Which is why you take the precaution of wearing a parachute when fallout off a cliff. Too bad the anti-cliff crowd has made it a point to outlaw parachutes so they can scream louder about how impossibly deadly it is with no hope whatsoever of being made safer.
Currently prescriptions are filled by brick and mortar pharmacies who are capable of checking the legitimacy of a prescription.
What do you expect to happen if people are allowed to order their drugs online? The creation of a national prescription database that foreign companies must abide by, and have port authorities open every package and check the contents for prescription drugs to verify with the national database?
Pharmacies should be able to source their stock from outside the US, but consumers should NOT. Letting consumers purchase their drugs online from overseas relies on some pretty powerful fairy magic to nullify all the ways it would go wrong.
Ok, so what government agency will vet the foreign companies to enforce those standards? You know, provide that accountability? Do you expect port authorities to open every package to check for prescription drugs and verify the contents with a national database of every prescription written?
You're arguing to shrink government while simultaneously expecting them to do something beyond their current capabilities.
Again. Trained and licensed pharmacies should be allowed to source drugs from outside the US, patients should NOT. You let consumers buy drugs online from foreign entities and you lose all accountability.
"Wake me up when patients can import drugs from abroad, without any hassle" implies grandma fill her own prescription without the hassle of those pesky profiteering pharmacies inserting themselves into the supply chain. And those pharmacies are the main quality control mechanism, as well as gate keeper to prevent abuse. Because if they give out chalk pills or drugs to people without prescription they get jailed. A website owner in china with 20 drums of lead paint to get rid of, not so much. Lift the import restriction and let patients import their own drugs, and a bunch of hassle free "pharmacy" websites out of china would gladly sell you any drug you requested without prescription.
I'm all for letting the guys with training and accountability source their stock from a country with adequate quality controls. But that's not what billy is advocating for.
Patients should not be able to import their own prescriptions. At all. There's a reason shit like daraprim and amoxacillin are behind the prescription counter instead of on the shelf. And I guarantee you if you were allowed to fill a prescription from an online "pharmacy" in russia you'd be able to find another that lets you buy random meds without a prescription.
Pharmacies should be able to source their stock from abroad if the source country has confirmed adequate quality controls, yes. But that's not what "Wake me up when patients can import drugs from abroad" advocates.
There's a great idea. Let any yahoo sell pills to Americans over the internet with no hope of accountability. Grandma's new pharmacy may get her pills with a brand name on the outside for half price, but the inside is 93% chalk, 5% lead, and 2% whatever weeds are growing out in the parking lot. And frankly that's a huge waste, you can already get those pills from the herbal supplement isle at Walmart.
I think that's the point of this piece. Our rocket scientists still can't match the password length of space fairing societies with planetary scale shielding, mega-ships capable of stripping the atmosphere off a planet in minutes, casual space travel, and speeds that are frankly ludicrous.
But there is a glimmer of hope. We are at 60%. Over half way there.
Yeah, and that may be the forgotten lesson the new CEO is embracing. Even if you have really good, if not the best, of something in a sea of competition, if you try to force a monoculture you are going to drive people away.
Windows didn't require a microsoft brand mouse in order to function and they still made a hefty profit on both hardware and software. But the times they did require a monocultire, like C#/.NET for most of its life, they found a lot of people just walked away and stuck to arguably inferior products.
Just look at hololens, their big ball of holyshitthisisawesome. They have competition in the hardware department already, but they're helping asus instead of trying to block them. Now there's going to be two AR headsets running windows 10 instead of an all microsoft one and a competitor that would probably run a custom linux.
Frankly, it was a perfect storm of both: Intel being colossal dicks and doing crap like buying off dell to deny AMD a market, rigging compilers and benchmarks, ect... AMD's management being colossally stupid and shooting themselves in the foot multiple times. Never let MBAs run the show...
If only one thing had happened they probably would have muscled through and kept real competition going. But together AMD lost enough momentum that the best they can do now is try to keep just a few steps behind. Which they have, to their credit. I still find AMD chips to be a better value.
At this point a turnaround will take either a eureka moment in their R&D lab, or an infusion of cash and better leadership from someone big like Microsoft buying them. I'd prefer the eureka moment bringing a bit of new tech to the market, but the MS buyout rumor has some interesting possibilities of its own. Especially when combine with things like the hololens.
He's trying to win a job where things like chewing gum and your body language down to the exact angle can affect foreign policy and ruin people's livelihood. Do you have any clue how bad Trump in the Whitehouse will be for the US?
