Generally, when prescription drugs are re-classified as no longer needing to be prescribed,
Some of the most common drugs never needed to be prescribed. The system is setup so that while a drug is under patent, it's also under prescription. Then the pharmaceutical companies soak the insurance companies for big payouts.
Once the patent runs out, the generics show up, the drug is taken off the prescription list, and the pharmaceutical company replaces it with a slightly tweaked version that is under patent protection. Rinse, repeat, buy last year's blockbuster drug (at prescription strength!) over the counter for 1/20th the price.
This proposal is just going to extend that farce to other wildly popular out-of-patent drugs
It seems like you're wrong. You and at least 3 people with mod points did not RTFA
In January, McKennaâ(TM)s office and Facebook sued Jeremy Bash and Fehzan Ali, the owners of Adscend Media LLC for initiating posts to Facebook pages that appeared to offer visitors an opportunity to view scandalous or provocative content. However, before being able to view the content, a series of required steps lured Facebook users into eventually visiting commercial websites. Other tactics included âoelikejacking,â in which Facebook users were tricked into clicking the âoelikeâ button, inadvertently spreading the sales pitches to friends.
Adscend, hired to promote products, in turn does business with âoeaffiliatesâ who create attention-getting marketing messages. Too often, according to the Attorney Generalâ(TM)s Office, those messages amounted to social media spam. Todayâ(TM)s settlement enjoins Adscend and its affiliates from initiating messages that contain misleading or false headers or those that hide the true identity of the sender
Ascend was spamming and getting paid by affiliates to spam on their behalf. I really only have six words for Washington AG: Admission of Liability & Disgorgment of Profits
Indeed, and I have to say, I can't really see that the economic effect would be that great either (impact on any dot.com 2.0 bubble aside). If Facebook disappeared tomorrow, just how would that have any large effect on the economy?
Facebook wouldn't disappear and neither would your data. Their assets (your information) would get sold to someone, who would data mine it, and then advertise to you in ways that Facebook couldn't without losing the public trust.
The truth is that this will really be aimed at China and North Korea because their locations make it really hard for the US to project any force in the region.
The USA likes to carry a big stick, but the stick can't always be used if the other guy's stick can hit something you care about. You pull the trigger on North Korea and they will pound a large part of South Korea into rubble. It's why America has been trying to starve countries like North Korea and Iran instead of invading.
In other words, the problem with countries like Iran, China, and North Korea is *not* that the USA has trouble projecting force, it's that 'the other guy' can *also* project force.
I wonder how easy it would be to turn a B52 into a UAV?
There are $55 billion reasons not to turn B-52s into UAVs
The new "Long-Range Strike Bomber" [...] just $550 million per copy for up to 100 copies, with production beginning in the early 2020s. The U.S. Congress approved the first $300 million in development funding late last year. The Pentagon has vowed to cancel the Long-Range Strike Bomber if the total projected program cost exceeds $55 billion.
Maybe they should just strip down the F-22 fleet and make them unmanned. I bet they could do that for ~$100 million per plane.
The BIG problem with the F22 and F35 is the military is putting the cart before the horse. They design an aircraft that has never flown and pushes the technical envelope in dozens of different ways and then try to come in on a budget. They NEVER, EVER get even close to budget. Never.
I don't remember the technical term that describes what the military did, but instead of traditional contracting (where you design a plane, test a few prototypes and then build a final design) the military said "okay, we'll let you start building planes and debug it as you go"
That's why F22s cost $450 million each. Because each one is essentially a flying prototype, subject to revision. The fact that they built 167 of them and are still making major revisions should tell you how fucked this process is.
Now that Google's a public company, though, their 'Don't Be Evil' ethic is harder to square with Wall Street's poisonous demand for increasing stock prices at all costs.
Google is one of the few publicy traded companies whose majority shareholders also run the company. If you own Google stock and don't like what the company is doing, tough cookies. On the flip side, if you don't like what the company is doing, you know who to blame.
Why do you think what you want people do to with their cars is any of your business, as long as it doesn't involve hurting you or someone else?
You can't make a statement like this without also defending the idea that "Smartphone-centric in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems" won't involve hurting yourself or someone else.
