"our profits are driving R&D for the next generation of drugs."
They DO say that. They routinely say that when criticized about their astronomical profit margins. Problem is, it's a lie. R&D is an expense. Since when do you pay your corporate expenses out of your profits? Profits are counted AFTER expenses. Essentially they're trying to get their expenses counted twice.
I'm wondering if they aren't just trying to set themselves up like the DVD cartels did - with the ability to sell books for $1.00 in places where people can only afford $1.00, while preventing people in places where they can afford to pay $10 from buying "grey market" books.
There are far fewer cells in these embryos than there are in the typical snot you pull out of your nose. I don't think they really need to be mourned. You've lost far more living human cells picking a scab.
Here in the US anyway, the people who typically own the local football stadiums are... the people. Hundreds of millions of dollars of tax money are typically used to build the stadiums under the "threat" of the multimillonaire owners moving their franchise to another city.
So yeah, a person thinking it's a raw deal that they have to spend $150 to see a game in their local stadium has some justification.
One of the reasons Amtrak is so slow is because it has to use private railways, and the freight gets priority. Amtrak has to use Southern Pacific's lines, etc., and when Southern Pacific has a train of their own it gets priority. I've experienced sitting in one spot on a non-moving Amtrak train for several hours while the owner of the track got its slow freight train through. Seriously, slow freight literally gets priority over passenger rail - that's crazy.
Dedicated lines would mean better service, but that would mean subsidies... and road traffic is subsidized more than pretty much anything else in the country except the defense department, but we think of that as "normal," so anything else seems pricey because emotionally we don't make an honest comparison.
For thousands of years people have been copying each others' creative works - music, words, inventions... without reimbursement. It's only within the last blink of an eye of human society that this has been referred to as "piracy" and "copyright" or "patent infrigement."
Previously it was referred to as "language" and "culture."
That's why I'll never buy one, and it's the same reason I'll never buy music from iTunes. Record companies produced LPs and sold them for $7.99. Then they came up with the CD which cost a fraction of the cost of an LP to produce, but sold them for at least $14.99 and illegally used their cartel to price fix, but used as an excuse for this gouging and massive increase in profit margin that CDs sounded better so were a "better value."
Now music is digital files that cost essentially NOTHING to "manufacture and distribute," but the cost of a typical CD worth of tunes is still around $12 (with sound quality less than CD). But it's "worth it for the convenience."
This kind of crap is becoming pervasive... text messages on cell phones cost the company virtually nothing, use a fraction of fraction of the bandwidth as voice, but they charge much more... lock down a phone so you can;t use your own MP3 as a ring tone, and then charge you $3 for a ten second clip... etc. etc. It goes on and on.
Look on the bright side - since it's a new application of law "on the internet," that means someone will probably patent it and then nobody can use it anyway.
And what exactly is the purpose? So what is the real intent......the chilling effect such a law would have on 100% legal and legitimate uses... but uses for which the government might not like
Ok I'm joking, truth is I love watching people play video games, I just got tired of reflexively slapping quarters down on the edge of my HDTV screen to reserve the next game.
Just imagine... professional porn watching, and you can tune in and watch your favorite porn watchers watch porn. And, the professional stamp collector watching channel - exciting action, watching those philatelists lick hinges. Why, soon EVERY leisure activity can be a spectator sport. Watch people read the latest exciting novels, watch them watch movies. Watch people watching people watching people watch TV!
Hey here's an idea for a new show - Guitar Hero Hero Hero! Watch someone pretend to watch someone pretend to play guitar!
I bought an eee pc 901, linux (for the larger SSD on that model) with the intent of installing an nlited copy of WinXp on it instead of the stock asus linux. Instead I ended up installing eeebuntu and love it... although I still have the nlited XP as a second boot option in case I need it.
I seem to remember there being such things in the first web bubble... net appliances they were called, souped-down computers used for just browsing the web.
I seem to recall the hackers and linux users working hard to get them to be MORE than just browsers and work more like a real computer. I also recall them failing miserably in the market.
Sometimes I begin to think that people just don't know what they want.
Not only that, but superconducting Monster Cable interconnects would ensure that your music gets from your CD player to your receiver without any of the bits getting tarnished.
"you were sitting on the steps quietly with a girl, then how were you making wisecracking unflattering comments that someone else heard you? Again I don't agree with their reasoning just the story doesn't flow"
The undercover cop heard me several days before. The cops knew where we kids in the neighborhood hung out, so they knew to look for me. When they spotted me, they pulled up.
As far as why I didn't hear him, I don't know. I am a little hard of hearing, but it's possible the cop was not talking to me... I just looked up and thought I saw that he had just said something.
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"our profits are driving R&D for the next generation of drugs."
They DO say that. They routinely say that when criticized about their astronomical profit margins. Problem is, it's a lie. R&D is an expense. Since when do you pay your corporate expenses out of your profits? Profits are counted AFTER expenses. Essentially they're trying to get their expenses counted twice.
I thought they had changed the name to MySpace.
