The target demographic isn't always too poor to afford the products advertised. When you're poor you get money in small windfalls and you spend it quickly before it disappears on its own.
Payday comes around, or tax refund time, or welfare check time - whatever it is - and the advertisers want to make sure their product is right at the top of the minds of people who are yearning for something to make them happy. Many will gladly splurge on expensive sneakers or as-seen-on-TV gadgets to try to temporarily forget about normal life.
Maybe they can't pay for a monthly cell phone bill but they can certainly buy stuff.
You're neglecting compliance. Having worked at a pharma company I saw first hand huge amounts of resources dedicated to running around meeting the whim of every country's various regulatory agencies. Overhead is one of, if not the largest, cost involved.
Many jobs have no meaningful metric for measuring accomplishments. You can't measure "kept data center well maintained" or "manned customer support line, addressing client issues" without considering hours spent on the task. Most of IT operations is based on avoiding any interruption to the rest of the workforce. The best system admins are practically invisible.
609,052 / 8300 workers = 73 patents to review per worker per year.
If each patent takes 3 days to review then that is 260 - 219 = 41 days for sick time, vacation, and any patents that take longer than 3 days. Not much slack available there - especially if their math skills are as bad as yours.
Suppose someone has a heart attack with these technologies enabled. The car will keep driving down the interstate until it runs out of gas. They'll find a dead body in a car driving three states away from where the driver used to live.
The easy way around this is to treat a medical records system like an accounting system. You can't delete any record you can only add corrections. Anyone reading the record would be able to see the "erroneous" entries as well as the justification for correcting them.
I used to work for a pharma supporting a system that does exactly this. All pharmas have a system like this mandated by law. It's called adverse event tracking. You tell your doctor "I had effect D while taking drugs X, Y, and Z". The doctor reports this to the pharmas that make X, Y, and Z and it is all tracked for potential causality.
The difficulties arise if there are too few people who have that side effect while taking that combination of medicine. If the occurrence is too rare there isn't enough statistical data to show causality. That's why all the commercials say "side effects may include..." because some portion of patients on the medicine had those symptoms and causality may not be determined.
They're not isolates supplies wise. The idea is that the parent company will send more supplies in future trips. The colonists produce data about Mars that is valuable and in return they get support from interested parties on Earth.
Of course, the mere survival of the colonists is valuable and worthy of a certain amount of supplies, too.
I'm 37 and I buy games to play with my children. I'm the one who completes the purchase, registration, and review/questionaire but there are 4 of us playing and only one (me) is older than 16. Perhaps their data is skewed.
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The target demographic isn't always too poor to afford the products advertised. When you're poor you get money in small windfalls and you spend it quickly before it disappears on its own.
Payday comes around, or tax refund time, or welfare check time - whatever it is - and the advertisers want to make sure their product is right at the top of the minds of people who are yearning for something to make them happy. Many will gladly splurge on expensive sneakers or as-seen-on-TV gadgets to try to temporarily forget about normal life.
Maybe they can't pay for a monthly cell phone bill but they can certainly buy stuff.
You're neglecting compliance. Having worked at a pharma company I saw first hand huge amounts of resources dedicated to running around meeting the whim of every country's various regulatory agencies. Overhead is one of, if not the largest, cost involved.
Many jobs have no meaningful metric for measuring accomplishments. You can't measure "kept data center well maintained" or "manned customer support line, addressing client issues" without considering hours spent on the task. Most of IT operations is based on avoiding any interruption to the rest of the workforce. The best system admins are practically invisible.
609,052 / 8300 workers = 73 patents to review per worker per year. If each patent takes 3 days to review then that is 260 - 219 = 41 days for sick time, vacation, and any patents that take longer than 3 days. Not much slack available there - especially if their math skills are as bad as yours.
Suppose someone has a heart attack with these technologies enabled. The car will keep driving down the interstate until it runs out of gas. They'll find a dead body in a car driving three states away from where the driver used to live.
The easy way around this is to treat a medical records system like an accounting system. You can't delete any record you can only add corrections. Anyone reading the record would be able to see the "erroneous" entries as well as the justification for correcting them.
I used to work for a pharma supporting a system that does exactly this. All pharmas have a system like this mandated by law. It's called adverse event tracking. You tell your doctor "I had effect D while taking drugs X, Y, and Z". The doctor reports this to the pharmas that make X, Y, and Z and it is all tracked for potential causality. The difficulties arise if there are too few people who have that side effect while taking that combination of medicine. If the occurrence is too rare there isn't enough statistical data to show causality. That's why all the commercials say "side effects may include ..." because some portion of patients on the medicine had those symptoms and causality may not be determined.
Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking? Of course you are.
They're not isolates supplies wise. The idea is that the parent company will send more supplies in future trips. The colonists produce data about Mars that is valuable and in return they get support from interested parties on Earth. Of course, the mere survival of the colonists is valuable and worthy of a certain amount of supplies, too.
I'm 37 and I buy games to play with my children. I'm the one who completes the purchase, registration, and review/questionaire but there are 4 of us playing and only one (me) is older than 16. Perhaps their data is skewed.