I believe the problem is the deals with Pharm companies that demand more expensive drugs be purchased. That kind of running it like a typical MS business. If you really want to save lives you get the cheapest drugs that do the job.
Yeah, it worked so great that in 1965 all kinds of things would have been a death sentence that are now done on an outpatient basis.
Even in a perfect free market land if you get a disease that so few people have that no money can ever be made on a cure you are totally screwed.
Even worse is that short term profit motives will slow research to a crawl on all but the most profitable sectors of drug research. We would be able to have 40 kinds of pecker medicine and not much else.
You mean like BP oil spill levels of accountability? Well, maybe you mean union carbide in Bhopal?
People are people, the only difference between private and public is that at some point you might be able to vote to impact the nature of a public policy.
Mr.Gates resources are actually pretty close to not limited. He could easily set enough aside for the foundation that only the interest would ever have to be spent.
No matter how you run it though there is no need to use it as a tool to make people spend more money.
Then why have a charity at all? If you are going to run a business, just run a business. The money is supposed to come from donors, like maybe Bill Gates. Having string attached to charity makes it not even charity. This is just Gates once again showing how horrible a person he is.
I do not live in a state where it is legal, nor is it safe to lane split more than a few mph over the speed of the surrounding vehicles. If the MC in question has a muffler I might.
I meant better than the average joe with ABS. Who will just go from gas to brake and back again even in deep snow.
I live in Western NY and watched a BMW driver winter before last literally floor the gas until the tires had eaten enough snow to grab traction then slam the brakes the second it lurched forward after grabbing traction. He did this over and over, I passed as soon as I could find a safe place to do so. The entire time I used the gears to maintain safe distance. Driving in snow and ice can be fun, and it seems reasonable to me that some people might prefer not have ABS. I prefer not to have a slushbox transmission.
Here in Western NY state, any "cats eyes" are often under the layer of snow or ice. I would imagine the computer controlled car would do what I do. Guess at where the lane is and try to imitate the other cars on the road.
Traffic circles are easy, only americans seem to have problems with them. I blame this on the lack of yield signs and the low standards for getting a license.
This is because someone taught you to do that in the first place.
People should be taught as part of driving instruction to adjust the mirrors in the no blind spot pattern. Of course we should require some formal driving instruction and some actual testing. Can't get your caddy across a skidpad? Sorry grandpa you won't be driving that.
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So your excuse for these scumbags is "Befehl ist Befehl"?
Some lawyers tried that defense before for their clients and it did not work, why would it work for the lawyers themselves?
I can get 1% on 20k. 50 Billion is going to get a heck of a lot better rate.
You don't even support charity? Nor do you want people to have access to healthcare?
You are either a troll or the most disgusting person I have ever heard of. I am going to go donate some money to a worthy cause in your name.
I think both of those are fine.
I believe the problem is the deals with Pharm companies that demand more expensive drugs be purchased. That kind of running it like a typical MS business. If you really want to save lives you get the cheapest drugs that do the job.
Yeah, it worked so great that in 1965 all kinds of things would have been a death sentence that are now done on an outpatient basis.
Even in a perfect free market land if you get a disease that so few people have that no money can ever be made on a cure you are totally screwed.
Even worse is that short term profit motives will slow research to a crawl on all but the most profitable sectors of drug research. We would be able to have 40 kinds of pecker medicine and not much else.
Thankfully we are not quite there.
If I mister non-billionaire can make money this way, surely Mr.Gates can do better.
It is pretty telling how your faith in the free market suddenly vanished though.
You mean like BP oil spill levels of accountability?
Well, maybe you mean union carbide in Bhopal?
People are people, the only difference between private and public is that at some point you might be able to vote to impact the nature of a public policy.
Mr.Gates resources are actually pretty close to not limited. He could easily set enough aside for the foundation that only the interest would ever have to be spent.
No matter how you run it though there is no need to use it as a tool to make people spend more money.
Then why have a charity at all?
If you are going to run a business, just run a business. The money is supposed to come from donors, like maybe Bill Gates. Having string attached to charity makes it not even charity. This is just Gates once again showing how horrible a person he is.
I do not live in a state where it is legal, nor is it safe to lane split more than a few mph over the speed of the surrounding vehicles.
If the MC in question has a muffler I might.
Not if I can see this happening. Niether will a machine.
I meant the general lack of yield signs throughout the country. Morons at traffic circles treat them like stop signs. Sorry I was unclear.
What do Professor Vanessa and Dr. Dewey have to say about this?
Only 23,000 deaths in ten years of self driving automobile use?
That would be great. There were 32,000 deaths from automobile accidents in 2010 alone in the US.
Robotic manuals already exist.
It would not be impossible to leave the gear shift lever in place for human driving mode if so desired.
Because you have the vehicle in your control while intoxicated. It is that simple.
Which is why race cars have ABS right?
Oh wait, no they don't.
ABS is designed to let you steer and slam the brake. The impact on stopping distance is based on a lot of other factors and may well be longer.
I meant better than the average joe with ABS. Who will just go from gas to brake and back again even in deep snow.
I live in Western NY and watched a BMW driver winter before last literally floor the gas until the tires had eaten enough snow to grab traction then slam the brakes the second it lurched forward after grabbing traction. He did this over and over, I passed as soon as I could find a safe place to do so. The entire time I used the gears to maintain safe distance. Driving in snow and ice can be fun, and it seems reasonable to me that some people might prefer not have ABS. I prefer not to have a slushbox transmission.
Here in Western NY state, any "cats eyes" are often under the layer of snow or ice. I would imagine the computer controlled car would do what I do. Guess at where the lane is and try to imitate the other cars on the road.
Traffic circles are easy, only americans seem to have problems with them. I blame this on the lack of yield signs and the low standards for getting a license.
You need to start taking your meds again.
If your car is self driving, why would it not be legal to be drunk or even actively drinking in the car?
It is legal and common to drink in the back of a limo.
This is because someone taught you to do that in the first place.
People should be taught as part of driving instruction to adjust the mirrors in the no blind spot pattern. Of course we should require some formal driving instruction and some actual testing. Can't get your caddy across a skidpad? Sorry grandpa you won't be driving that.
This 100 times this.
Your mirrors should not show the same image in all of them. If you cannot watch a car pass all the way, you have your mirrors adjusted incorrectly.
Not sure why people do that.
You don't need to be a stunt driver to be able to out drive a cheap ABS setup.
Next winter turn your ABS and traction control off and go find a empty parking lot.