Because without it, those of us with insurance pay for the care of those without. In this case, the uninsured pay none of the costs for this drug, increasing the price paid by those who are insured.
...it prevents violent revolution, because by the time enough people are agitated enough to actually violently revolt against the government, they would have just voted the government out already.
The issue is that REPLACEMENT cost is not the same thing as VALUE.
Even if the thing cost $224 million new, or costs $224 million to replace, that doesn't mean that the one that broke is worth $224 million.
The options are:
- Buy a new one for $224 million - Repair this one for $25 million - Scrap this one and get along with one less.
If you're in a situation where you now have 29 working models of them but you only use 15 at a time, paying $25 million to get back up to 30 of them doesn't make any sense.
Especially if you're going to replace all 30 with the next generation of equipment in the near future.
Let's go high-end here, and say we're paying US workers $240/day and Chinese workers... nothing, because I don't want to do math for a difference of $223.
So, we're basically paying $1 per two minutes to use a US worker over a Chinese worker. Now the question is......is there more than 140 minutes of manual labor required to assemble an iPad?
Because it's not included in a news program aired at 6:30 PM over a decade ago?
If Romney wants to say that Gingrich was found guilty of ethics violations, then Romney can get in front of a camera and say it.
He can't steal footage of Brokaw saying it and use that.
The only reason he's using the footage of Brokaw is to imply an endorsement from Brokaw. That's not legitimate. He can convey the facts without using the likeness of someone else who doesn't want to be used in that manner.
Warrants have to specify what you're going to search, and anything else you find as a result of searching the specified items/areas is fair game.
So, if there is a warrant to search your hard drive to see if you recently visited websites on how to poison your wife, and they come to your house and find a body in your freezer, the body isn't admissible.
But, if there is a warrant to search your hard drive to see if you recently visited websites on how to poison your wife, and they discover you've been visitting sites full of kiddie porn, well, you're screwed.
There's a difference though - news articles are very, very, very expensive, because they require maintaining a news outlet.
And that's less a concern today where there are lots of outlets for news, and people are watching the news outlets likely to tell them what they want to her anyway.
With news articles, the reader is choosing to read the news. With ad buys, the viewer is getting slammed while they're trying to watch American Idol.
"We thought the banks could make decisions that were best for them - how wrong we were!"
Indeed, because a bank can't make any decisions at all. Those are made by the bank's employees, who are motivated by their compensation, which was unfortunately not tied to the health of the bank.
If you're going to steal, go big! You'll get the same prison term stealing a few blu-ray players from your local retail establishment as you will tens of millions through some financial or copyright scheme.
I suspect the part of the plan that failed was thinking he was immune from prosecution by the US by living in New Zealand.
I do own consumer electronics, and they are virtually all made in Asia under circumstances very similar to those of the iPhone.
It seems that virtually no one posting in the thread has RTFA. The whole point of the article is that the reason all this manufacturing happens in Asia and not in the US has very little to do with wages, and everything to do with supply chain.
If you're going to make any piece of electronics, you're going to need chips. These chips have uses in products in several manufacturers, so you have one manufacturer of Chip A, that companies B, C,D and E need for their products. Where is that manufacturer? In Asia.
So no matter what piece of consumer electronics you want to make, all the parts you need for it are manufactured in Asia. Since all your parts are there, and it takes 35 days to ship them to here, if you want to manufacture an item of consumer electronics, you have three choices:
- Manufacture in Asia and ship finished products here - Manufacture here, but get your parts from Asia, adding 35 days to your production cycle (making you uncompetitive from a product design and cost standpoint) - Build manufacturing for all your parts here, which is uncompetitive because you lose all the economy of scale of part manufacturers in asia that make parts for hundreds to thousands of different products for different companies.
Unfortunately, we have allowed the "Critical mass" of electronic manufacturing to develop in Asia, and now that it's there, it's there.
You can actually see something similar in the US - nobody makes cars in, say, Nevada, despite there being an abundant, inexpensive labor force. Why? Because all the companies that make the parts that go into cars are in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio. So you can get away with putting a factory in Tennessee or Alabama and still be close to your source for parts, but not Nevada.
One other point half-mentioned in the article: Labor costs alone would account for only $65 if iPhone production was moved here from Asia. What is not mentioned in the article is probably about half of that $65 is not the amount of money paid to the workers, but is instead the amount of money paid in federal wage taxes - FICA. That's NOT income tax either.
If we want to make production in the US more attractive, we need to fix our tax system so we don't penalize wage income. Stop providing preferential income tax rates for "capital gains" and stop charging penalty tax rates for work. All income should be taxed the same.
I'm not advocating moving across an ocean to get a job.
But if you're unwilling to move for a job because it would uproot your spouse and children from their school and social circles, well......you're just not flexible enough to be employed.
