When your counterfeit consumer good fails to perform as expected, you blame the manufacturer of the original, not the counterfeit. There is probably some consumer item which you buy in part because of a level of quality you have come to expect from a particular company. Pappy Van Winkle bourbon, a brand of bicycle, Freud power tools, something. How would you feel if you couldn't tell whether or not you were buying the actual item, or a counterfeit that may or may not be an equivalent copy?
I kept hearing biotech was gonna replace lost manufacturing jobs, but I never once heard anyone say what that meant.
Wait, what? The only thing I ever heard that was even close to that was from the lobbyists pushing for state spending on biotech parks, and even their overinflated job estimates didn't approach that. Within pharma though, dose for dose, new biotech (biologic) drugs are much more labor intensive than traditional small molecule drugs: the manufacturing process for biologics doesn't scale up very well.
Battleships were retired because they were incredibly expensive to staff: 2500+ crew. For submarines almost all of the expense goes to the private contractors that build and maintain them - which should ensure their continued use.
The small studies tend to be the ones that flip flop - and they garner a lot of attention. The ones that are adequately powered and well controlled are a lot rarer (because they tend to take a decade to run and be hideously expensive), so they don't end up in the news very often.
True, reading a study that actually looks at drinking in moderation and finds that it doesn't confer benefits w/r/t mortality for almost anyone doesn't do much for stress levels. Unless you are a teetotaler who's into schadenfreude.
Dude, if your liver is doing the processing than your body is treating it like something that needs to be hydroxylated for further metabolism or excretion.
and military and military-grade airgraft are substantially better at getting up higher because they can reach a higher altitude, and can be going multiple Mach at the time they go ballistic (think "muzzle velocity")
Better that they learn to use computers just as a tool, to write, to do spreadsheets, and to play games and surf the web.
I never wanted to be (and am certainly not now) a programmer, but getting my feet wet allowed me to write scripts that made my work so much faster over the years, whether it was VBA macros for researching patents or *nix shell scripts for assisting in running molecular dynamics simulations.
Even if they never have to deal with spreadsheets, they will be dealing with the web every day, and knowing a tiny bit of HTML can make that a lot nicer. Even if you are just posting an ad in Craigslist (or a comment on Slashdot).
I can see an intro to Python and HTML paying off in lots of ways, first and foremost by encouraging them to think "there has got to be a better way" whenever they are looking at a simple but repetitive task.
Every serious (read "non-vendor-sponsored") study for the last 20 years has shown that computers in school hinder education.
The problem is with the software, not the hardware. Good software will keep offering problems that are challenging but not impossible for an individual student. Bad software will offer the same problems to every student, without consideration for how they have performed so far. Horrendous software would give the kids browsers, so they can just spend their time surfing the web (or trying to find ways to surf the web) instead of actually researching the stated topic. That's the case where kids with computers in the room end up needing more supervision instead of less.
Just out of curiosity, where do you stand on defamation?
If someone believes a baseless rumors and acts on it in a harmful way, it is their fault, not the speaker's.
Baseless rumor? but USA Today says they verified the story with two eyewitnesses and now Slashjones' local paper says the same thing. Now your clients are ditching you because they have two papers putting out a convincing story that you are are evil. Even if you can prove you didn't do it, the papers don't have to run a retraction. The two "eyewitnesses" don't have to recant. After all, defamation isn't actionable. If you want to let the free market sort it out, I think you'll find the party with the biggest stinkiest bucket of mud will win most of the time.
Just out of curiosity, where do you stand on defamation? Should USAToday be liable if they publish stories stating Slashjones (insert real name and adress here) is a murdering rapist, or should their freedom of speech be respected?
It's more about the sound of a four cylinder turbo engine being annoying as hell. People hate teenage kids with fart boxes on their mom's civic for a reason. A lower exhaust note is more pleasant to the human ear.
Also, anyone driving a manual, or even an auto-manual, needs to hear the engine to know when to shift, because they can't be staring at the tachometer when driving.
A lower exhaust note isn't as annoying as a screechy one - but it sure isn't pleasant to the human ear if the human is trying to have a conversation and can't because the diesel pickup outside (on the other side of a closed dual pane window ) has a coffee can instead of a muffler.
He could try to unilaterally _not_ use those Chinese manufacturers. But then his product prices will go up, and he has no way to persuade customers that they should pay more.
In China drugs manufactured outside of China sell for more than domestic drugs, since people know about the counterfeit and QC issues.
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When your counterfeit consumer good fails to perform as expected, you blame the manufacturer of the original, not the counterfeit. There is probably some consumer item which you buy in part because of a level of quality you have come to expect from a particular company. Pappy Van Winkle bourbon, a brand of bicycle, Freud power tools, something. How would you feel if you couldn't tell whether or not you were buying the actual item, or a counterfeit that may or may not be an equivalent copy?
Bingo! snow is amazing at absorbing sound.
I kept hearing biotech was gonna replace lost manufacturing jobs, but I never once heard anyone say what that meant.
Wait, what? The only thing I ever heard that was even close to that was from the lobbyists pushing for state spending on biotech parks, and even their overinflated job estimates didn't approach that. Within pharma though, dose for dose, new biotech (biologic) drugs are much more labor intensive than traditional small molecule drugs: the manufacturing process for biologics doesn't scale up very well.
