Bush, and Obama* where correct in there assertions. Why? becasue their decisions where based on bad data created by someone at the FBI.
Someone at the FBI didn't create and expand that lawless national "security" state nor did that someone repeatedly try to quash the lawsuit by invoking "state secrets". That would be the responsibility of one George Walker Bush and one Barack Hussein Obama. The buck stops at just one place, and that place isn't the desk of some flunky at the FBI.
It has been at least suspected that smoking caused cancer for about one hundred years, now. It has been widely known, including the Surgeons General warning, for at least fifty years.
Yeah. And even in the nineties, you still had "skeptics" running around denying the link between smoking and cancer. Kinda like what they're now doing with CO2 and climate change.
And this is still how it works. You can watch the broadcast of the olympics for free with ads.
You're comparing delayed, cut up, extremely limited coverage to real-time and on-demand streaming? When the Olympics were last in Canada, you could watch on 20 different channels. Compared to a few hours throughout the day OTA, assuming you even get NBC.
They're spending millions and millions of dollars to produce and broadcast events on the other side of the world.
And, as always, doing a horseshit job of it. They present the Olympics as opposed to covering them. This means human interest BS, stories about how such and such athlete was devastated when his great-great-grandma unexpectedly died at the age of 105, sportscasters who cannot shut up for so much as three seconds, hyping up cold war rivalries, airing events almost a day after they've happened, and devoting hugely disproportionate coverage to figuring skating when people DGAF.
And NBC is "being greedy, pure and simple"?
Yes. Fuck NBC, and fuck anyone who pretends that people not accepting their sugary nationalialistic bulllllllllllshit is the problem. If the Olympics are supposed to be about amateur sports, then let them be about amateur sports instead of an event more sponsored and monetized than the Super Bowl.
Wow. I hate to be the guy asking "why is this on Slashdot", but WTF? This is a purely political click-trolling story. This is not what Slashdot is for.
I don't hate to be the guy to ask you, but did you really just fall off the turnip truck? This is a story on drug patents. Slashdot runs stories on patents and greedy companies extracting money from them allllll the fucking time, and twice on Thursdays.
At the same time, what gets neglected in these debates is that the Government "should" have a small role in the industry. Primarily, making sure that the drugs being sold are safe.
Why not a large role. As in, publicly finance 100% of drug research, since the worst university could piss away 50% of it's funding and still have a better return than Pharma, who spend more than that on stock options and advertizing.
The argument is that if India does this the rest will follow and then the companies will not be able to make up their research costs
The problem for the devil's argument is that Pharma spends double the amount on advertizing that they do on research. This is about a greedy industry seeking to extract every last dollar it can, even if it means some poor folks on the other side of the planet will die. Not recouping research costs.
As soon as I hear "Big " Big Oil, Big Automotive, Big Chance-I-Stop-Paying-Attention.
You mean, you were looking for an excuse to stop listening. And found one.
Just because you think all large companies are evil
Straw man. Look, this isn't hard story to grasp. Large, influential industries that wouldn't think a second before sending your job overseas for third world labor want the USG to make sure said third world labor pays first-world prices for their drugs.
I've read plenty of complaints in Slashdot comments about the lack of SD card slots especially on Nexus devices
No you haven't. No more than you've read complaints about the "walled garden" from Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo on their game consoles. Because, again, the real problem here is Apple.
does the State Department really have in-house expertise on environmental affairs? Afaik they are mostly diplomats, geopolitics experts, security experts, etc
It's worth nothing that reinforced cockpit doors appear to have caused at least one plane crash where the pilot decided to commit suicide and take the rest of the passengers along for the ride.
It's worth noting the absurdity of the scenario. Most crashes already happen on take-offs and landings - your suicidal pilot can fly into a building before anyone has time to do anything about it. Or stall the plane at a low enough altitude so there's no chance to pull out of it. Doors or no doors.
