Denmark's play was a grab for the assets of financially troubled toymaker Claus Industries. Little did they know that Claus had already solved his problems by relocating to Shenzhen.
Why is it that any suggestion that open-market elements be included in the medical system gets treated as Ayn Rand throwing sick children into snowbanks? Medicine has been a fourteenth-century Guild Of The Silversmiths for so long that it cannot imagine any role for market forces, that's why. But as healthcare goes on pricing itself out of the market, this attitude is absolutely going to change.
In my state we already have busloads of Sun City retirees being taken across the border to relive their college days dealing drugs, but this time to get their prescriptions filled. And these are regular folk, not ideologues of any kind.
Adobe Lightroom. Nothing else even comes close, on OS X or Windows. It organizes sets of images on any combination of storage devices you want, including those disconnected-mostly archives that people with a serious number of photographs always eventually have. It has a tagging system to make searching easy. It gives you control of image metadata. It has most of the editing power of Photoshop with an intuitively easy interface, rather than one that has grown haphazardly bloatwise over the years like PS. It lets you archive everything in RAW if you wish. Editing is nondestructive, so you can peel off prior edits and re-edit an old image at any time. And yes, you can call your favorite external editor, including PS, when you need to do something really fancy.
It's also the only Adobe product that is still reasonably priced and available as an installed program. The others now have to be rented on the company's cloud site.
I wouldn't use Soylent Green as an analogy if I were you. Companies are made up of people, but they shouldn't be eating people. In too many cases, this is exactly what they end up doing.
If Actavis were to lose the patent on the old Alzheimer's drug when it started selling the new one, it would still be totally free to profit on the new drug if it were a significant improvement over the old one. The very fact that they object to having to keep manufacturing the old one tells us they're lying. If they were not, the new drug would automatically take over the market and demand for the old one would fall.
The fix for that one is to allow patients to fill their prescriptions on the worldwide market, rather than being legally restricted to domestic suppliers. If the drug is any good, Ranbaxy or some other offshore manufacturer will be glad to produce it.
This is why I would like to see the FDA stripped of its powers to keep products off the market. Testing of medical devices and drugs is a vital function, but let the FDA be a pure provider of information. The customer, his doctors and insurance companies would be free to look at the FDA data and decide for themselves what to medicate with.
Patents have traditionally had an exploitation requirement: you can't just patent something and then sit on it, any more than you can stake a mining claim without 'proving it out.' This seems to have changed in recent years, now that we have so many examples of 'submarine' patents that suddenly come to life after sitting unused for years.
Legal question - was there a law change that enabled this, or is everyone just filing their patent suits in East Texas today?
Kudos to the judge on this one, because the company is pursuing a bald-faced scam in forcing patients to switch to the new version in this manner.
Yes, it's weird to in effect require a company to manufacture a given product. Actavis could easily start having "manufacturing problems" that mysteriously cramp its ability to keep producing the old substance. How I would like to see this shake out is for the old patent to be automatically voided in cases of product hopping. The old drug would become a generic that anyone could manufacture. I'm sure this is what the judge had in mind, but probably did not have the jurisdiction to rule on the patent itself.
Yes, the picturesque thugs and raving street lunatics that once made your neighborhood special are gone. Because of the gentrifiers, you have to look at freshly painted walls and live with the hell of tourist traffic and rising property values. Probably the water coming out of your faucet is transparent now. Oh, the horror.
The reason we slacked off on raising our children (GenX, your parents) is that by approximately 1972 we had come to the conclusion that humanity was about to become extinct. This would be because of overpopulation, then resource exhaustion, then acid rain, then the new ice age, then nuclear reactors, then industrial chemicals, then global warming. As soon as we can ask the nurse for more alarmist library books, we'll think of another reason.
Certainly, but all-vegetable diets exist also. I'm sure that our earliest experiments in land agriculture were filled with bad practices and dead villagers. Fortunately there were no Greenpeacers around at the time to lecture us on how we needed to give up before we got started because we were offending Mother Gaia. Instead we learned from these things, and moved on to be self-sufficient in food.
As I would for any anti-technology personal objection that endangers public health or the environment. One example: we need to get rid of that "Wild Caught" label on fish. If fish depletion threatens the oceans, we need to eat more farmed fish. Maintaining standards for farm quality is just as vital, but is a separate issue.
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Because before you can win the war you have to win a first battle.
If I were that man I would have shot out the damn camera before doing anything at all on my front porch.
Denmark's play was a grab for the assets of financially troubled toymaker Claus Industries. Little did they know that Claus had already solved his problems by relocating to Shenzhen.
If this is what is really happening, then this will be not only be evidence of life, but Republican life. Look for traces of wealthy activity.
And why don't we have a Seawater Nutter Troll?
Wasn't Galicula the one about the dyslexic Roman emperor?
"A person who is accused of committing a crime is innocent until proven otherwise"
Unless it's a tax or a drug case.
