There is no necessary connection between assuring drug safety and using the legal system to prop up a monopoly, although the FDA long ago mission-crept beyond its safety mandate to become a willing enabler of Bigger And Bigger Pharma. The FDA keeps compounds that have been selling in Europe and Canada off the US market for years, just to delay competition with one of the big domestic moneymakers. You're not going to convince me that European safety agencies are more lax than the FDA.
Guys, were you aware that in April, 2012, the patent on Viagra expired? But this was not a great day in the history of masculinity because Pfizer was able to get a federal judge to extend its reign to 2019 on the usual mysterious technical grounds.
That, and suborning the world's legal systems to screw host-country businesses (those capitalists, remember) out of any profit they might make from the presence of the Olympics. The Committee seem to have learned a lot from our own NFL when it puts on Super Bowls.
Because I get my network signal fair and square, through one of the largest cable providers in the nation. But as each of the over-the-air channel apps implements this stupid "verify your cable provider" login to get content, for some reason my carrier is not one of five or six never-heard-of-them providers in the "approved" list. Sorry, asshats, but you just made me another happy torrent customer.
This is real News for Nerds. We need to support this effort by India to bust the pharma monopoly if we are ever going to afford medical care in this country. It doesn't matter whether that care is public or private; either style of payment encounters the same tsunami of uncontrolled cost.
But of course, reams of whiny butthurt over the proposed new appearance of Slashdot trumps all real issues this week. Will you crybabies please boycott the site as you have promised and let the rest of us get back to discussing real issues? You're like those Hollywood cokebrains who promise to leave the US whenever some Republican gets elected, but who let us down every time.
When a roided-up big city cop puts on Glass, physicists are not sure what effect such concentrated arrogance might have on surrounding matter. Such experiments should be conducted out in the Oort cloud, where the effects on Earth should be minimal.
My previous comment in this topic was my first comment in beta. I notice a bug: the title line defaults to empty instead of Re: . It's nice to be able to modify the thread title, but the Re: should be a default.
Design issue: there needs to be a 'no images' option for people running on restricted bandwidth.
That's precisely why we don't "throw the fuel away." We store it until the economics of recycling become better. What we need now is dry storage to replace all those precarious spent fuel pools.
Good luck on even getting approval to build those clean, fast-switchable power sources to pair with wind and solar. The largest renewable power project in my state was also the one most bitterly opposed by environmentalists at the time it was built: Glen Canyon Dam. Its output, because of its flexibility, is currently being partnered with wind, but just try to get another project like this ever started again.
That's a function of which specific subculture of people you're dealing with. Apply varying values of "we'll build a house for you under the collector..." and "a competency test is required to homestead here..." to the specific population near the array.
To be a baseload source, a specified power output must always be available from the plant at a specified time of day. On a bad weather day or when a cloud merely passes across the sun, the output of that solar array will drop. Lack of availability at night or changing output with daytime sun angle do not matter, because these cycles are predictable and can be written into the specification of output from the plant. The problem is fluctuations during the rated time the plant is feeding the grid.
A solar array like this can be 'paired' with the output of another power plant, such as a hydroelectric (the only baseload renewable), because output of the hydro plant can be quickly stepped up if the solar-plant output drops due to weather. The two plants in combination would produce more baseload supply than the dam alone
This is true, but that only means that you can't use solar as a baseload power source. There are other applications for fluctuating energy sources for which the fluctuation is irrelevant. You could use a large solar array to desalinate water, lessening the amount you need to bring in from distant places. If we had a state that had a large coastal population with vast areas of empty desert inland, this would be an ideal use for wind and solar.
A salt lake in the middle of nowhere is probably the best choice for pure insolation, but why not build in some almost-as-sunny place near population? If each element of the solar array were built into a structure that could serve as a roof for a self-built house, conditional on observing minimum building standards and keeping dust cleaned off the panel, you could draw a lot of people out of the slums and on to the start of a better life.
And I bet that this was the one feminist initiative that men totally supported. How could this possibly not have succeeded, especially in Massachusetts?
There is so much uranium already present in seawater, there since millions of years, that if the market price of U were to increase 10x it would be profitable to extract it for human use. So what effect is that puff of Fukushima particles going to have around the world?
