The key concept here is that the money wasn't donated in the hopes that that party would win an election, or that the doners agree with that party's beliefs. It's bribe money, pure and simple.
In 2009, Teva Pharmaceuticals filed an ANDA to market a generic EpiPen in collaboration with Antares Pharma Inc, a maker of injection systems; Pfizer and King sued them for infringing US Patent 7,449,012 that was due to expire in 2025;[29] Pfizer, Mylan, and Teva settled in April 2012 in a deal that allowed Teva to start selling the device in mid-2015, pending FDA approval.[30]
That's easy. We declare war and let the military do it. Say we are at war with ISIS or whoever and monitor their communications like the military complex would do in any other war.
Of course domestic lone wolves would be off limits like they should be anyway. You can't be guilty of a crime without actually committing one. Obviously we've gone too far requiring ID and and recording such information any time someone buys a pressure cooker, right? Right?
I've never seen that quote before. But as someone who is a small cog in the industry, what she said about the FDA is absolutely true.
Rising drug costs? The FDA is complicit. Drugs approved without being properly vetted? The FDA is complicit.
Vaccines are great and everything, but do we really need to require thousands of dollars in vaccines for things like chicken pox before a child can go to public school? It's great that insurance hides this cost for most, but I have seen the other side where people have fallen through the cracks in Medicaid and Obamacare. These poor, both in terms of wealth and luck, people needing to get their five year olds caught up before school needing $1200 for the first round.
It was $1200 because government required it, not because of free market. Just like Epipen. Just like so many common generic drugs the FDA pulls from the market as being "unsafe" and then a single patented brand medication takes their place at 100x to 1000x the cost.
Then there is manufacturer collusion where a common drug all of a sudden has "manufacturing" issues and it's not available from any manufacturer. Then in a month or two it's available again, but only from a single source, and yes it's still generic, but at 4x the cost.
This is mostly hidden from "consumers" because insurance. You are still paying your $4 copay. But the costs on the back end are high. Meaning less money for labor, so long lines and wait times at the pharmacy. Higher costs for the insurers mean higher premiums. So all that anger gets thrown at the pharmacy and the insurers. The guys at the top are laughing all the way to the bank.
Using the no-fly list to keep bad guys from guns is a terrible idea, here is why:
1. The government can place anyone on the no-fly list for any reason at any time. They could easily just place everyone on the no-fly list banning everyone from buying/owning guns. Only the bad guys will have guns.
2. You say that won't happen? Innocent people are placed on that list all the time, and you cannot be removed:
4. What exactly is the no-fly list for? To keep foreign bad guys out of the country, or to keep bad guys from blowing up planes? What does either of those things have anything to do with gun control? It is already against the law for non-resident aliens to possess firearms and ammunition. What does blowing up a plane have anything to do with guns? So the only reason to use the no-fly list as a means for gun control would be to keep American citizens from possessing.
None of the shooters in any of the mass shootings were on the no-fly list.
It's just a bad idea that can and will be abused to keep law abiding citizens from possessing guns, which the federal government has no legal power to do.
If you actually want to solve the mass shooting problem, and not just use fear to remove freedoms from individuals with thunderous applause, this is what I propose:
Let guns be in schools. As part of P.E. or even on its own, students will be in a firearm safety course. They will be target practicing. They will be tearing their guns down. They will be cleaning their firearms. They will be using hand guns, and rifles, and shotguns, etc. They will be taught that they are tools just like the circular saw or the welder in shop class, or knives and scissors in art class and home economics. They will take this class every year they are old enough to hold a weapon safely.
Just like at 16, when they are given a license to operate a tool that "kills" on average 3,287 people per day, at 18 they will take a test and if passed they will get a concealed carry license issued by their state of residence. The CCL will be valid in every state and territory of this nation. All of our children will be taught to not fear guns, and if they so chose they will be armed. That way the next time someone decides to bring a semi auto rifle to a night club to kill innocent people, that person would potentially be staring down a hundred barrels of trained good guys.
There will be no fear for the government to use to tighten gun control. People will not fear guns and will know how to use them. There will not be a gun control problem. Who knows, if everyone is armed, perhaps people may be more respectful to each other.
The bill of rights is a limitation on the powers of Congress.
