They must have had very smart spies. Think of all the Iphone features they 'stole' before Apple even thought of them themselves!
After all, we know there were never ANY smartphones before the Iphone, no touchscreens, no GUIs, hell, I'm pretty sure we didnt even have colour back then! CERTAINLY no rectanges without rounded corners, god forbid!
Yes, you must be right, android (whomever that is supposed to be..) stole it all from the great Apple! Apple Ueber Alles!
'I am a kneejerk right winger without much clue, I dont actually realize that UBI systems are actually a right wing concept, and instead think they are just more socialism. What I have missed is that they remove a whole pile of corrupt and broken welfare systems, and instead replace them with a single, simple, and balanced system that benefits people who actually work more than people who dont, and therefore is generally attacked by socialists, who hate such systems and want the status quo, I damage the very cause I claim to represent'
So no sir, it is you who is the uninformed moron. You should go and learn a little more instead of believing rhetoric from public figures.
So, you think sickness benefits, unemployment benefits, state pensions, etc are somehow not 'giving money out'? They are somehow 'measured'?
The whole point of a (properly designed) UBI is to replace ALL of that, with a single right of income. The advantages include removal of the huge amount of bureaucracy, management costs, corruption, and fraud. Basically it means everyone gets treated EQUALLY, and you would be amazed how many people hate that idea. Usually because THEY want to be the ones deciding who is 'worthy' of support.
The cost is self-adjusting, because basically all countries have graduated income taxes, and UBI is also taxed, so people with large incomes just end up repaying most of it in tax anyway. A country should use a combination of personal tax, and savings from the scrapping of all the broken other forms of social benefits to fund it. Of course that is putting it simplistically, however that is the formula of a true UBI, which many haters (usually those who currently profit from control of existing welfare schemes) work very hard to ignore. UBI is not 'free money for all', it is an acceptance that welfare is a sensible right in society, so we should remove the broken and inequitable systems that current exist, covered in bandaids, and replace them with a simple single system that treats everyone equally, is low cost to manage, and almost by definition free of corruption and fraud, because it is so simple..
I think the original has been improperly translated. I think a more accurate translation may be:
'How dare someone try a system that treats everyone equally, and isnt controlled by US! Our research shows that the best trade union members are poor and unhappy, we need more people like that! The LAST thing we want is a feeling of happiness and satisfaction for our members, they they may not need us, and if they dont need us, then how will we be able to take their money so we can live the high life? No, UBI is a terrible, horrible idea, bad for everyone who matters, which are the leaders of our trade union movement!'
You need to do done more research.. Guess who the largest contributor to the Democratic party was? Guess who never asked their members of they actually wanted to donate that money to the party? That's right.. The union's. Arse deep in the game of corruption, what a damn Surprise. Unison is just a business for Union bosses these days.. And just like Facebook.. The members are the product, not the client.
Teachers union's have all but destroyed teaching, and resulted in a massive overburdening of Management. Auto workers union's pretty much crashed the us car manufacturing system resulting in multiple government bailouts. Medical union's are half the reason hospitals efficiency is down to single digits these days (and the insurance system is most of the other half).
Unions are very much like communism..A very good idea for workers on paper, however in the real world corruption and power games make them a disaster.
I suspect Musk is in for a lesson as to why no one else does major manufacturing in CA.
Um. No. While I know your knee is busy jerking.. You have got your over zealous reaction wrong. You are supposed to be complaining about the way this is saving us from the devising destruction that nuclear power will spill all over our children real soon now.. not the evil oil companies. This is Europe replacing nuclear power, not (on the whole) oil.
It is also, as is often the case, highly biased reporting. They use the inflated capacity of assuming these sources can all product at peak capacity 24/7/365. Which of course is not true for the majority of them. Once you allow for their actual protection you see it falls back under 20â..... but then that's not a story, is it. The SD state of affairs is that the greens in Europe are managing to get one form of clean energy (nuclear) replaced with another (solar and wind) that actually kills many more people, while actually increasing demand for hydrocarbon based power to fill in the gaps in base load.
