Ballmer is correct to an extent - google and yahoo ARE a house of cards, completely reliant on the fickle advertising market and pumped up share prices.
yahoo shows this in their insane logic that shares in their company are worth 2x what they are selling for in the market.
health issues aren't ruled by supply and demand, especially on brand name drugs since the supplier can artifically restrict the supply without fear of competition. it's not like someone dieing has any choice (what price do you put on life?) and drug companies exploit this.
capitalism is a decent system. but it's not an answer to everything, and one of those things is health care.
kids have more of a grasp of technology then their parents. new factor zero.
and is anyone shocked kids are meeting people from online? big fucking deal i did it back in my day when BBS's were the go, and i never got kiddy fiddled, probably because my parents instilled this thing called common sense in me which today's parents desperately protect their kids from.
And why is everyone dismayed that kids go on the internet looking for porn? fuck if i had a teenager who didn't look for porn THEN i'd be concerned. when i was a teenager i'd give myself a healthy bat morning and noon to some top of the line interweb porn, and i didn't go blind or anything.
seriously kids, play with your cock/vagina, you'll like it and it's perfectly healthy. fuck all these prudes and their rules.
to be fair MS has not "abused" the patent system YET. they have made rumblings and i have no doubt SCO was a test run, however i feel after seeing how that ended MS isn't going to try the same thing.
in fact if anyone is the victim of our current patent laws, it is MS and companys like them. patent trolls hang from them like leeches attempting to get themselfs bought.
"Imagine if musicians had to pay out of pocket for every song that was distributed"
ROFL, oh but THEY DO!!!! the traditional RIAA contract has the artist paying for all the costs out of their royalties. essentially companys RIAA represent take an artist onboard and fund the album, making the artist pay it all out of their royalties at an inflated price as well as taking their cut of the profits, so if an artist is very lucky they might walk away not owing them money...
studio's are a pit of snakes, make no mistake.
oh no not this old chestnut. drug companies don't give a fuck if they cure an illness and no longer have to sell drugs to fight it, because there's about 100000000000000000 other illnesses out there for them to work on.
the myth that drug companys prefer to treat rather then cure is something moronic anti globalism nutcases perpetuate.
i hate to break it to you, but the only reason a competent doctor would get it wrong would be if you threw him a red herring of some kind, or if your symptoms were so nondescript it could be a 100 things.
i'd say the most likely case here is that the doctor is right, and you just THINK you know better.
god damn it i hate poor people and the people who make excuses for them.
"poor people who don't know how to use contraception and the like" - ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? if you can figure out how to use your dick, you can figure out how to put on a condom. and cost wise, lets compare patented anti viral drug vs latex.
you can't just leave, because it isn't likely that another country will let you live there. the fact your trying to compare choosing restaurants to immigration tells me you a total retard without perspective.
"Seriously, is there anyone who doesn't think this is either a precursor to military action,"
well, yes, everyone who is sane and not a rabid anti bush conspiracy nutjob.
what exactly do you think they gain by taking out civilian networks like the internet? do you think the army IM's each other and says "omgz amerikans just pwnz our internetz?!"
being facetious doesn't score you any kind of points. breeders work and have been demonstrated. france has built them but was forced to shut one down after environmentalists fired a rocket at it.
"WHY on earth would you prefer them to invest money in continuing to use the horror that is coal, but just shove the waste underground?"
because if we did that, retards like you would be the first to log on from their imac down at the local starbucks, and start complaining about all the power black outs and how you can't afford your expreso enemas anymore because your power bill is $20000 a year.
tidal power is limited by geography and solar is a JOKE when your talking about powering a country.
and before you start calling me a right wing environmental hater, how many solar installations have you done? because i've done 3 large ones and i actually know how much solar costs.
our realistic options for power generation as things stand in the next 5 years are : - coal, nuclear.
100 people? so fucking what, do you have any idea the scale of spending we are talking about here? wages for 100 people is rounding error in these kinds of projects.
WTF does spending on the military have to compare to a research power plant? your all missing the point, that this was merely a test plant.
if you were comparing spending on Vietnam to iraq or something it might be valid, but everyone just uses the war in iraq as a pressure point to try get a reaction, not because it's got anything to do with the topic at hand, exactly like comparing everything to the nazis
sorry but when i compare the OP's source of the royal academy of engineering vs UK papers, i have to say you'd be crazy to not go with the engineers who actually know something about nuclear power.
there's no "probably" about nuclear being safer, it's a simple fact.
there's always 2 things greenies try to call on nuclear - cost and life span. firstly while nuclear costs more initally, it's running costs see it break even with coal in 5 years. life span they will try tell you we only have 5 years of fissionable material - i make it clear right now they got that figure from the fact we have 5 years IF we all swapped to nuclear TODAY and relied totally on STOCKPILES. that means we didn't dig another ton out of the ground and didn't look for more. we also have breeder reactors which extend a plants life indefinately.
comparing everything to spending in iraq is why you got flambait. these days everyone is comparing spending to iraq, when its very rarely a good comparison.