"The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any matter dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The second Amendment means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress, and has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the National Government." - 92 U.S. 542 (1875)
When trying to control the costs of healthcare, this metric means the reverse of what you think it means. Insurance increases the costs of healthcare, it does not reduce it.
And yes, the trend of increasing costs that existed before Obamacare has continued.
Yes, because the crashing economy put more people on Medicaid, increasing healthcare costs. In many localities, the local healthcare system is the only sector of the local economy that has shown any growth for years.
The point of copyright is to have a long enough period to encourage people to make their own works.
I'm going to nit pick this, but don't take it personally because I think you get it, but the overwhelming majority don't. Whenever people say/write this I think they believe its the exclusivity itself that is the motivator for artists to create works. I totally reject this idea. Read this sampling of how musicians feel about online "piracy."
My take away from it are that the artists either don't care or are encouraged by it. To them, their art is an experience. It's either the experience of going to a show to witness a live performance, or like Jack Black's comment, holding the vinyl and seeing the album art in its bigger than life glory and reading all the extras in the album notes. No amount of copying is going to stop people from going to live shows, and no amount of copying can hurt real album sales. The recording industry got cheap and lazy and shot themselves on the foot when they reduced themselves to being the packagers of only 1s and 0s.
Its the old guys that are attempting to live off the residuals and the royalties of stuff they did 20, 30, 40 years ago that dislike it so much. I took Prince's comment as "Shit, if I can't make my % on sales, I am going to have to get off my ass and work again."
And now, to my point, I argue that it's "for limited Times" which serves as the motivator for artists to create. That copyright expires is the most important part in the copyright clause. If I write a book or two, win success roulette, and maybe get a movie deal which nets me enough money for me to be more than comfortable for the rest of my life, my children's lives, and most of my children's children's lives, why would me or my children work? Pure greed, more money? Greed doesn't make for good art.
I'm getting off the path now, but its the same story with healthcare in America. The people were tricked by the leeches to believe that the cause of excessively high healthcare costs (insurance) is the solution . The problem with copyright / being able to create new works is that copyright lasts too long.
Nullification is a term that means that states could reject or nullify a law passed by Congress if they do not like the law. Think about it for a minute.
Isn't that how we avoided national id's? Being from Washington state, I can tell you that's how we and Colorado have recreational marijuana sales. The federal government is rarely benign nor correct. Sure you can point to things like civil rights being dictated to the states from the federal government, but they have always had to be fought for and usually paid for in blood in spite of the federal government.
I personally think Elon Musk is overhyped. I argue that the SpaceX cofounder, Tom Mueller, was more important that Elon Musk. If Mueller had the money, he could have founded SpaceX.
Overhyped or not, at least the man is using his money to move humanity forward towards the future we as children believed we would have been a part of by adulthood. The United States government would rather waste it on fighting undeclared wars around the globe than invest in good science. The other 1% would rather "fight" malaria, buy up entertainment companies, or let it sit in offshore accounts or floating around in the stock market where in reality its not doing anything productive.
If more of the 1% were like Musk, society would be much better off.
Watch this guy's talk. It was a real eye opener for me. We've been taught since the 80's that fat and cholesterol is bad. But the overwhelming failure of this idea has done more harm over the last 30 years and instead of blaming the failure of the theory, we've been blaming ourselves. He brings up CDC charts on how obesity as grown in the US over the last 30 years after the fat=bad theory was accepted as fact, and its just damning.
I saw a link to this from a slashdotter on another story and after I watched it, I was sold. I got up off my butt, threw away all the cereals and breads in the house and went full bore. I started at 6'-0" 220lbs and lost the extra 20 the first month. I've plateaued since then, but despite my weight staying the same, I am still getting noticeably leaner in my legs, arms, and face. I believe this coincides with this study where participants on the LCHF diet gained more lean muscle mass despite no increase in exercise.
My wife hasn't been so lucky. She couldn't last a day being carb restricted. She is definitely addicted to carbs. She has to have pop/soda. Low carb dishes that I make that I find tasty and flavorful (after all they are full of fat) she doesn't eat much of because she says they lack flavor. She always has to supplement her lack of eating the meal proper with a sugary treat. Its very sad for me to watch because she was able to stop smoking cold turkey.