Congratulations.
Of course now the other knee will jerk with a whole lot of 60s era paranoia about how radiation is evil and will destroy us all, while ignoring the fact that the existing problems with nuclear power have almost all been produced by the green movement by stalling development of newer safer and more efficient designs and making the cost of regulatory oversight so high that old plants have to be kept running way past their design lifespans.
I guess that's with another congratulations right there.
But no.. Pat each other on the back for having increased demand for hydrocarbon based power generation.. good job!
Open source and standard are two very different things. There is not even that much overlap. You are confusing the two. Some standards do not even allow an open source implementation (sure to associated patent coverage). Most open source in no way represent a standard.
They. Are. Two. Different. Concepts.
Please stop trying to treat them as the same thing. It's is stupid.
But also don't forget that up to means that 3000 laborers will work on construction, followed by a hundred or so people running the actual fab.
Still.. The tax breaks are the same either way.. so it's all good (for Intel).
Pretty much the same for all these big announcements.. the central feature of them is reporting the size of facility construction crews and quietly ignoring the face that they are highly automated production requiring just a handful of long term staff.
No large business does labor intensive work in the us.. the tax breaks are just not enough, and god forbid they don't maximise profits at the cost of jobs and long term skills development.. That would be un American!
I am pretty sure the judge is ruling in the case of people who holds valid is visas of one form or another. Certainly some forms of visa remove the holder from the classification of alien used here. Of course that doesn't mean he doesn't have the right.. Just that what you wrote is not enjoying in all these cases. The bigger picture here though.. Is he is doing much what he claimed he would do before an election. I suspect that is scaring the hell out of the career politicians and public servants. It will be interesting to see how long it continues.. The is going to be an internal power struggle within the 'public service'.. About damn time.
If you had you would have pointed out how h1b via doctors can increase the profitability of the medical companies. Because they sure as hell have not been used to lower costs to the public.. Just to increase corporate profitability by getting rid of those pesky local worker costs. While continuing to collect the nice government employment perks of course..
Yes, this smells, quite literally. There are a limited number of 'biomarkers' you will pick up in breath, and the ones they list are pretty generic (ammonia, nitric oxide). The chances of there only being a single cause of the particular ratios they will trigger on, or there being a single set of ratios across a population are a round number, integer, between -1 and 1..
While I can well imagine people suffering a flu do have elevated levels of certain organics in their breath, I would imagine that without a detailed and updated baseline for a particular patient you wont have a hope in hell of being that specific, and there will be a pile of other causes, for example just the common cold, which shared a LOT of early symptoms.
So yes, this smells of a 'hey, our 4 test cases look good, lets cash in!' type news.
I have had two so far, the first made it 3 months before the strap delaminated, and the second lasted 6 months before the surround at the back that goes over the button broke. The first one I had replaced under warrantee, the second I didnt even bother. I have the replacement sitting on the shelf, I havnt even bothered opening it. (I had bought two, one for myself, one for the other half..)
Overpriced, moderately useful, but hardly revolutionary. The price to lifetime is just a joke.
You do realise in this context installer and maintainer are two very very very different things . Right? This whole article is retarded. Of course it is the person who decided to let it control the car. Black and white. No gray area at all. In exactly the same way they would be responsible if they decided to fit cheese for brake pads.. Or tint their front window with house paint. The disclaimer didn't matter. The fact is there is no CLAIM that it is suitable for normal road use.
Wow.. I'm impressed. Almost everything you said it's false! Python explicitly runs as a single thread (thanks to the GIL partially) and uses time slicing to simulate multi threading. The is also no such thing as a real time processor. I guess you think you mean a real time os? But I'm guessing the. And no. Python performance is far far from predictable on any os it commonly runs on.
Nice language for UI development and glue code though.. use it a lot. But most certainly not hard real time.