This isn't some political comedy movie where the bumbling doofus finds himself in power by hilarious circumstance, and his crude but comic efforts bring about the best possible outcome despite common sense dictating the opposite. This is how WW3 starts. And if I had to guess it trigger, it would be "I don't care if you're a prime minister or jewish. My staff put this luau style dinner so you'd better have some roast pig. You'd like it if you tried it."
Is that why government tends to be decades behind when it comes to technology? A lingering cold war mentality of "No point progressing since the bombs are gonna fall any day now. Then where will your fancy silicon highways and databases be?"
Billy, if you're going to play you have to submit a character sheet for your character before you start roleplaying. You can't just jump in like this. Besides, there are already a lot of level 1 trolls running around. Maybe try another class, like druid or scholar.
Probably through bandwidth sales on the wifi. When you connect you'll be redirected to a splash page till you decide on a temporary service level and fork over some cash. I'd expect the service plans to range from a couple dollars for a couple hours hours to a full month subscription for the device. Plus possibly a free access tier at sub megabit speeds.
I am making the claim people who take medicine prescribed by doctors are statistically more likely to get better. Now, as per AC, since I do not propose a mechanism to explain this phenomenon my statement is 100% false and cannot possibly be correct.
There you go folks. Proof doctors are shams and homeopathy is the one true way to cure people. Go buy lots of bottles of 10000C cures from this store I have no relation to whatsoever and am not receiving money from.
Went from verizon to straight talk for 2 phones. The cost difference paid for both phones in 5 months. I don't mind dropping $150 a phone for decent handsets when I'll end up saving $1140 over a 2 year verizon family plan.
The entire industry is centers around the idea of continued profit without effort. Any challenge to that is not just an undue burden, it borderlines blasphemy.
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Which is why you take the precaution of wearing a parachute when fallout off a cliff.
Too bad the anti-cliff crowd has made it a point to outlaw parachutes so they can scream louder about how impossibly deadly it is with no hope whatsoever of being made safer.
Currently prescriptions are filled by brick and mortar pharmacies who are capable of checking the legitimacy of a prescription.
What do you expect to happen if people are allowed to order their drugs online? The creation of a national prescription database that foreign companies must abide by, and have port authorities open every package and check the contents for prescription drugs to verify with the national database?
Pharmacies should be able to source their stock from outside the US, but consumers should NOT. Letting consumers purchase their drugs online from overseas relies on some pretty powerful fairy magic to nullify all the ways it would go wrong.
Ok, so what government agency will vet the foreign companies to enforce those standards? You know, provide that accountability? Do you expect port authorities to open every package to check for prescription drugs and verify the contents with a national database of every prescription written?
You're arguing to shrink government while simultaneously expecting them to do something beyond their current capabilities.
Again. Trained and licensed pharmacies should be allowed to source drugs from outside the US, patients should NOT. You let consumers buy drugs online from foreign entities and you lose all accountability.
No, frankly, they aren't.
"Wake me up when patients can import drugs from abroad, without any hassle" implies grandma fill her own prescription without the hassle of those pesky profiteering pharmacies inserting themselves into the supply chain. And those pharmacies are the main quality control mechanism, as well as gate keeper to prevent abuse. Because if they give out chalk pills or drugs to people without prescription they get jailed. A website owner in china with 20 drums of lead paint to get rid of, not so much.
Lift the import restriction and let patients import their own drugs, and a bunch of hassle free "pharmacy" websites out of china would gladly sell you any drug you requested without prescription.
I'm all for letting the guys with training and accountability source their stock from a country with adequate quality controls. But that's not what billy is advocating for.
Patients should not be able to import their own prescriptions. At all. There's a reason shit like daraprim and amoxacillin are behind the prescription counter instead of on the shelf. And I guarantee you if you were allowed to fill a prescription from an online "pharmacy" in russia you'd be able to find another that lets you buy random meds without a prescription.
Pharmacies should be able to source their stock from abroad if the source country has confirmed adequate quality controls, yes.
But that's not what "Wake me up when patients can import drugs from abroad" advocates.
There's a great idea. Let any yahoo sell pills to Americans over the internet with no hope of accountability.
Grandma's new pharmacy may get her pills with a brand name on the outside for half price, but the inside is 93% chalk, 5% lead, and 2% whatever weeds are growing out in the parking lot.
And frankly that's a huge waste, you can already get those pills from the herbal supplement isle at Walmart.
Fail on my part. I wrote it as faring first but apparently derped when I rewrote the sentence.
