It is immaterial how much can be grown so long as there is no widespread use of contraception. The more food grown, the more mouths there will be demanding the food grown.
This is an interesting article on whether or not the UK could still defend the Falklands against Argentina (assuming we take the position that the Falklands belongs to the UK): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17157373
"And even if cancer was gone tomorrow, there would still be many many other things for big pharma to make money on, if that was all they are interested in."
For corporations, if not necessarily the people who work for them, it's not a question of making enough money. It's a question of making the most money possible.
"Disclaimer: I work in big Pharma, and I see every day, people working hard for patients, not for the money."
I see employees, good people, solid people, working well for customers all the time. Doesn't mean that the upper level management and owners think of anything other than the bottom line and it's upper management and the owners who make such decisions.
On a side note, is there really such a thing as a 'patent lifetime' these days?
It doesn't take a conspiracy, just your normal, average, seen everyday, everywhere corporate greed.
Do you not believe that corporations like to maximize their profits? Do you not believe that corporations generally have no ethics beyond what is forced on them by law?
I can all too easily believe that a drugs company would check how much they make selling the current crop of drugs versus a cure and might very well make more money with the current crop. I can continue to all too easily believe that they would then shelve the cure and continue selling what they're selling. I could only hope that the scientists involved couldn't be bought off.
"According to the man, whose name has been withheld, when his name is typed into the Google search engine auto-complete suggests words associated with criminal behavior"
This doesn't sound like a partial search to me as you're saying.
Also from TFA: "Another online reputation dustup occurred just last year when a British business owner was falsely accused of being a pedophile in a Google Places review. Google eventually removed the review, but not before the business owner lost, according to his own estimates, roughly 80 percent of his business."
Google makes money on searches. Google needs to pony up when they fuck up someone's life.
If Chinese research into solar panel technology is like much if not most of the rest of Chinese research then it's basically copying what the west is doing and thus your argument becomes invalid.
We are at the mercy of China for suitable panels because they take what we do and they do it cheaper, nothing more.
Western economics are designed to make owners of corporations rich. They are not designed for workers to be protected against outsourcing or foreign competition that earns wages so low that western workers can't possibly compete and thus cannot possibly make a living.
I am a capitalist. I own a small company and I work for myself, but I can also see that protection is needed against countries that don't play by the same rules as we do.
The problem is that we don't want to live like them but we have to compete with them, given our chosen style of life (capitalism).
The perception of those in power in the east is that western workers are overpaid and under-productive. The problem is how to maintain our own standard of living (ie not working like coolies in the 18th century) while gradually bringing other culture's standards of living up to ours.
After reading Ron Paul's book 'Liberty Defined', the very name of which is nothing but spin, I am more convinced than ever that he is just one more right wing politician who has found a way to more or less disassociate himself from the rest of the right wing politicians by marketing his 'small government' line of bullshit.
He will shrink government by killing democratic programs, nothing more, nothing less.
To those of you haven't read his publications, I suggest you do so - and please try and read a bit beyond the smooth bullshit and see what he's really saying.
At the end of the day, such a law would never pass in France so it's a moot point. My post was only to say that while he knows that what he's saying is ridiculous, he does it for a reason.
'The French' are perfectly aware of their motto. This inflammatory statement is nothing more than Sarko playing to the far right trying to take votes away from Marie Le Pen as he knows he can't win with the left.
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It is immaterial how much can be grown so long as there is no widespread use of contraception. The more food grown, the more mouths there will be demanding the food grown.
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Yes that's pretty much where I'm at though I don't see much light at the end of this particular tunnel.
This is an interesting article on whether or not the UK could still defend the Falklands against Argentina (assuming we take the position that the Falklands belongs to the UK): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17157373
"...its just that compared to all other options, the government is the best option"
You might want to rethink this.
http://www.businessinsider.com/oecd-better-life-index-2011-5#1-australia-11
http://www.forbes.com/2011/01/19/norway-denmark-finland-business-washington-world-happiest-countries_slide_11.html
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mef45ejmi/the-worlds-happiest-and-saddest-countries-2/#content
Your ideas are valid. You could post them without being an offensive asshole though.