And if you were to induce infrasonic vibrations in a human colon, the results would be really...interesting. I'll wait for the YouTube video, than you.
The cell towers regularly go out for a week or more in your village? In that case, you have more to fear from Taliban insurgents than from the phone company.
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So long as all sides in a controversy have to use open science, this will not happen. You have nothing to fear because all real science is open.
Guys, were you aware that in April, 2012, the patent on Viagra expired? But this was not a great day in the history of masculinity because Pfizer was able to get a federal judge to extend its reign to 2019 on the usual mysterious technical grounds.
That, and suborning the world's legal systems to screw host-country businesses (those capitalists, remember) out of any profit they might make from the presence of the Olympics. The Committee seem to have learned a lot from our own NFL when it puts on Super Bowls.
Because I get my network signal fair and square, through one of the largest cable providers in the nation. But as each of the over-the-air channel apps implements this stupid "verify your cable provider" login to get content, for some reason my carrier is not one of five or six never-heard-of-them providers in the "approved" list. Sorry, asshats, but you just made me another happy torrent customer.
But of course, reams of whiny butthurt over the proposed new appearance of Slashdot trumps all real issues this week. Will you crybabies please boycott the site as you have promised and let the rest of us get back to discussing real issues? You're like those Hollywood cokebrains who promise to leave the US whenever some Republican gets elected, but who let us down every time.
When a roided-up big city cop puts on Glass, physicists are not sure what effect such concentrated arrogance might have on surrounding matter. Such experiments should be conducted out in the Oort cloud, where the effects on Earth should be minimal.
So how does your grammaw like her Mac Pro? Bet it comes in handy for polishing up those cruise videos with Final Cut Pro.
On my planet, all we do is scroll down to the bottom of the main page and click "Use Classic."
...But the SCOTUS nixed that on Eighth Amendment grounds.
Design issue: there needs to be a 'no images' option for people running on restricted bandwidth.
Spying to maintain power or to satisfy big-corporate donors is an inherent vice of centralized government. This doesn't just happen in New Zealand.
First on-topic post!
That's precisely why we don't "throw the fuel away." We store it until the economics of recycling become better. What we need now is dry storage to replace all those precarious spent fuel pools.
Good luck on even getting approval to build those clean, fast-switchable power sources to pair with wind and solar. The largest renewable power project in my state was also the one most bitterly opposed by environmentalists at the time it was built: Glen Canyon Dam. Its output, because of its flexibility, is currently being partnered with wind, but just try to get another project like this ever started again.
That's a function of which specific subculture of people you're dealing with. Apply varying values of "we'll build a house for you under the collector..." and "a competency test is required to homestead here..." to the specific population near the array.
A solar array like this can be 'paired' with the output of another power plant, such as a hydroelectric (the only baseload renewable), because output of the hydro plant can be quickly stepped up if the solar-plant output drops due to weather. The two plants in combination would produce more baseload supply than the dam alone
This is true, but that only means that you can't use solar as a baseload power source. There are other applications for fluctuating energy sources for which the fluctuation is irrelevant. You could use a large solar array to desalinate water, lessening the amount you need to bring in from distant places. If we had a state that had a large coastal population with vast areas of empty desert inland, this would be an ideal use for wind and solar.
There was a plant on Long Island, fully completed but never opened due to local opposition.
A salt lake in the middle of nowhere is probably the best choice for pure insolation, but why not build in some almost-as-sunny place near population? If each element of the solar array were built into a structure that could serve as a roof for a self-built house, conditional on observing minimum building standards and keeping dust cleaned off the panel, you could draw a lot of people out of the slums and on to the start of a better life.
And the immediate assumption that her missing medication had been forgotten, not purse-snatched.
And I bet that this was the one feminist initiative that men totally supported. How could this possibly not have succeeded, especially in Massachusetts?
There is so much uranium already present in seawater, there since millions of years, that if the market price of U were to increase 10x it would be profitable to extract it for human use. So what effect is that puff of Fukushima particles going to have around the world?
But why is the reef the only place to dump it? Is there not some nearby land-based use for large quantities of sand?
And if you were to induce infrasonic vibrations in a human colon, the results would be really...interesting. I'll wait for the YouTube video, than you.
The cell towers regularly go out for a week or more in your village? In that case, you have more to fear from Taliban insurgents than from the phone company.