Quite interesting. Especially since San Jose's was purchased with a federal grant. Quick google search brings up an article that Dept of Homeland Security payed for Seattle's, too, and is handing out free money for other police departments to make similar purchases.
I have all those games (except tribes... don't have linux tribes) plus a few extra like Railroad Tycoon 2 and Neverwinter Nights running native and great on my Athlon 64 X2 6000+ on Debian Jessie 64-bit. There are a few howtos to get the old libraries you need. Then to run them for best compatibility, have them run on 1 cpu with the frequency locked to something like 1ghz. Runs great, runs native. The only downside from the windows versions is you don't get EAX effects.
If you want to run the old software on old hardware, work on building a "dos box" with parts from the appropriate era. I currently have an older P2 machine with an AWE64 and a voodoo3 I am enjoying dos games on. Its been fun buying games of GOG and throwing them on there. Been thinking about putting an old Linux distribution on it. I have a Corel Linux disc I was thinking about running. I also had OPENSTEP on there for a day or two before I had the sound card.
I've worked with a few Chinese. When we've gotten comfortable with each other enough to be non-pc they've said
When westerners discover a new animal, they look at it in amazement and want to make it their pet. When Chinese discover a new animal, we try to think of the best way to cook it.
What is the HDMI input used for? I might be wrong (don't own one), but I thought that's what it was for.
I believe its just a pass through. Lets say your TV only has one HDMI input, you can plug your xbone into the tv, and then your homebrew steam machine into the xbone HDMI port and not have to swap cables or get a switch box.
Oh man, that is sad. Doesn't seem that long ago I was looking for helmet cams to use mountain biking, and they were all devices that connected to a recorder through firewire. Just needed a camcorder or laptop in your bag to do the recording. I must be quite a bit older than I thought.
I agree that this is one of those rare instances where the consumer is being protected. But lets not fool ourselves, this law is not there to protect consumers as much as its there to protect the ruling elite from having their tastes in pornography becoming public knowledge.
Slashdot Mirror
The key concept here is that the money wasn't donated in the hopes that that party would win an election, or that the doners agree with that party's beliefs. It's bribe money, pure and simple.
From the Wikipedia:
In 2009, Teva Pharmaceuticals filed an ANDA to market a generic EpiPen in collaboration with Antares Pharma Inc, a maker of injection systems; Pfizer and King sued them for infringing US Patent 7,449,012 that was due to expire in 2025;[29] Pfizer, Mylan, and Teva settled in April 2012 in a deal that allowed Teva to start selling the device in mid-2015, pending FDA approval.[30]
That's easy. We declare war and let the military do it. Say we are at war with ISIS or whoever and monitor their communications like the military complex would do in any other war.
Of course domestic lone wolves would be off limits like they should be anyway. You can't be guilty of a crime without actually committing one. Obviously we've gone too far requiring ID and and recording such information any time someone buys a pressure cooker, right? Right?
I've never seen that quote before. But as someone who is a small cog in the industry, what she said about the FDA is absolutely true.
Rising drug costs? The FDA is complicit. Drugs approved without being properly vetted? The FDA is complicit.
Vaccines are great and everything, but do we really need to require thousands of dollars in vaccines for things like chicken pox before a child can go to public school? It's great that insurance hides this cost for most, but I have seen the other side where people have fallen through the cracks in Medicaid and Obamacare. These poor, both in terms of wealth and luck, people needing to get their five year olds caught up before school needing $1200 for the first round.
It was $1200 because government required it, not because of free market. Just like Epipen. Just like so many common generic drugs the FDA pulls from the market as being "unsafe" and then a single patented brand medication takes their place at 100x to 1000x the cost.
Then there is manufacturer collusion where a common drug all of a sudden has "manufacturing" issues and it's not available from any manufacturer. Then in a month or two it's available again, but only from a single source, and yes it's still generic, but at 4x the cost.
This is mostly hidden from "consumers" because insurance. You are still paying your $4 copay. But the costs on the back end are high. Meaning less money for labor, so long lines and wait times at the pharmacy. Higher costs for the insurers mean higher premiums. So all that anger gets thrown at the pharmacy and the insurers. The guys at the top are laughing all the way to the bank.
Using the no-fly list to keep bad guys from guns is a terrible idea, here is why:
None of the shooters in any of the mass shootings were on the no-fly list.
