I don't want to get gangrene from my prescription obtained from Finland.
Don't worry, you can still get gangrene from your prescription obtained in the good old USA. There are over two million adverse drug reactions to FDA approved drugs per year.
No, I expect humanity will choke itself on it's own wastes, like yeast in a jar of sugar water that eventually produces toxic concentrations of ethanol. That doesn't mean we should encourage it, even yeast isn't that stupid.
There are a lot of uninsured and underinsured people out there. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, and you'll be out $150 of grocery money if you take an office visit (not to mention the time off of work you won't be getting paid for), then self-diagnosis on the Web and foreign pharmacies start looking like attractive options.
This is what people are forced to do in a for profit health care industry.
The FDA is enforcing trademarks for US business interests. Nothing more, nothing less. They might stop someone from taking a harmful counterfeit drug, but they will also stop many from getting the drugs they need. Whether the former is greater than the latter, I doubt if they considered for an instant.
Run it out. Leave us with nothing. Then the 200 years of damage is unlikely to do much (on geological scales) to the planet at all long-term
Releasing hundreds of millions of years worth of CO2 in 200 years is going to do more damage than releasing it in 2000 or 200,000. The problem isn't the CO2, all that CO2 came from the atmosphere at one point. The problem is a rapid change in CO2 causing rapid changes in climate that species do not have time to adapt to.
If there's no detrimental effect of the pollution, then it's not really pollution. Therefore, anyone who cleans up pollution isn't doing it merely for the sake of cleaning up pollution, but to avoid the detrimental effects that make it pollution.
I think Governments need to be very very careful about going down this route. Should this go ahead I expect any ciminals to encrypt all their network traffic via a VPN or proxy as well as measrues such as sending emails encryped via PGP.
That's easy. It's already a crime in the UK to refuse to hand over encryption keys. They don't even have to prove that you have the encryption keys, or that the allegedly encrypted data is actually encrypted.
Before long mere use of encryption, or even possession of random data that could be mistaken for encrypted data will be illegal in the UK.
I don't know where the solutions to these problems lay.
I do. Warrants. If you need data, get yourself probable cause and present it to a judge. If you don't have probable cause, fuck off and die. If you have probable cause, you'll get your warrant, and you can record the data you had probable cause to believe would provide evidence for a crime.
How is this difficult in any way? I mean, let's apply your logic to other times when a warrant would be required:
They are responsible for enforcing the law and creating an effective justice system. This is incredibly difficult for them to do given the scope of activities that can (and do) take place in the home. After all, you can't exactly place a police officer on a beat to keep the peace without having some sort of domestic monitoring. Likewise, you cannot collect evidence to prove innocence or guilt without maintaining some sort of record of domestic activity.
Does it make more sense to you now just how wrongheaded your post was?
Is Sweden all that safe anymore? After the issues with The Pirate Bay and Julian Assange, and crazy shit like this, Sweden doesn't seem that appealing anymore.
Stagflation isn't a depression. Relative to the great depression, and the crisis we're in today, the 1970s were a speedbump. I'm not ignorant of our history, I just view it in context.
Yes, because banks never collapsed before the FDIC. There were never any bubbles before the creation of the Fed.
If you actually look at history, the period between the great depression and the 1980s were among the least financially turbulent in history. We learned our lessons after the great depression, and that served us well for 50 years until "free market" types like yourself decided banks didn't need to be regulated.
Were there bubbles in the meantime? Yes, but they were far milder than they would have been otherwise.
But I'll bite. A computer is a tool and kids need to start somewhere to learn how to use it. At this level, giving them a linux shell will drive them away while giving them a fun machine might tempt them to delve deeper while still teaching them the basics of using a computer.
I wouldn't advocate giving the kids a unix shell. I'd advocate giving them something like Blockly and teaching them logic. Teaching a basic understanding of logic is so much more important than training them in the popular application du jour.
While it would be nice for everyone to be a mechanic, a doctor, a plumber, a software engineer and a dentist, it's just not practical or realistic.