Punish them if they do something stupid and cause a traffic accident... let them work out what they're allowed to do with their insurance company that may have to pay for the consequences
A) Driving is a privelege, not a right. B) Your statement accepts that the law can force you to purchase car insurance. Why are other restrictions on driving so much more onerous?
Just because Microsoft owns Skype does NOT mean that they think it's a great business idea to come in and tell them HOW they should accomplish something.
You have a point, but it looks really bad when one of the most disruptive telecommuncations companies in the world chooses to use Linux instead of the OS from their parent corporation.
If it was a matter of resources, they could have used better &/or more servers. The only reason not to use Windows Server is security. And how does Microsoft's marketing department spin that?
I've never understood why people get all shocked when someone uses a competitor's product when theirs can do the job too. Well, Linux is a better platform for embedded applications, single-purpose servers, etc. It is much more efficient because there's no GUI to drive and only the bare minimum needs to be loaded in memory. Even the kernel can be stripped down to only essential modules, and it can be tweaked for realtime applications.
Windows servers aren't designed for that.
Eat your own dog food. If Windows Server isn't secure enough or powerful enough to do the job, maybe Microsoft should revisit their design choices.
Most of them aren't entirely sure why they hate us but they do.
Translation: I'm not entirely sure why they hate us, but they do. Luckily for you Grayhand (2610049), there are ways to educate yourself and remedy your ignorance.
al-Qaeda and its affiliates have been telling us for decades why they hate us and how we can get them to leave us alone. You can start by seeing why they say they hate 'us' and then read why the experts think they hate us. Your task will be much easier if you ignore talking heads on TV and instead read some journals on foreign policy.
It doesn't help that, in the case of football, much of the treatment of players was handled by team doctors, who have a certain incentive to keep the livestock in the game and producing, and among whom suggestions of serious harm were not a good way to make yourself popular...
It also doesn't help that college and professional level athletes are very highly motivated and frequently want to play through any injuries.
Sports psychologists have written endlessly about the mental aspects injuries and recovery. Part of coping with the issue of head trauma is changing the sports culture at the lowest levels, so that by the time athletes are in college, not-playing with head injuries is common sense.
Your "desktop" will be just be a fancy docking station for your phone (wireless perhaps with induction for power too).
All things being equal, I'd rather my phone becomes a fancy remote terminal for my desktop. When was the last time you lost your desktop or shattered it on the pavement?
But the way things are going, my desktop is going to be a remote terminal for my phone, which is going to be a remote terminal for some cloud service that the police can access with a polite phone call.
The NASDAQ OMX equities exchanges currently participate in the National Market System Symbology Plan for the selection and use of 1-5 character root symbols, as governed by ISRA, the Intermarket Symbols Reservation Authority.
NASDAQ, NYSE, and other exchanges like to reserve 1 and 2 letter ticker symbols in order to attract big companies to list on their exchange.
A huge number of investors prefer start-ups and expansion, because those yield massive profits (or complete loss) much much faster, but capitalism doesn't require that. All it requires is that the stable system be large enough to create local instabilities.
[Citation Needed] Capitalism doesn't require stability. I mean, stability is nice, which is why we've created things like regulations and Central Banks, but stability is not a necessary component of Capitalism. Unregulated Capitalism is inherently unstable, at least until a few companies grow large enough to create an oligopoly or cartel, which is stable.... but not competitive and accordingly, not really Capitalism
Then again, maybe it depends on your definition of stability. Before the Great Depression, markets crashed constantly, but capitalism worked. It wasn't until that massive banking collapse that the government decided to fix the market's inability to create stability.
1) Run a min 20A (30A is even better) dedicated circuit with a twist lock connector to the rack's location. If you want to get a rackmount UPS in the 2000-3000VA range, it will probably require this.
This. A hundred times this.
Those little labels in your breaker box are barely useful So take a copy of the floorplan and note which outlets go to which breaker. Otherwise, you'll only really understand how your power outlets are tied together in winter.... Because that's when space heaters get plugged in and breakers start getting tripped.
And some general advice: While the home is being built, take pictures of everything before the drywall goes up. And use film. When you finally decide to do renovations, these pictures will be invaluable.
have the ejection seat installed by one of the companies that do such things for research/advertising purposes, etc...
