to be - even aware of it.
"Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea. In some other countries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and personal act, but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices."
He said that Monsonto's response to the store was a lie, so Fox was arguing for the right to lie.
Unbiased, not at all. Truth usually is biased, hence the "need" for paid shills (veritable fucking hoardes of 'em, if this site is any indicator). The fact is, an accurate portrayal of one of the most vile organizations on the planet is NOT going to come across as unbiased.
Sounds like some of Fox's employees actually possess[ed] a fucking soul. Imagine that!
*dons tinfoil hat* It'd be great for the future of Linux (and possibly even the future of the human race) in things are as simple as they appear to be on the surface. My concern is that this business of Microsoft - and, to a lesser degree, Intel - seeming to shoot themselves in the foot with this nonsense is that it runs a lot deeper and has a lot more to do with making inroads against general-purpose computing than most of us suspect.
The bifurcated permission structure is the problem, and it makes WinRT tablets categorically impossible to recommend for anyone who values the ability to install whatever software they please."
Hence the reason for the very existence of this smoldering pile of dung known as an "operating system." Active-denial system would be more like it...
was sentenced in 1997 to one year in Los Angeles County Jail and three years probation. According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney, he violated probation in 2002
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to the benefit of lazy bureaucrats and entitlements for public teat suckers
Repeat after me: pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
No, I'm not a US citizen.
We're relieved to hear that you're selective in your delusions. :)
but I don't think there is some big conspiracy to block it or actual cures. I think the much simpler solution is that curing most diseases is much harder than curing it. And drug companies do come out with things like antibiotics that do in fact cure disease.
With all due respect, like most people inside and outside the medical community, you've been fed a line of complete bullshit.
I've got karma to burn so here goes (this is just scratching the surface):
Cancer-Gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
Harvard Medical Students Rebel Against Big Pharma Ties
"More Marketing Than Science" - An Anonymous Confession About Deceptive Marketing Published in the British Medical Journal
Big pharma loves the (non-stop) war on cancer
The Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Big Pharmaâ(TM)s War on Health
The drugs donâ(TM)t work: a modern medical scandal ~ Ben Goldacre
Money, Politics, and Health Care: A Disease-Creation Economy â" Part I by Mark Hyman, MD
Corruption in Drug Research and in Medicine
A.M.A. and the Drug Cartel
The Disease Economy
25 Shocking Facts That Prove That The Entire U.S. Health Care Industry Has Become One Giant Money Making Scam
Scientific Sleight of Hand: Two Ways Big Pharma Lies to You
People & Power - Drug Money
The 6 Types of Pills Big Pharma Wants You Hooked On for Life
Should We Stop Trying To Cure Cancer?
Top Ten Reasons To Avoid Your Doctor
Doctored - The Movie
The Cure For Cancer Suppressed
There is pretty clear evidence that without patents, big parma does not produce tested drugs.
Perhaps not... but to argue this is very much a case of the 'debate having been framed' and ignores an even more important issue: Big Pharma primarily produces drugs intended to treat symptoms.
On the one hand, they expend relatively little to no effort researching the actual causes of those symptoms; on the other hand, they are actively engaging a very well-funded campaign intended to stifle awareness of disease prevention.
Woman Successfully Grows Ear From Arm
This could bring new meaning to that silly gesture/expression "talk to the hand."
Don't you have that backwards?
Sorry; read that again and it made sense. Must be my sleep-addled mind. :)
With them, competition is forbidden until they expire, then they're public domain.
Without them, competition is allowed immediately, everything is public domain for the reverse-engineering of it, and competitors are free to invent their own, possibly similar, designs.
Don't you have that backwards?
'You'll get home some day & ur b**ches throat will be cut & ur son will be gone.'
I agree with others; the story smells. Anyway, if it'd been me, my concern would've evaporated the minute I'd read the "ur" instead of "you're" - fucking imbeciles just don't have what it takes to make me feel truly threatened, I suppose; imagine being approached by a mugger... and suddenly the mugger suffers a loud, explosive bout of diarrhea: any and all "streed cred" they might've possessed... just ran down their pant leg.
Imagine his surprise when the door opened and Neil Young poked his head around the door and yelled "Turn that down!"
YOU are the reason that there will never be "the year of Linux in the desktop".
Speak for yourself, troll; for me it was last year and for my customers it was this year. The "the year of Linux in the desktop" has already arrived... but as usual with such things, the clueless majority aren't - and don't necessarily have to be - even aware of it.
If he were left in charge we would all be using SNA because Ethernet would not be permitted.
After The Collapse, you'll be using two coconut shells and some catgut... and you'll like it. :p
- Thomas Jefferson
New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss
...lining that fucker up against the wall can almost certainly be presumed illegal... but I'm not going to suggest that it would actually be wrong. :)
He said that Monsonto's response to the store was a lie, so Fox was arguing for the right to lie.
Unbiased, not at all. Truth usually is biased, hence the "need" for paid shills (veritable fucking hoardes of 'em, if this site is any indicator). The fact is, an accurate portrayal of one of the most vile organizations on the planet is NOT going to come across as unbiased.
Sounds like some of Fox's employees actually possess[ed] a fucking soul. Imagine that!
Of course there aren't; the tiniest antimatter drives are used for knife missiles. :)
Can you imagine what those shows would have been like had they tried to apply science as we know it?
Hmm... intelligent and classy like 2001 but without the ridiculous Kubrickesque surrealism? In other words, entertaining and believable?
Ballmer's an idiot!
*dons tinfoil hat* It'd be great for the future of Linux (and possibly even the future of the human race) in things are as simple as they appear to be on the surface. My concern is that this business of Microsoft - and, to a lesser degree, Intel - seeming to shoot themselves in the foot with this nonsense is that it runs a lot deeper and has a lot more to do with making inroads against general-purpose computing than most of us suspect.
The bifurcated permission structure is the problem, and it makes WinRT tablets categorically impossible to recommend for anyone who values the ability to install whatever software they please."
Hence the reason for the very existence of this smoldering pile of dung known as an "operating system." Active-denial system would be more like it...
Agreed. Unlike some, I've never been one for having my hair pulled...
just discovered streaking near Saturn.
Somebody hand it an overcoat...
If this keeps up I'm going to have to switch to one of the BSDs or Linux from scratch.
That's nothing; you should try playing FarmVille with Lynx.
Slashdot: "This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original..."
Me: WTF?
was sentenced in 1997 to one year in Los Angeles County Jail and three years probation. According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney, he violated probation in 2002
Those numbers don't seem to add up.
I wonder who the halfwit is who modded me down; it's not as though you can buy much in the way of any other kind of ammo in the UK... :p
Soapbox, ballot box, jury box, ammo box... containing paintballs. ;)