This discovery may allow pharmaceutical companies to develop a drug to block the enzyme, allowing cells in the pancreas to function normally . . .
Suuuure . . . that the drug companies will sell you for the low, low price of three grand a month or so for the rest of your life, none of which your HMO will pay for because it's "experimental" (read: Too expensive). A few years from now we'll discover that it causes liver damage, too.
Why couldn't they just spend the resources to cure the underlying disease? Oh, I know, there's no money in that. If we were fighting polio today, there never would have been a vaccine for it. Instead, they would have introduced a drug that, if taken daily, prevents polio-induced paralysis about 70% of the time. And since it can causes both liver and kidney failure, regular tests are required. All of this can be yours for the low, low price of, again, about three grand a month.
Hey, this is what happens when medicine is first concerned about profit than about patient care and the public good. It's good for the economy and if you're against it, you're a terrorist.
Just don't plan on seeing the sun for the next four months.
I currently live in Seattle, so I am very well acquainted with weather in the Lower Mainland.
I hear, oddly, that the weather is much nicer on the not-far-away Sunshine Coast.
Oh, and by the way, if you're moving to Vancouver, remember we're in the 12th week of a civil worker strike = No garbage collection, no libraries, no community centers, etc.
I know about the civic strike. I've been following it on CBC Radio one and CBC's BC website
On the "Aren't we great" side though, the city is amazingly clean for 12 weeks of no garbage collection.
It's probably cleaner than most cities with garbage collection.
I'll be up there tomorrow, so I'll see for myself, eh?
I feel the same way. For me, this is roughly Reason No. 4,691 to Move to Canada.
I've had it with this country. I've tried so long and fought so hard, but the country's backsliding just gets faster and faster. Plus, one gets to a point in one's life where it becomes tempting to give someplace new a try.
While I know that Canada is far from perfect, it's a lot closer to my values than America ever was, ever has been or ever will be. For instance, the U.S. is looking at a never-ending war in Vietraq. You guys, OTOH, are facing the prospect of a national election over Harper's contumacious refusal to notify NATO that the troops are coming home in 2009.
I'm planning on moving to the Lower Mainland, BC next month. I can't wait.
by stealing your time, the solution is to let him fuck you as hard as he wants?
Oh, that's what those "antiquated" and "outmoded" unions made progress on. If it wasn't for the labour movement, we'd still be working in sweatshops for scrip redeemable at the company store.
Because then, the poor impoverished CEO would have to settle for a 90 foot yacht over a 120 foot one, and the corporate jet fleet (that the geeks will never get within a mile of) would only have three new jets instead of five.
By and large, nerds spend a great deal of time gaming or coding in their parents' basements while masturbating to Ayn Rand.
Those that go out into the real world, however, soon learn that, by golly, not having health care sucks. It sucks even harder when your job gets outsourced to India or China. Having learned the hard way that capitalism only works for the top fraction of a percent, they soon begin clamoring for government funded health care, housing, job guarantees, etc.
ESR is a perfect example of this. In one breath he rails against the many evils Micro$oft has committed. In the next, he's calling for the repeal of all antitrust laws because "the free market will take care of the problem." News flash, man, the free market is what got us into this mess.
The Bush-appointed U.S. Supreme Court of Chief Justice Roberts will overturn the ruling. And when they do, they'll prattle on about "consumer choice" and "freedom to contract." As if there is a "choice" or any "freedom" for an individual up against AT&T.
The U.S. is already the laughingstock of the planet for how behind our telephone systems and ISPs are.
The U.S. is already the laughingstock of the planet for how far it is behind everybody on everything. Health care, education, infrastructure, transit . . . you name it, the rest of the world is whizzing past the U.S.
I bet i could write a secure voting machine that could handle state and federal elections securely in a couple of days in any language from assembly to bash!
Shit . . . the wingnut mods are out of the asylum again. How is this a troll? It's the truth! The Bush-dominated DOJ folded the royal flush it was holding against His Billness!
