Consider if the US had a terrorist organization who frequently attacked Iraq.
I think they're known as "the United States Air Force". You've been conducting a bombing campaign against Iraq for several years now. Are you too isolated in your own little world to know this? Well, your little world just got hit by two hijacked airliners, and is currently drifting away on the New York breeze. Time for you to find out how the outside world works, I think.
The US has recently weighed in massively on the side of Israel, and done nothing to help the Palestinian victims of Israeli terror attacks.
Peace has worked in the Middle East before, and if the US campaign of violence and intimidation against the Palestinians stopped, it might work again.
My capital has been repeatedly bombed by extremist terrorist groups for many years now. I support making peace with them, conceding to some of their demands, and releasing their captured prisoners of war from our jails.
If you liked Derek Jacobi's acting, then beg, buy, borrow or steal yourself a copy of [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000 4U12X/ref=bxgy_sr_text_a/103-5259752-1474263"]I, Claudius[/url].
Please note that LOTR is NOT an allegory of WWII. Apart from the fact that Tolkien completely rejected the idea, we have the following:
- large parts of the history of Middle Earth were written before the war.
- Mussolini is not even remotely similar to Saruman. Mussolini INVENTED fascism; he didn't copy it from Hitler, rather it was the other way around.
- the war in LOTR was won in a completely different manner to the real war
- where are the analogies to Russia and Japan in LOTR?
- where is the analogy to America? Saying that it's the Elves' Blessed Land is wrong, as Elves from there never get involved in the war, whereas I do recall America getting stuck in in WWII, however belatedly.
So our only real points of similarity are these:
- the hobbits are British and Britain was in WWII.
- Sauron is very evil, as was Hitler.
To say that a 1000+ page book is an analogy of WWII based only on those points is a little silly.
Ever read any of Grimm's fairy tales? Children who are kept out of the sickly saccharine embrace of Disney like death and violence and horror in their books. They're all "children's" books, in the sense that they can be read and understood by children.
Winamp is rubbish. I hate programs that think they're too important to use the proper look and feel. Hopefully Winamp will get steamrollered into oblivion by the release of XP, as it's a nasty POS.
Well...it's rotting. You know, rotting, going bad, decomposing, gone off. Why do you think people won't eat food if it's gone bad? Have you never heard of food poisoning? Do you not know why curry was invented?
And of course most of those 70,000 "bugs" were spelling mistakes and wildly-obscure-device driver problems, rather than Mozilla-like bugs such as "crashes repeatedly", "doesn't render web pages" and "none of the features seem to have been finished".
Like I said to some other poster: if we wanted to donate these drugs to these countries, by putting a couple of percent on income taxes to pay for it, that would be fine. Fancy that? Then campaign and vote for it. Don't be surprised if the drugs companies campaign against having their investments stolen, though.
I don't see anything wrong with helping people. But disincentivising drug companies from putting money into diseases affecting the developing world is a pretty fucking stupid way of helping anyone.
Enterprise? One time magic pill that cures everything? Are you some sort of pathetic nerd? Fuck off, geek, and come back when you know what the hell you're talking about. None of your situations are remotely realistic or have any bearing on the current situation: the appropriation by a government of millions of dollars worth of private property and the consequest long term damage to the health industry and prospects for disease treatment that that entails.
It's not difficult for governments to raise funds?
Well, yeah, maybe if they're the US, an EU country or Japan. For everyone else, they're busy trying to figure out how to reschedule their IMF debt so they can perhaps one day have an economy.
Fine. Unfortunately, until such a time as that happens, these countries haven't got the money to buy AIDS drugs, so they don't get them, just like they don't get to, for example, annexe oil wells belonging to other countries in order to improve their financial position. Now if we wanted to donate these drugs to these countries, by putting a couple of percent on income taxes to pay for it, that would be fine. Fancy that? Then campaign and vote for it. Just because someone is poor does not give them the right to be a theif.
Do governments want to pay for medicine to be developed? Yes. In fact they do. As noted before, check our (the US) budget for AIDS research.
Then the US should reap some of the benefit of that research. Brazil shouldn't. Do you see why? It's because the US PAID and Brazil DIDN'T. If the US votes to give some of it away: it's theirs, that's fine. If someone decides to steal it: fuck them.
I doubt our government was charging people for vaccinations.
I doubt that they WEREN'T. Or was there a sudden epidemic of "no one paying tax" around the time of polio?
there's a time and a place for commerce.
Yep. And the time and place is now. Hopefully there'll be some way to sue Brazil until its pips squeak over this.
I hope the Brazilian government gets bitchslapped by as many international bodies as possible for this. Quite apart from the fact that these drugs aren't designed to be used in the conditions found in Brazil (which will mean that strains of HIV resistant to this treatment will be produced there), they didn't pay for it, so they don't get to have it. Shit, it's not difficult for governments to raise funds for this kind of thing - ever heard of taxes?
Do governments want to pay for medicine to be developed? No.
Do governments want to reap the benefits of that medicine? Hell, yes.
Will this lead to more or less investment by the drug companies in medicines suitable for developing world use? Work it out for yourself.
