I thought the packages were set up to cover the high cost of certain channels, e.g., ESPN. I mean, in addition to being designed to fuck over subscribers.
Oh, wait. Yes I can. Not enough people are particularly willing to stand up for these egregious violations of civil liberties. In fact, there is generally a louder and larger throng who say things like "If you aren't doing anything wrong, then what are you worried about?".
The US is well along the path to becoming a police state. Personally, I am not concerned about a 1 in 1 billion chance of being murdered by terrists, but I clearly remain in the minority.
A likely scenario with this could also be to propose something outrageous initially, with a nearly as bad "back up" plan which seems benign in comparison and can sail through approvals and marginalize dissenters.
Screw you. There are as many good Mike episodes as Joel. I will agree that on average Joel was better, but Mike was not bad enough to warrant that description.
I've never made any bones about it, I won't pay for anything. So it's not like it matters to me one way or another. I have always had one logical consistent position on this - no money for anyone from me.
I am afraid that this is but one of many problems that the "solutions" to so called man made global warming will spawn. It's surprising to me that anyone is surprised at this outcome. Price controls will only exacerbate the problem.
These "solutions" will make a grand total of zero impact on anything, aside from providing an excuse for everyone to meddle in everyone else's business. I can't wait for the CFL inspector to come knocking on my door to make sure that I don't harbor any illegal standard light bulbs. Never you mind that CFLs contain toxic levels of mercury, so that whey they are tossed in a dump, the mercury can contaminate the soil and groundwater.
Even if global warming is frighteningly real (perhaps) and man made (doubtful), the only thing we should be doing about it is learning to cope. Return to a nativist lifestyle is not an option, and these solutions cause more problems (mass starvation anyone?) than they solve.
Presumably this is a therapeutic vaccine, since survival data is reported. Don't think you could get this as a prophylactic vaccine in order to ward off future brain tumors.
As for the statistics, the fact that 7/8 have exceeded the historical median survival is fairly meaningless. I'm sure that historical literature could be produced to provide equivalent results in a single small study. Also, at a single site, you have no insight into the selection criteria for the patients enrolled... Were they selected because they were highly likely to survive (e.g., early stage disease)? Is the investigational site vested in the therapy (likely the case, at least for a principal investigator)?
Will be interesting to see what phase 2 studies bring - hopefully it works out as well as they describe here, but if history is any judge, that is probably not going to be the case.
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this is not stuff that matters.
eh?
sir.
quality is not a stated requirement for a story to be accepted.
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I thought the packages were set up to cover the high cost of certain channels, e.g., ESPN. I mean, in addition to being designed to fuck over subscribers.
Or not.
Yeah, probably not.
Clippy?
The US is well along the path to becoming a police state. Personally, I am not concerned about a 1 in 1 billion chance of being murdered by terrists, but I clearly remain in the minority.
A likely scenario with this could also be to propose something outrageous initially, with a nearly as bad "back up" plan which seems benign in comparison and can sail through approvals and marginalize dissenters.
Wasn't this a scientific consensus? I thought scientific consensus was infallible, right?
Screw you. There are as many good Mike episodes as Joel. I will agree that on average Joel was better, but Mike was not bad enough to warrant that description.
Still too damn expensive for me. And most everyone else.
20-30, guessing based on mythtv specs +/- some improvements from tivo.
I've never made any bones about it, I won't pay for anything. So it's not like it matters to me one way or another. I have always had one logical consistent position on this - no money for anyone from me.
At least the Russians have the balls to go there and get the oil and gas out. To hell with the baby seals and polar bears.
Thanks for your intelligent defense of genocide, Adolf. Let me guess, you consider yourself "tolerant", right?
the best ideas come from senior managers. You just have to make them think they came up with it.
These "solutions" will make a grand total of zero impact on anything, aside from providing an excuse for everyone to meddle in everyone else's business. I can't wait for the CFL inspector to come knocking on my door to make sure that I don't harbor any illegal standard light bulbs. Never you mind that CFLs contain toxic levels of mercury, so that whey they are tossed in a dump, the mercury can contaminate the soil and groundwater.
Even if global warming is frighteningly real (perhaps) and man made (doubtful), the only thing we should be doing about it is learning to cope. Return to a nativist lifestyle is not an option, and these solutions cause more problems (mass starvation anyone?) than they solve.
well, you are the control group.
If if's and but's were candy and nuts, then what a wonderful world it would be!
I dont know, but my 13 y.o. daughter thinks the iPhone is called "Hello" after seeing the commercials for it.
The USA PATRIOT act mandates the presentation of a SSN or Tax ID number to open accounts at a financial institution. whee.
Isn't Cal Berkeley the University of California? That's how it's commonly referenced outside of CA.
Presumably this is a therapeutic vaccine, since survival data is reported. Don't think you could get this as a prophylactic vaccine in order to ward off future brain tumors.
As for the statistics, the fact that 7/8 have exceeded the historical median survival is fairly meaningless. I'm sure that historical literature could be produced to provide equivalent results in a single small study. Also, at a single site, you have no insight into the selection criteria for the patients enrolled... Were they selected because they were highly likely to survive (e.g., early stage disease)? Is the investigational site vested in the therapy (likely the case, at least for a principal investigator)?
Will be interesting to see what phase 2 studies bring - hopefully it works out as well as they describe here, but if history is any judge, that is probably not going to be the case.
Really a shame.