Embrace, extend, extinguish. Microsoft is up to their old tricks again. This time, though, a toothless, neutered DOJ will let them get away with murder.
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with Sony's near-perfect record of failure in the format wars. From the Betamax to a dozen or so idiotic, proprietary audio formats for their cheap-but-expensive MP3 players, Sony needs about a dozen strokes with a clue-by-four.
This is what happens, of course, when one of your subsidiaries is RIAA-member Sony Music.
My favorite tee shirt slogan hangs in a friends office...
"Winning is nothing. Collecting is everything."
That sounds very suspiciously like these guys. They're representing the Goldman family in their efforts to collect from the Butcher of Brentwood. Admirable, but they've also carried water for the Cult^W Church of $cientology, which could be liberally described as morally questionable.
Now they just send your bill to a collections agency.
That's easy - then you just sue the collection agency for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. It's not terribly hard to do, and the crackheads the collection agencies hire will inevitably screw up. They may talk a good game over the phone, but their attitude changes when they get served with papers. The upshot usually is that they end up paying the bill and paying you a couple grand for a settlement. I have a few of these checks up on my wall now.
I played with an iphone on Wednesday. There are some issues that would make it a show stopper for me.
Okay, he gets modded Flamebait for having the temerity to point out some of the iPhone's many shortcomings, all of which are overcome by phones that cost half as much and are not joined at the hip to a carrier whose GPRS network is slower than snail shit? What the fuck is up with that?
It's an overpriced yuppie toy status symbol for the same tools who pay $50 for a "status brand" T-shirt and buy a new cell phone every six months. That's why it's only designed to last that long. Apple figures they'll sell 3-4 of them over the course of the contract they're locked into. And you know what? The desire to have the latest "cool" thing plus the notoriously short attention spans of these people means they probably will.
Basically, Apple put a cell phone into an iPod and tripled the price. And to get it, you must sign a two year contract with the execrable AT&T Wireless (f/k/a Cingular) and pay full retail for the phone. Used to be that you got a break on the phone for signing a contract, no more. Apple knows that the idiot lemmings will flock to their stores and gladly plunk down $600 for a non-subsidized phone that you (1) cannot unlock, (2) cannot change the SIM card in, and (3) cannot even replace the battery.
As usual,/. is well behind the power curve: iPhone costs about $220 to make. I guess I should be happy to get three dupes of some MIT wunderkind's latest too-cool-for-school case mod involving a pizza box or something.
I'll stick to the BlackBerry, thank you very much. I can unlock that and use somebody else's SIM card when I travel overseas rather than pay exorbitant roaming charges.
For those of you Apple fanboys who think I'm just a hater, I'm typing this on my Mac Mini. I'm going to do work later on an iBook G4. Apple does make some great products, including the iPod, but they've screwed the pooch on this one bigtime.
Bait cars have reduce car theft about 40% over the last 5 years. The police rig a car with cameras, remote engine stop, gps, and leave it in a high crime area. They get some nice video of the criminal then stop the car and arrest the theif.
Just curious...what are the contradictions? Can you list a few of the 'biggies'?
Oh geeze, where to begin.
Let's start with this one: Not only can the Bible not agree on the lineage of Jesus, it can't even agree on how many generations there were between him and David. Matthew 1:6-16 has 28 generations, Luke 3:21-31 has 43. You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of overlapping names on those two lists. And no, one of them was not Mary's genealogy as hers would have been irrelevant in a patriarchal society.
Further, the whole idea of Jesus being born of a virgin is based on a mistranslation of the Hebrew word for "young woman." It is from this that the whole Christian preoccupation with sex (except for between priest and altar boy, that's hunky-dory) comes from. The havoc this has wrought, through such idiocies as abstinence-only education and opposition to contraception, needs no further discussion. And the wingnuts would have us base our secular public policy on this crap? Ridiculous!
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This discovery may allow pharmaceutical companies to develop a drug to block the enzyme, allowing cells in the pancreas to function normally . . .
