> What the hell is this argument for drug companies?
Bringing a new drug to market is very different cost proposition than selling something that is a product where the technology and regulatory status is well established.
Comparing aspirin to a new cancer drug is just silly.
Nobel Prize may or may not mean anything, meat head.
I referred you to the HISTORY behind it, where the crop yields in Pakistan were doubled in two years, putting an end to recurring famines in the region.
Your IDIOTIC claim was that not one person was saved from starvation by the Green Revolution.
Dark Matter was proven decades ago as this following article demonstrates.
Bell Labs Proves Existence of Dark Suckers
For years it has been believed that electric bulbs emitted light. However, recent information from Bell Labs has proven otherwise. Electric bulbs don't emit light, they suck dark. Thus they now call these bulbs dark suckers. The dark sucker theory, according to a Bell Labs spokesperson, proves the existence of dark, that dark has mass heavier than that of light, and that dark is faster than light.
The basis of the dark sucker theory is that electric bulbs suck dark. Take for example, the dark suckers in the room where you are. There is less dark right next to them than there is elsewhere. The larger the dark sucker, the greater its capacity to suck dark. Dark suckers in a parking lot have a much greater capacity than the ones in this room. As with all things, dark suckers don't last forever. Once they are full of dark, they can no longer suck. This is proven by the black spot on a full dark sucker. A candle is a primitive dark sucker. A new candle has a white wick. You will notice that after the first use, the wick turns black, representing all the dark which has been sucked into it. If you hold a pencil next to the wick of an operating candle, the tip will turn black because it got in the path of the dark flowing into the candle.
Unfortunately, these primitive dark suckers have a very limited range. There are also portable dark suckers. The bulbs in these can't handle all of the dark by themselves, and must be aided by a dark storage unit. When the dark storage unit is full, it must be either emptied or replaced before the portable dark sucker can operate again.
Dark has mass. When dark goes into a dark sucker, friction from this mass generates heat. Thus it is not wise to touch an operating dark sucker. Candles present a special problem, as the dark must travel in the solid wick instead of through glass. This generates a great amount of heat. Thus it can be very dangerous to touch an operating candle. Dark is also heavier than light. If you swim deeper and deeper, you notice it gets slowly darker and darker. When you reach a depth of approximately fifty feet, you are in total darkness. This is because the heavier dark sinks to the bottom of the lake and the lighter light floats to the top. The immense power of dark can be utilized to mans advantage. We can collect the dark that has settled to the bottom of lakes and push it through turbines, which generate electricity and help push it to the ocean where it may be safely stored. Prior to turbines, it was much more difficult to get dark from the rivers and lakes to the ocean. The Indians recognized this problem, and tried to solve it. When on a river in a canoe travelling in the same direction as the flow of the dark, they paddled slowly, so as not to stop the flow of dark, but when they traveled against the flow of dark, they paddled quickly so as to help push the dark along its way.
Finally, we must prove that dark is faster than light. If you were to stand in an illuminated room in front of a closed, dark closet, then slowly open the closet door, you would see the light slowly enter the closet, but since the dark is so fast, you would not be able to see the dark leave the closet.
In conclusion, Bell Labs stated that dark suckers make all our lives much easier. So the next time you look at an electric bulb remember that it is indeed a dark sucker.
With that sort of legal theory how do you bring people like the Lockerbie bombers to justice?
The fact is your physical location doesn't necessarily protect you if you are participating in a crime committed in another location. It depends on the treaties in place, international law and a variety of other circumstances.
"an unqualified U.S. origin claim is a claim that the product is made entirely in the United States except for a de minimis or negligible amount of foreign content"
Failing to adhere to this opens you up to deceptive advertising fines.
So if Google is making this claim they need to be sourcing nearly everything in this device from the US.
RIGHT NOW 2 billion people are alive because of the Green Revolution. Population continues to grow. There are only a few choices; deforest the planet or mass famine or improve agricultural technology.
