And then on top of all this, even though you're paying a huge monthly fee, you still have to watch advertising.
I agree with everything you said, but this is really the kicker isn't it? It really adds insult to injury, more so since with Netflix you don't have that problem.
I think a chair throwing ballmer is as awesome as a fat out-of-shape over privileged white male throwing a chair is, which is to say, not that awesome. He is a psychopath though as most American CEO's are, because no decent human being could do the things that they do to "their" workforce.
Good joke though, I totally agree. I also think that ballmer led through coercion and intimidation because psychopaths have no fear but know how to create it in others.
Are you claiming that you passed basic high school biology? Did they compare newly born humans to other mammals in that class? I was mostly asleep so I am curious.
Nothing useful will happen, they'll just go postal on their local boss and fellow co-workers (co-victims) and never address the true source of their pain.
Provide citations on how the rich are subsidizing the country please. I don't think this has ever been done before, not sure why. Please also define what "the rich" are. Thanks in advance.
And yet, Germany's economy is kicking ass while the US sinks further and further into third-world status. Socialism works, the proof is there. Discuss infrastructure, quality of products, unionization, health care, health care costs vs outcomes, education, education costs, social welfare, incarceration rates, child poverty, child welfare...
It isn't that drugs are invented by academics/taxpayers, it is that they carry out the fundamental research that makes possible the "inventions" by the drug companies. The fundamental research is a huge part of the labor and cost and it is being borne by the taxpayer. As the AC below implies, a tremendous amount of the cost incurred by big pharma is in sales, marketing, lobbying and legal, and some with the trials to bring a drug to "market". So if you would be so kind, address that point as well as the other points regarding drugs being able to be sold by the generics companies for cheaper than the brand namers can even _manufacture_ them. What is wrong with the production process at the brand name companies that they cost so much more to make?
Once you hit the "patent cliff", then the generics will pounce, and begin producing and selling your product for less than it costs you to make.
So you are saying that generic manufacturers are better at manufacturing than the patent holders? Is that because patent holders don't care about setting up an efficient system like the generics do? Really, the generics can sell (presumably making some profit as they are a business) at less than it costs for the patent holders to manufacture? Or is it because they are seeking unreasonable profits and are unwilling to compete on quality of product alone once a generic comes along that can do things better and cheaper than they can?
You also forgot to mention how in the US much of the early research is borne by the government (read taxpayers) and the pharmaceutical giants come in and take what we paid for, build on it and then sell it to us at extortionate prices.
But would they have advanced like the USA did? Would they have had the most expensive college educations? Spend more per capita on medical rate? Would they have achieved massive obesity rates? High heart disease rates and diabetes rates? We're number one! We're number one!
Sounds like the market at work. Good all-around I think to finally start properly accounting for "externalities". Maybe we can start working on environmental degradation next...
There are minimum speeds required on highways which is partly why bikes and pedestrians are often not allowed on them. The idiot doing 5 on the highway might be very at fault on this one with much less on the person driving at a nominal highway speed.
Animal Farm was propaganda designed to make you think exactly that. Why do you think it was deemed a "classic" and required reading for the smart kids? I'll tell you why, so they could all think alike and line up when more kool-aid was offered.
It has been proven in studies that they behave like jack-booted thugs because they look like jack-booted thugs. It isn't the way people react to them, it is the way they are costumed that makes them behave according to their image. Try it for yourself, dress up in a similar style, check if you don't also start to behave like an authoritarian prick.
Your client's defense could be that his operation is so fantastic that there is no way at all that any molecules escaped the confining vessel and none were outside of the vessel either because you run a clean operation with well trained packing staff in a clean room environment. You present pictures of your clean room and documentation of your IS0-2000 drug packing process to show that given your level of preparation there was no way the dog would have found anything at all. Therefore the dog signaled on cue and the arrest is invalid.
224 houses on 52 acres sounds like sprawling suburbs. Housing density is way too low and the amount of homes won't even make a ding, he should plunk down like 2,500 houses or condos or townhomes so that they price out closer to what a family can afford. What will soon happen is that the house will be sold at closer to their market value of $1 million dollars each and George Lucas will net a tidy profit and decide to become a real estate tycoon.
Yes, but I think in this case it was just plain stupidity. Possibly criminally stupid stupidity. The board is also to blame for abdicating their responsibility to get information from independent sources not just from the "board packet".
Really? They paid? I though we the taxpayers paid when they were handed bailouts. Your last two sentences contradict your first four, make up your mind. yo.
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And then on top of all this, even though you're paying a huge monthly fee, you still have to watch advertising.
I agree with everything you said, but this is really the kicker isn't it? It really adds insult to injury, more so since with Netflix you don't have that problem.
