The software industry is different because all of its patents are in fact algorithms implemented on calculating machines. As such I think they should be classified as mathematics which is in fact unpatentable under current law.
This statistic is absolute bullshit, of course. I went back to the the original source and found this:
"The crude rate of mortality due to all causes of death for subjects with anorexia nervosa in these studies was 5.9% (178 deaths in 3,006 subjects). The aggregate mortality rate was estimated to be 0.56% per year, or approximately 5.6% per decade."
In other words, of all the people WITH anorexia nervosa, the leading cause of death is anorexia.
In the US commercial speech has far more restrictions than political speech, so I could see in fact a regulation like this being constitutional here.
However political speech in the US is rarely restricted, and since the 14th amendment has ensured due process for all people, and since legally a corporation is a person it's much harder to see how political speech by corporations will get restricted without there being a constitutional amendment.
Insurance works once. After you file a claim your policy is cancelled or your rates become equal to the value of your claim and they exclude coverage on the risk you filed a claim on. The insurance companies share claim histories too so forget switching to a different company.
Better to have some loss mitigation tech in place in addition to insurance. You might get a break on rates too.
The $40-$60 ones are pants. Go with the Square D Surgebreaker Plus. About $300.
Gas discharge protected MOVs and silicon avalanche diodes. Robust against even a sustained high voltage. All-mode protection etc.
Protects phone and incoming coax too.
Then on top of that add some local surge protectors in your house. I happen to like the Tripp-Lite ones. This will protect you if say a fridge or AC goes bonkers.
When you get your surgebreaker make sure you have a good ground too. If you have an electrician install it have him check your house ground.
Having people pay for medications out of pocket might actually be a big positive on the overall cost of medical care in this country. Right now doctors often prescribe expensive on-patent drugs that have little or no benefit over off-patent cheap drugs because of pressure and marketing from pharmaceutical companies.
One example of this is a new family of drugs (DPP-4 inhibitors) one of which is sitagliptin. It regulates production of insulin in type II diabetic patients very well. It costs $250 a month and is being pushed very heavily. An alternative to this is something like glypizide that does the same thing, only less selectively. Glypizide costs $4 a month. For lots of patients glypizide is just as effective as an overall treatment.
With the current system patents are much more likely to get sitagliptin because their health care covers it. But is it economically a good choice? Or is it being sold in large quantities because there isn't the feedback that an out of pocket expense would cause?
Ultimately I think it's very important to consider the choices being made that impact the overall cost of delivery medical services in the US. Right now we have one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, AND by far and away the highest percentage of that income goes to pay for medical care.
Canada, with very similar demographics pays half what we do as a percentage of GDP, and by most measures they are healthier.
It is so bad that the US Federal Government payments for health care are per capita what Canadians pay for health care. Yet Canada gets universal coverage for that same expenditure, but in addition we ALSO have to pay staggering costs for our commercial insurance system.
These costs are a disaster for our economy. In every aspect of life they make our society poorer and less competitive world wide. It cannot continue in this manner.
Exactly. The grandparent is complete bullshit and should be modded down.
The US is the world's largest manufacturing nation in terms of economic output. People seem to forget giant companies like Intel, Caterpillar, Boeing, Cisco, ADM etc. not to mention the pharmaceuticals and the farming industry which are world leading. Not only that but the US does it with a mere 8% of its workforce. The economic output of the average US worker is more than 10 times that of his Chinese equivalent because he's more technically skilled and produces far more valuable products in a highly automated setting.
The Boeing main aircraft assembly building in the Seattle area is the largest manufacturing facility in the world.
It was Boeing who discovered the Y2K problem because they are such a large consumer of aluminum they have to project consumption of aluminum a decade in advance so the aluminum industry can scale their capacity to match their consumption.
I don't know where people get the idea the US isn't competitive in manufacturing. It is a huge force on a global scale in manufacturing, and factors like low energy costs because of the vast natural gas reserves being developed are likely to keep it that way. Anyone writing that the US has no manufacturing capability is full of bullshit.
A study based on 118 people in a geographically narrow area based on a sample at one time of biological diversity is absolutely NOT the sort of thing that you would want to base any kind of decision on.
It's ridiculous that this sort of thing gets in to the popular press. It's pure garbage science.