Suuuure . . . that the drug companies will sell you for the low, low price of three grand a month or so for the rest of your life, none of which your HMO will pay for because it's "experimental" (read: Too expensive). A few years from now we'll discover that it causes liver damage, too.
Why couldn't they just spend the resources to cure the underlying disease? Oh, I know, there's no money in that. If we were fighting polio today, there never would have been a vaccine for it. Instead, they would have introduced a drug that, if taken daily, prevents polio-induced paralysis about 70% of the time. And since it can causes both liver and kidney failure, regular tests are required. All of this can be yours for the low, low price of, again, about three grand a month.
Hey, this is what happens when medicine is first concerned about profit than about patient care and the public good. It's good for the economy and if you're against it, you're a terrorist.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Bring your umbrellas.
And raincoats.
And boots.
Just don't plan on seeing the sun for the next four months.
I currently live in Seattle, so I am very well acquainted with weather in the Lower Mainland.
I hear, oddly, that the weather is much nicer on the not-far-away Sunshine Coast.
Oh, and by the way, if you're moving to Vancouver, remember we're in the 12th week of a civil worker strike = No garbage collection, no libraries, no community centers, etc.
I know about the civic strike. I've been following it on CBC Radio one and CBC's BC website
On the "Aren't we great" side though, the city is amazingly clean for 12 weeks of no garbage collection.
It's probably cleaner than most cities with garbage collection.
I'll be up there tomorrow, so I'll see for myself, eh?
J.
I feel the same way. For me, this is roughly Reason No. 4,691 to Move to Canada.
I've had it with this country. I've tried so long and fought so hard, but the country's backsliding just gets faster and faster. Plus, one gets to a point in one's life where it becomes tempting to give someplace new a try.
While I know that Canada is far from perfect, it's a lot closer to my values than America ever was, ever has been or ever will be. For instance, the U.S. is looking at a never-ending war in Vietraq. You guys, OTOH, are facing the prospect of a national election over Harper's contumacious refusal to notify NATO that the troops are coming home in 2009.
I'm planning on moving to the Lower Mainland, BC next month. I can't wait.
by stealing your time, the solution is to let him fuck you as hard as he wants?
Oh, that's what those "antiquated" and "outmoded" unions made progress on. If it wasn't for the labour movement, we'd still be working in sweatshops for scrip redeemable at the company store.
Because then, the poor impoverished CEO would have to settle for a 90 foot yacht over a 120 foot one, and the corporate jet fleet (that the geeks will never get within a mile of) would only have three new jets instead of five.
is why nerds tend to be losertarians.
By and large, nerds spend a great deal of time gaming or coding in their parents' basements while masturbating to Ayn Rand.
Those that go out into the real world, however, soon learn that, by golly, not having health care sucks. It sucks even harder when your job gets outsourced to India or China. Having learned the hard way that capitalism only works for the top fraction of a percent, they soon begin clamoring for government funded health care, housing, job guarantees, etc.
ESR is a perfect example of this. In one breath he rails against the many evils Micro$oft has committed. In the next, he's calling for the repeal of all antitrust laws because "the free market will take care of the problem." News flash, man, the free market is what got us into this mess.
The Bush-appointed U.S. Supreme Court of Chief Justice Roberts will overturn the ruling. And when they do, they'll prattle on about "consumer choice" and "freedom to contract." As if there is a "choice" or any "freedom" for an individual up against AT&T.
Well, as I've said before, he is a gundamentalist - the kind that puts the "gun" before "da mental."
What about quantum bogodynamics?
The U.S. is already the laughingstock of the planet for how far it is behind everybody on everything. Health care, education, infrastructure, transit . . . you name it, the rest of the world is whizzing past the U.S.
Bonus points if you can write it in INTERCAL.
Shit . . . the wingnut mods are out of the asylum again. How is this a troll? It's the truth! The Bush-dominated DOJ folded the royal flush it was holding against His Billness!