No. No it's not. I suspect you know that and are just shilling.
What actually happens is the IP rights reside in Ireland. Therefore iTunes in the us will be paying licensing rates ( at pretty much any rate Apple decided.. As this is licensing from Apple to Apple.. What a scan!) To Ireland. Therefore transferring profit. So no. They don't pay tax on the us profit either.. they use this scam to move the profit away..
Apple has lost their way in desktops far far more than they have lost their way in laptops, where they have only moderately lost their way. They cannot even take a standard USB flash stick!
Friend of mines 2016 MBP has filled it's screen. Crack developed right across it over a few days of sitting on a desk. Obvious manufacturing flaw. So you think Apple will cover it under warrantee? Not a chance. Apparently it managed to drop itself then put itself back on the desk.. Without anyone knowing. Quite impressive really (and with no external sign of damage even!) Ifixit gives them a 1 for repairability.. I can only assume it's not a zero because you could replace the... Oh wait... Nothing at all.
Smells like more of what I am starting to refer to as 'Trumped up news'.
Not that I support the man (or in fact could really care less directly about US politics), however it seems very important to quite a group of people to make it look like the sky is falling right now. It is quite sad to see the side that believes they stand for fairness, doing the right thing, caring of others, etc having to throw so much dirt so bitterly. Its like watching monkeys at the zoo fighting over scraps.
It is rapidly looking like the new left has taken up the playbook of the old right (and by old, I am starting to worry we are talking german mid 1930s..).
Is it really surprising to anyone that with a major change of control in the US, that departments want to keep a tighter rain on anything that could look like policy statements for a while? Would seem to be pretty sensible really.
Of course what we get instead is reactionary and sensationalist headlines, without any form of fact checking, because that suits the worldview of the people publishing. The death of actual journalism, let alone investigate journalism, has been sad to watch.
And then, of course, to get those pod bay doors fitted... Worth it? Perhaps not.. It wont live, but then again, who does. Thankfully all these moments will be lost in time.
Dont smoke, drink, gamble, take drugs, 'party'. Dont spend money on unrequired consumer goods (but I *NEED* that iphone, bigscreen tv, playstation, sound system, 20 useless kitchen appliances and every fat blaster exercise machine I see on infomercials!). Dont live on pre-prepared (and therefore expensive) food.
And a whole bunch of other things that people seem to now believe are some form of basic human right, however are actually just out of control consumerism.
A Living Wage doesnt mean a wage that lets you live in the way you would like to be accustomed, where ever you want, surrounded by the toys you like. Its supposed to be able to sustain life. Keep you *living*. It should also be dire enough to give you a damn good reason to want to find a better job!
Of course people will get all pissy about that, however sorry chumps, that is how life is - get off your high horses and go and look at the real world.
Why they pulled the app a few weeks ago that allowed you to track down a lost airpod..
How is this NOT anticompetitive? Apple use their control of the app store to remove an app, and then release similar (although by the sound of it only distantly similar) functionality a few week later.
I hope the creator of the pulled app knows a good lawyer..
Yes.. You are addicted to cheap consumer goods. Right now that means a proportion of the money you spend hours to China.. And a big lump goes to offshore tax havens for the corps.. But at least their domestic share price goes up..
However.. Very soon those goods will be designed owned and build by purely Chinese companies. Then much more of what you spend will leave the country.. forever.
So.. you can either give up on your cheap consumer goods of wave goodbye to your economy.
It's really that simple. China is already out spending America on r&d. It's people are more success hungry. They have less invested in a nice safe middle class existence. They are going to innovate and produce you in to the dirt. In exactly the same way the us did to Europe back in the day.
More to the point.. Think critically for a moment what percentage of the dangle must be removed to make this much difference... And then wonder... For just a moment.. If that many women really have their cervix removed.. Really.. do over 1/2 of the female population have their cervix removed? (Allowing for the fact that people don't have their hysterectomy young generally.. hence inflating the required number ) Really? I am smelling a rat here.. And it's a big Smelly political/funding rat..