I'm wondering if they aren't just trying to set themselves up like the DVD cartels did - with the ability to sell books for $1.00 in places where people can only afford $1.00, while preventing people in places where they can afford to pay $10 from buying "grey market" books.
To the mod who modded me offtopic, how is discussion of stem cells off topic in an article on stem cells?
Fucking coward, if you don't like what I'm saying at least have the balls to mod correctly or respond via comment.
There are far fewer cells in these embryos than there are in the typical snot you pull out of your nose. I don't think they really need to be mourned. You've lost far more living human cells picking a scab.
Here in the US anyway, the people who typically own the local football stadiums are... the people. Hundreds of millions of dollars of tax money are typically used to build the stadiums under the "threat" of the multimillonaire owners moving their franchise to another city.
So yeah, a person thinking it's a raw deal that they have to spend $150 to see a game in their local stadium has some justification.
One of the reasons Amtrak is so slow is because it has to use private railways, and the freight gets priority. Amtrak has to use Southern Pacific's lines, etc., and when Southern Pacific has a train of their own it gets priority. I've experienced sitting in one spot on a non-moving Amtrak train for several hours while the owner of the track got its slow freight train through. Seriously, slow freight literally gets priority over passenger rail - that's crazy.
Dedicated lines would mean better service, but that would mean subsidies... and road traffic is subsidized more than pretty much anything else in the country except the defense department, but we think of that as "normal," so anything else seems pricey because emotionally we don't make an honest comparison.
So when you fly to your destination city instead, the plane drops you off at the door?
For thousands of years people have been copying each others' creative works - music, words, inventions... without reimbursement. It's only within the last blink of an eye of human society that this has been referred to as "piracy" and "copyright" or "patent infrigement."
Previously it was referred to as "language" and "culture."
That's why I'll never buy one, and it's the same reason I'll never buy music from iTunes. Record companies produced LPs and sold them for $7.99. Then they came up with the CD which cost a fraction of the cost of an LP to produce, but sold them for at least $14.99 and illegally used their cartel to price fix, but used as an excuse for this gouging and massive increase in profit margin that CDs sounded better so were a "better value."
Now music is digital files that cost essentially NOTHING to "manufacture and distribute," but the cost of a typical CD worth of tunes is still around $12 (with sound quality less than CD). But it's "worth it for the convenience."
This kind of crap is becoming pervasive... text messages on cell phones cost the company virtually nothing, use a fraction of fraction of the bandwidth as voice, but they charge much more... lock down a phone so you can;t use your own MP3 as a ring tone, and then charge you $3 for a ten second clip... etc. etc. It goes on and on.
Look on the bright side - since it's a new application of law "on the internet," that means someone will probably patent it and then nobody can use it anyway.
Let's not dilute "cruel and unusual"
We've decided torture is ok, how much more dilute can it get?
And what exactly is the purpose? ... ...the chilling effect such a law would have on 100% legal and legitimate uses ... but uses for which the government might not like
So what is the real intent
you answered you own question.
well, unless you actually think about the how much sense the "war on drugs" makes in the first place.
and in case you don't speak jafafanese, "post chop data files" translates roughly to "chop up data files."
Someone oughta think of a way to post chop data files and post them to the usenet - after all, it's just sitting there all abandoned like.
Ok I'm joking, truth is I love watching people play video games, I just got tired of reflexively slapping quarters down on the edge of my HDTV screen to reserve the next game.
Just imagine... professional porn watching, and you can tune in and watch your favorite porn watchers watch porn. And, the professional stamp collector watching channel - exciting action, watching those philatelists lick hinges. Why, soon EVERY leisure activity can be a spectator sport. Watch people read the latest exciting novels, watch them watch movies. Watch people watching people watching people watch TV!
Hey here's an idea for a new show - Guitar Hero Hero Hero! Watch someone pretend to watch someone pretend to play guitar!
I bought an eee pc 901, linux (for the larger SSD on that model) with the intent of installing an nlited copy of WinXp on it instead of the stock asus linux. Instead I ended up installing eeebuntu and love it... although I still have the nlited XP as a second boot option in case I need it.
Wasn't there something called Audrey or Eunice or Gertrude or whatever?
I seem to remember there being such things in the first web bubble... net appliances they were called, souped-down computers used for just browsing the web.
I seem to recall the hackers and linux users working hard to get them to be MORE than just browsers and work more like a real computer. I also recall them failing miserably in the market.
Sometimes I begin to think that people just don't know what they want.
because it's smart?
Not only that, but superconducting Monster Cable interconnects would ensure that your music gets from your CD player to your receiver without any of the bits getting tarnished.
The church steps were on the corner where we tended to hang out. The girl was not my GF (though I wish she was)
"you were sitting on the steps quietly with a girl, then how were you making wisecracking unflattering comments that someone else heard you? Again I don't agree with their reasoning just the story doesn't flow"
The undercover cop heard me several days before. The cops knew where we kids in the neighborhood hung out, so they knew to look for me. When they spotted me, they pulled up.
As far as why I didn't hear him, I don't know. I am a little hard of hearing, but it's possible the cop was not talking to me... I just looked up and thought I saw that he had just said something.