A service I have paid for not working for 10 days, or a service I have paid for not working for 10 days. If you are looking for a refund for the FIRST you should sit down and be quiet, IF you are looking for a refund for the SECOND then I APPLAUD your efforts.
Why the fuck should Qwest's customers bother about what caused the outage?
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Good luck with the whole "piss off millions of people so they crash aeroplanes into your capital" thing, though.
The US has recently weighed in massively on the side of Israel, and done nothing to help the Palestinian victims of Israeli terror attacks.
Peace has worked in the Middle East before, and if the US campaign of violence and intimidation against the Palestinians stopped, it might work again.
My capital has been repeatedly bombed by extremist terrorist groups for many years now. I support making peace with them, conceding to some of their demands, and releasing their captured prisoners of war from our jails.
Things like this have happened repeatedly here in the UK for years now. The only hope of stopping them is to make peace with the perpetrators.
Congratulations, you're a moron. I hope you die soon.
If you liked Derek Jacobi's acting, then beg, buy, borrow or steal yourself a copy of [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000 4U12X/ref=bxgy_sr_text_a/103-5259752-1474263"]I, Claudius[/url].
Please note that LOTR is NOT an allegory of WWII. Apart from the fact that Tolkien completely rejected the idea, we have the following:
- large parts of the history of Middle Earth were written before the war.
- Mussolini is not even remotely similar to Saruman. Mussolini INVENTED fascism; he didn't copy it from Hitler, rather it was the other way around.
- the war in LOTR was won in a completely different manner to the real war
- where are the analogies to Russia and Japan in LOTR?
- where is the analogy to America? Saying that it's the Elves' Blessed Land is wrong, as Elves from there never get involved in the war, whereas I do recall America getting stuck in in WWII, however belatedly.
So our only real points of similarity are these:
- the hobbits are British and Britain was in WWII.
- Sauron is very evil, as was Hitler.
To say that a 1000+ page book is an analogy of WWII based only on those points is a little silly.
Ever read any of Grimm's fairy tales? Children who are kept out of the sickly saccharine embrace of Disney like death and violence and horror in their books. They're all "children's" books, in the sense that they can be read and understood by children.
...it did leave us with some of the strangest railway stations ever. Go and look at St Pancras, and read Titus Groan.
Winamp is rubbish. I hate programs that think they're too important to use the proper look and feel. Hopefully Winamp will get steamrollered into oblivion by the release of XP, as it's a nasty POS.
Yeah, right, we're running an experiment on these mice. Sounds like they're taking a progress report back to somewhere beyond the tenth dimension.
I'm sure that if their new technique could produce Ringworlds, they would have told us on the press release.
Well...it's rotting. You know, rotting, going bad, decomposing, gone off. Why do you think people won't eat food if it's gone bad? Have you never heard of food poisoning? Do you not know why curry was invented?
And of course most of those 70,000 "bugs" were spelling mistakes and wildly-obscure-device driver problems, rather than Mozilla-like bugs such as "crashes repeatedly", "doesn't render web pages" and "none of the features seem to have been finished".
Like I said to some other poster: if we wanted to donate these drugs to these countries, by putting a couple of percent on income taxes to pay for it, that would be fine. Fancy that? Then campaign and vote for it. Don't be surprised if the drugs companies campaign against having their investments stolen, though.
I don't see anything wrong with helping people. But disincentivising drug companies from putting money into diseases affecting the developing world is a pretty fucking stupid way of helping anyone.
Enterprise? One time magic pill that cures everything? Are you some sort of pathetic nerd? Fuck off, geek, and come back when you know what the hell you're talking about. None of your situations are remotely realistic or have any bearing on the current situation: the appropriation by a government of millions of dollars worth of private property and the consequest long term damage to the health industry and prospects for disease treatment that that entails.
Not true. Read the article before posting, lamer.
And Brazil's contribution to the development of this drug was how much? Roughly? In dollars?
I'll take a wild guess: $0. They can have all the pills that that amount can buy for free, I won't argue.
What the hell? That's the dumbest thing ever. Try the following:
READ -> COMPREHEND -> POST
If the Brazilian government wants AIDS drugs, it should either
1) pay for them from the people who own them or
2) put the damn money in to research them in the first place
This is a really simple argument. Sorry that you didn't get it.
I hope the Brazilian government gets bitchslapped by as many international bodies as possible for this. Quite apart from the fact that these drugs aren't designed to be used in the conditions found in Brazil (which will mean that strains of HIV resistant to this treatment will be produced there), they didn't pay for it, so they don't get to have it. Shit, it's not difficult for governments to raise funds for this kind of thing - ever heard of taxes?
Do governments want to pay for medicine to be developed? No.
Do governments want to reap the benefits of that medicine? Hell, yes.
Will this lead to more or less investment by the drug companies in medicines suitable for developing world use? Work it out for yourself.
Your post translates into English as follows:
A service I have paid for not working for 10 days, or a service I have paid for not working for 10 days. If you are looking for a refund for the FIRST you should sit down and be quiet, IF you are looking for a refund for the SECOND then I APPLAUD your efforts.
Why the fuck should Qwest's customers bother about what caused the outage?