No, the pharmaceutical companies have managed to pick the the "We Do Evil" moniker because of a bunch of less-than-stellar behaviors
- Spending more money on advertising than research - Pushing the bounds of advertising, both to the public and to professionals to rather dubious levels - Pushing the prices of older, well established, simple drugs to sky high levels - just because they can - Lobbying the spineless Congresscritters to keep drugs from other (actually healthier, safer) countries out of the US unless the go through a US company.
To be sure, they aren't the only morally limited players. Congress gets big hug for the above mentioned cowardice and the inability to fund the FDA to decent levels. The Executive Branch has had it's fair share of screwball ideas (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 'Security'). Doctors and hospitals haven't looked out for patient interests in decades. Insurance companies have never looked out for anybody other than themselves.
And finally, Americans want Tesla healthcare at Trabi prices.
Capitalism is a bad way to run an economy although arguably better than anything else we've played around with. But whatever it is we're doing in the US (It isn't really capitalism) isn't working at all.
Nope, just one more nail in the coffin of nuclear energy. If Westinghouse, the makers of the fabulous AP-1000 fourth gen reactor can't figure out how to make them without staying an order of magnitude within it's budget it's doubtful anybody is going to try it. Especially with wind and solar chewing on the insulation.
We are just a battery technology away from killing it altogether.
Which may or may not be a good thing. Lots to be said for a relatively compact, long lived, gigawatt level power supply. To bad we don't have the maturity to use it.
Right. Because hunter-gatherer societies were the pinnacle of human evolution. The ones that had a child mortality rate around 50% and lived to, maybe, their mid thirties.
Just a thought - look at evolution on a continuum. There are several billion humans on the planet who've largely escaped the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. That's 'evolution'. Now, we just might agree that this is to be widely regarded as a Bad Thing for a bunch of reasons, but freezing the diet at the early Paleolithic stage makes absolutely no sense.
The problem for The Hairpiece is that he isn't 'conservative' by any standard definition. He will, however, try to get someone who does fit the Standard Republican Definition (there is probably an ISO filing for that) of conservative in order to grease the skids.
That person, no matter what particular ideology they espouse, will be a member of the Supreme Court. With it's own rules, traditions, fears and goals. Hairpiece will likely find out that said justice isn't quite as bought and paid for as your typical Congressman. And quite a bit of Trump's agenda is so far out of line with a typical conservative view that he will run afoul of the court no matter who is on it.
Uh Oh. We'd better start a war on thunderstorms, tornadoes, peanuts, Ikea, MacDonalds, any power generation technology, alcohol (should have put that first), tobacco, firearms (hey, this is fun).
Go back to your bomb shelter and hope the zombies don't get you.
If California goes (it won't - it's just posturing), then Oregon and Washington would tag along. You'd have 'Portlandia' which would be remarkably self sufficient.
Nice daydream, however. We're all going down the same tube of orange hair cream. (What in the fucking hell is actually in that stuff?
The ONLY industry that's great to be in is social media. If there ain't an app involved, and you don't have a billion users, you're going to be super poor extra soon.
"OK, everybody who thinks this has a lifespan more than 5 years or so raise their hands."
"Yes, Mr. Zuckerborg, we understand your take on this, anybody else?"
Don't blame the FDA for something that is entirely the fault of Congress. Entirely the fault of Congress. The FDA could approve pharmaceuticals from a dozen countries by signing agreements with their pharmaceutical overwatch departments.
Those spineless, brainless slime molds that can't stand up to a mutant toupee are the problem.
How about this line of reasoning - all of those articles, inventions and ideas just didn't pan out the way their originators hoped they would. It isn't the fault of the Democrats stuffing the FDA with red tape breathing zombies. It's not even Bush's fault.
It is just the fact that we've pull off most of the low hanging fruit (clean water, sewers, vaccinations - sorry guys, but they work, basic surgery and some fairly sophisticated medicine). Making progress is harder these days.
I bet you're still expecting that holographic storage to show up sometime this week.
* One mom woke up to a red notification to find her baby’s hand over her face while sleeping. * One mom woke up to a red notification and found a blanket covering her baby’s face.
Sounds like Owlet needs to dial it down. You aren't going to asphyxiate an infant with it's hand - ever. It would be hard to asphyxiate an infant with a blanket unless you are wrapping it around its face.
Yes, apnea of the newborn is an issue. But it isn't an issue for the vast swath of kids. When you have a kid with the problem, a specific monitor with specific training on it's use and support from medical professionals is very useful.