I've worked with two types of companies; large ones that all had a fixed percentage allocation like Microsoft, and small ones that did it seat of pants or not at all.
The fact is no matter what sort of system your employer has, the whole process is a lie. You will only find out what they really think of you when it comes time to downsize.
Generally not having a fixed percentage system makes it easier to lie to the employee. Having a fixed percentage system can be unfair if you are on a team with all superstars. Basically though if you are on such a team it is a very unstable situation and will not last long because members of such a team will generally move on to better opportunities pretty quickly.
Complete Nonsense. Islamics in both Nigeria and Pakistan were making up all sorts of BS before the fake vaccination program to dissuade their followers from participating in the vaccine program. With success leading to continuing polio outbreaks well before OBL's death.
Nature's God can mean a lot of things, not just the clockwork Deistic interpretation. It can also be a reference to the Spinozan agnostic view where God is simply a metaphor for Nature. Jefferson was certainly aware and influenced by these ideas. He CERTAINLY would not feel that his choice of words meant that the reader would be obligated to adopt his personal views on the topic. Ultimately freedom of religion meant freedom of conscience to Jefferson.
As far as separation of church and state, this is merely vernacular shorthand for the First Amendment derived from Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association.
If you haven't already I suggest you take a look at "The First Liberty: America's Foundation in Religious Freedom" by Andrew Miller. You might like it - it is pretty exhaustive on both the origins of the ideas of religious freedom and the the more modern legal history that you have alluded to. It's obviously much more authoritative than any Wikipedia article.
> It does? How does the US lead, when the LHC is in Switzerland?
Of course it does. The LHC is just one facility in one fairly narrow field. It makes news because high energy physics is sexy.
Nobel Prizes are awarded to people working in the US at a far greater rate than any other country. Even with recent gains by the rest of the world the US still wins more Nobels than the rest of the world combined.
They are in a death spiral. Large percentage of min wage jobs isn't going to generate the revenue needed to support the education needed to move up the economic curve.
Don't feel bad - lots of states have that problem right now. It's going to take some serious priority setting to fix.
It would be great if they could do that. A successful DARPA project to weaponize the Higgs Boson would absolutely revolution the overall technological capability of the human race because of the spin-offs that would result.
They don't actually have any such thing. They have a particle that is necessary for the theories to be correct, but they don't know if the behavior of the particle follows the theories so there is a lot of excitement and potential for new ideas to be generated from the study of this.
As far as practical uses, well few thought General Relativity would have practical application, and now it's use is a common everyday thing because GPS depends on it.
Who can tell what uses will be made from this when the theory isn't even settled yet?
> By "factions" he was referring to things such as political parties or groups formed for political purposes. Only someone trying to be extremely liberal with the meaning of his words (aka lying) would try to lump in corporations under that.
WRONG.
Here is the ACTUAL definition of faction from the link I provided.
"a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community"
It is INCONCEIVABLE that James Madison would limit a discussion of free speech to just political parties or groups.
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> What the hell is this argument for drug companies?
Bringing a new drug to market is very different cost proposition than selling something that is a product where the technology and regulatory status is well established.
Comparing aspirin to a new cancer drug is just silly.
Nobel Prize may or may not mean anything, meat head.
I referred you to the HISTORY behind it, where the crop yields in Pakistan were doubled in two years, putting an end to recurring famines in the region.
Your IDIOTIC claim was that not one person was saved from starvation by the Green Revolution.
DISPROVEN.
Bullshit again.
Comprehensive reviews conducted by major universities show organic farming yields are 25% lower.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/26/world/organic-food-yield/index.html
Try that on a large scale and you will have a disaster like what the world has never seen.
Dark Matter was proven decades ago as this following article demonstrates.
Bell Labs Proves Existence of Dark Suckers
For years it has been believed that electric bulbs emitted light. However, recent information from Bell Labs has proven otherwise. Electric bulbs don't emit light, they suck dark. Thus they now call these bulbs dark suckers. The dark sucker theory, according to a Bell Labs spokesperson, proves the existence of dark, that dark has mass heavier than that of light, and that dark is faster than light.
