So what you're saying is that countries where half of the population has AIDS, need to pay up or wait 20 years for medication?
What you're saying is people should risk millions of dollars in development costs without being compensated?
Compromises that don't involve stealing inventions can be made that would help both parties. One of these would be giving an exemption to the "You must sell to us at the lowest cost you sell to anyone else" clauses that some developed nations helth care systems put into their contracts with drug makers. That way the drug companies can offer dirt cheap meds to poor countries and still make up their development costs and profits (incentives to risk developing new products) in richer countries. Abolishing the patent system is neither necessary nor prudent.
Patents are arguably more evil than slavery. Like 15 million impovrished Africans being sued in the world court not to purchase generic AIDS drugs from India... It's amazing the number of people we are willing to torture and kill in the name of fradulent property rights.
Hyperbole doesn't help your case. First of all, AIDS is a preventable disease. Second of all, agricultural import quotas and export subsidies by developed nations... coupled with poor property rights for Africans themselves (some of the countries are better than others, but just look at how Mugabe destryed Zimbabwe by taking away land from one group of people to give it to another group) hurt more Africans than patents do because they prevent (economically speaking) them from developing their own farming industry which would provide both food and enough income to purchase drugs legitmately. Besides, patents grant limited (only 20 years last time I checked) monopolies that allow profits to be made and THIS encourages investment in innovation. We would NOT be better off if it became unprofitable to develop new drugs in the first place.
Yep, that seems to be the only choice they have. But why would they even care about being listed? The whole point of having a stock listing is to get easier access to capital. But you've actually got to have a plan to use that capital to make it worthwhile.
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So, the press is not paid speech? The constitution says press, which protects things like the editorial page of a newspaper, but nothing about "press" limits this protection to strictly news organizations. It also applies to pamphleteers and by extension, bloggers.
They were negligent. Do not run a contest that requires people to do something without checking to make sure it is safe. In this case the radio station was particularly culpable because they were giving the contestants the quantities of water to drink therefore implying it was safe to drink that much.
I think the point he was trying to make is having people other than you working is beneficial. True, they also compete in the labor market, but having more people in the economy means you don't have to do everything yourself (hunt for food, if you want to build a house cut down trees to create lumber, find metals and dig them out and figure out how to smelt them to make tools and nails, etc...) It doesn't matter where they are from or where they were born. For every job a foreigner or a machine does, it frees up local labor to do something different. Granted, if you just lost your job due to outsourcing or new technology you may have to learn a new trade, but don't tell me our workers can't learn.
As an aside... I believe the reason our auto workers used to make high relative salaries was because automobiles were a new technology that not everyone had the knowledge or capital to make. Now time has passed and foreigners have learned to manufacture and improve upon the design of the automobile. So we need to find a NEW new technology that people want, invest our resources and manpower into that, and stop throwing our money at something old and developed that others can do just as well, if not better, than we can.
What value does a scalper add? I find more value in being able to buy a high-demand product from a reputable and established retailer than from some faceless Joe Entrepreneur on eBay.
And other people find more value in buying on eBay than spending the night outside of the store for the chance to buy a PS3. The bidders that bid the most were also buying the glory and bragging rights of being one of the first, much like those who stood in line for days and didn't resell their system.
Essentially faceless Joe is selling the time and effort he spent procuring the PS3 and eBay bidders chose to spend the premium... either way the shortage is Sony's fault, not faceless Joe's.
I also prefer buying at Wal-Mart for the return policy. The price on video game electronics is pretty standard across retail stores, but how many will accept returns as hassle free as Wal-Mart does? I've returned things because "It wasn't what I really wanted after all" and they were like "No problem, here's your money back".
If schools are privatized where does all of the money to run the school come from?
From the school district. You've heard of school vouchers right? The idea is families decide where their child can get the best education and the government pays for it (up to what it would have otherwise cost them in a public school). And before you start saying that some schools wouldn't teach anything, the laws can be written in such a way that the schools would still have to be accredited by the state to be eligible to accept vouchers.