Embrace, extend, extinguish. Microsoft is up to their old tricks again. This time, though, a toothless, neutered DOJ will let them get away with murder.
with Sony's near-perfect record of failure in the format wars. From the Betamax to a dozen or so idiotic, proprietary audio formats for their cheap-but-expensive MP3 players, Sony needs about a dozen strokes with a clue-by-four.
This is what happens, of course, when one of your subsidiaries is RIAA-member Sony Music.
Is Freenet ready yet? What do you mean they're still coding it in Java?
It'll be ready about the same time as a fully-functioning HURD kernel. Does it even support USB yet?
That sounds very suspiciously like these guys. They're representing the Goldman family in their efforts to collect from the Butcher of Brentwood. Admirable, but they've also carried water for the Cult^W Church of $cientology, which could be liberally described as morally questionable.
"Are you aaaaangry, Butt-Head?"
"Yeah. I'm angry at numbers!"
Now they just send your bill to a collections agency.
That's easy - then you just sue the collection agency for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. It's not terribly hard to do, and the crackheads the collection agencies hire will inevitably screw up. They may talk a good game over the phone, but their attitude changes when they get served with papers. The upshot usually is that they end up paying the bill and paying you a couple grand for a settlement. I have a few of these checks up on my wall now.
I played with an iphone on Wednesday. There are some issues that would make it a show stopper for me.
Okay, he gets modded Flamebait for having the temerity to point out some of the iPhone's many shortcomings, all of which are overcome by phones that cost half as much and are not joined at the hip to a carrier whose GPRS network is slower than snail shit? What the fuck is up with that?
It's an overpriced yuppie toy status symbol for the same tools who pay $50 for a "status brand" T-shirt and buy a new cell phone every six months. That's why it's only designed to last that long. Apple figures they'll sell 3-4 of them over the course of the contract they're locked into. And you know what? The desire to have the latest "cool" thing plus the notoriously short attention spans of these people means they probably will.
/. is well behind the power curve: iPhone costs about $220 to make. I guess I should be happy to get three dupes of some MIT wunderkind's latest too-cool-for-school case mod involving a pizza box or something.
Basically, Apple put a cell phone into an iPod and tripled the price. And to get it, you must sign a two year contract with the execrable AT&T Wireless (f/k/a Cingular) and pay full retail for the phone. Used to be that you got a break on the phone for signing a contract, no more. Apple knows that the idiot lemmings will flock to their stores and gladly plunk down $600 for a non-subsidized phone that you (1) cannot unlock, (2) cannot change the SIM card in, and (3) cannot even replace the battery.
As usual,
I'll stick to the BlackBerry, thank you very much. I can unlock that and use somebody else's SIM card when I travel overseas rather than pay exorbitant roaming charges.
For those of you Apple fanboys who think I'm just a hater, I'm typing this on my Mac Mini. I'm going to do work later on an iBook G4. Apple does make some great products, including the iPod, but they've screwed the pooch on this one bigtime.
I drink, I get drunk, I fall down.
No problem.
Bait cars have reduce car theft about 40% over the last 5 years. The police rig a car with cameras, remote engine stop, gps, and leave it in a high crime area. They get some nice video of the criminal then stop the car and arrest the theif.
You mean like these videos, eh?
Total BULLSHIT!
Just curious...what are the contradictions? Can you list a few of the 'biggies'?
Oh geeze, where to begin.
Let's start with this one: Not only can the Bible not agree on the lineage of Jesus, it can't even agree on how many generations there were between him and David. Matthew 1:6-16 has 28 generations, Luke 3:21-31 has 43. You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of overlapping names on those two lists. And no, one of them was not Mary's genealogy as hers would have been irrelevant in a patriarchal society.
Further, the whole idea of Jesus being born of a virgin is based on a mistranslation of the Hebrew word for "young woman." It is from this that the whole Christian preoccupation with sex (except for between priest and altar boy, that's hunky-dory) comes from. The havoc this has wrought, through such idiocies as abstinence-only education and opposition to contraception, needs no further discussion. And the wingnuts would have us base our secular public policy on this crap? Ridiculous!
The image versus the reality.