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treehuggers aren't interested in facts and figures, we need to somehow come up with a way to put a cute face on uranium or they aren't interested.
there's only 2 options.
A. you believe in protectionism and we need it to protect ourselfs from highly competitive countries LIKE china and japan.
B. you don't believe in protectionism and in some weird way you don'ts thingk china or japan are competitive.
any other combination doesn't make sense, if we were all protectionist you have nothing to whinge about.
yahoo shows this in their insane logic that shares in their company are worth 2x what they are selling for in the market.
i certainly hope that was an attempt at humor
health issues aren't ruled by supply and demand, especially on brand name drugs since the supplier can artifically restrict the supply without fear of competition. it's not like someone dieing has any choice (what price do you put on life?) and drug companies exploit this.
capitalism is a decent system. but it's not an answer to everything, and one of those things is health care.
and is anyone shocked kids are meeting people from online? big fucking deal i did it back in my day when BBS's were the go, and i never got kiddy fiddled, probably because my parents instilled this thing called common sense in me which today's parents desperately protect their kids from.
And why is everyone dismayed that kids go on the internet looking for porn? fuck if i had a teenager who didn't look for porn THEN i'd be concerned. when i was a teenager i'd give myself a healthy bat morning and noon to some top of the line interweb porn, and i didn't go blind or anything.
seriously kids, play with your cock/vagina, you'll like it and it's perfectly healthy. fuck all these prudes and their rules.
i call upon goodwin's law....
90% sounds like a nice marketing department developed figure.
in fact if anyone is the victim of our current patent laws, it is MS and companys like them. patent trolls hang from them like leeches attempting to get themselfs bought.
ROFL, oh but THEY DO!!!! the traditional RIAA contract has the artist paying for all the costs out of their royalties. essentially companys RIAA represent take an artist onboard and fund the album, making the artist pay it all out of their royalties at an inflated price as well as taking their cut of the profits, so if an artist is very lucky they might walk away not owing them money... studio's are a pit of snakes, make no mistake.
oh no not this old chestnut. drug companies don't give a fuck if they cure an illness and no longer have to sell drugs to fight it, because there's about 100000000000000000 other illnesses out there for them to work on.
the myth that drug companys prefer to treat rather then cure is something moronic anti globalism nutcases perpetuate.
i'd say the most likely case here is that the doctor is right, and you just THINK you know better.
"poor people who don't know how to use contraception and the like" - ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? if you can figure out how to use your dick, you can figure out how to put on a condom. and cost wise, lets compare patented anti viral drug vs latex.
LATEX IS WINNER
you can't just leave, because it isn't likely that another country will let you live there. the fact your trying to compare choosing restaurants to immigration tells me you a total retard without perspective.
well, yes, everyone who is sane and not a rabid anti bush conspiracy nutjob.
what exactly do you think they gain by taking out civilian networks like the internet? do you think the army IM's each other and says "omgz amerikans just pwnz our internetz?!"
i have a sneaking suspicion there is another smaller .com bubble forming. especially when yahoo start talking about being under valued at 44 billion.
being facetious doesn't score you any kind of points. breeders work and have been demonstrated. france has built them but was forced to shut one down after environmentalists fired a rocket at it.
um, your aware C02 is a harmless gas right? it's not dangerous and doesn't need storing.
because if we did that, retards like you would be the first to log on from their imac down at the local starbucks, and start complaining about all the power black outs and how you can't afford your expreso enemas anymore because your power bill is $20000 a year.
tidal power is limited by geography and solar is a JOKE when your talking about powering a country.
and before you start calling me a right wing environmental hater, how many solar installations have you done? because i've done 3 large ones and i actually know how much solar costs.
our realistic options for power generation as things stand in the next 5 years are : - coal, nuclear.
anything else is an expensive joke.
100 people? so fucking what, do you have any idea the scale of spending we are talking about here? wages for 100 people is rounding error in these kinds of projects.
if you were comparing spending on Vietnam to iraq or something it might be valid, but everyone just uses the war in iraq as a pressure point to try get a reaction, not because it's got anything to do with the topic at hand, exactly like comparing everything to the nazis
there's no "probably" about nuclear being safer, it's a simple fact.
there's always 2 things greenies try to call on nuclear - cost and life span. firstly while nuclear costs more initally, it's running costs see it break even with coal in 5 years. life span they will try tell you we only have 5 years of fissionable material - i make it clear right now they got that figure from the fact we have 5 years IF we all swapped to nuclear TODAY and relied totally on STOCKPILES. that means we didn't dig another ton out of the ground and didn't look for more. we also have breeder reactors which extend a plants life indefinately.
comparing everything to spending in iraq is why you got flambait. these days everyone is comparing spending to iraq, when its very rarely a good comparison.
honestly, where do these idiots come from, and why does it get posted on /.
I'll see you in court for misleading advertising, since there is no mention of site based filtering. Thank you, Your customers.