I agree entirely, which is why I stress education and not training. Not everyone needs to be a doctor, but everyone needs to know that organisms are made from cells. Not everyone needs to be a mechanic, but everyone needs to know that gasoline and oxygen react to create CO2 and energy.
It's important that people don't see the world as full of black boxes.
In the US there are very few large scale organizations that are not businesses, and violence is bad for business; there is not that much of it. A good example of this kidnapping, extortion, protection rackets, are usually small-scale.
Then explain the government's War on Drug Users. It turns out kidnapping and extorting harmless pot smokers is very good for business.
Also, there's nothing voluntary about losing your job because your employer can't get a short term loan to cover your paycheck because their bank didn't have enough cash in reserve.
Deciding how to invest one's money is productive work.
Sure, it produces wealth for the investor. If it produces anything of value for anyone else, it's at best a happy accident. More often we'd get a better value for the capital without rent seeking capitalists.
If you think the government can do better I have a word for you: Solyndra.
If you think the private sector can do better than the government, I have a bunch of words for you. The NIH, NASA, the US Armed Forces, the national interstate system, your public library system, the US postal service, etc., etc., etc.
And let's not forget our friends in the private investement banking system. Compare the fraud and waste that happened in Solyndra and the fraud and waste that happened in the 2008 financial crisis. Ask yourself why you care more about Solyndra. Could it be because you get your political opinions from Rush Limbaugh?
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I have chronic migraine (serious pain every 3-5 days, I've seen all the best doctors nearby and no one can help me)
Have you tried low doses of psilocybin mushrooms?
These types of online places aren't in it for the altruism - they are in it for profit, and preying on the weak.
And why do you think the pharmaceutical industry is in it?
I don't want to get gangrene from my prescription obtained from Finland.
Don't worry, you can still get gangrene from your prescription obtained in the good old USA. There are over two million adverse drug reactions to FDA approved drugs per year.
National Security is a threat to National Security. Anyone who uses National Security as an excuse should be locked up to protect National Security.
No, I expect humanity will choke itself on it's own wastes, like yeast in a jar of sugar water that eventually produces toxic concentrations of ethanol. That doesn't mean we should encourage it, even yeast isn't that stupid.
There are a lot of uninsured and underinsured people out there. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, and you'll be out $150 of grocery money if you take an office visit (not to mention the time off of work you won't be getting paid for), then self-diagnosis on the Web and foreign pharmacies start looking like attractive options.
This is what people are forced to do in a for profit health care industry.
The FDA is enforcing trademarks for US business interests. Nothing more, nothing less. They might stop someone from taking a harmful counterfeit drug, but they will also stop many from getting the drugs they need. Whether the former is greater than the latter, I doubt if they considered for an instant.
Run it out. Leave us with nothing. Then the 200 years of damage is unlikely to do much (on geological scales) to the planet at all long-term
Releasing hundreds of millions of years worth of CO2 in 200 years is going to do more damage than releasing it in 2000 or 200,000. The problem isn't the CO2, all that CO2 came from the atmosphere at one point. The problem is a rapid change in CO2 causing rapid changes in climate that species do not have time to adapt to.
That makes a powerful argument in favor of open source. Could drop all the older SSE versions if only all programs could be easily recompiled.
If the CPU can convert x86 instructions to RISC, why couldn't that be done in software?
If there's no detrimental effect of the pollution, then it's not really pollution. Therefore, anyone who cleans up pollution isn't doing it merely for the sake of cleaning up pollution, but to avoid the detrimental effects that make it pollution.
Indeed. Why skype when SIP supports video?
Again, small potatoes compared to the Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the numerous recessions that occured in the 1800s.
I think Governments need to be very very careful about going down this route. Should this go ahead I expect any ciminals to encrypt all their network traffic via a VPN or proxy as well as measrues such as sending emails encryped via PGP.
That's easy. It's already a crime in the UK to refuse to hand over encryption keys. They don't even have to prove that you have the encryption keys, or that the allegedly encrypted data is actually encrypted.