Selling them to every new parent on the planet is just a way to make money.
God yes. Autodesk, I'm looking at you. Apple, I'm tired of looking at you. You're both ugly and your mothers wear army boots.
Jeez, Autodesk - you can't bother to decide on something resembling a consistent user interface between products and life cycles? Ok, fine. Then goddamn document it somewhere beside's a YouTube video hidden in somebody's blog. The answer to 'what is the squiggle with the line on the side icon mean' should not take an hour of searching. You could, even, like put it in a menu on the top like every program is required to have? Would it hurt real bad if you did it?
You don't care about Johnny Ives so no excuse, Autodesk. At least Adobe (may they burn in hell forever about their subscription nonsense) leaves stuff up in the menu bar and has taken reasonable steps to ensure the same icon controls the same function in separate programs.
the only reason they haven't dropped more is the fanatical userbase who thinks Tim Cook takes golden shits.
Sorry, this isn't the Reality Distortion Field you are looking for. It's just inertia. If you are on a particular system, moving to another one is a PITA. Yes, it is arguably less so than say, a decade ago but for professionals with complex or demanding work flows it is often a lot of busy work that doesn't get you any further than you were before.
So if your five year old hardware is working OK - and 5 year old MacPros, MacBook Pros and most Mac Books will get the job done for MOST (not all) people. That will stop being the case eventually and people will drift off to the Dark^HOther side.
I suppose a good bit about this is that even the new MacBooks should have the horsepower to change the display color. Even if it has to calculate the time.
Leading edge here. The future's so bright that you gotta wear shades.
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No, the pharmaceutical companies have managed to pick the the "We Do Evil" moniker because of a bunch of less-than-stellar behaviors
- Spending more money on advertising than research
- Pushing the bounds of advertising, both to the public and to professionals to rather dubious levels
- Pushing the prices of older, well established, simple drugs to sky high levels - just because they can
- Lobbying the spineless Congresscritters to keep drugs from other (actually healthier, safer) countries out of the US unless the go through a US company.
To be sure, they aren't the only morally limited players. Congress gets big hug for the above mentioned cowardice and the inability to fund the FDA to decent levels. The Executive Branch has had it's fair share of screwball ideas (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 'Security'). Doctors and hospitals haven't looked out for patient interests in decades. Insurance companies have never looked out for anybody other than themselves.
And finally, Americans want Tesla healthcare at Trabi prices.
Capitalism is a bad way to run an economy although arguably better than anything else we've played around with. But whatever it is we're doing in the US (It isn't really capitalism) isn't working at all.
Nope, just one more nail in the coffin of nuclear energy. If Westinghouse, the makers of the fabulous AP-1000 fourth gen reactor can't figure out how to make them without staying an order of magnitude within it's budget it's doubtful anybody is going to try it. Especially with wind and solar chewing on the insulation.
We are just a battery technology away from killing it altogether.
Which may or may not be a good thing. Lots to be said for a relatively compact, long lived, gigawatt level power supply. To bad we don't have the maturity to use it.
Right. Because hunter-gatherer societies were the pinnacle of human evolution. The ones that had a child mortality rate around 50% and lived to, maybe, their mid thirties.
Just a thought - look at evolution on a continuum. There are several billion humans on the planet who've largely escaped the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. That's 'evolution'. Now, we just might agree that this is to be widely regarded as a Bad Thing for a bunch of reasons, but freezing the diet at the early Paleolithic stage makes absolutely no sense.
Yes. Just to make it really easy on everybody, a quote from TFA:
Nobody got locked in their rooms
.
Now, everybody can calm down, maybe skip that next expresso and move along to not reading the next FA.
The problem for The Hairpiece is that he isn't 'conservative' by any standard definition. He will, however, try to get someone who does fit the Standard Republican Definition (there is probably an ISO filing for that) of conservative in order to grease the skids.
That person, no matter what particular ideology they espouse, will be a member of the Supreme Court. With it's own rules, traditions, fears and goals. Hairpiece will likely find out that said justice isn't quite as bought and paid for as your typical Congressman. And quite a bit of Trump's agenda is so far out of line with a typical conservative view that he will run afoul of the court no matter who is on it.
Well, that's our only hope, anyway.
God damned Crispr-Cas9. I just knew it was going to get us into trouble.
Onward Christian Solders, Marching As to War ......
Peace, brother.