Nothing too surprising here. My oldest son had terrible allergies and was in danger of developing asthma. After a series of tests an allergist developed a series of shots for him that over several years brought his allergies under control through a planned program of acclimation, to the point where now he only has mild symptoms in the fall.
Runaway slaves were in a very different situation than you are. If caught they were often tortured and hanged. Even aiding a runaway slave could result in getting yourself killed.
Trying to claim that you are in an equivalent status is the height of bullshit, and a gross insult to people who were actually in those circumstances. You should be ashamed of yourself.
- Climate deniers elected to Congress - Intelligent Design taught in schools - Epidemics of preventable diseases rampant - States permit chiropractors to openly practice
I see that you have no knowledge about the laws a corporation operates under.
Well here is a clue:
Corporations are generally chartered and are legally required to be run for the benefit of their stockholders. A corporation that pays more taxes than legally required would be subject to lawsuits from its shareholders.
Who the blazes is going to invest money into something that is being operated for the benefit of somebody else?
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The software industry is different because all of its patents are in fact algorithms implemented on calculating machines. As such I think they should be classified as mathematics which is in fact unpatentable under current law.
Yes, but the starving/photoshopped model is making the clothing she is displaying look better.
This statistic is absolute bullshit, of course. I went back to the the original source and found this:
"The crude rate of mortality due to all causes of death for subjects with anorexia nervosa in these studies was 5.9% (178 deaths in 3,006 subjects). The aggregate mortality rate was estimated to be 0.56% per year, or approximately 5.6% per decade."
In other words, of all the people WITH anorexia nervosa, the leading cause of death is anorexia.
In the US commercial speech has far more restrictions than political speech, so I could see in fact a regulation like this being constitutional here.
However political speech in the US is rarely restricted, and since the 14th amendment has ensured due process for all people, and since legally a corporation is a person it's much harder to see how political speech by corporations will get restricted without there being a constitutional amendment.
Insurance works once. After you file a claim your policy is cancelled or your rates become equal to the value of your claim and they exclude coverage on the risk you filed a claim on. The insurance companies share claim histories too so forget switching to a different company.
Better to have some loss mitigation tech in place in addition to insurance. You might get a break on rates too.
The $40-$60 ones are pants. Go with the Square D Surgebreaker Plus. About $300.
Gas discharge protected MOVs and silicon avalanche diodes. Robust against even a sustained high voltage. All-mode protection etc.
Protects phone and incoming coax too.
Then on top of that add some local surge protectors in your house. I happen to like the Tripp-Lite ones. This will protect you if say a fridge or AC goes bonkers.
When you get your surgebreaker make sure you have a good ground too. If you have an electrician install it have him check your house ground.
> We should rewrite the thing
Are you kidding? Look at the state of American politics today. Do you REALLY think what you would get would be an improvement?
> to be the divine word of god
The fact is since 1787 every other democracy has been cribbing bits from it. None have made any real improvements.
Private direct messages should require a warrant IMHO.
Many patent trolls are in fact nimble upstarts.
The answer is much simpler. Get rid of business process and software patents. They are proving to be a detriment to the software industry.
Having people pay for medications out of pocket might actually be a big positive on the overall cost of medical care in this country. Right now doctors often prescribe expensive on-patent drugs that have little or no benefit over off-patent cheap drugs because of pressure and marketing from pharmaceutical companies.
One example of this is a new family of drugs (DPP-4 inhibitors) one of which is sitagliptin. It regulates production of insulin in type II diabetic patients very well. It costs $250 a month and is being pushed very heavily. An alternative to this is something like glypizide that does the same thing, only less selectively. Glypizide costs $4 a month. For lots of patients glypizide is just as effective as an overall treatment.
With the current system patents are much more likely to get sitagliptin because their health care covers it. But is it economically a good choice? Or is it being sold in large quantities because there isn't the feedback that an out of pocket expense would cause?
Ultimately I think it's very important to consider the choices being made that impact the overall cost of delivery medical services in the US. Right now we have one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, AND by far and away the highest percentage of that income goes to pay for medical care.
Canada, with very similar demographics pays half what we do as a percentage of GDP, and by most measures they are healthier.
It is so bad that the US Federal Government payments for health care are per capita what Canadians pay for health care. Yet Canada gets universal coverage for that same expenditure, but in addition we ALSO have to pay staggering costs for our commercial insurance system.