In this particular case, the difference is that there's a clear alternative to Apple's "walled garden" in Android. There isn't much of an alternative to Xbox, PlayStation, and Wii consoles in the field of local multiplayer (1 monitor, 2 to 4 gamepads), and there won't be until the Steam Machine reaches stores.
If "walled gardens" are really the problem, it shouldn't matter if there are available alternatives or not. As will be demonstrated after the Steam Machine has been released and absolutely none of the Apple Hatebois start complaining about Sony's or Nintendo's "walled garden".
Just as they haven't complained about other mobile phones that don't come with SD card slots or replaceable batteries or Ogg Vorbis support, when there have been no shortage of "clear alternatives", because their real problem is Apple.
Double standards. But I was perfectly clear the first time.
And the Red Ring of Death is constantly brought up whenever Microsoft products are discussed
Without the Hatorade that you and dozens of other Hatebois are aiming at Apple for a far smaller problem.
So what are you suggesting? All Motorola Razr Maxxs had this issue? Maybe only your friend had the issue, or maybe it was only "5 people with Motorola Razr Maxxs" that had this problem.
At this point I'm going to suggest you work on your reading comprehension. The point - which again was perfectly clear the first time - is that a shitty design flaw resulted in no press and no hate, because it wasn't Apple. Whereas if it were iPhone screens cracking which charging, you and the other Hatebois would be up in arms.
"The OWC Mercury Helios PCIe Expansion Chassis gives users of Thunderboltâ port equipped computers including the Apple Mac mini, iMac, and MacBook the ability to tap into a wide variety of professional-level performance PCIe adapters that were once the sole domain of desktop workstations. Helios utilizes any half-length PCIe 2.0 card (up to 6.5") to provide a massive boost to your workflow."
You mean because Israel kept moving the goalposts, as their desire is Palestinian land, not peace. Arafat was willing to make massive concessions on land in the West Bank, when the Palestinians have the right to all of it plus all of "east" Jerusalem.
But just like Kissinger, Arafat won the Peace Prize for helping to end violence that he was largely responsible for.
Arafat was responsible for a wave of European colonists seizing land from the native population through massacres, bombings, and other acts of terrorism?
Dumbfuckers can complain about "anti-Americanism" after there have been some consequences for multiple illegal wars, CIA-backed coups, state-sponsored terrorism and a world-wide kidnapping/torture regime. And not one second before then.
Certainly the NSA, but what about the advertising companies? They build leaky software, and they make their money by harvesting information you don't know you're sending or don't wish to be sending to them anyway.
Until Google has a weaponized drone fleet and Microsoft can send you to prison for decades, this corporations-are-as-bad-as-government meme is total horseshit.
That's exactly the sort of thing I was talking about - cherry-picking extreme events, and claiming they are the new normal thanks to climate change.
That's the exact sort of denialist bullshit that we're talking about. It's not about one single event, it's about climate change making record droughts and storms much more likely to happen on a regular basis.
Also, throwing in a little bit of name-calling always adds to your credibility.
Also, throw in some poutraged flopping to pretend you've been somehow offended.
Deniers, denialists, denialisterisers, seems like people like you think every new syllable is another indictment.
It's not an insult if it's true. Like the Young Earth Creationists, you aren't objecting to scientific theories because you have a scientific disagreement or peer reviewed models of your own. You're disagreeing based on your ideology, and that makes you denier.
You're the hypocrite ignoring time scales and geographic location. Not me.
Still going on ancient history? In case your comprehension is lacking, I am decended fairly recently in my family line from one of those native tribes. I guess I oppressed myself.
Still trying to weasel your way out of your hypocrisy?
We have a country now, they entered illegally.
After the aforementioned right wing policies, legal and non, destroyed their governments and economies. Supported by right wingers such as yourself.
That's what my host country would have done to me
If your host country broke it, it bought it. Same as the United States has ownership over many of the problems in Latin America, as they were created or made worse by American policies. So until you first demand that reparations be made for coups from Chile to Honduras, take the "illegal immigrant" bullshit and go fuck yourself.