I feel like "eject" was the wrong word for this article (which was probably poorly transcribed from a press release).
727s don't have ejection seats. Commercial airliners in general don't have ejection seats for a host of reasons, some of the structural, but mostly to keep them from abandoning the passengers.
The likeliest scenario is that the pilot cracked open a door and jumped out. And it's no trouble at all to open the doors on an unpressurized airplane.
Actually Microsoft being a publicly held company is obligated by law to operate in efficient manner to the benefit their shareholders.
[Citation Needed] Spoiler Alert: You won't be able to find a citation because you're wrong.
Corporations are legally obliged to operate according to their articles of incorporation. Other than that, the majority shareholder(s) get to decide what the company does.
If the two majority shareholders in Google decreed "our company will stop avoiding taxes" then that's what would happen, no matter what the other minority shareholders wanted.
All countries compete with each other for commerce and trade. Why shouldn't states as well? As long as it's fair commerce, competition is good.
Step 1. Set up subsidiaries/shell corporations to evade/avoid taxes Step 2. Get called out on it by the IRS or other enforcement agency Step 3. Use some of the money you earned by tax evasion/avoidance to stall the court case for years Step 4. Settle for a fraction of what you really owe Step 5. Profit!!!
I usually don't respond to ACs, but what makes you think this qualifies as "fair commerce"? And while I'm challenging your basic assumptions, what do you think makes commerce fair or competitive?
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it isn't, and it is.
Generally, when prescription drugs are re-classified as no longer needing to be prescribed,
Some of the most common drugs never needed to be prescribed.
The system is setup so that while a drug is under patent, it's also under prescription.
Then the pharmaceutical companies soak the insurance companies for big payouts.
Once the patent runs out, the generics show up, the drug is taken off the prescription list,
and the pharmaceutical company replaces it with a slightly tweaked version that is under patent protection.
Rinse, repeat, buy last year's blockbuster drug (at prescription strength!) over the counter for 1/20th the price.
This proposal is just going to extend that farce to other wildly popular out-of-patent drugs
It seems like you're wrong. You and at least 3 people with mod points did not RTFA
In January, McKennaâ(TM)s office and Facebook sued Jeremy Bash and Fehzan Ali, the owners of Adscend Media LLC for initiating posts to Facebook pages that appeared to offer visitors an opportunity to view scandalous or provocative content. However, before being able to view the content, a series of required steps lured Facebook users into eventually visiting commercial websites. Other tactics included âoelikejacking,â in which Facebook users were tricked into clicking the âoelikeâ button, inadvertently spreading the sales pitches to friends.
Adscend, hired to promote products, in turn does business with âoeaffiliatesâ who create attention-getting marketing messages. Too often, according to the Attorney Generalâ(TM)s Office, those messages amounted to social media spam. Todayâ(TM)s settlement enjoins Adscend and its affiliates from initiating messages that contain misleading or false headers or those that hide the true identity of the sender
Ascend was spamming and getting paid by affiliates to spam on their behalf.
I really only have six words for Washington AG: Admission of Liability & Disgorgment of Profits
Indeed, and I have to say, I can't really see that the economic effect would be that great either (impact on any dot.com 2.0 bubble aside). If Facebook disappeared tomorrow, just how would that have any large effect on the economy?
Facebook wouldn't disappear and neither would your data.
Their assets (your information) would get sold to someone, who would data mine it, and then advertise to you in ways that Facebook couldn't without losing the public trust.
The truth is that this will really be aimed at China and North Korea because their locations make it really hard for the US to project any force in the region.
The USA likes to carry a big stick, but the stick can't always be used if the other guy's stick can hit something you care about.
You pull the trigger on North Korea and they will pound a large part of South Korea into rubble.
It's why America has been trying to starve countries like North Korea and Iran instead of invading.
In other words, the problem with countries like Iran, China, and North Korea is *not* that the USA has trouble projecting force,
it's that 'the other guy' can *also* project force.
I wonder how easy it would be to turn a B52 into a UAV?
There are $55 billion reasons not to turn B-52s into UAVs
The new "Long-Range Strike Bomber" [...] just $550 million per copy for up to 100 copies, with production beginning in the early 2020s. The U.S. Congress approved the first $300 million in development funding late last year. The Pentagon has vowed to cancel the Long-Range Strike Bomber if the total projected program cost exceeds $55 billion.