These costs are a disaster for our economy. In every aspect of life they make our society poorer and less competitive world wide. It cannot continue in this manner.
I see you are short on reading comprehension today.
Go back and re-read my posting.
I said nothing as to whether it was a good idea to study this issue. only that this study was far from conclusive.
Exactly. The grandparent is complete bullshit and should be modded down.
The US is the world's largest manufacturing nation in terms of economic output. People seem to forget giant companies like Intel, Caterpillar, Boeing, Cisco, ADM etc. not to mention the pharmaceuticals and the farming industry which are world leading. Not only that but the US does it with a mere 8% of its workforce. The economic output of the average US worker is more than 10 times that of his Chinese equivalent because he's more technically skilled and produces far more valuable products in a highly automated setting.
The Boeing main aircraft assembly building in the Seattle area is the largest manufacturing facility in the world.
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/facilities/
It was Boeing who discovered the Y2K problem because they are such a large consumer of aluminum they have to project consumption of aluminum a decade in advance so the aluminum industry can scale their capacity to match their consumption.
I don't know where people get the idea the US isn't competitive in manufacturing. It is a huge force on a global scale in manufacturing, and factors like low energy costs because of the vast natural gas reserves being developed are likely to keep it that way. Anyone writing that the US has no manufacturing capability is full of bullshit.
http://www.shopfloor.org/2011/03/u-s-manufacturing-remains-worlds-largest/18756
http://business.time.com/2011/03/10/can-china-compete-with-american-manufacturing/
A study based on 118 people in a geographically narrow area based on a sample at one time of biological diversity is absolutely NOT the sort of thing that you would want to base any kind of decision on.
It's ridiculous that this sort of thing gets in to the popular press. It's pure garbage science.
Nothing too surprising here. My oldest son had terrible allergies and was in danger of developing asthma. After a series of tests an allergist developed a series of shots for him that over several years brought his allergies under control through a planned program of acclimation, to the point where now he only has mild symptoms in the fall.
http://www.respiratoryreviews.com/apr00/rr_apr00_immunotherapy.html
The thing is it doesn't work for everyone, and the age you start is important. But for my son, it changed his life.
What makes you think that objections raised in that manner are going to be any more accurate than the original work?
If legislatures are incompetent enough not to fix their errors this process can cause harm in either direction; through action or inaction.
Ultimately the refutation of bad science depends on data, not blog entries.
The arsenic based DNA article published in Science was not finally laid to rest by blog entries, but by a careful analysis of the DNA.
Runaway slaves were in a very different situation than you are. If caught they were often tortured and hanged. Even aiding a runaway slave could result in getting yourself killed.
Trying to claim that you are in an equivalent status is the height of bullshit, and a gross insult to people who were actually in those circumstances. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Disgusting.
So the take away is what? Go back to living in caves in the dark and eating our food raw because fire isn't safe?
Give me a fscking break.
Are you saying it isn't a disaster zone?
- Climate deniers elected to Congress
- Intelligent Design taught in schools
- Epidemics of preventable diseases rampant
- States permit chiropractors to openly practice
Looks like a disaster to me.
So how can you claim taxation is slavery if you were able to move away from it?
Your thesis is malarkey.
> I have no right to opt out
What? Has the government refused to issue you a passport so you can repudiate your citizenship?
Do tell.
> a colossal national debt of which roughly 25-30% is the direct result of his policies
Even that 25-30% is arguably the result of the policies of his predecessor.
1. Tax cut in wartime. Check
2. Two large useless wars. Check
3. Economic collapse further reducing revenues. Check.
4. Out of control budget. Check
Then the governments need to fix their problems. It isn't up to Google to run the freaking governments so as to enable them to pay more taxes.
The idea that it is, well, is frankly just about the most ludicrous thing imaginable.
I see that you have no knowledge about the laws a corporation operates under.
Well here is a clue:
Corporations are generally chartered and are legally required to be run for the benefit of their stockholders. A corporation that pays more taxes than legally required would be subject to lawsuits from its shareholders.
Who the blazes is going to invest money into something that is being operated for the benefit of somebody else?
It is an absolutely nonsensical idea.
So why don't you move if you are so unhappy?
Here's a list of possibilities:
http://www.zyra.org.uk/taxhaven.htm