However oil is a global market; any regulation in the US is not going to have a material effect on world trade in a commodity like this.
The idea that the US President can affect oil prices is utterly laughable. Anyone saying such a thing needs a good slap on the side of the head for stupidity.
It's attracted many billions of dollars of private investment into R&D on biotech all over the world. Without the ability to recover that investment because of protection of the results of the research there would be no biotech industry to speak of.
Myriad's patents do not claim the gene per se, rather an isolated form of the gene.
In fact there are no patents of "genes" unless they involve isolated genetic material and describe specific functionality of the isolated material, as does the Myriad patent.
Sorry, but your hypothesis doesn't correspond to current research. Basically the current literature shows gay men score similarly to women in IQ tests.
And certainly anecdotal results from a dorm are not meaningful. As a math major you should realize this.
The thing I've seen over the years is that the good CEOs make a big difference for their companies. With the effects of their decisions being as important as they are they can swing billions of dollars one way or another.
The bad ones can ruin a company, or at least drive it into the gutter.
The problem is that both the good and bad get extremely high pay, and only the good ones are worth it.
The way CEO incentives work is all wrong.
Then the way boards and CEOs interact is often broken too.
The only people I introduced to the series were my children. And that was when they were 2 and 4, I forced them to watch TOS instead of Wheel of Fortune when one of the local channels started rerunning it.
They were unhappy with that parental decision for about 30 seconds.
It was cool especially because they saw the episodes in the same way I did when the show was first run in the '60s.
> The "kids these days" are less likely to know that slavery, and power to them.
Yeah, just drifting around is easier than having responsibility for something.
You've been an independent adult, what 10 years? Give it another 50 and you will understand that ownership brings independence, and lack of ownership means dependence.
As you get older independence will become everything to you.
Major collapses are normally followed by economic improvement. Sometimes they collapse again, sometimes they continue to improve for a long time.
The fact is the the purchasing power of a family in Iceland is now 30% less than it was prior to the collapse. The currency devaluation effectively cut wages 50%. These as disasters.
The loss of economic disparity = loss of capital and flight of capital from Iceland dooming the country to slow future growth. The only industries they have that are healthy now are fishing and tourism.
Iceland is still under pressure from Britain and the Netherlands to make good on deposits lost to their citizens when Iceland's banks collapsed.
Trying to compare a 23 year old in South Carolina vs one in Iceland is stupid. Both have real challenges to face. Who can tell what the outcome will be 40 years from now?
One thing this does show though is how wrongheaded the Euro is. You cannot have a currency union without an economic union.
Iceland went through a economic collapse and currency devaluation in 2008, savaging the savings of it's citizens. It's stock market fell 90%. At one time it's external debt was nearly 8x GDP. For weeks external currency transactions were frozen making critical imports difficult.
> data leakage is a piss-poor excuse to spy on people without their knowledge.
This isn't a case of that. The person being spied on knows what is happening.
> Personally, I think that transparent SSL interception should be illegal.
Even if you are working for a defense contractor or law enforcement agency? Or other organizations that handle sensitive data such as banks, hospitals, etc.?
These sorts of precautions are used sometimes. For USB you disable the ports. Printers are not present on certain networks. Some machines are not connected to the internet at all.
We don't know the rationale for the employer's actions here. It could be paranoia, or it could be a very rational response to legal requirements and past issues.
It's hard to reach a conclusion without the other side of the story.
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Investment in oil futures is important for people who consume oil to allow them to be able to even out price fluctuations. You cannot outlaw this.
However Obama has requested regulatory changes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/oilprices/9209891/Barack-Obama-cracks-down-on-oil-traders.html
However oil is a global market; any regulation in the US is not going to have a material effect on world trade in a commodity like this.
The idea that the US President can affect oil prices is utterly laughable. Anyone saying such a thing needs a good slap on the side of the head for stupidity.
Of course it spurs innovation.
It's attracted many billions of dollars of private investment into R&D on biotech all over the world. Without the ability to recover that investment because of protection of the results of the research there would be no biotech industry to speak of.
I call BS.
Myriad's patents do not claim the gene per se, rather an isolated form of the gene.
In fact there are no patents of "genes" unless they involve isolated genetic material and describe specific functionality of the isolated material, as does the Myriad patent.
Unlikely this will affect GM since this grass is a hybrid, not a GM product.
Sorry, but your hypothesis doesn't correspond to current research. Basically the current literature shows gay men score similarly to women in IQ tests.
And certainly anecdotal results from a dorm are not meaningful. As a math major you should realize this.
My freshman physics was at 8AM with lectures on Tues Thurs and Saturday. I ended up with an engineering PhD.