In 20 years, nukes will likely dethroned as the-must-have-weapon for superpowers when new technology brings forth an even more destructive arsenal. Which more destructive arsenal are you looking for? The Doomsday device?
Funds for foreign aid could be used to help to reduce world poverty, which is a precursor to desperate acts, including terrorism. If we really wanted to reduce world poverty we'd remove agricultural trade barriers, quotas, price supports and subsidies.
I doubt the actual steering controls of an airliner will ever be wireless. But I can envision many parts of the avionics system being wireless. If the air speed indicator, for instance, gets jammed, the airplane isn't going to suddenly drop out of the sky, though the crew may have to manually take over control of the aircraft. Things of that nature seem like a decent place to use wireless technology if it matures to the point where failure rates are along the same order of magnitude as their wired counterparts.
Under a system of no patents, the inventor is incented AGAINST seeking media coverage, and toward making an agreement with a manufacturer to bring the product to market ASAP. He signs a deal with a manufacturer and they begin development.
And what is to protect the inventor from the manufacturer just taking his idea and giving him nothing? The inventor would not legally own the idea under a system of no patents.
Manned exploration is the sizzle that sells the steak.
The sizzle is too expensive to justify the cost, even if the steak is really good. For budget sanity reasons, I'd prefer a totally unmanned space program. But even if losing the manned space program destroys NASA as a government agency, Universities and other research institutions can still launch space probes on comercial rockets, so it wouldn't be a total loss.
I also love the bow and arrow. Just the fact that the arrow takes time to get to the target and falls to the earth as it goes makes aiming really fun. Lead the target and aim high... adds a bit of challenge, which makes hitting a crit shot from the edge of sight radius really special. Now I'm waiting for an FPS that uses bows and arrows.
Anyway should education be fun? If so for how long?Yes. For your entire life. Granted, not all education is fun. You can learn a lot from mistakes and painful situations. But if you ask some of the world's most brilliant people why they decided to learn whatever it is they specialized in, they will often say "Because it's fun!"
Wow, you have a lot of time on your hands. Me persoally, I only have time for 1 subscription based game. $15/month for all I can play is really cheap compared to other forms of entertainment that I could spend my money on, especially if you include the "hassle factor" of travel time, etc... Even cable TV costs more and there's usually nothing on worth watching.
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Compromises that don't involve stealing inventions can be made that would help both parties. One of these would be giving an exemption to the "You must sell to us at the lowest cost you sell to anyone else" clauses that some developed nations helth care systems put into their contracts with drug makers. That way the drug companies can offer dirt cheap meds to poor countries and still make up their development costs and profits (incentives to risk developing new products) in richer countries. Abolishing the patent system is neither necessary nor prudent.
Yep, that seems to be the only choice they have. But why would they even care about being listed? The whole point of having a stock listing is to get easier access to capital. But you've actually got to have a plan to use that capital to make it worthwhile.
Quote of the day.
Our congressmen can't be bought. They can be rented though.
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In a few cases, outside interests coincide with Wikipedia's interests. An important example is that unsupported defamatory material appearing in articles may be removed at once. Anyone may do this, and should do this, and this guideline applies widely to any unsourced or poorly sourced potentially libelous postings.
So, the press is not paid speech? The constitution says press, which protects things like the editorial page of a newspaper, but nothing about "press" limits this protection to strictly news organizations. It also applies to pamphleteers and by extension, bloggers.
They were negligent. Do not run a contest that requires people to do something without checking to make sure it is safe. In this case the radio station was particularly culpable because they were giving the contestants the quantities of water to drink therefore implying it was safe to drink that much.
That's not true. People who steal usually steal from those near them and poor people generally live near other poor people.