Urban reality - wages and jobs haven't recovered but the real estate market has rebounded. Due to investors snapping up real estate at bargain prices. Should get a copy of Disaster Capitalism; the vulture capitalists have rigged the system to such an extent that not only are they insulated from economic crashes, they profit from them.
That's dependent on this being an actual thing. Because when five people with Apple products have the same problem, it's officially an international incident. Whereas other companies can have crap like the Red Ring of Death and never get a fraction of the hatorade.
Like last year, one of my friends had his Razr Maxx replaced four times for a cracking screen. At first he thought it was because he was being careless, but it turns out there was a design flaw that would crack the screen while charging the phone. Zero articles on Slashdot with anyone raging at how Motorola was a shoddy company.
He's pointing out that the Apple Hatbois never make the same complaints against other companies when they do the same thing. Samsung releases high end phones with comparable prices and tries to make them "fashionable"? Not a problem! Same with SD card slots or easily-replaceable batteries. Or the wankers who whine about Apple's "walled garden" while owning an XBox and a Playstation.
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Someone at the FBI didn't create and expand that lawless national "security" state nor did that someone repeatedly try to quash the lawsuit by invoking "state secrets". That would be the responsibility of one George Walker Bush and one Barack Hussein Obama. The buck stops at just one place, and that place isn't the desk of some flunky at the FBI.
Yeah. And even in the nineties, you still had "skeptics" running around denying the link between smoking and cancer. Kinda like what they're now doing with CO2 and climate change.
NBC are not owed a viewing audience, Mr. Snotty Response.
You're comparing delayed, cut up, extremely limited coverage to real-time and on-demand streaming? When the Olympics were last in Canada, you could watch on 20 different channels. Compared to a few hours throughout the day OTA, assuming you even get NBC.
And, as always, doing a horseshit job of it. They present the Olympics as opposed to covering them. This means human interest BS, stories about how such and such athlete was devastated when his great-great-grandma unexpectedly died at the age of 105, sportscasters who cannot shut up for so much as three seconds, hyping up cold war rivalries, airing events almost a day after they've happened, and devoting hugely disproportionate coverage to figuring skating when people DGAF.
Yes. Fuck NBC, and fuck anyone who pretends that people not accepting their sugary nationalialistic bulllllllllllshit is the problem. If the Olympics are supposed to be about amateur sports, then let them be about amateur sports instead of an event more sponsored and monetized than the Super Bowl.
This day in simple answers to stupid questions.
I don't hate to be the guy to ask you, but did you really just fall off the turnip truck? This is a story on drug patents. Slashdot runs stories on patents and greedy companies extracting money from them allllll the fucking time, and twice on Thursdays.
Why not a large role. As in, publicly finance 100% of drug research, since the worst university could piss away 50% of it's funding and still have a better return than Pharma, who spend more than that on stock options and advertizing.
The problem for the devil's argument is that Pharma spends double the amount on advertizing that they do on research. This is about a greedy industry seeking to extract every last dollar it can, even if it means some poor folks on the other side of the planet will die. Not recouping research costs.
You mean, you were looking for an excuse to stop listening. And found one.
Straw man. Look, this isn't hard story to grasp. Large, influential industries that wouldn't think a second before sending your job overseas for third world labor want the USG to make sure said third world labor pays first-world prices for their drugs.
No you haven't. No more than you've read complaints about the "walled garden" from Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo on their game consoles. Because, again, the real problem here is Apple.
Could have shortened that list to CIA operatives.
It's worth noting the absurdity of the scenario. Most crashes already happen on take-offs and landings - your suicidal pilot can fly into a building before anyone has time to do anything about it. Or stall the plane at a low enough altitude so there's no chance to pull out of it. Doors or no doors.