Sorry, but the math just didn't add up.. Not even close.
My suspicion is they are trying to inflate the number to avoid the embarrassing fact that cervical cancer gets much much more funding than prostate cancer, while having lower fatality rates..
Of course I will be labeled sexist for saying that.. Because men's lives matter less.. Apparently. But you know what? I don't care. Because I believe in actual equality.. not advantage to the loudest.
I think its about time for you to declare your interest, dont you think? As you are quite obviously an involved party..
Now, just to correct your statement: - years of studies by many different groups who stand to profit by this, that all suggest the project will be feasible and useful and very very highly profitable...' -
Sorry, but we all know how these things run now. Defense of them makes you either a card carrying moron, or financially advantaged by them.
No, what is needed is a PUNISHMENT for not completing the project as they specified. Do this a couple of times, and believe me, the problem will be solved.
Just go and have a look at how the Chinese government gets work done. Hint: NO contractors get to overcharge, or walk away folding the company 1 week after 'completion', etc. THEY ARE HELP ACCOUNTABLE.
Such construction has long been another slush-fund for politicians to line the pockets of their backroom funders. Almost all public construction in the west is not so completely corrupt that the 'organisations' running it make vice and drug gangs look straight..
Not really. There are PhDs in biosciences who are doing similar things right now, and of course other areas.
The fact of the matter, which you forgot to mention, is that that is perfect possible for the 0.01% who happen to fall on the right path. Of course it never happens for the average, because, quite obviously, it cannot.
And anyone who cannot understand that, wont be part of those 0.01% (or top 1%, or probably 10%..) sorry.
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They must have had very smart spies.
Think of all the Iphone features they 'stole' before Apple even thought of them themselves!
After all, we know there were never ANY smartphones before the Iphone, no touchscreens,
no GUIs, hell, I'm pretty sure we didnt even have colour back then! CERTAINLY no rectanges
without rounded corners, god forbid!
Yes, you must be right, android (whomever that is supposed to be..) stole it all from the great Apple!
Apple Ueber Alles!
and let me translate yours:
'I am a kneejerk right winger without much clue, I dont actually realize that UBI systems are actually a right wing concept, and instead
think they are just more socialism. What I have missed is that they remove a whole pile of corrupt and broken welfare systems, and
instead replace them with a single, simple, and balanced system that benefits people who actually work more than people who dont,
and therefore is generally attacked by socialists, who hate such systems and want the status quo, I damage the very cause I claim
to represent'
So no sir, it is you who is the uninformed moron. You should go and learn a little more instead of believing rhetoric from public figures.
So, you think sickness benefits, unemployment benefits, state pensions, etc are somehow not 'giving money out'? They are somehow 'measured'?
The whole point of a (properly designed) UBI is to replace ALL of that, with a single right of income.
The advantages include removal of the huge amount of bureaucracy, management costs, corruption, and fraud.
Basically it means everyone gets treated EQUALLY, and you would be amazed how many people hate that idea.
Usually because THEY want to be the ones deciding who is 'worthy' of support.
The cost is self-adjusting, because basically all countries have graduated income taxes, and UBI is also taxed, so people with large incomes
just end up repaying most of it in tax anyway. A country should use a combination of personal tax, and savings from the scrapping of all the broken
other forms of social benefits to fund it.
Of course that is putting it simplistically, however that is the formula of a true UBI, which many haters (usually those who currently profit from control
of existing welfare schemes) work very hard to ignore.
UBI is not 'free money for all', it is an acceptance that welfare is a sensible right in society, so we should remove the broken and inequitable systems
that current exist, covered in bandaids, and replace them with a simple single system that treats everyone equally, is low cost to manage, and almost
by definition free of corruption and fraud, because it is so simple..
I think the original has been improperly translated.