I think the point he was trying to make is having people other than you working is beneficial. True, they also compete in the labor market, but having more people in the economy means you don't have to do everything yourself (hunt for food, if you want to build a house cut down trees to create lumber, find metals and dig them out and figure out how to smelt them to make tools and nails, etc...) It doesn't matter where they are from or where they were born. For every job a foreigner or a machine does, it frees up local labor to do something different. Granted, if you just lost your job due to outsourcing or new technology you may have to learn a new trade, but don't tell me our workers can't learn.
As an aside... I believe the reason our auto workers used to make high relative salaries was because automobiles were a new technology that not everyone had the knowledge or capital to make. Now time has passed and foreigners have learned to manufacture and improve upon the design of the automobile. So we need to find a NEW new technology that people want, invest our resources and manpower into that, and stop throwing our money at something old and developed that others can do just as well, if not better, than we can.
And other people find more value in buying on eBay than spending the night outside of the store for the chance to buy a PS3. The bidders that bid the most were also buying the glory and bragging rights of being one of the first, much like those who stood in line for days and didn't resell their system.
Essentially faceless Joe is selling the time and effort he spent procuring the PS3 and eBay bidders chose to spend the premium... either way the shortage is Sony's fault, not faceless Joe's.
I also prefer buying at Wal-Mart for the return policy. The price on video game electronics is pretty standard across retail stores, but how many will accept returns as hassle free as Wal-Mart does? I've returned things because "It wasn't what I really wanted after all" and they were like "No problem, here's your money back".
From the school district. You've heard of school vouchers right? The idea is families decide where their child can get the best education and the government pays for it (up to what it would have otherwise cost them in a public school). And before you start saying that some schools wouldn't teach anything, the laws can be written in such a way that the schools would still have to be accredited by the state to be eligible to accept vouchers.
Which more destructive arsenal are you looking for? The Doomsday device?
Funds for foreign aid could be used to help to reduce world poverty, which is a precursor to desperate acts, including terrorism.
If we really wanted to reduce world poverty we'd remove agricultural trade barriers, quotas, price supports and subsidies.
I doubt the actual steering controls of an airliner will ever be wireless. But I can envision many parts of the avionics system being wireless. If the air speed indicator, for instance, gets jammed, the airplane isn't going to suddenly drop out of the sky, though the crew may have to manually take over control of the aircraft. Things of that nature seem like a decent place to use wireless technology if it matures to the point where failure rates are along the same order of magnitude as their wired counterparts.
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
And what is to protect the inventor from the manufacturer just taking his idea and giving him nothing? The inventor would not legally own the idea under a system of no patents.
The sizzle is too expensive to justify the cost, even if the steak is really good. For budget sanity reasons, I'd prefer a totally unmanned space program. But even if losing the manned space program destroys NASA as a government agency, Universities and other research institutions can still launch space probes on comercial rockets, so it wouldn't be a total loss.
I also love the bow and arrow. Just the fact that the arrow takes time to get to the target and falls to the earth as it goes makes aiming really fun. Lead the target and aim high... adds a bit of challenge, which makes hitting a crit shot from the edge of sight radius really special. Now I'm waiting for an FPS that uses bows and arrows.
LOL, Those pictures remind me of Johnny 5... "Be a Pepper Too!"
MusicMatch online store sells DRMed WMA files, not MP3 files. The player itself can play and burn MP3s and WMAs.
Anyway should education be fun? If so for how long?Yes. For your entire life. Granted, not all education is fun. You can learn a lot from mistakes and painful situations. But if you ask some of the world's most brilliant people why they decided to learn whatever it is they specialized in, they will often say "Because it's fun!"
Wow, you have a lot of time on your hands. Me persoally, I only have time for 1 subscription based game. $15/month for all I can play is really cheap compared to other forms of entertainment that I could spend my money on, especially if you include the "hassle factor" of travel time, etc... Even cable TV costs more and there's usually nothing on worth watching.
How about Congress stop putting in price supports for sugar? This is one of the most blatently corrupt practices in politics today.u gar00.htmlm
http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/cashingin_sugar/s
http://www.greenscissors.org/agriculture/sugar.ht
Meier, not Meyer... Sorry