The basis of the dark sucker theory is that electric bulbs suck dark. Take for example, the dark suckers in the room where you are. There is less dark
right next to them than there is elsewhere. The larger the dark sucker, the greater its capacity to suck dark. Dark suckers in a parking lot have a
much greater capacity than the ones in this room. As with all things, dark suckers don't last forever. Once they are full of dark, they can no longer suck. This is proven by the black spot on a full dark sucker. A candle is a primitive dark sucker. A new candle has a white wick. You will notice that after the first use, the wick turns black, representing all the dark which
has been sucked into it. If you hold a pencil next to the wick of an operating candle, the tip will turn black because it got in the path of the dark flowing into the candle.
Unfortunately, these primitive dark suckers have a very limited range. There are also portable dark suckers. The bulbs in these can't handle all
of the dark by themselves, and must be aided by a dark storage unit. When the dark storage unit is full, it must be either emptied or replaced before
the portable dark sucker can operate again.
Dark has mass. When dark goes into a dark sucker, friction from this mass generates heat. Thus it is not wise to touch an operating dark sucker.
Candles present a special problem, as the dark must travel in the solid wick instead of through glass. This generates a great amount of heat. Thus it can be very dangerous to touch an operating candle. Dark is also heavier than light. If you swim deeper and deeper, you notice it gets slowly darker
and darker. When you reach a depth of approximately fifty feet, you are in total darkness. This is because the heavier dark sinks to the bottom of the lake and the lighter light floats to the top. The immense power of dark can be utilized to mans advantage. We can collect the dark that has settled to the bottom of lakes and push it through turbines, which generate electricity and help push it to the ocean where it may be safely stored.
Prior to turbines, it was much more difficult to get dark from the rivers and lakes to the ocean. The Indians recognized this problem, and tried to
solve it. When on a river in a canoe travelling in the same direction as the flow of the dark, they paddled slowly, so as not to stop the flow of dark, but when they traveled against the flow of dark, they paddled quickly so as to help push the dark along its way.
Finally, we must prove that dark is faster than light. If you were to stand in an illuminated room in front of a closed, dark closet, then slowly open the closet door, you would see the light slowly enter the closet, but since the dark is so fast, you would not be able to see the dark leave the closet.
In conclusion, Bell Labs stated that dark suckers make all our lives much easier. So the next time you look at an electric bulb remember that it is indeed a dark sucker.
That's absolute poppycock.
And as a citiation I refer you to the history behind Normal Borlaug's Nobel Peace Prize or the books:
Hesser, Leon. The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger.
Cullather, Nick. The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia. Harvard University Press.
With that sort of legal theory how do you bring people like the Lockerbie bombers to justice?
The fact is your physical location doesn't necessarily protect you if you are participating in a crime committed in another location. It depends on the treaties in place, international law and a variety of other circumstances.
The Federal Trade Commission has specific regulations on what qualifies for Made In USA
These are published in the Federal Register
http://www.ftc.gov/opp/madeusa2/62fr63755.pdf
"an unqualified U.S. origin claim is
a claim that the product is made entirely
in the United States except for a de
minimis or negligible amount of foreign
content"
Failing to adhere to this opens you up to deceptive advertising fines.
So if Google is making this claim they need to be sourcing nearly everything in this device from the US.
Manufacturing in Africa is never simple. There are huge issues.
- rule of law a new concept
- terrorism
- poor infrastructure
- lack of skilled workers
- wars
- potential nationalization
- currency instability
- no financial infrastructure
- crime
- famine
RIGHT NOW 2 billion people are alive because of the Green Revolution. Population continues to grow. There are only a few choices; deforest the planet or mass famine or improve agricultural technology.
I've worked with two types of companies; large ones that all had a fixed percentage allocation like Microsoft, and small ones that did it seat of pants or not at all.
The fact is no matter what sort of system your employer has, the whole process is a lie. You will only find out what they really think of you when it comes time to downsize.