And this time, we do it right.
Why is it that any suggestion that open-market elements be included in the medical system gets treated as Ayn Rand throwing sick children into snowbanks? Medicine has been a fourteenth-century Guild Of The Silversmiths for so long that it cannot imagine any role for market forces, that's why. But as healthcare goes on pricing itself out of the market, this attitude is absolutely going to change.
In my state we already have busloads of Sun City retirees being taken across the border to relive their college days dealing drugs, but this time to get their prescriptions filled. And these are regular folk, not ideologues of any kind.
Clearly no marketing creative oversaw the coining of that name.
Adobe Lightroom. Nothing else even comes close, on OS X or Windows. It organizes sets of images on any combination of storage devices you want, including those disconnected-mostly archives that people with a serious number of photographs always eventually have. It has a tagging system to make searching easy. It gives you control of image metadata. It has most of the editing power of Photoshop with an intuitively easy interface, rather than one that has grown haphazardly bloatwise over the years like PS. It lets you archive everything in RAW if you wish. Editing is nondestructive, so you can peel off prior edits and re-edit an old image at any time. And yes, you can call your favorite external editor, including PS, when you need to do something really fancy.
It's also the only Adobe product that is still reasonably priced and available as an installed program. The others now have to be rented on the company's cloud site.
Such a theme park would be a lot more fun if it included references to those derisive Monty Python sketches about BBC culture.
I wouldn't use Soylent Green as an analogy if I were you. Companies are made up of people, but they shouldn't be eating people. In too many cases, this is exactly what they end up doing.
If Actavis were to lose the patent on the old Alzheimer's drug when it started selling the new one, it would still be totally free to profit on the new drug if it were a significant improvement over the old one. The very fact that they object to having to keep manufacturing the old one tells us they're lying. If they were not, the new drug would automatically take over the market and demand for the old one would fall.
The fix for that one is to allow patients to fill their prescriptions on the worldwide market, rather than being legally restricted to domestic suppliers. If the drug is any good, Ranbaxy or some other offshore manufacturer will be glad to produce it.
This is why I would like to see the FDA stripped of its powers to keep products off the market. Testing of medical devices and drugs is a vital function, but let the FDA be a pure provider of information. The customer, his doctors and insurance companies would be free to look at the FDA data and decide for themselves what to medicate with.
Patents have traditionally had an exploitation requirement: you can't just patent something and then sit on it, any more than you can stake a mining claim without 'proving it out.' This seems to have changed in recent years, now that we have so many examples of 'submarine' patents that suddenly come to life after sitting unused for years.
Legal question - was there a law change that enabled this, or is everyone just filing their patent suits in East Texas today?
Kudos to the judge on this one, because the company is pursuing a bald-faced scam in forcing patients to switch to the new version in this manner.
Yes, it's weird to in effect require a company to manufacture a given product. Actavis could easily start having "manufacturing problems" that mysteriously cramp its ability to keep producing the old substance. How I would like to see this shake out is for the old patent to be automatically voided in cases of product hopping. The old drug would become a generic that anyone could manufacture. I'm sure this is what the judge had in mind, but probably did not have the jurisdiction to rule on the patent itself.
Yes, the picturesque thugs and raving street lunatics that once made your neighborhood special are gone. Because of the gentrifiers, you have to look at freshly painted walls and live with the hell of tourist traffic and rising property values. Probably the water coming out of your faucet is transparent now. Oh, the horror.
The reason we slacked off on raising our children (GenX, your parents) is that by approximately 1972 we had come to the conclusion that humanity was about to become extinct. This would be because of overpopulation, then resource exhaustion, then acid rain, then the new ice age, then nuclear reactors, then industrial chemicals, then global warming. As soon as we can ask the nurse for more alarmist library books, we'll think of another reason.
I was hoping the aliens would swoop in and carry off the Greenpeacers. No group more richly deserves an anal probing.
In what universe is fixing up crumbling old downtowns and making them livable again an evil thing to do?
And the PC crapola you cite, including the Greenpeace organization and all its Luddite folderol, was a creation of the Boomers.
We need to doxx the other Hollywood studios before this happens.
Certainly, but all-vegetable diets exist also. I'm sure that our earliest experiments in land agriculture were filled with bad practices and dead villagers. Fortunately there were no Greenpeacers around at the time to lecture us on how we needed to give up before we got started because we were offending Mother Gaia. Instead we learned from these things, and moved on to be self-sufficient in food.
As I would for any anti-technology personal objection that endangers public health or the environment. One example: we need to get rid of that "Wild Caught" label on fish. If fish depletion threatens the oceans, we need to eat more farmed fish. Maintaining standards for farm quality is just as vital, but is a separate issue.
This story is not going to be covered by Valleywag.
This could cause Arabica beans to be made available on office coffee servers throughout the enterprise!