I think that's the point of this piece. Our rocket scientists still can't match the password length of space fairing societies with planetary scale shielding, mega-ships capable of stripping the atmosphere off a planet in minutes, casual space travel, and speeds that are frankly ludicrous.
But there is a glimmer of hope. We are at 60%. Over half way there.
Yeah, and that may be the forgotten lesson the new CEO is embracing. Even if you have really good, if not the best, of something in a sea of competition, if you try to force a monoculture you are going to drive people away.
Windows didn't require a microsoft brand mouse in order to function and they still made a hefty profit on both hardware and software.
But the times they did require a monocultire, like C#/.NET for most of its life, they found a lot of people just walked away and stuck to arguably inferior products.
Just look at hololens, their big ball of holyshitthisisawesome. They have competition in the hardware department already, but they're helping asus instead of trying to block them. Now there's going to be two AR headsets running windows 10 instead of an all microsoft one and a competitor that would probably run a custom linux.
Frankly, it was a perfect storm of both:
Intel being colossal dicks and doing crap like buying off dell to deny AMD a market, rigging compilers and benchmarks, ect...
AMD's management being colossally stupid and shooting themselves in the foot multiple times. Never let MBAs run the show...
If only one thing had happened they probably would have muscled through and kept real competition going. But together AMD lost enough momentum that the best they can do now is try to keep just a few steps behind. Which they have, to their credit. I still find AMD chips to be a better value.
At this point a turnaround will take either a eureka moment in their R&D lab, or an infusion of cash and better leadership from someone big like Microsoft buying them.
I'd prefer the eureka moment bringing a bit of new tech to the market, but the MS buyout rumor has some interesting possibilities of its own. Especially when combine with things like the hololens.
He's trying to win a job where things like chewing gum and your body language down to the exact angle can affect foreign policy and ruin people's livelihood. Do you have any clue how bad Trump in the Whitehouse will be for the US?
This isn't some political comedy movie where the bumbling doofus finds himself in power by hilarious circumstance, and his crude but comic efforts bring about the best possible outcome despite common sense dictating the opposite.
This is how WW3 starts. And if I had to guess it trigger, it would be "I don't care if you're a prime minister or jewish. My staff put this luau style dinner so you'd better have some roast pig. You'd like it if you tried it."
Is that why government tends to be decades behind when it comes to technology? A lingering cold war mentality of "No point progressing since the bombs are gonna fall any day now. Then where will your fancy silicon highways and databases be?"
I think the best they can do is splice in some sea bass and make them ill tempered.
Billy, if you're going to play you have to submit a character sheet for your character before you start roleplaying. You can't just jump in like this.
Besides, there are already a lot of level 1 trolls running around. Maybe try another class, like druid or scholar.
Politically insensitive.
Apparently their PR is trying to garner sympathy from SJWs by standing up to the bully regulators who might stop the buyout.
Probably through bandwidth sales on the wifi.
When you connect you'll be redirected to a splash page till you decide on a temporary service level and fork over some cash. I'd expect the service plans to range from a couple dollars for a couple hours hours to a full month subscription for the device. Plus possibly a free access tier at sub megabit speeds.
Check to see if he has a Californian cancer warning sticker.
Herpes for Health. Curing cancer one night stand at a time.
The Mexican government will just borrow that money from wall st. with a smaller government agency then declare it bankrupt.
I am making the claim people who take medicine prescribed by doctors are statistically more likely to get better.
Now, as per AC, since I do not propose a mechanism to explain this phenomenon my statement is 100% false and cannot possibly be correct.
There you go folks. Proof doctors are shams and homeopathy is the one true way to cure people. Go buy lots of bottles of 10000C cures from this store I have no relation to whatsoever and am not receiving money from.
You have a drawer full of assorted lenghts of wire, and you didn't start your post with "Good news everyone."?
Went from verizon to straight talk for 2 phones. The cost difference paid for both phones in 5 months.
I don't mind dropping $150 a phone for decent handsets when I'll end up saving $1140 over a 2 year verizon family plan.
Nope. This is a UK study, so you have to remember they use "proper" english slang. Like lift and flat instead of elevator and apartment.
I believe Pupil is slang for Badger over there.
Which makes sense. Badgers would get nothing out of a computer, except maybe a scratching post.
The entire industry is centers around the idea of continued profit without effort. Any challenge to that is not just an undue burden, it borderlines blasphemy.
"It" is one of my trigger words. Check your privilege.
Nii.