Boeing is doing quite well, thankyouverymuch. The XB-37 is a nice bit of tech and YoYoDyne could ramp up all sorts of other ideas if they wanted.
What Boeing is doing is milking the cow as much as is possible. You want a complicated, expensive spacecraft that can be sourced from sub assemblies built all over the congressional map? Boeing can do that for you.
They just don't have any sort of 'mission' to do anything else besides make money for themselves and their shareholders.
do people have cameras ready, and immediately photograph something that caught fire, and the box it came in which was curiously brought along on the flight, for immediate publishing on the Internet? It seems as if the whole idea was to create even more bad press for the biggest foreign competitor in the U.S. phone market.
You must be new here. Everywhere I've gone in the past couple of years there have been cell phone cameras out and recording for anything remotely out of the ordinary and usually for perfectly mundane events (getting on a plane). The odds of any event in the US (and probably Europe and most parts of Asia) being photographed and / or videoed is getting awfully close to 1 these days.
Perhaps the airline wanted to do a careful analysis of the event and possible repercussions thereof since they have a 100 million dollar plane and a hundred or so human lives hanging on a successful flight.
Sometimes reality isn't the first thing that shows up.
This is not a new idea. It sounds like Vin Cerf just read the 1961 Hugo Award winning "A Canticle for Leibowitz".
“Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power. Even literacy they fear, for the written word is another channel of communication that might cause their enemies to become united. Their weapons are keen-honed, and they use them with skill. They will press the battle upon the world when their interests are threatened, and the violence which follows will last until the structure of society as it now exists is leveled to rubble, and a new society emerges. I am sorry. But that is how I see it.”
Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz Indeed.
That is a myth. Islam was a major reason for centuries of the dark ages in Europe as Islam carried on a war on Europe for centuries burning over 90% of all written knowledge because only the Koran mattered.
You know, Fox isn't a very good source of historical knowledge. Hysterical perhaps, but that's a different topic.
No, they weren't fine, upstanding God Fearing Christians (who were busily destroying the rest of the Indoeuropean continent). They were nasty, bad smelling, violent, backstabbing lying bastards.
Just like the rest of humanity.
Get used to it.
'Onward Christian soldiers, marching on to war.....'
Oh, and all the time I don't spend fooling around with a silly phone, I spend doing USEFUL, PRODUCTIVE things that enhance my life, instead of the equivalent of navel-gazing or masturbating.
You can make your own autoinjector - you just have to get the FDA to approve it. Not impossible, obviously, but expensive and time consuming. Several companies have done this but have run into trouble in manufacturing. It still isn't trivial to manufacture a sterile, idiot proof device.
Complicating this is the bizarre US system of controlled uncontrol. Medicare / Medicaid cannot ask for discounts on drugs. That's the law (which certainly could be repealed, but somehow, hasn't been).
Further, the generic autoinjectors are not 'type AB' which means that they haven't been shown to be bioequivalent. So a pharmacist can't substitute a generic epinephrine autoinjector for an 'Epi Pen', but the provider can write the script that way.
And, of course, Mylan is a corporate douchebag and is trying to end run the system as fast as their fat little legs can carry them.
2. Why is Medicare a captive market? Why don't they just buy one of the cheaper alternative ephinephrine autoinjectors (like Adrenaclick) instead of EpiPen?
Because Congress said they could not do that. That's the ONLY reason. Repealing that little bit of nonsense would go a long way to decreasing the cost of healthcare in the US. At the expense of the Big Pharma companies.
Because Adreanaclick's product is not recognized as a AB rated generic, meaning that it can't be directly substituted by the pharmacist. The physician can WRITE for the particular product, but they have to actually do that.
For all of the Sturm Und Drang, I don't understand why the manufacturers of the other injectors and the mail order pharmacies don't run an advertising campaign to 'ask your doctor' to prescribe the specific product rather than 'Epi-Pen'.
Yes, Mylan is a slime ball company but there are ways around this.
Just another symptom of a fundamentally fucked up system of justice.
If a peon employee does this he'd get dragged into court, but some fucked up high society brown nose asshole can fraudulently misrepresent his employment status and breach his contract with a small sideways glance.
Your description of an assistant editor at some half remembered website as 'high society' makes me wonder at just how far down the food chain you happen to be.
Nah, this is above proven technology. What other car manufacturer has managed to incorporate both a flux capacitor and a portable fusion reactor into their line?
I dunno. I have a 3,1 MacPro which works for everything but 4K video. It won't make the cut to 'macOS' but it's running El Capitan. OTOH, the new OS really doesn't offer anything I'm terribly interested in and this machine is going on 7 years old. Yeah, it was expensive, but it has been working for... 7 years. That's not bad. It will continue to work for a while longer. Adobe Creative Suite still runs. Autodesk stuff still runs.