In some ways having the early Saturday AM lecture was great. It quickly separated the serious students from those who were lacking commitment.
The lectures were great, too. The professor won a Nobel a few years after I took his course.
It's the EU. Not big on immigrants. You're lucky to get even one minority.
You should have used sarcasm tags.
The thing I've seen over the years is that the good CEOs make a big difference for their companies. With the effects of their decisions being as important as they are they can swing billions of dollars one way or another.
The bad ones can ruin a company, or at least drive it into the gutter.
The problem is that both the good and bad get extremely high pay, and only the good ones are worth it.
The way CEO incentives work is all wrong.
Then the way boards and CEOs interact is often broken too.
Average pay for a S&P 500 CEO was 10.7 million in 2007.
This guy has all those tubes to worry about.
And this is different from what was happening previously exactly how?
As far as war, both sides have been committing acts of war against each other for decades.
Commercial speech, as in advertisements gets way less protection than say political speech.
So those ads must pass a lot of tests that don't apply to other types of speech.
The only people I introduced to the series were my children. And that was when they were 2 and 4, I forced them to watch TOS instead of Wheel of Fortune when one of the local channels started rerunning it.
They were unhappy with that parental decision for about 30 seconds.
It was cool especially because they saw the episodes in the same way I did when the show was first run in the '60s.
It might be if he was in Sweden originally. However EU law prohibits the sort of two hop extradition you are speculating about.
> The "kids these days" are less likely to know that slavery, and power to them.
Yeah, just drifting around is easier than having responsibility for something.
You've been an independent adult, what 10 years? Give it another 50 and you will understand that ownership brings independence, and lack of ownership means dependence.
As you get older independence will become everything to you.
Over the long haul ownership is the only thing that guarantees you access to the music of your life.
Many of the things that I loved when I was a college student are out of print, or just flat out not available except as rare items.
Streaming? Not available.
People streaming now will eventually own the music that ties into their memories, or lose it.
PayPal is not the only payment option on EBay. However many sellers accept only PayPal because it is the easiest way to manage things.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/pay/methods.html
And Paypal has never charged me as a buyer a transaction fee. As a seller, yes, and outrageously so, but not as a buyer.
BluRay comes into it's own if you have a large screen and a top-notch sound system.
Most people don't.
> Where's the checkbox to opt-out of using Google's Ad network across thousands of sites on the internet?
It's in the list of browser plugins.
Look for the "Keep My Opt-Outs" plugin
Major collapses are normally followed by economic improvement. Sometimes they collapse again, sometimes they continue to improve for a long time.
The fact is the the purchasing power of a family in Iceland is now 30% less than it was prior to the collapse. The currency devaluation effectively cut wages 50%. These as disasters.
The loss of economic disparity = loss of capital and flight of capital from Iceland dooming the country to slow future growth. The only industries they have that are healthy now are fishing and tourism.
Iceland is still under pressure from Britain and the Netherlands to make good on deposits lost to their citizens when Iceland's banks collapsed.
Trying to compare a 23 year old in South Carolina vs one in Iceland is stupid. Both have real challenges to face. Who can tell what the outcome will be 40 years from now?
One thing this does show though is how wrongheaded the Euro is. You cannot have a currency union without an economic union.
Post secondary education in Canada is not free.
Iceland went through a economic collapse and currency devaluation in 2008, savaging the savings of it's citizens. It's stock market fell 90%. At one time it's external debt was nearly 8x GDP. For weeks external currency transactions were frozen making critical imports difficult.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aVFtDRGwcc50&refer=europe
It was the largest economic collapse by any country in history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932012_Icelandic_financial_crisis
You don't SELL your personal information. You LICENSE it and charge for yearly updates.
Plus it comes with DRM that requires you to be logged into my server while you use it.
And the whole process is patented.
I have encountered such people in various Slashdot discussions on vaccination.
The fact is that anti-vaxers will put forth pretty much anything as a justification for their position.
> data leakage is a piss-poor excuse to spy on people without their knowledge.
This isn't a case of that. The person being spied on knows what is happening.
> Personally, I think that transparent SSL interception should be illegal.
Even if you are working for a defense contractor or law enforcement agency? Or other organizations that handle sensitive data such as banks, hospitals, etc.?
These sorts of precautions are used sometimes. For USB you disable the ports. Printers are not present on certain networks. Some machines are not connected to the internet at all.
We don't know the rationale for the employer's actions here. It could be paranoia, or it could be a very rational response to legal requirements and past issues.
It's hard to reach a conclusion without the other side of the story.
>I pay $30/month for my unlimited-but-throttled-down-at-5Gb.
And the provider of this is?