It's just a bad idea that can and will be abused to keep law abiding citizens from possessing guns, which the federal government has no legal power to do.
If you actually want to solve the mass shooting problem, and not just use fear to remove freedoms from individuals with thunderous applause, this is what I propose:
Let guns be in schools. As part of P.E. or even on its own, students will be in a firearm safety course. They will be target practicing. They will be tearing their guns down. They will be cleaning their firearms. They will be using hand guns, and rifles, and shotguns, etc. They will be taught that they are tools just like the circular saw or the welder in shop class, or knives and scissors in art class and home economics. They will take this class every year they are old enough to hold a weapon safely.
Just like at 16, when they are given a license to operate a tool that "kills" on average 3,287 people per day, at 18 they will take a test and if passed they will get a concealed carry license issued by their state of residence. The CCL will be valid in every state and territory of this nation. All of our children will be taught to not fear guns, and if they so chose they will be armed. That way the next time someone decides to bring a semi auto rifle to a night club to kill innocent people, that person would potentially be staring down a hundred barrels of trained good guys.
There will be no fear for the government to use to tighten gun control. People will not fear guns and will know how to use them. There will not be a gun control problem. Who knows, if everyone is armed, perhaps people may be more respectful to each other.
Exactly.
The bill of rights is a limitation on the powers of Congress.
"The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any matter dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The second Amendment means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress, and has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the National Government." - 92 U.S. 542 (1875)
Coverage is greater than before Obamacare.
When trying to control the costs of healthcare, this metric means the reverse of what you think it means. Insurance increases the costs of healthcare, it does not reduce it.
And yes, the trend of increasing costs that existed before Obamacare has continued.
Yes, because the crashing economy put more people on Medicaid, increasing healthcare costs. In many localities, the local healthcare system is the only sector of the local economy that has shown any growth for years.
I wasn't much impressed, either. Plus I remembered a much better attempt from more than a decade ago, slashdot coverage here.
The point of copyright is to have a long enough period to encourage people to make their own works.
I'm going to nit pick this, but don't take it personally because I think you get it, but the overwhelming majority don't. Whenever people say/write this I think they believe its the exclusivity itself that is the motivator for artists to create works. I totally reject this idea. Read this sampling of how musicians feel about online "piracy."
My take away from it are that the artists either don't care or are encouraged by it. To them, their art is an experience. It's either the experience of going to a show to witness a live performance, or like Jack Black's comment, holding the vinyl and seeing the album art in its bigger than life glory and reading all the extras in the album notes. No amount of copying is going to stop people from going to live shows, and no amount of copying can hurt real album sales. The recording industry got cheap and lazy and shot themselves on the foot when they reduced themselves to being the packagers of only 1s and 0s.
Its the old guys that are attempting to live off the residuals and the royalties of stuff they did 20, 30, 40 years ago that dislike it so much. I took Prince's comment as "Shit, if I can't make my % on sales, I am going to have to get off my ass and work again."
And now, to my point, I argue that it's "for limited Times" which serves as the motivator for artists to create. That copyright expires is the most important part in the copyright clause. If I write a book or two, win success roulette, and maybe get a movie deal which nets me enough money for me to be more than comfortable for the rest of my life, my children's lives, and most of my children's children's lives, why would me or my children work? Pure greed, more money? Greed doesn't make for good art.
I'm getting off the path now, but its the same story with healthcare in America. The people were tricked by the leeches to believe that the cause of excessively high healthcare costs (insurance) is the solution . The problem with copyright / being able to create new works is that copyright lasts too long.
PROGMAN.EXE! They kept it in with every Windows release until XP SP1. If you really want to take a look at it again, here are is some instructions.
Nullification is a term that means that states could reject or nullify a law passed by Congress if they do not like the law. Think about it for a minute.
Isn't that how we avoided national id's? Being from Washington state, I can tell you that's how we and Colorado have recreational marijuana sales. The federal government is rarely benign nor correct. Sure you can point to things like civil rights being dictated to the states from the federal government, but they have always had to be fought for and usually paid for in blood in spite of the federal government.
I personally think Elon Musk is overhyped. I argue that the SpaceX cofounder, Tom Mueller, was more important that Elon Musk. If Mueller had the money, he could have founded SpaceX.