Before long mere use of encryption, or even possession of random data that could be mistaken for encrypted data will be illegal in the UK.
I don't know where the solutions to these problems lay.
I do. Warrants. If you need data, get yourself probable cause and present it to a judge. If you don't have probable cause, fuck off and die. If you have probable cause, you'll get your warrant, and you can record the data you had probable cause to believe would provide evidence for a crime.
How is this difficult in any way? I mean, let's apply your logic to other times when a warrant would be required:
Does it make more sense to you now just how wrongheaded your post was?
perhaps Sweden or Norway
Is Sweden all that safe anymore? After the issues with The Pirate Bay and Julian Assange, and crazy shit like this, Sweden doesn't seem that appealing anymore.
Aimbots are actually FPS cheats, not RPG.
Yeah, but who can tell the difference anymore?
Stagflation isn't a depression. Relative to the great depression, and the crisis we're in today, the 1970s were a speedbump. I'm not ignorant of our history, I just view it in context.
How often do you actually need to see what's behind the window that has focus?
Yes, because banks never collapsed before the FDIC. There were never any bubbles before the creation of the Fed.
If you actually look at history, the period between the great depression and the 1980s were among the least financially turbulent in history. We learned our lessons after the great depression, and that served us well for 50 years until "free market" types like yourself decided banks didn't need to be regulated.
Were there bubbles in the meantime? Yes, but they were far milder than they would have been otherwise.
But I'll bite. A computer is a tool and kids need to start somewhere to learn how to use it. At this level, giving them a linux shell will drive them away while giving them a fun machine might tempt them to delve deeper while still teaching them the basics of using a computer.
I wouldn't advocate giving the kids a unix shell. I'd advocate giving them something like Blockly and teaching them logic. Teaching a basic understanding of logic is so much more important than training them in the popular application du jour.
While it would be nice for everyone to be a mechanic, a doctor, a plumber, a software engineer and a dentist, it's just not practical or realistic.
I agree entirely, which is why I stress education and not training. Not everyone needs to be a doctor, but everyone needs to know that organisms are made from cells. Not everyone needs to be a mechanic, but everyone needs to know that gasoline and oxygen react to create CO2 and energy.
It's important that people don't see the world as full of black boxes.
Those "happy accidents" are actually carefully planned and executed business operations.
Carefully planned to maximize returns to the shareholder, not to society as a whole.
Space/X and a number of other private space ventures are proving you wrong about NASA.
Only by building on decades of government research.
And with regards to the private investment banking system, I give you John Corzine, Obama fundraiser, bundler, and investment swindler extraordinaire.
True enough. Corzine should be in federal PMITA prison right next to Blankfein.
In the US there are very few large scale organizations that are not businesses, and violence is bad for business; there is not that much of it. A good example of this kidnapping, extortion, protection rackets, are usually small-scale.
Then explain the government's War on Drug Users. It turns out kidnapping and extorting harmless pot smokers is very good for business.
Also, there's nothing voluntary about losing your job because your employer can't get a short term loan to cover your paycheck because their bank didn't have enough cash in reserve.
My point is that a business that satisfies consumer demand (and I did put the word VOLUNTARY there, by the way), is not a crime.
What consumer demanded securities based on loans that were known to be over 90% fraudulent?
Banking doesn't have to be a criminal enterprise, but as long as they're allowed to get away with stuff like that, it will be.
Deciding how to invest one's money is productive work.
Sure, it produces wealth for the investor. If it produces anything of value for anyone else, it's at best a happy accident. More often we'd get a better value for the capital without rent seeking capitalists.
If you think the government can do better I have a word for you: Solyndra.
If you think the private sector can do better than the government, I have a bunch of words for you. The NIH, NASA, the US Armed Forces, the national interstate system, your public library system, the US postal service, etc., etc., etc.
And let's not forget our friends in the private investement banking system. Compare the fraud and waste that happened in Solyndra and the fraud and waste that happened in the 2008 financial crisis. Ask yourself why you care more about Solyndra. Could it be because you get your political opinions from Rush Limbaugh?