So, it we provide a few billion in a military budget that Israel doesn't have to pay for, that's a few billion Israel can spend on socialized medicine instead of their military. It doesn't matter what the money is given for, the rest can be shuffled around to take advantage of it.
Look at the school budgets here in Ohio. The Ohio Lottery was established to provide additional money for the schools. Does it? No. The Lottery provides so many millions per year for the schools. The state 'just happened' to take away the same number of millions per year from the school budget and spend them on other things.
Yes. I'm not saying pharma companies are saints. Just calling out the loons who think they are hiding cures, or expect them to spend all their money on research that might not pay off for 3-5 decades. It's hardly shocking that they are trying to find drugs to do treatments. They are trying to make things they can get to market quickly.
As I said, most of their research money is spent on clinical trials, not basic research. They are trying to find products to sell. They are companies, that's what companies do. Cures are products as well, and if you give them one, I think they'd be happy to sell it. But most of those drugs they sell were originally discovered, or the foundation for them was found through university research. It's one hell of a lot easier to find a drug to temporarily change chemistry to reduce a symptom then it is to find a way to permanently alter the way cells in a body function. Altering genetics is tough, and not something that is likely going to have many products for available for sale in the next couple decades, let alone have something to sell now. If you are expecting pharma companies to do that, or spend most of their effort in that direction, it's your expectations that are out of whack.
So let me guess, you are one of those 'The pharmaceutical industry is hiding all the cures from us so they can sell us drugs' nuts. Here's the deal. The bulk of basic research (towards finding cures) is done by university researchers throughout the country. The majority of it is funded by the NIH, one of the U.S.'s best contributions to the world. They spend ~$30 Billion a year on it. The big Pharma companies? Yes, they spend some money on basic research. But they spend the bulk of their research dollars on clinical trials. Putting a single drug through the trials process can cost $10-100 Million until they either find out they drug doesn't work, is too dangerous to use, or actually works and will be a viable product. So the pharmaceutical companies aren't hiding the cures, because they aren't the ones doing the bulk of looking for them. The university researchers are. And as a university researcher working off NIH funds, let me tell you, if I find a cure you will find out about it. I'll get it published, be cited in the journals about a zillion times, likely get a Nobel prize, get pretty much guaranteed funding for the rest of my career because of my success record, and be invited to give talks at universities, organizations around the world (on their dime, often with a nice little check).
Scientists like to talk about their work. We have post-docs and Ph.D. students working in our labs who love to talk about our work. We have research techs who do a lot of the work and all know what's going on in the lab. All of these folks have friends and family, some of whom might be directly impacted if we find a cure for a disease. You think all those folks are going to keep quiet about it if we find something? What's the incentive? So take off the tin-foil had my friend. There are a lot of scientists out there working to find cures for diseases. You might not realize it, but it's kind of a tough thing to do.
Robbery - the felonious taking of the property of another from his or her person or in his or her immediate presence, against his or her will, by violence or intimidation.
There's no reason for ballistic missiles against the U.S. It's far far easier just to bring the bombs into the country in containers and transport to the target city.
This is combat, with people shooting all the time at you. With judgment on to move you or not being done by fellow soldiers, with *some* medical training if you are lucky enough to be near a medic.
This is not a clean hospital setting, with fully qualified doctors examining all your various wounds to determine what the exact consequences would be of dragging you.
For the vast majority of wounded soldiers, being dragged out is going to be much preferable to the likelihood of being shot. For a very few it wouldn't. But there isn't likely going to be anyone on hand who could competently assess that. Even if they could, they'd likely get shot themselves before retrieving the soldier. Bear-type machines are the way to go.
Amazon S3's website has a nice spiel on how to make HIPAA complaint web apps accessing it. Encrypting your data before putting it in the cloud isn't exactly rocket science.
With member states like the England putting monitoring cameras EVERYWHERE, I don't find that argument very compelling. The problem is way too many people are going along with this crap out of fear. Sad how far we've fallen since The Greatest Generation.