If "walled gardens" are really the problem, it shouldn't matter if there are available alternatives or not. As will be demonstrated after the Steam Machine has been released and absolutely none of the Apple Hatebois start complaining about Sony's or Nintendo's "walled garden".
Just as they haven't complained about other mobile phones that don't come with SD card slots or replaceable batteries or Ogg Vorbis support, when there have been no shortage of "clear alternatives", because their real problem is Apple.
Double standards. But I was perfectly clear the first time.
Without the Hatorade that you and dozens of other Hatebois are aiming at Apple for a far smaller problem.
At this point I'm going to suggest you work on your reading comprehension. The point - which again was perfectly clear the first time - is that a shitty design flaw resulted in no press and no hate, because it wasn't Apple. Whereas if it were iPhone screens cracking which charging, you and the other Hatebois would be up in arms.
Duh.
Eh hoser?
"The OWC Mercury Helios PCIe Expansion Chassis gives users of Thunderboltâ port equipped computers including the Apple Mac mini, iMac, and MacBook the ability to tap into a wide variety of professional-level performance PCIe adapters that were once the sole domain of desktop workstations. Helios utilizes any half-length PCIe 2.0 card (up to 6.5") to provide a massive boost to your workflow."
You mean because Israel kept moving the goalposts, as their desire is Palestinian land, not peace. Arafat was willing to make massive concessions on land in the West Bank, when the Palestinians have the right to all of it plus all of "east" Jerusalem.
Arafat was responsible for a wave of European colonists seizing land from the native population through massacres, bombings, and other acts of terrorism?
Dumbfuckers can complain about "anti-Americanism" after there have been some consequences for multiple illegal wars, CIA-backed coups, state-sponsored terrorism and a world-wide kidnapping/torture regime. And not one second before then.
Until Google has a weaponized drone fleet and Microsoft can send you to prison for decades, this corporations-are-as-bad-as-government meme is total horseshit.
No, you couldn't. Because you don't have a scientific argument and are engaging in the same rhetorical gimmick as the Intelligent Design crowd.
Not on this scale, they haven't.
That's the exact sort of denialist bullshit that we're talking about. It's not about one single event, it's about climate change making record droughts and storms much more likely to happen on a regular basis.
Also, throw in some poutraged flopping to pretend you've been somehow offended.
It's not an insult if it's true. Like the Young Earth Creationists, you aren't objecting to scientific theories because you have a scientific disagreement or peer reviewed models of your own. You're disagreeing based on your ideology, and that makes you denier.
Deal with it.
You're the hypocrite ignoring time scales and geographic location. Not me.
Still trying to weasel your way out of your hypocrisy?
After the aforementioned right wing policies, legal and non, destroyed their governments and economies. Supported by right wingers such as yourself.
If your host country broke it, it bought it. Same as the United States has ownership over many of the problems in Latin America, as they were created or made worse by American policies. So until you first demand that reparations be made for coups from Chile to Honduras, take the "illegal immigrant" bullshit and go fuck yourself.
Urban reality - wages and jobs haven't recovered but the real estate market has rebounded. Due to investors snapping up real estate at bargain prices. Should get a copy of Disaster Capitalism; the vulture capitalists have rigged the system to such an extent that not only are they insulated from economic crashes, they profit from them.
That's dependent on this being an actual thing. Because when five people with Apple products have the same problem, it's officially an international incident. Whereas other companies can have crap like the Red Ring of Death and never get a fraction of the hatorade.
Like last year, one of my friends had his Razr Maxx replaced four times for a cracking screen. At first he thought it was because he was being careless, but it turns out there was a design flaw that would crack the screen while charging the phone. Zero articles on Slashdot with anyone raging at how Motorola was a shoddy company.
He's pointing out that the Apple Hatbois never make the same complaints against other companies when they do the same thing. Samsung releases high end phones with comparable prices and tries to make them "fashionable"? Not a problem! Same with SD card slots or easily-replaceable batteries. Or the wankers who whine about Apple's "walled garden" while owning an XBox and a Playstation.