Battleships were retired because they were incredibly expensive to staff: 2500+ crew. For submarines almost all of the expense goes to the private contractors that build and maintain them - which should ensure their continued use.
compared to the subjects that received the sham."
The small studies tend to be the ones that flip flop - and they garner a lot of attention. The ones that are adequately powered and well controlled are a lot rarer (because they tend to take a decade to run and be hideously expensive), so they don't end up in the news very often.
True, reading a study that actually looks at drinking in moderation and finds that it doesn't confer benefits w/r/t mortality for almost anyone doesn't do much for stress levels. Unless you are a teetotaler who's into schadenfreude.
Dude, if your liver is doing the processing than your body is treating it like something that needs to be hydroxylated for further metabolism or excretion.
and military and military-grade airgraft are substantially better at getting up higher because they can reach a higher altitude, and can be going multiple Mach at the time they go ballistic (think "muzzle velocity")
read the faq on the canarywatch site.
according to them (fwiw) they say they have never heard of any court forcing 'false truths' to be made via nsl's.
so, they can force you to shut up, but they can't 'compel speech' and especially not false speech (lies).
(only the cops, judges, politicians and various TLAs can lie. they can't force *us* to lie. ... )
So can the government hack the canary, then force you to shut up about the canary no longer being under your control?
Better that they learn to use computers just as a tool, to write, to do spreadsheets, and to play games and surf the web.
I never wanted to be (and am certainly not now) a programmer, but getting my feet wet allowed me to write scripts that made my work so much faster over the years, whether it was VBA macros for researching patents or *nix shell scripts for assisting in running molecular dynamics simulations.
Even if they never have to deal with spreadsheets, they will be dealing with the web every day, and knowing a tiny bit of HTML can make that a lot nicer. Even if you are just posting an ad in Craigslist (or a comment on Slashdot).
I can see an intro to Python and HTML paying off in lots of ways, first and foremost by encouraging them to think "there has got to be a better way" whenever they are looking at a simple but repetitive task.
Every serious (read "non-vendor-sponsored") study for the last 20 years has shown that computers in school hinder education.
The problem is with the software, not the hardware. Good software will keep offering problems that are challenging but not impossible for an individual student. Bad software will offer the same problems to every student, without consideration for how they have performed so far. Horrendous software would give the kids browsers, so they can just spend their time surfing the web (or trying to find ways to surf the web) instead of actually researching the stated topic. That's the case where kids with computers in the room end up needing more supervision instead of less.
No, they just confiscate the illegal goods from transactions and then sell/use them themselves. Same as when they make drug busts.
Not so much the drugs as the cars and cash that people had when they may or may not have been transporting drugs.
The news part is irrelevant. How about the same story, but it is your congressman, your co-worker, or your neighbor stating you are a murderer?
Just out of curiosity, where do you stand on defamation?
If someone believes a baseless rumors and acts on it in a harmful way, it is their fault, not the speaker's.
Baseless rumor? but USA Today says they verified the story with two eyewitnesses and now Slashjones' local paper says the same thing. Now your clients are ditching you because they have two papers putting out a convincing story that you are are evil. Even if you can prove you didn't do it, the papers don't have to run a retraction. The two "eyewitnesses" don't have to recant. After all, defamation isn't actionable. If you want to let the free market sort it out, I think you'll find the party with the biggest stinkiest bucket of mud will win most of the time.
That would certainly explain Mississippi in the map.
Welcome to your new car, with mandatory breathalyzer ignition interlock.
The point is for the package not to be visible from the street, so that neighborhood "foragers" won't see it.
Just out of curiosity, where do you stand on defamation? Should USAToday be liable if they publish stories stating Slashjones (insert real name and adress here) is a murdering rapist, or should their freedom of speech be respected?
At my last job I couldn't get T-Mo while inside the building. New job has me traveling, and I have found all sorts of dead spots, at least for data.
It's more about the sound of a four cylinder turbo engine being annoying as hell. People hate teenage kids with fart boxes on their mom's civic for a reason. A lower exhaust note is more pleasant to the human ear.
Also, anyone driving a manual, or even an auto-manual, needs to hear the engine to know when to shift, because they can't be staring at the tachometer when driving.
A lower exhaust note isn't as annoying as a screechy one - but it sure isn't pleasant to the human ear if the human is trying to have a conversation and can't because the diesel pickup outside (on the other side of a closed dual pane window ) has a coffee can instead of a muffler.
Sudden breakout of common sense??
Sudden breakout of tech lobbyist dollars to Grassley and Sessions.
Would any wireless company enter into an agreement like this?
Because Deutsche Telekom has been trying to sell T-mobile for years, and Google can afford to buy Sprint from SoftBank too?
1. Patent new antibiotic
2. Make fortune
3. Bacteria become resistant ... just about the time the antibiotic goes generic!
4. Invent new antibiotic, watch your generic competitors go bankrupt
5. Repeat
Of course, the industry is having problems with steps 1,2,4, and 5. And the timing on #3 isn't very tight either.
He could try to unilaterally _not_ use those Chinese manufacturers. But then his product prices will go up, and he has no way to persuade customers that they should pay more.
In China drugs manufactured outside of China sell for more than domestic drugs, since people know about the counterfeit and QC issues.