I think a more accurate translation may be:
'How dare someone try a system that treats everyone equally, and isnt controlled by US!
Our research shows that the best trade union members are poor and unhappy, we need more people like that!
The LAST thing we want is a feeling of happiness and satisfaction for our members, they they may not need us,
and if they dont need us, then how will we be able to take their money so we can live the high life?
No, UBI is a terrible, horrible idea, bad for everyone who matters, which are the leaders of our trade union movement!'
You need to do done more research..
Guess who the largest contributor to the Democratic party was?
Guess who never asked their members of they actually wanted to donate that money to the party?
That's right.. The union's. Arse deep in the game of corruption, what a damn Surprise.
Unison is just a business for Union bosses these days.. And just like Facebook.. The members are the product, not the client.
Teachers union's have all but destroyed teaching, and resulted in a massive overburdening of Management.
Auto workers union's pretty much crashed the us car manufacturing system resulting in multiple government bailouts.
Medical union's are half the reason hospitals efficiency is down to single digits these days (and the insurance system is most of the other half).
Unions are very much like communism..A very good idea for workers on paper, however in the real world corruption and power games make them a disaster.
I suspect Musk is in for a lesson as to why no one else does major manufacturing in CA.
Um. No.
While I know your knee is busy jerking.. You have got your over zealous reaction wrong.
You are supposed to be complaining about the way this is saving us from the devising destruction that nuclear power will spill all over our children real soon now.. not the evil oil companies.
This is Europe replacing nuclear power, not (on the whole) oil.
It is also, as is often the case, highly biased reporting. They use the inflated capacity of assuming these sources can all product at peak capacity 24/7/365. Which of course is not true for the majority of them. Once you allow for their actual protection you see it falls back under 20â..... but then that's not a story, is it.
The SD state of affairs is that the greens in Europe are managing to get one form of clean energy (nuclear) replaced with another (solar and wind) that actually kills many more people, while actually increasing demand for hydrocarbon based power to fill in the gaps in base load.
Congratulations.
Of course now the other knee will jerk with a whole lot of 60s era paranoia about how radiation is evil and will destroy us all, while ignoring the fact that the existing problems with nuclear power have almost all been produced by the green movement by stalling development of newer safer and more efficient designs and making the cost of regulatory oversight so high that old plants have to be kept running way past their design lifespans.
I guess that's with another congratulations right there.
But no.. Pat each other on the back for having increased demand for hydrocarbon based power generation.. good job!
Protip:
Open source and standard are two very different things.
There is not even that much overlap.
You are confusing the two.
Some standards do not even allow an open source implementation (sure to associated patent coverage).
Most open source in no way represent a standard.
They. Are. Two. Different. Concepts.
Please stop trying to treat them as the same thing. It's is stupid.
No...
But also don't forget that up to means that 3000 laborers will work on construction, followed by a hundred or so people running the actual fab.
Still.. The tax breaks are the same either way.. so it's all good (for Intel).
Pretty much the same for all these big announcements.. the central feature of them is reporting the size of facility construction crews and quietly ignoring the face that they are highly automated production requiring just a handful of long term staff.
No large business does labor intensive work in the us.. the tax breaks are just not enough, and god forbid they don't maximise profits at the cost of jobs and long term skills development.. That would be un American!
I am pretty sure the judge is ruling in the case of people who holds valid is visas of one form or another.
Certainly some forms of visa remove the holder from the classification of alien used here.
Of course that doesn't mean he doesn't have the right.. Just that what you wrote is not enjoying in all these cases.
The bigger picture here though.. Is he is doing much what he claimed he would do before an election.
I suspect that is scaring the hell out of the career politicians and public servants.
It will be interesting to see how long it continues.. The is going to be an internal power struggle within the 'public service'..
About damn time.
You hadn't been following have you..
If you had you would have pointed out how h1b via doctors can increase the profitability of the medical companies.