Overhyped or not, at least the man is using his money to move humanity forward towards the future we as children believed we would have been a part of by adulthood. The United States government would rather waste it on fighting undeclared wars around the globe than invest in good science. The other 1% would rather "fight" malaria, buy up entertainment companies, or let it sit in offshore accounts or floating around in the stock market where in reality its not doing anything productive.
If more of the 1% were like Musk, society would be much better off.
Watch this guy's talk. It was a real eye opener for me. We've been taught since the 80's that fat and cholesterol is bad. But the overwhelming failure of this idea has done more harm over the last 30 years and instead of blaming the failure of the theory, we've been blaming ourselves. He brings up CDC charts on how obesity as grown in the US over the last 30 years after the fat=bad theory was accepted as fact, and its just damning.
I saw a link to this from a slashdotter on another story and after I watched it, I was sold. I got up off my butt, threw away all the cereals and breads in the house and went full bore. I started at 6'-0" 220lbs and lost the extra 20 the first month. I've plateaued since then, but despite my weight staying the same, I am still getting noticeably leaner in my legs, arms, and face. I believe this coincides with this study where participants on the LCHF diet gained more lean muscle mass despite no increase in exercise.
My wife hasn't been so lucky. She couldn't last a day being carb restricted. She is definitely addicted to carbs. She has to have pop/soda. Low carb dishes that I make that I find tasty and flavorful (after all they are full of fat) she doesn't eat much of because she says they lack flavor. She always has to supplement her lack of eating the meal proper with a sugary treat. Its very sad for me to watch because she was able to stop smoking cold turkey.
...but is turned back on by the feds at will.
Quite interesting. Especially since San Jose's was purchased with a federal grant. Quick google search brings up an article that Dept of Homeland Security payed for Seattle's, too, and is handing out free money for other police departments to make similar purchases.
I have all those games (except tribes... don't have linux tribes) plus a few extra like Railroad Tycoon 2 and Neverwinter Nights running native and great on my Athlon 64 X2 6000+ on Debian Jessie 64-bit. There are a few howtos to get the old libraries you need. Then to run them for best compatibility, have them run on 1 cpu with the frequency locked to something like 1ghz. Runs great, runs native. The only downside from the windows versions is you don't get EAX effects.
If you want to run the old software on old hardware, work on building a "dos box" with parts from the appropriate era. I currently have an older P2 machine with an AWE64 and a voodoo3 I am enjoying dos games on. Its been fun buying games of GOG and throwing them on there. Been thinking about putting an old Linux distribution on it. I have a Corel Linux disc I was thinking about running. I also had OPENSTEP on there for a day or two before I had the sound card.
Open source or not, you can't trust anything even with code audits:
Dennis Ritchie's back door
I've worked with a few Chinese. When we've gotten comfortable with each other enough to be non-pc they've said
When westerners discover a new animal, they look at it in amazement and want to make it their pet. When Chinese discover a new animal, we try to think of the best way to cook it.
It's 3.2 GHz, hyperthreaded, with an Altivec unit.Probably more capable than the CPU's on all those WinXP machines still running.
Though its not necessarily the PowerPC's fault, try running flash on the thing and see which feels more capable.
Anyone else remember the awesomeness that was the KDE 3 series?
What is the HDMI input used for? I might be wrong (don't own one), but I thought that's what it was for.
I believe its just a pass through. Lets say your TV only has one HDMI input, you can plug your xbone into the tv, and then your homebrew steam machine into the xbone HDMI port and not have to swap cables or get a switch box.
Oh man, that is sad. Doesn't seem that long ago I was looking for helmet cams to use mountain biking, and they were all devices that connected to a recorder through firewire. Just needed a camcorder or laptop in your bag to do the recording. I must be quite a bit older than I thought.
This. Firewire was designed for video. Almost all video equipment of the era had firewire ports. Pro and prosumer video cams still do.
I agree that this is one of those rare instances where the consumer is being protected. But lets not fool ourselves, this law is not there to protect consumers as much as its there to protect the ruling elite from having their tastes in pornography becoming public knowledge.
I thought I remembered that on XP. Just checked, that checkbox exists on Windows 7 as well.
LOL, does that still exist?
Guess not. Ended after Windows 98. I remember using it fondly, though my dad got upset when I told him I turned it on.