It's really not a very straight-forward market, is it...
A doctor tells you what to buy (and gives you permission to do so). The pharmacy buys it at the market price, though they may have done so on the futures market. The consumer buys from the pharmacy at a price that may have nothing to do with the market price, and could be further distorted by insurance.
Still, once it goes generic, there's a lot more flexibility in pricing for the consumer. If I buy mine at RiteAid, it's $160/month. CVS, $130/month. At Walgreens, I pay $75/month.
In the end, the biggest distorter of the price is insurance. If your policy covers the price of prescriptions (minus copay), you have no idea what the price actually is. Wherever you go, you pay the same. So the only market ends up being between the manufacturer and the pharmacy.
What if you take it because it's a treatment for multiple conditions from which you suffer? Like ADD and hypersomnia?
If I don't take mine, I fall asleep at my desk. Employers hate that. I take it and I'm as awake and focused as "normal".
I'm torn about what it would mean for more people to be taking it. It could drive up my cost at the pharmacy, or it could lead to a surge in production that lowers my costs.
According to some other commenter, the gyrocopter was 100lbs over the ultralight limit.
What I'm wondering now though is how much flexibility the FAA and courts have in charging/sentencing people with that registration offence. I'd hate to think people could be going to prison because they forgot to file some paperwork on time.
What gets me is that the registration violation is a felony, but violating National Defence Airspace, which can earn you a missile up the keester, is the misdemeanor.
Food is necessary for survival, so it is necessary for a civilization. But civilizations need more than food (Take Maslow's hierarchy and extend it to civilizations). And unless I'm mistaken, the topic wasn't rebuilding some level of civilization, but modern civilization. For which electricity is a necessity.
Making insults is not the same thing as making a point. Just because I already considered your proposed solution and dismissed it as unworkable doesn't mean I lack imagination. I don't lack imagination, you just aren't taking yours far enough.
Do you actually think I don't know what steel is made of?
As interesting as your solar smelting idea is, unless the focal point covers the entire mass to be smelted it won't matter. For that you would need an array somewhat larger than this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And though in theory you could build a movable support structure for the mirrors from wood, maybe, you won't have the precision tools to make mirrors of a high enough quality to do the job. Even if you could, you would need a lot of those arrays to smelt on the required scale, and then you need to keep the metal uniformly hot to work it. A solvable engineering problem, but quite a hurdle without metal.
You need metal to make tools to make higher grade metals to make higher quality tools to make everything else. You're going to have to burn something to get started.
Food is a necessary condition for civilization, but it is not sufficient. All the flour and wood in the world won't help you make a hydroelectric plant.
Without fossil fuels, we can't generate enough heat to smelt metals. Without metal tools, we can't build renewable power plants. In fact, we'd be stuck back in the stone age with no means of developing further.
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A doctor tells you what to buy (and gives you permission to do so). The pharmacy buys it at the market price, though they may have done so on the futures market. The consumer buys from the pharmacy at a price that may have nothing to do with the market price, and could be further distorted by insurance.
Still, once it goes generic, there's a lot more flexibility in pricing for the consumer. If I buy mine at RiteAid, it's $160/month. CVS, $130/month. At Walgreens, I pay $75/month.
In the end, the biggest distorter of the price is insurance. If your policy covers the price of prescriptions (minus copay), you have no idea what the price actually is. Wherever you go, you pay the same. So the only market ends up being between the manufacturer and the pharmacy.
Great Job!
Nope. I'd still expect it to be the case. As it has been for centuries.
Just the same one there's always been - don't tell anyone where you live.
Considering that this happened far, far away, and therefore long, long ago; I think we all know who was responsible. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...
Color me profoundly unsurprised, with hints of "so what?".
Only while the patent holder retains exclusive rights. Once it's open to generics, market forces dominate.
Until their backs are turned. Then it's stabbin' time!
that it's all just data. It's absurd the way carriers have been pretending voice and data are somehow different.
are never happy.
A. It's not methylated (as in methamphetamine), so the action is slower and more consistent.
B. At doses of 60mg/day and under, the risk of harmful side-effects is very, very low.
C. It's an incredibly effective treatment for a number of conditions, some of which cannot be treated via other means.
"Speed" typically refers to methamphetamine. The n-methyl isomer dramatically increases uptake, making it a very different beast.
If I don't take mine, I fall asleep at my desk. Employers hate that. I take it and I'm as awake and focused as "normal".
I'm torn about what it would mean for more people to be taking it. It could drive up my cost at the pharmacy, or it could lead to a surge in production that lowers my costs.
Your causal arrows are all flipped around.
Kinda stinks for people who take it for ADD, or ADD and mild narcolepsy like me. Folks'll think I'm cheating!
Really, who in the hell would want to control Goebel's estate? And admit that fact in public?
The WiFi chip is FM capable. Or at least, the BCM4334 it's based on is.
What I'm wondering now though is how much flexibility the FAA and courts have in charging/sentencing people with that registration offence. I'd hate to think people could be going to prison because they forgot to file some paperwork on time.
What gets me is that the registration violation is a felony, but violating National Defence Airspace, which can earn you a missile up the keester, is the misdemeanor.
Apparently. And I think I just came up with a great punishment for corrupt politicians...
Food is necessary for survival, so it is necessary for a civilization. But civilizations need more than food (Take Maslow's hierarchy and extend it to civilizations). And unless I'm mistaken, the topic wasn't rebuilding some level of civilization, but modern civilization. For which electricity is a necessity.
Making insults is not the same thing as making a point. Just because I already considered your proposed solution and dismissed it as unworkable doesn't mean I lack imagination. I don't lack imagination, you just aren't taking yours far enough.
As interesting as your solar smelting idea is, unless the focal point covers the entire mass to be smelted it won't matter. For that you would need an array somewhat larger than this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And though in theory you could build a movable support structure for the mirrors from wood, maybe, you won't have the precision tools to make mirrors of a high enough quality to do the job. Even if you could, you would need a lot of those arrays to smelt on the required scale, and then you need to keep the metal uniformly hot to work it. A solvable engineering problem, but quite a hurdle without metal. You need metal to make tools to make higher grade metals to make higher quality tools to make everything else. You're going to have to burn something to get started.
Food is a necessary condition for civilization, but it is not sufficient. All the flour and wood in the world won't help you make a hydroelectric plant.
Without fossil fuels, we can't generate enough heat to smelt metals. Without metal tools, we can't build renewable power plants. In fact, we'd be stuck back in the stone age with no means of developing further.