Because they sure as hell have not been used to lower costs to the public.. Just to increase corporate profitability by getting rid of those pesky local worker costs.
While continuing to collect the nice government employment perks of course..
Yes, this smells, quite literally.
There are a limited number of 'biomarkers' you will pick up in breath, and the ones they list are pretty generic (ammonia, nitric oxide).
The chances of there only being a single cause of the particular ratios they will trigger on, or there being a single set of
ratios across a population are a round number, integer, between -1 and 1..
While I can well imagine people suffering a flu do have elevated levels of certain organics in their breath, I would imagine that without
a detailed and updated baseline for a particular patient you wont have a hope in hell of being that specific, and there will be a pile
of other causes, for example just the common cold, which shared a LOT of early symptoms.
So yes, this smells of a 'hey, our 4 test cases look good, lets cash in!' type news.
This.
I have had two so far, the first made it 3 months before the strap delaminated, and the second lasted 6 months before
the surround at the back that goes over the button broke. The first one I had replaced under warrantee, the second I
didnt even bother. I have the replacement sitting on the shelf, I havnt even bothered opening it.
(I had bought two, one for myself, one for the other half..)
Overpriced, moderately useful, but hardly revolutionary. The price to lifetime is just a joke.
You do realise in this context installer and maintainer are two very very very different things . Right?
This whole article is retarded.
Of course it is the person who decided to let it control the car. Black and white. No gray area at all.
In exactly the same way they would be responsible if they decided to fit cheese for brake pads.. Or tint their front window with house paint.
The disclaimer didn't matter. The fact is there is no CLAIM that it is suitable for normal road use.
Wow.. I'm impressed. Almost everything you said it's false!
Python explicitly runs as a single thread (thanks to the GIL partially) and uses time slicing to simulate multi threading.
The is also no such thing as a real time processor. I guess you think you mean a real time os? But I'm guessing the.
And no. Python performance is far far from predictable on any os it commonly runs on.
Nice language for UI development and glue code though.. use it a lot. But most certainly not hard real time.
No. No it's not. I suspect you know that and are just shilling.
What actually happens is the IP rights reside in Ireland. Therefore iTunes in the us will be paying licensing rates ( at pretty much any rate Apple decided.. As this is licensing from Apple to Apple.. What a scan!) To Ireland. Therefore transferring profit.
So no. They don't pay tax on the us profit either.. they use this scam to move the profit away..
Exactly! I agree with you.
Apple has lost their way in desktops far far more than they have lost their way in laptops, where they have only moderately lost their way. They cannot even take a standard USB flash stick!
Friend of mines 2016 MBP has filled it's screen. Crack developed right across it over a few days of sitting on a desk. Obvious manufacturing flaw.
So you think Apple will cover it under warrantee? Not a chance. Apparently it managed to drop itself then put itself back on the desk.. Without anyone knowing. Quite impressive really (and with no external sign of damage even!)
Ifixit gives them a 1 for repairability.. I can only assume it's not a zero because you could replace the... Oh wait... Nothing at all.
Smells like more of what I am starting to refer to as 'Trumped up news'.
Not that I support the man (or in fact could really care less directly about US politics), however it seems very important to quite a group of people to
make it look like the sky is falling right now. It is quite sad to see the side that believes they stand for fairness, doing the right thing, caring of others, etc
having to throw so much dirt so bitterly. Its like watching monkeys at the zoo fighting over scraps.
It is rapidly looking like the new left has taken up the playbook of the old right (and by old, I am starting to worry we are talking german mid 1930s..).
Is it really surprising to anyone that with a major change of control in the US, that departments want to keep a tighter rain on anything that could look like
policy statements for a while? Would seem to be pretty sensible really.
Of course what we get instead is reactionary and sensationalist headlines, without any form of fact checking, because that suits the worldview of the
people publishing. The death of actual journalism, let alone investigate journalism, has been sad to watch.
There is only one name I would want for it...