And the Orange Fluff is looking out for The Rest of Us?
Uh Oh. We'd better start a war on thunderstorms, tornadoes, peanuts, Ikea, MacDonalds, any power generation technology, alcohol (should have put that first), tobacco, firearms (hey, this is fun).
Go back to your bomb shelter and hope the zombies don't get you.
If California goes (it won't - it's just posturing), then Oregon and Washington would tag along. You'd have 'Portlandia' which would be remarkably self sufficient.
Nice daydream, however. We're all going down the same tube of orange hair cream. (What in the fucking hell is actually in that stuff?
"Go 'way! I'm bating!"
Yet another 'instructional video'.
"I'm French! How do think I got this outrageous accent?"
Only because of their impressive lack of personal hygiene. The actually 'conquerors' were much smaller than the typical Pilgrim.
Let's see - passing off a 3D print made by Shapeways (not the device in question).
Doing things that are physically impossible (printing overhangs without support).
Sounds like a good start to me.
Sturgeon was an optimist.
No, it's a fish.
The ONLY industry that's great to be in is social media. If there ain't an app involved, and you don't have a billion users, you're going to be super poor extra soon.
"OK, everybody who thinks this has a lifespan more than 5 years or so raise their hands."
"Yes, Mr. Zuckerborg, we understand your take on this, anybody else?"
Don't blame the FDA for something that is entirely the fault of Congress. Entirely the fault of Congress. The FDA could approve pharmaceuticals from a dozen countries by signing agreements with their pharmaceutical overwatch departments.
Those spineless, brainless slime molds that can't stand up to a mutant toupee are the problem.
How about this line of reasoning - all of those articles, inventions and ideas just didn't pan out the way their originators hoped they would. It isn't the fault of the Democrats stuffing the FDA with red tape breathing zombies. It's not even Bush's fault.
It is just the fact that we've pull off most of the low hanging fruit (clean water, sewers, vaccinations - sorry guys, but they work, basic surgery and some fairly sophisticated medicine). Making progress is harder these days.
I bet you're still expecting that holographic storage to show up sometime this week.
* One mom woke up to a red notification to find her baby’s hand over her face while sleeping.
* One mom woke up to a red notification and found a blanket covering her baby’s face.
Sounds like Owlet needs to dial it down. You aren't going to asphyxiate an infant with it's hand - ever. It would be hard to asphyxiate an infant with a blanket unless you are wrapping it around its face.
False positives for the marketing win!
Yes, apnea of the newborn is an issue. But it isn't an issue for the vast swath of kids. When you have a kid with the problem, a specific monitor with specific training on it's use and support from medical professionals is very useful.
Selling them to every new parent on the planet is just a way to make money.
God yes. Autodesk, I'm looking at you. Apple, I'm tired of looking at you. You're both ugly and your mothers wear army boots.
Jeez, Autodesk - you can't bother to decide on something resembling a consistent user interface between products and life cycles? Ok, fine. Then goddamn document it somewhere beside's a YouTube video hidden in somebody's blog. The answer to 'what is the squiggle with the line on the side icon mean' should not take an hour of searching. You could, even, like put it in a menu on the top like every program is required to have? Would it hurt real bad if you did it?
You don't care about Johnny Ives so no excuse, Autodesk. At least Adobe (may they burn in hell forever about their subscription nonsense) leaves stuff up in the menu bar and has taken reasonable steps to ensure the same icon controls the same function in separate programs.
Grrrr. Now stay off the lawn!
To NOT Do List:
Check Slashdot for useless posts from anonymous yoyo's for cringe level engineering advice.
Get over yourself, dude.
"Pile Deep, put inside."
"I'm sorry, I don't understand that."
Right behind 'ya ....
the only reason they haven't dropped more is the fanatical userbase who thinks Tim Cook takes golden shits.
Sorry, this isn't the Reality Distortion Field you are looking for. It's just inertia. If you are on a particular system, moving to another one is a PITA. Yes, it is arguably less so than say, a decade ago but for professionals with complex or demanding work flows it is often a lot of busy work that doesn't get you any further than you were before.
So if your five year old hardware is working OK - and 5 year old MacPros, MacBook Pros and most Mac Books will get the job done for MOST (not all) people. That will stop being the case eventually and people will drift off to the Dark^HOther side.
I suppose a good bit about this is that even the new MacBooks should have the horsepower to change the display color. Even if it has to calculate the time.
Leading edge here. The future's so bright that you gotta wear shades.