Kickstarter and the like are not investment vehicles. They are supposed to be a fun way to give a few dollars of disposable income to an interesting project. If you are considering sending so much money that you start to worry it might vaporize, then stop and put that money into stocks, bonds, or canned goods.
Progressive policies are those which seek to establish control over all aspects of people's lives by experts who know better what those people really want and need than those people do themselves.
In stark contrast to that are the Conservative policies, which seek to establish control over all aspects of people's lives by nonexperts who know better what those people really want and need than those people do themselves.
We've allowed corporations into our food production to the point that it threatens the "mom and pop" farmers that make this country great.
There are precious few "mom and pop" farms left. For one, they couldn't compete with economies of scale, but the real reason is that the sons and daughters of mom and pop could not wait to grow up and leave that damn farm for the city.
...I thought that's what mass spectrometers were for.
They are. High resolution mass specs measure down to 0.0001 amu (where 1 amu = the mass of a proton). I think the potential here is not for the resolution but the ability of the nanotube scale to measure the mass using a sample of only a few molecules, where a mass spec experiment will need to have a lot more than that injected into the detector.
Instead of shouting about how he's a racist, why don't you tell us what the problem is, and why so much foreign aid never reaches the people who need it in Africa?
I never wrote, let alone shouted, that the original commenter was racist. You injected that into the conversation.
Africa has many problems. Africans being different kinds of human beings from me is not one of them.
Were these people born without rotator cuffs? I don't even want to think what my arms would feel like if I had to lift them up over the keyboard to manipulate objects all day.
...people in the 3rd world do NOT think or act like YOU.
What - you are saying they are not human? You want to go down that road? I say we are all pretty much the same on the whole. If history had been reversed and the US and Africa changed places I'm pretty sure my town would have warlords instead of councilmembers.
Shafting starving vllagers for miracle grow while the soil's mineral content dries up, leaving them with soil that won't even grow weeds in the rainy season is *VERY* profitable.
Where does a starving village get the money to make this trade very profitable?
The more accurate statement is specific Apple advertising for a product they are selling is inaccurate..
Maserati advertises their GranCabrio as having a top speed of 175 mph, but if I try to go that fast I will get pulled over and probably arrested. Is that then false advertising?
There was an AC posting a few days ago in the thread about "steering wheel position" who had lost his wife and young son as a result of a malfunctioning airbag sensor.
I guess he's just doing his blind loyalty thing for NASA, but come on. 3 astronauts killed in a pure oxygen atmosphere? 2 shuttles and crew lost spectacularly?
And that was when money was no problem. Imagine if NASA had been trying to get to the moon in the economic environment of ValuJet.
You're missing a major contributor to academic research in point 2. 28% of funding for biomedical research comes from the US NIH. The NIH only contributes to new drugs that have a material impact on the improvement of public health. I would easily believe that 72% of new drugs to market provide little additional benefit over preceding drugs and are mostly there to pad the pockets of Big Pharma. In order to pass the FDA they only need to show that they are as effective and no less safe.
No. Drugs do not come out of academia. The goal of a scientist in academia is to publish papers. The goal of a scientist in pharma is to sell products. And you have a a gleefully optimistic view of how easy it is to get a drug past FDA hurdles an into the market.
4. Doubtful. No company sells at a loss. Bayer would just avoid India completely, and not release their patented drugs until 10-20 years later (after they recover their initial R&D investment).
Wouldn't India just smuggle the drug from a country that has it and reverse engineer it?
I don't that strategy is viable.
The wouldn't need to bother. The patents fully describe the synthesis of the drug.
You must've missed Pfizer at 31, and Johnson & Johnson at 40. Those two make more than Kraft Foods
What other industry can possibly have that level of markup and keep customers?
Somewhat different. Pfizer and J&J need robust R&D departments because the fruits of that department become public property after 17 years. On the other hand, no other company on the planet is going to be able to ever sell Jell-O as long as there is a lawyer who draws breath.
"He also says a one-penny tax on attachments would make him as rich as Germany...."
Yeah, if everyone who had developed any of the protocols we use on the web had monetized them, they'd be billionaires. Except that the accreted charges would have ensured that no one ever used the web.
Slashdot Mirror
When Heisenberg was up for the same $400 fine, they cut in half because nobody could be sure if he was guilty or not.
In Socialist Canada, Post Office stamps you!
you have some way of verifying the information
If I can verify information, why am I torturing anyone?
Kickstarter and the like are not investment vehicles. They are supposed to be a fun way to give a few dollars of disposable income to an interesting project. If you are considering sending so much money that you start to worry it might vaporize, then stop and put that money into stocks, bonds, or canned goods.
No, conservatives told those politicians that claimed to be conservative....