And you know for a fact that they hadn't added nodes to the cluster between when they ran it on windows and on linux, or that some nodes weren't down for service or other maintenance, moving, or a million other potential reasons?
I don't pretend to know why when I don't. You pretend to know why when you don't.
I am the GP, and I didn't say AT&T was broken up JUST because of their lock on subscriber equipment. It was just one blatant example of their abuse I could describe adequatly in a single sentence.
Ownership of subscriber level equipment was just the tip of the iceberg of Ma Bells' abuses. If that's all you have to go on, it's obvious you aren't old enough to remember how bad it was. SBC's abuses aren't a patch on Ma Bell's.
Yeah, breaking up Ma Bell was a terrible idea. I just loved having to pay rent on every phone in my house every month, because you weren't allowed to own your own phone.
You are lying or out of your mind. A sales tax hurts low income people because they have to spend everything they make in order to live, and every cent they make is taxed. The rich can spend a tiny fraction of their income living in style, and keep the rest entirely tax free.
Anyone moderating his post as insightful is a moron.
They are doing what NASA did in the 60's for 1/1000th the price.
Kinda shocking. I mean, when they had so little resources compared to NASA. Their only little bump would be...
*50 YEARS OF THE MOST RAPID ADVANCEMENTS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVER*
Think NASA might have been able to do it cheaper if computers with the power currently in your watch weren't normally the size of rooms and cost millions of dollars?
Think NASA might have had an easier time if they had access to modern composites?
Geez, doing it at 1000th of NASA's expense 50 years ago is the minimum that should be expected.
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So, it we provide a few billion in a military budget that Israel doesn't have to pay for, that's a few billion Israel can spend on socialized medicine instead of their military. It doesn't matter what the money is given for, the rest can be shuffled around to take advantage of it.
Look at the school budgets here in Ohio. The Ohio Lottery was established to provide additional money for the schools. Does it? No. The Lottery provides so many millions per year for the schools. The state 'just happened' to take away the same number of millions per year from the school budget and spend them on other things.
You can't put Israel into the comparison. Their economy is HUGELY subsidized by the U.S.
Yes. I'm not saying pharma companies are saints. Just calling out the loons who think they are hiding cures, or expect them to spend all their money on research that might not pay off for 3-5 decades. It's hardly shocking that they are trying to find drugs to do treatments. They are trying to make things they can get to market quickly.
Says the AC. So they waste money to fund research on cures, but stop them when they find one eh? Right.
As I said, most of their research money is spent on clinical trials, not basic research. They are trying to find products to sell. They are companies, that's what companies do. Cures are products as well, and if you give them one, I think they'd be happy to sell it. But most of those drugs they sell were originally discovered, or the foundation for them was found through university research. It's one hell of a lot easier to find a drug to temporarily change chemistry to reduce a symptom then it is to find a way to permanently alter the way cells in a body function. Altering genetics is tough, and not something that is likely going to have many products for available for sale in the next couple decades, let alone have something to sell now. If you are expecting pharma companies to do that, or spend most of their effort in that direction, it's your expectations that are out of whack.
So let me guess, you are one of those 'The pharmaceutical industry is hiding all the cures from us so they can sell us drugs' nuts. Here's the deal. The bulk of basic research (towards finding cures) is done by university researchers throughout the country. The majority of it is funded by the NIH, one of the U.S.'s best contributions to the world. They spend ~$30 Billion a year on it. The big Pharma companies? Yes, they spend some money on basic research. But they spend the bulk of their research dollars on clinical trials. Putting a single drug through the trials process can cost $10-100 Million until they either find out they drug doesn't work, is too dangerous to use, or actually works and will be a viable product. So the pharmaceutical companies aren't hiding the cures, because they aren't the ones doing the bulk of looking for them. The university researchers are. And as a university researcher working off NIH funds, let me tell you, if I find a cure you will find out about it. I'll get it published, be cited in the journals about a zillion times, likely get a Nobel prize, get pretty much guaranteed funding for the rest of my career because of my success record, and be invited to give talks at universities, organizations around the world (on their dime, often with a nice little check).