And then, of course, to get those pod bay doors fitted...
Worth it? Perhaps not.. It wont live, but then again, who does.
Thankfully all these moments will be lost in time.
Oops, crossing the mems again.
Dont forget to include:
Dont smoke, drink, gamble, take drugs, 'party'.
Dont spend money on unrequired consumer goods (but I *NEED* that iphone, bigscreen tv, playstation, sound system, 20 useless kitchen appliances and every fat blaster exercise machine I see on infomercials!).
Dont live on pre-prepared (and therefore expensive) food.
And a whole bunch of other things that people seem to now believe are some form of basic human right, however are actually just out of control consumerism.
A Living Wage doesnt mean a wage that lets you live in the way you would like to be accustomed, where ever you want, surrounded by the toys you like.
Its supposed to be able to sustain life. Keep you *living*. It should also be dire enough to give you a damn good reason to want to find a better job!
Of course people will get all pissy about that, however sorry chumps, that is how life is - get off your high horses and go and look at the real world.
Why they pulled the app a few weeks ago that allowed you to track down a lost airpod..
How is this NOT anticompetitive?
Apple use their control of the app store to remove an app, and then release similar (although by the sound of it only distantly similar) functionality a few week later.
I hope the creator of the pulled app knows a good lawyer..
Yes.. You are addicted to cheap consumer goods.
Right now that means a proportion of the money you spend hours to China.. And a big lump goes to offshore tax havens for the corps.. But at least their domestic share price goes up..
However.. Very soon those goods will be designed owned and build by purely Chinese companies. Then much more of what you spend will leave the country.. forever.
So.. you can either give up on your cheap consumer goods of wave goodbye to your economy.
It's really that simple. China is already out spending America on r&d. It's people are more success hungry. They have less invested in a nice safe middle class existence. They are going to innovate and produce you in to the dirt.
In exactly the same way the us did to Europe back in the day.
Your choices are few and difficult.
More to the point.. Think critically for a moment what percentage of the dangle must be removed to make this much difference...
And then wonder... For just a moment.. If that many women really have their cervix removed..
Really.. do over 1/2 of the female population have their cervix removed? (Allowing for the fact that people don't have their hysterectomy young generally.. hence inflating the required number ) Really?
I am smelling a rat here.. And it's a big Smelly political/funding rat..
Sorry, but the math just didn't add up.. Not even close.
My suspicion is they are trying to inflate the number to avoid the embarrassing fact that cervical cancer gets much much more funding than prostate cancer, while having lower fatality rates..
Of course I will be labeled sexist for saying that.. Because men's lives matter less.. Apparently.
But you know what? I don't care. Because I believe in actual equality.. not advantage to the loudest.
I think its about time for you to declare your interest, dont you think?
As you are quite obviously an involved party..
Now, just to correct your statement:
- years of studies by many different groups who stand to profit by this, that all suggest the project will be feasible and useful and very very highly profitable...' -
Sorry, but we all know how these things run now. Defense of them makes you either a card carrying moron, or financially advantaged by them.
No, what is needed is a PUNISHMENT for not completing the project as they specified.
Do this a couple of times, and believe me, the problem will be solved.
Just go and have a look at how the Chinese government gets work done. Hint: NO contractors get to overcharge, or walk away folding the company 1 week after 'completion', etc. THEY ARE HELP ACCOUNTABLE.
Such construction has long been another slush-fund for politicians to line the pockets of their backroom funders.
Almost all public construction in the west is not so completely corrupt that the 'organisations' running it make vice and drug gangs look straight..
Not really. There are PhDs in biosciences who are doing similar things right now, and of course other areas.
The fact of the matter, which you forgot to mention, is that that is perfect possible for the 0.01% who happen to fall on the right path.
Of course it never happens for the average, because, quite obviously, it cannot.
And anyone who cannot understand that, wont be part of those 0.01% (or top 1%, or probably 10%..) sorry.