Generally not having a fixed percentage system makes it easier to lie to the employee. Having a fixed percentage system can be unfair if you are on a team with all superstars. Basically though if you are on such a team it is a very unstable situation and will not last long because members of such a team will generally move on to better opportunities pretty quickly.
Complete Nonsense. Islamics in both Nigeria and Pakistan were making up all sorts of BS before the fake vaccination program to dissuade their followers from participating in the vaccine program. With success leading to continuing polio outbreaks well before OBL's death.
They are the only ones responsible.
You sure have an odd idea of the meaning of the word 'assassinate'.
It's pretty obvious Assange collaborated with Manning to steal secret documents.
That's a crime for sure.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/prosecutors-say-manning-and-assange-collaborated-in-stealing-secret-documents/2011/12/22/gIQARwAXCP_story.html
I've been to both Iceland and Hawaii.
If I was going to live in either I'd choose Hawaii. Much warmer, 4 times the population and much more to see and do.
Ultimately though it's still small and boring after a few weeks.
Nature's God can mean a lot of things, not just the clockwork Deistic interpretation. It can also be a reference to the Spinozan agnostic view where God is simply a metaphor for Nature. Jefferson was certainly aware and influenced by these ideas. He CERTAINLY would not feel that his choice of words meant that the reader would be obligated to adopt his personal views on the topic. Ultimately freedom of religion meant freedom of conscience to Jefferson.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/opinion/29goldstein.html?pagewanted=print
As far as separation of church and state, this is merely vernacular shorthand for the First Amendment derived from Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association.
If you haven't already I suggest you take a look at "The First Liberty: America's Foundation in Religious Freedom" by Andrew Miller. You might like it - it is pretty exhaustive on both the origins of the ideas of religious freedom and the the more modern legal history that you have alluded to. It's obviously much more authoritative than any Wikipedia article.
> It does? How does the US lead, when the LHC is in Switzerland?
Of course it does. The LHC is just one facility in one fairly narrow field. It makes news because high energy physics is sexy.
Nobel Prizes are awarded to people working in the US at a far greater rate than any other country. Even with recent gains by the rest of the world the US still wins more Nobels than the rest of the world combined.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_nob_pri_lau-people-nobel-prize-laureates
And exactly where are you going that has a R&D infrastructure and isn't bankrupt?
Like or not the US is actually as good as anyplace right now.
Not everywhere. Suburban schools in northern states compete well with anything in the world.
Texas' support for colleges has gone into the crapper too.
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-education/higher-education/tuition-rising-fast-while-state-support-drops/
They are in a death spiral. Large percentage of min wage jobs isn't going to generate the revenue needed to support the education needed to move up the economic curve.
Don't feel bad - lots of states have that problem right now. It's going to take some serious priority setting to fix.
What makes you think they can keep a secret?
The Chinese will be selling Higgs Boson powered sex toys in 2 weeks.
Virgin couriers please.
Yes but Neocons are so hypocritical about it. They go around whining about the deficit, but then cut taxes and only pay lip service to cut spending.
I'd like to know what planet that works on.
It would be great if they could do that. A successful DARPA project to weaponize the Higgs Boson would absolutely revolution the overall technological capability of the human race because of the spin-offs that would result.
They don't actually have any such thing. They have a particle that is necessary for the theories to be correct, but they don't know if the behavior of the particle follows the theories so there is a lot of excitement and potential for new ideas to be generated from the study of this.
As far as practical uses, well few thought General Relativity would have practical application, and now it's use is a common everyday thing because GPS depends on it.
Who can tell what uses will be made from this when the theory isn't even settled yet?
> By "factions" he was referring to things such as political parties or groups formed for political purposes. Only someone trying to be extremely liberal with the meaning of his words (aka lying) would try to lump in corporations under that.
WRONG.
Here is the ACTUAL definition of faction from the link I provided.
"a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community"
It is INCONCEIVABLE that James Madison would limit a discussion of free speech to just political parties or groups.