People move and make new friends all the time. I did it when I was a kid, I've done it a couple times as an adult. That's what people have to do, and if you're unwilling to do it, then you can starve I guess.
Having a sex change operation is an abhorrent perversion of nature and should be prohibited and anyone desiring such a thing is a sick individual and should be removed from society and sent to reprogramming until they are willing to adopt the gender they were born with.
Not that I in any way agree with that, but your logical argument depends on the party listening to your argument being not-crazy, which is likely not the case.
SCOTUS is supposed to overturn laws that are unconstitutional.
They are NOT supposed to overturn laws just because they are bad.
SCOTUS ruled that congress putting public domain items back under copyright is NOT unconstitutional... because it isn't.
You may not care for the outcome, but the Supreme court isn't there to prevent Congress from doing stupid shit. The only people you have to blame for this is Congress and whichever President didn't veto it.
But who says that this is a result of people buying iPads, taking iPads out of box, putting clay in box, resealing and returning?
It could just be 14 associated people bought iPads, then went back and said "Hey, I bought this iPad and all that was in my box was this piece of clay!"
Either way, if you have recently bought an iPad in Canada, and you have some clay around, bring your clay in for a refund!
That's interrogation. There isn't a stark line between the two, but one of the points of interrogation is to make the subject uncomfortable/stressed, with the idea that even a stressed individual won't have difficulty recalling the truth, while it's more difficult for a stressed individual to maintain a false story.
Obviously you wouldn't want to spend your Saturdays being interrogated, but I'm willing to accept contributing the occasional few hours answering some questions as part of the process.
Anyway, merely being made uncomfortable is not torture.
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Because without it, those of us with insurance pay for the care of those without. In this case, the uninsured pay none of the costs for this drug, increasing the price paid by those who are insured.
...it prevents violent revolution, because by the time enough people are agitated enough to actually violently revolt against the government, they would have just voted the government out already.
The issue is that REPLACEMENT cost is not the same thing as VALUE.
Even if the thing cost $224 million new, or costs $224 million to replace, that doesn't mean that the one that broke is worth $224 million.
The options are:
- Buy a new one for $224 million
- Repair this one for $25 million
- Scrap this one and get along with one less.
If you're in a situation where you now have 29 working models of them but you only use 15 at a time, paying $25 million to get back up to 30 of them doesn't make any sense.
Especially if you're going to replace all 30 with the next generation of equipment in the near future.
Let's go high-end here, and say we're paying US workers $240/day and Chinese workers ... nothing, because I don't want to do math for a difference of $223.
So, we're basically paying $1 per two minutes to use a US worker over a Chinese worker. Now the question is... ...is there more than 140 minutes of manual labor required to assemble an iPad?
That's unlikely.
Because it's not included in a news program aired at 6:30 PM over a decade ago?
If Romney wants to say that Gingrich was found guilty of ethics violations, then Romney can get in front of a camera and say it.
He can't steal footage of Brokaw saying it and use that.
The only reason he's using the footage of Brokaw is to imply an endorsement from Brokaw. That's not legitimate. He can convey the facts without using the likeness of someone else who doesn't want to be used in that manner.
My social skills are fine, asshole!
That's because phone calls are fucking annoying.
If you want to have a conversation with someone, take them out to dinner or some other activity where you are together.
Otherwise, unless you're stuck across the country and can't see each other, stop expecting people to accept your interruptions to their day.
...at least you didn't propose on Slashdot.
Warrants have to specify what you're going to search, and anything else you find as a result of searching the specified items/areas is fair game.
So, if there is a warrant to search your hard drive to see if you recently visited websites on how to poison your wife, and they come to your house and find a body in your freezer, the body isn't admissible.
But, if there is a warrant to search your hard drive to see if you recently visited websites on how to poison your wife, and they discover you've been visitting sites full of kiddie porn, well, you're screwed.
You'd be compelled to provide the password, and the contents of the drive would be admissible at trial but the actual password itself would not.
The court can order you to provide the keys to a safe containing documents relevant to trial.
Putting the documents on a hard drive and virtualizing the key seems immaterial.
If you don't want the police to be able to see your files, you're going to have to memorize them.
There's a difference though - news articles are very, very, very expensive, because they require maintaining a news outlet.
And that's less a concern today where there are lots of outlets for news, and people are watching the news outlets likely to tell them what they want to her anyway.
With news articles, the reader is choosing to read the news. With ad buys, the viewer is getting slammed while they're trying to watch American Idol.
Yeah, I think you missed the joke. Which I fumbled a bit, but Archie and Veronica were around in 1991 I think.
You mean like Gopher?
You could limit campaign contributions to a point where any particular organization's ability to contribute was not worth anything to the legislator.