You should add this to your sig: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
So, are you saying that those who currently identify themselves as liberals do not favor expanding government regulation (for example, Obamacare)?
"Obamacare" ideas came originally from a conservative think tank and were promoted by conservative politicians. Until Obama supported them.
Progressive policies are those which seek to establish control over all aspects of people's lives by experts who know better what those people really want and need than those people do themselves.
In stark contrast to that are the Conservative policies, which seek to establish control over all aspects of people's lives by nonexperts who know better what those people really want and need than those people do themselves.
We've allowed corporations into our food production to the point that it threatens the "mom and pop" farmers that make this country great.
There are precious few "mom and pop" farms left. For one, they couldn't compete with economies of scale, but the real reason is that the sons and daughters of mom and pop could not wait to grow up and leave that damn farm for the city.
The idiot. I would've stayed with Demi. WAY hotter than most chicks her age.
Most chicks her age are dead.
...I thought that's what mass spectrometers were for.
They are. High resolution mass specs measure down to 0.0001 amu (where 1 amu = the mass of a proton). I think the potential here is not for the resolution but the ability of the nanotube scale to measure the mass using a sample of only a few molecules, where a mass spec experiment will need to have a lot more than that injected into the detector.
Chick-Fil-A had a product showroom?
Yes. They were a nice place, but the Returns Department was pretty shitty.
It's implied in every comment you made, about "dehumanizing the other." Don't be obtuse.
Ridiculous. You have totally missed the point.
Instead of shouting about how he's a racist, why don't you tell us what the problem is, and why so much foreign aid never reaches the people who need it in Africa?
I never wrote, let alone shouted, that the original commenter was racist. You injected that into the conversation.
Africa has many problems. Africans being different kinds of human beings from me is not one of them.
And in your rush to relieve yourself of the discomfort of his perceived racism, you just underscored his point.
The cry that "But they are different from us" has always been the first step in the dehumanization of the other.
Were these people born without rotator cuffs? I don't even want to think what my arms would feel like if I had to lift them up over the keyboard to manipulate objects all day.
...people in the 3rd world do NOT think or act like YOU.
What - you are saying they are not human? You want to go down that road? I say we are all pretty much the same on the whole. If history had been reversed and the US and Africa changed places I'm pretty sure my town would have warlords instead of councilmembers.
Shafting starving vllagers for miracle grow while the soil's mineral content dries up, leaving them with soil that won't even grow weeds in the rainy season is *VERY* profitable.
Where does a starving village get the money to make this trade very profitable?
The more accurate statement is specific Apple advertising for a product they are selling is inaccurate. .
Maserati advertises their GranCabrio as having a top speed of 175 mph, but if I try to go that fast I will get pulled over and probably arrested. Is that then false advertising?
There was an AC posting a few days ago in the thread about "steering wheel position" who had lost his wife and young son as a result of a malfunctioning airbag sensor.
I saw the same post on Reddit.
I guess he's just doing his blind loyalty thing for NASA, but come on. 3 astronauts killed in a pure oxygen atmosphere? 2 shuttles and crew lost spectacularly?
And that was when money was no problem. Imagine if NASA had been trying to get to the moon in the economic environment of ValuJet.
Funny how it's the skeptics who 'claim' they knew the results of this beforehand.
Funny how it's the skeptics who 'claim' that an apple is going to fall towards the earth.
You're missing a major contributor to academic research in point 2. 28% of funding for biomedical research comes from the US NIH. The NIH only contributes to new drugs that have a material impact on the improvement of public health. I would easily believe that 72% of new drugs to market provide little additional benefit over preceding drugs and are mostly there to pad the pockets of Big Pharma. In order to pass the FDA they only need to show that they are as effective and no less safe.
No. Drugs do not come out of academia. The goal of a scientist in academia is to publish papers. The goal of a scientist in pharma is to sell products. And you have a a gleefully optimistic view of how easy it is to get a drug past FDA hurdles an into the market.
Wouldn't India just smuggle the drug from a country that has it and reverse engineer it?
I don't that strategy is viable.
The wouldn't need to bother. The patents fully describe the synthesis of the drug.
You must've missed Pfizer at 31, and Johnson & Johnson at 40. Those two make more than Kraft Foods
What other industry can possibly have that level of markup and keep customers?
Somewhat different. Pfizer and J&J need robust R&D departments because the fruits of that department become public property after 17 years. On the other hand, no other company on the planet is going to be able to ever sell Jell-O as long as there is a lawyer who draws breath.
"He also says a one-penny tax on attachments would make him as rich as Germany...."
Yeah, if everyone who had developed any of the protocols we use on the web had monetized them, they'd be billionaires. Except that the accreted charges would have ensured that no one ever used the web.