Maybe they should just strip down the F-22 fleet and make them unmanned.
I bet they could do that for ~$100 million per plane.
A perfect example of Short-Sightedness.
No doubt the free market will step in and launch satellites that are better, faster, and cheaper.
But you'll have to pay for it.
But there's a silver lining to this cloud!.
At least people will stop blaming the government for not predicting hurricanes and tornados!
The BIG problem with the F22 and F35 is the military is putting the cart before the horse. They design an aircraft that has never flown and pushes the technical envelope in dozens of different ways and then try to come in on a budget. They NEVER, EVER get even close to budget. Never.
I don't remember the technical term that describes what the military did, but instead of traditional contracting
(where you design a plane, test a few prototypes and then build a final design)
the military said "okay, we'll let you start building planes and debug it as you go"
That's why F22s cost $450 million each.
Because each one is essentially a flying prototype, subject to revision.
The fact that they built 167 of them and are still making major revisions should tell you how fucked this process is.
Now that Google's a public company, though, their 'Don't Be Evil' ethic is harder to square with Wall Street's poisonous demand for increasing stock prices at all costs.
Google is one of the few publicy traded companies whose majority shareholders also run the company.
If you own Google stock and don't like what the company is doing, tough cookies.
On the flip side, if you don't like what the company is doing, you know who to blame.
http://www.planetsolar.org/the-boat
Surface area of solar modules: 537 m2
PV panel efficiency: 18.8 %
Installed PV power: 93.5 kW (127.0 HP)
*Puissance moteur maximale: 120 kW
Average engine consumption: 20 kW (26.8 HP)
*Maximum motor output
Why do you think what you want people do to with their cars is any of your business, as long as it doesn't involve hurting you or someone else?
You can't make a statement like this without also defending the idea that "Smartphone-centric in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems" won't involve hurting yourself or someone else.
Punish them if they do something stupid and cause a traffic accident... let them work out what they're allowed to do with their insurance company that may have to pay for the consequences
A) Driving is a privelege, not a right.
B) Your statement accepts that the law can force you to purchase car insurance. Why are other restrictions on driving so much more onerous?
Which side is the one lying about it for political gain?
The side that doesn't have facts supporting its position.
Was that a trick question?
Can we next debate whether or not smoking tobacco is bad for your lungs?
The *really* good accountants I've known also understand something important, which is the limitations of their discipline.
For a creative accountant, there aren't really any limits to the discipline.
See: Google, Apple, and Greece as recent examples
Just because Microsoft owns Skype does NOT mean that they think it's a great business idea to come in and tell them HOW they should accomplish something.
You have a point, but it looks really bad when one of the most disruptive telecommuncations companies in the world chooses to use Linux instead of the OS from their parent corporation.
If it was a matter of resources, they could have used better &/or more servers.
The only reason not to use Windows Server is security.
And how does Microsoft's marketing department spin that?
I've never understood why people get all shocked when someone uses a competitor's product when theirs can do the job too. Well, Linux is a better platform for embedded applications, single-purpose servers, etc. It is much more efficient because there's no GUI to drive and only the bare minimum needs to be loaded in memory. Even the kernel can be stripped down to only essential modules, and it can be tweaked for realtime applications.
Windows servers aren't designed for that.
Eat your own dog food.
If Windows Server isn't secure enough or powerful enough to do the job, maybe Microsoft should revisit their design choices.
Most of them aren't entirely sure why they hate us but they do.
Translation: I'm not entirely sure why they hate us, but they do.
Luckily for you Grayhand (2610049), there are ways to educate yourself and remedy your ignorance.
al-Qaeda and its affiliates have been telling us for decades why they hate us and how we can get them to leave us alone.
You can start by seeing why they say they hate 'us' and then read why the experts think they hate us.
Your task will be much easier if you ignore talking heads on TV and instead read some journals on foreign policy.
It doesn't help that, in the case of football, much of the treatment of players was handled by team doctors, who have a certain incentive to keep the livestock in the game and producing, and among whom suggestions of serious harm were not a good way to make yourself popular...