If campaign contributions are limited to $20 per person per year, you'd be in good shape. Hell, even the current $2,300 limit isn't too bad.
It's the $2 million that ends up in SuperPAC coffers....
When does it become inherently bribery?
When the compensation offered to the legislator is something other than the votes of the person or group of people making the request.
"We thought the banks could make decisions that were best for them - how wrong we were!"
Indeed, because a bank can't make any decisions at all. Those are made by the bank's employees, who are motivated by their compensation, which was unfortunately not tied to the health of the bank.
If you're going to steal, go big! You'll get the same prison term stealing a few blu-ray players from your local retail establishment as you will tens of millions through some financial or copyright scheme.
I suspect the part of the plan that failed was thinking he was immune from prosecution by the US by living in New Zealand.
I do own consumer electronics, and they are virtually all made in Asia under circumstances very similar to those of the iPhone.
It seems that virtually no one posting in the thread has RTFA. The whole point of the article is that the reason all this manufacturing happens in Asia and not in the US has very little to do with wages, and everything to do with supply chain.
If you're going to make any piece of electronics, you're going to need chips. These chips have uses in products in several manufacturers, so you have one manufacturer of Chip A, that companies B, C,D and E need for their products. Where is that manufacturer? In Asia.
So no matter what piece of consumer electronics you want to make, all the parts you need for it are manufactured in Asia. Since all your parts are there, and it takes 35 days to ship them to here, if you want to manufacture an item of consumer electronics, you have three choices:
- Manufacture in Asia and ship finished products here
- Manufacture here, but get your parts from Asia, adding 35 days to your production cycle (making you uncompetitive from a product design and cost standpoint)
- Build manufacturing for all your parts here, which is uncompetitive because you lose all the economy of scale of part manufacturers in asia that make parts for hundreds to thousands of different products for different companies.
Unfortunately, we have allowed the "Critical mass" of electronic manufacturing to develop in Asia, and now that it's there, it's there.
You can actually see something similar in the US - nobody makes cars in, say, Nevada, despite there being an abundant, inexpensive labor force. Why? Because all the companies that make the parts that go into cars are in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio. So you can get away with putting a factory in Tennessee or Alabama and still be close to your source for parts, but not Nevada.
One other point half-mentioned in the article: Labor costs alone would account for only $65 if iPhone production was moved here from Asia. What is not mentioned in the article is probably about half of that $65 is not the amount of money paid to the workers, but is instead the amount of money paid in federal wage taxes - FICA. That's NOT income tax either.
If we want to make production in the US more attractive, we need to fix our tax system so we don't penalize wage income. Stop providing preferential income tax rates for "capital gains" and stop charging penalty tax rates for work. All income should be taxed the same.
I'm not advocating moving across an ocean to get a job.
But if you're unwilling to move for a job because it would uproot your spouse and children from their school and social circles, well... ...you're just not flexible enough to be employed.
People move and make new friends all the time. I did it when I was a kid, I've done it a couple times as an adult. That's what people have to do, and if you're unwilling to do it, then you can starve I guess.
Having a sex change operation is an abhorrent perversion of nature and should be prohibited and anyone desiring such a thing is a sick individual and should be removed from society and sent to reprogramming until they are willing to adopt the gender they were born with.
Not that I in any way agree with that, but your logical argument depends on the party listening to your argument being not-crazy, which is likely not the case.
SCOTUS is supposed to overturn laws that are unconstitutional.
They are NOT supposed to overturn laws just because they are bad.
SCOTUS ruled that congress putting public domain items back under copyright is NOT unconstitutional... because it isn't.
You may not care for the outcome, but the Supreme court isn't there to prevent Congress from doing stupid shit. The only people you have to blame for this is Congress and whichever President didn't veto it.
But who says that this is a result of people buying iPads, taking iPads out of box, putting clay in box, resealing and returning?
It could just be 14 associated people bought iPads, then went back and said "Hey, I bought this iPad and all that was in my box was this piece of clay!"
Either way, if you have recently bought an iPad in Canada, and you have some clay around, bring your clay in for a refund!
Works performed creating lightwaves are absolutely subject to copyright.
Athletic events are subject to copyright, as are theater performances.
You can't, for example, film a performance of Book of Mormon and then (legally) broadcast it on the internet.
That's interrogation. There isn't a stark line between the two, but one of the points of interrogation is to make the subject uncomfortable/stressed, with the idea that even a stressed individual won't have difficulty recalling the truth, while it's more difficult for a stressed individual to maintain a false story.
Obviously you wouldn't want to spend your Saturdays being interrogated, but I'm willing to accept contributing the occasional few hours answering some questions as part of the process.
Anyway, merely being made uncomfortable is not torture.