Okay thank you for the information, good to know -
"And even if cancer was gone tomorrow, there would still be many many other things for big pharma to make money on, if that was all they are interested in."
For corporations, if not necessarily the people who work for them, it's not a question of making enough money. It's a question of making the most money possible.
"Disclaimer: I work in big Pharma, and I see every day, people working hard for patients, not for the money."
I see employees, good people, solid people, working well for customers all the time. Doesn't mean that the upper level management and owners think of anything other than the bottom line and it's upper management and the owners who make such decisions.
On a side note, is there really such a thing as a 'patent lifetime' these days?
So what, live underground and grow your own mushrooms?
Modern life doesn't lend itself to avoiding carcinogens in any realistic fashion unless one is ready to become a hermit.
It doesn't take a conspiracy, just your normal, average, seen everyday, everywhere corporate greed.
Do you not believe that corporations like to maximize their profits?
Do you not believe that corporations generally have no ethics beyond what is forced on them by law?
I can all too easily believe that a drugs company would check how much they make selling the current crop of drugs versus a cure and might very well make more money with the current crop. I can continue to all too easily believe that they would then shelve the cure and continue selling what they're selling. I could only hope that the scientists involved couldn't be bought off.
The problem is the word 'unreasonable' which is subjective and easily misused by the government.
"...evil panel of old men trying to put a baby in every woman's uterus."
Where do I sign up?
"According to the man, whose name has been withheld, when his name is typed into the Google search engine auto-complete suggests words associated with criminal behavior"
This doesn't sound like a partial search to me as you're saying.
Also from TFA:
"Another online reputation dustup occurred just last year when a British business owner was falsely accused of being a pedophile in a Google Places review. Google eventually removed the review, but not before the business owner lost, according to his own estimates, roughly 80 percent of his business."
Google makes money on searches. Google needs to pony up when they fuck up someone's life.
It's not him searching that's the problem, it's when others do a search on him. Presumably he doesn't have control over their Search Settings.
Bah what nonsense.
The mice obviously commissioned the moon at the same time as they had the earth built.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_races_and_species_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Mice
Working shifts round the clock is nothing new in manufacturing anywhere in the world.
Steve Jobs (RIP) and all the other greedy motherfucking western CEOs are full of shit. It comes down to cost and nothing else plays into it at all.
If Chinese research into solar panel technology is like much if not most of the rest of Chinese research then it's basically copying what the west is doing and thus your argument becomes invalid.
We are at the mercy of China for suitable panels because they take what we do and they do it cheaper, nothing more.
Western economics are designed to make owners of corporations rich. They are not designed for workers to be protected against outsourcing or foreign competition that earns wages so low that western workers can't possibly compete and thus cannot possibly make a living.
I am a capitalist. I own a small company and I work for myself, but I can also see that protection is needed against countries that don't play by the same rules as we do.
The problem is that we don't want to live like them but we have to compete with them, given our chosen style of life (capitalism).
The perception of those in power in the east is that western workers are overpaid and under-productive. The problem is how to maintain our own standard of living (ie not working like coolies in the 18th century) while gradually bringing other culture's standards of living up to ours.
After reading Ron Paul's book 'Liberty Defined', the very name of which is nothing but spin, I am more convinced than ever that he is just one more right wing politician who has found a way to more or less disassociate himself from the rest of the right wing politicians by marketing his 'small government' line of bullshit.
He will shrink government by killing democratic programs, nothing more, nothing less.
To those of you haven't read his publications, I suggest you do so - and please try and read a bit beyond the smooth bullshit and see what he's really saying.
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It all depends on who is in power doesn't it.
At the end of the day, such a law would never pass in France so it's a moot point. My post was only to say that while he knows that what he's saying is ridiculous, he does it for a reason.
'The French' are perfectly aware of their motto. This inflammatory statement is nothing more than Sarko playing to the far right trying to take votes away from Marie Le Pen as he knows he can't win with the left.
"...and also not subject to US data monitoring."
Do you really imagine that the US and UK don't work together on this?
Actually I had assumed Denon...