I think a chair throwing ballmer is as awesome as a fat out-of-shape over privileged white male throwing a chair is, which is to say, not that awesome. He is a psychopath though as most American CEO's are, because no decent human being could do the things that they do to "their" workforce.
Good joke though, I totally agree. I also think that ballmer led through coercion and intimidation because psychopaths have no fear but know how to create it in others.
Yes, I did lower-case the fat sweaty pig, so?
Are you claiming that you passed basic high school biology? Did they compare newly born humans to other mammals in that class? I was mostly asleep so I am curious.
Nothing useful will happen, they'll just go postal on their local boss and fellow co-workers (co-victims) and never address the true source of their pain.
Provide citations on how the rich are subsidizing the country please. I don't think this has ever been done before, not sure why. Please also define what "the rich" are. Thanks in advance.
And yet, Germany's economy is kicking ass while the US sinks further and further into third-world status. Socialism works, the proof is there. Discuss infrastructure, quality of products, unionization, health care, health care costs vs outcomes, education, education costs, social welfare, incarceration rates, child poverty, child welfare...
Steve? Did you throw a chair? Did it go far? At what point did you throw the chair?
It isn't that drugs are invented by academics/taxpayers, it is that they carry out the fundamental research that makes possible the "inventions" by the drug companies. The fundamental research is a huge part of the labor and cost and it is being borne by the taxpayer. As the AC below implies, a tremendous amount of the cost incurred by big pharma is in sales, marketing, lobbying and legal, and some with the trials to bring a drug to "market".
So if you would be so kind, address that point as well as the other points regarding drugs being able to be sold by the generics companies for cheaper than the brand namers can even _manufacture_ them. What is wrong with the production process at the brand name companies that they cost so much more to make?
Once you hit the "patent cliff", then the generics will pounce, and begin producing and selling your product for less than it costs you to make.
So you are saying that generic manufacturers are better at manufacturing than the patent holders? Is that because patent holders don't care about setting up an efficient system like the generics do? Really, the generics can sell (presumably making some profit as they are a business) at less than it costs for the patent holders to manufacture? Or is it because they are seeking unreasonable profits and are unwilling to compete on quality of product alone once a generic comes along that can do things better and cheaper than they can?
You also forgot to mention how in the US much of the early research is borne by the government (read taxpayers) and the pharmaceutical giants come in and take what we paid for, build on it and then sell it to us at extortionate prices.
I have a very rational hatred of Thomas Edison, why is your wife's hatred of him irrational unlike mine?
But would they have advanced like the USA did? Would they have had the most expensive college educations? Spend more per capita on medical rate? Would they have achieved massive obesity rates? High heart disease rates and diabetes rates? We're number one! We're number one!
Sounds like the market at work. Good all-around I think to finally start properly accounting for "externalities". Maybe we can start working on environmental degradation next...
There are minimum speeds required on highways which is partly why bikes and pedestrians are often not allowed on them. The idiot doing 5 on the highway might be very at fault on this one with much less on the person driving at a nominal highway speed.
Yeah, add obesity to her list of problems, way to help her out.
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Animal Farm was propaganda designed to make you think exactly that. Why do you think it was deemed a "classic" and required reading for the smart kids? I'll tell you why, so they could all think alike and line up when more kool-aid was offered.
I guess someone should start filing FOIA forms at all police departments, or at least for the major ones.
It has been proven in studies that they behave like jack-booted thugs because they look like jack-booted thugs. It isn't the way people react to them, it is the way they are costumed that makes them behave according to their image. Try it for yourself, dress up in a similar style, check if you don't also start to behave like an authoritarian prick.
We should be privy to the data shouldn't we?
Your client's defense could be that his operation is so fantastic that there is no way at all that any molecules escaped the confining vessel and none were outside of the vessel either because you run a clean operation with well trained packing staff in a clean room environment. You present pictures of your clean room and documentation of your IS0-2000 drug packing process to show that given your level of preparation there was no way the dog would have found anything at all. Therefore the dog signaled on cue and the arrest is invalid.
The Mafia provides protection too...
224 houses on 52 acres sounds like sprawling suburbs. Housing density is way too low and the amount of homes won't even make a ding, he should plunk down like 2,500 houses or condos or townhomes so that they price out closer to what a family can afford. What will soon happen is that the house will be sold at closer to their market value of $1 million dollars each and George Lucas will net a tidy profit and decide to become a real estate tycoon.
Yes, but I think in this case it was just plain stupidity. Possibly criminally stupid stupidity. The board is also to blame for abdicating their responsibility to get information from independent sources not just from the "board packet".
Really? They paid? I though we the taxpayers paid when they were handed bailouts.
Your last two sentences contradict your first four, make up your mind. yo.