It also doesn't help that college and professional level athletes are very highly motivated and frequently want to play through any injuries.
Sports psychologists have written endlessly about the mental aspects injuries and recovery.
Part of coping with the issue of head trauma is changing the sports culture at the lowest levels,
so that by the time athletes are in college, not-playing with head injuries is common sense.
Your "desktop" will be just be a fancy docking station for your phone (wireless perhaps with induction for power too).
All things being equal, I'd rather my phone becomes a fancy remote terminal for my desktop.
When was the last time you lost your desktop or shattered it on the pavement?
But the way things are going, my desktop is going to be a remote terminal for my phone,
which is going to be a remote terminal for some cloud service that the police can access with a polite phone call.
The NASDAQ OMX equities exchanges currently participate in the National Market System Symbology Plan for the selection and use of 1-5 character root symbols, as governed by ISRA, the Intermarket Symbols Reservation Authority.
NASDAQ, NYSE, and other exchanges like to reserve 1 and 2 letter ticker symbols in order to attract big companies to list on their exchange.
F is for Ford
S is for Sprint-Nextel
T is for AT&T
If you poke around, you'll discover companies you've never heard of, but who are major players in their market
A huge number of investors prefer start-ups and expansion, because those yield massive profits (or complete loss) much much faster, but capitalism doesn't require that. All it requires is that the stable system be large enough to create local instabilities.
[Citation Needed]
Capitalism doesn't require stability.
I mean, stability is nice, which is why we've created things like regulations and Central Banks, but stability is not a necessary component of Capitalism.
Unregulated Capitalism is inherently unstable, at least until a few companies grow large enough to create an oligopoly or cartel, which is stable....
but not competitive and accordingly, not really Capitalism
Then again, maybe it depends on your definition of stability.
Before the Great Depression, markets crashed constantly, but capitalism worked.
It wasn't until that massive banking collapse that the government decided to fix the market's inability to create stability.
1) Run a min 20A (30A is even better) dedicated circuit with a twist lock connector to the rack's location. If you want to get a rackmount UPS in the 2000-3000VA range, it will probably require this.
This. A hundred times this.
Those little labels in your breaker box are barely useful
So take a copy of the floorplan and note which outlets go to which breaker.
Otherwise, you'll only really understand how your power outlets are tied together in winter....
Because that's when space heaters get plugged in and breakers start getting tripped.
And some general advice:
While the home is being built, take pictures of everything before the drywall goes up. And use film.
When you finally decide to do renovations, these pictures will be invaluable.
have the ejection seat installed by one of the companies that do such things for research/advertising purposes, etc...
I feel like "eject" was the wrong word for this article (which was probably poorly transcribed from a press release).
727s don't have ejection seats.
Commercial airliners in general don't have ejection seats for a host of reasons,
some of the structural, but mostly to keep them from abandoning the passengers.
The likeliest scenario is that the pilot cracked open a door and jumped out.
And it's no trouble at all to open the doors on an unpressurized airplane.
/The most (in)famous person to ever jump out of a 727 is D.B. Cooper
Actually Microsoft being a publicly held company is obligated by law to operate in efficient manner to the benefit their shareholders.
[Citation Needed]
Spoiler Alert: You won't be able to find a citation because you're wrong.
Corporations are legally obliged to operate according to their articles of incorporation.
Other than that, the majority shareholder(s) get to decide what the company does.
If the two majority shareholders in Google decreed "our company will stop avoiding taxes"
then that's what would happen, no matter what the other minority shareholders wanted.
Declaring that MS has no right to do business in states where taxes are lower is...well, disgusting.
Declaring that MS has no right to shift income to states where taxes is lower is... well, reasonable.
All countries compete with each other for commerce and trade. Why shouldn't states as well? As long as it's fair commerce, competition is good.
Step 1. Set up subsidiaries/shell corporations to evade/avoid taxes
Step 2. Get called out on it by the IRS or other enforcement agency
Step 3. Use some of the money you earned by tax evasion/avoidance to stall the court case for years
Step 4. Settle for a fraction of what you really owe
Step 5. Profit!!!
I usually don't respond to ACs, but what makes you think this qualifies as "fair commerce"?
And while I'm challenging your basic assumptions, what do you think makes commerce fair or competitive?