Scientists like to talk about their work. We have post-docs and Ph.D. students working in our labs who love to talk about our work. We have research techs who do a lot of the work and all know what's going on in the lab. All of these folks have friends and family, some of whom might be directly impacted if we find a cure for a disease. You think all those folks are going to keep quiet about it if we find something? What's the incentive? So take off the tin-foil had my friend. There are a lot of scientists out there working to find cures for diseases. You might not realize it, but it's kind of a tough thing to do.
Robbery - the felonious taking of the property of another from his or her person or in his or her immediate presence, against his or her will, by violence or intimidation.
Theft and robbery are two different things.
There's no reason for ballistic missiles against the U.S. It's far far easier just to bring the bombs into the country in containers and transport to the target city.
Maybe he released them because that's what Wiki leaks does???
And also because someone SENT THEM TO HIM. If someone sends him incriminating documents from Brazil, I think he'd publish those as well.
Teachers start at 18? Really? So you think their teaching certs materialize with no college?
I'll just ignore the rest of your post after seeing that. Not worth the effort to rebut.
This is combat, with people shooting all the time at you. With judgment on to move you or not being done by fellow soldiers, with *some* medical training if you are lucky enough to be near a medic.
This is not a clean hospital setting, with fully qualified doctors examining all your various wounds to determine what the exact consequences would be of dragging you.
For the vast majority of wounded soldiers, being dragged out is going to be much preferable to the likelihood of being shot. For a very few it wouldn't. But there isn't likely going to be anyone on hand who could competently assess that. Even if they could, they'd likely get shot themselves before retrieving the soldier. Bear-type machines are the way to go.
Amazon S3's website has a nice spiel on how to make HIPAA complaint web apps accessing it. Encrypting your data before putting it in the cloud isn't exactly rocket science.
With member states like the England putting monitoring cameras EVERYWHERE, I don't find that argument very compelling. The problem is way too many people are going along with this crap out of fear. Sad how far we've fallen since The Greatest Generation.
Make *up* information. Sigh, I hate it when I miss the preview button.
Wishful thinking? What am I wishing, other than that other posters wouldn't make information?
And you know for a fact that they hadn't added nodes to the cluster between when they ran it on windows and on linux, or that some nodes weren't down for service or other maintenance, moving, or a million other potential reasons?
I don't pretend to know why when I don't. You pretend to know why when you don't.
From TFA: "I'm not sure why the tests were run on a different number of nodes".
No one anywhere, except in your imagination, said Windows wasn't *able* to run on the extra nodes.
I am the GP, and I didn't say AT&T was broken up JUST because of their lock on subscriber equipment. It was just one blatant example of their abuse I could describe adequatly in a single sentence.
Ownership of subscriber level equipment was just the tip of the iceberg of Ma Bells' abuses. If that's all you have to go on, it's obvious you aren't old enough to remember how bad it was. SBC's abuses aren't a patch on Ma Bell's.
Yeah, breaking up Ma Bell was a terrible idea. I just loved having to pay rent on every phone in my house every month, because you weren't allowed to own your own phone.
You know nothing.
You are lying or out of your mind. A sales tax hurts low income people because they have to spend everything they make in order to live, and every cent they make is taxed. The rich can spend a tiny fraction of their income living in style, and keep the rest entirely tax free.
Anyone moderating his post as insightful is a moron.
Mars is too small to hold onto much atmosphere. That hurts it a lot more than the lack of a large moon.
They are doing what NASA did in the 60's for 1/1000th the price.
Kinda shocking. I mean, when they had so little resources compared to NASA. Their only little bump would be...
*50 YEARS OF THE MOST RAPID ADVANCEMENTS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVER*
Think NASA might have been able to do it cheaper if computers with the power currently in your watch weren't normally the size of rooms and cost millions of dollars?
Think NASA might have had an easier time if they had access to modern composites?
Geez, doing it at 1000th of NASA's expense 50 years ago is the minimum that should be expected.
Acceleration's force does not act in every direction at once. (unless you are exploding)
But they don't get a chance to overcharge me for the privilege for it.