You paid a premium and got a premium amount of work out of it.
It is really likely that this may be my last Mac since the new MacPros are really, really dumb and won't be viable machines for nearly as long a period of time. Nobody is going to make new video cards for them and the stock ones are pretty long in the tooth already. Thunderbolt stuff exists but it's never going to mainstream.
It's sad. Don't like Windows. 10 can be beaten into a sort of OK OS but still lacks a lot of polish compared to OS X.
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Boeing is doing quite well, thankyouverymuch. The XB-37 is a nice bit of tech and YoYoDyne could ramp up all sorts of other ideas if they wanted.
What Boeing is doing is milking the cow as much as is possible. You want a complicated, expensive spacecraft that can be sourced from sub assemblies built all over the congressional map? Boeing can do that for you.
They just don't have any sort of 'mission' to do anything else besides make money for themselves and their shareholders.
Horses for courses.
do people have cameras ready, and immediately photograph something that caught fire, and the box it came in which was curiously brought along on the flight, for immediate publishing on the Internet? It seems as if the whole idea was to create even more bad press for the biggest foreign competitor in the U.S. phone market.
You must be new here. Everywhere I've gone in the past couple of years there have been cell phone cameras out and recording for anything remotely out of the ordinary and usually for perfectly mundane events (getting on a plane). The odds of any event in the US (and probably Europe and most parts of Asia) being photographed and / or videoed is getting awfully close to 1 these days.
Perhaps the airline wanted to do a careful analysis of the event and possible repercussions thereof since they have a 100 million dollar plane and a hundred or so human lives hanging on a successful flight.
Sometimes reality isn't the first thing that shows up.
Don't want no 'fucking stereo jack', thankyouverymuch. I put my phone in my pants pocket. I want it to stay there.
Quietly.
You probably have more interesting conversations with your phone than most people have with their cow orkers. Be nice to the poor sods.
Besides, Kardashian is really hard to pronounce correctly.
I am altering the deal.
Pray I do not alter it any further.
This is not a new idea. It sounds like Vin Cerf just read the 1961 Hugo Award winning "A Canticle for Leibowitz".
“Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power. Even literacy they fear, for the written word is another channel of communication that might cause their enemies to become united. Their weapons are keen-honed, and they use them with skill. They will press the battle upon the world when their interests are threatened, and the violence which follows will last until the structure of society as it now exists is leveled to rubble, and a new society emerges. I am sorry. But that is how I see it.”
Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
Indeed.
So, you're saying we need a Crusade level genocidal event every couple of hundred years to keep human civilization from losing ancient knowledge?
Lovely.
Maybe we should encourage the Vogons to build that expressway.
That is a myth. Islam was a major reason for centuries of the dark ages in Europe as Islam carried on a war on Europe for centuries burning over 90% of all written knowledge because only the Koran mattered.
You know, Fox isn't a very good source of historical knowledge. Hysterical perhaps, but that's a different topic.
No, they weren't fine, upstanding God Fearing Christians (who were busily destroying the rest of the Indoeuropean continent). They were nasty, bad smelling, violent, backstabbing lying bastards.
Just like the rest of humanity.
Get used to it.
'Onward Christian soldiers, marching on to war .....'
Oh, and all the time I don't spend fooling around with a silly phone, I spend doing USEFUL, PRODUCTIVE things that enhance my life, instead of the equivalent of navel-gazing or masturbating.
Like hanging out here?
I cut my finger on a propeller once.
You've gotta start somewhere.
You can make your own autoinjector - you just have to get the FDA to approve it. Not impossible, obviously, but expensive and time consuming. Several companies have done this but have run into trouble in manufacturing. It still isn't trivial to manufacture a sterile, idiot proof device.
Complicating this is the bizarre US system of controlled uncontrol. Medicare / Medicaid cannot ask for discounts on drugs. That's the law (which certainly could be repealed, but somehow, hasn't been).
Further, the generic autoinjectors are not 'type AB' which means that they haven't been shown to be bioequivalent. So a pharmacist can't substitute a generic epinephrine autoinjector for an 'Epi Pen', but the provider can write the script that way.
And, of course, Mylan is a corporate douchebag and is trying to end run the system as fast as their fat little legs can carry them.
Welcome to our world.
2. Why is Medicare a captive market? Why don't they just buy one of the cheaper alternative ephinephrine autoinjectors (like Adrenaclick) instead of EpiPen?
Because Congress said they could not do that. That's the ONLY reason. Repealing that little bit of nonsense would go a long way to decreasing the cost of healthcare in the US. At the expense of the Big Pharma companies.
Funny that.
Because Adreanaclick's product is not recognized as a AB rated generic, meaning that it can't be directly substituted by the pharmacist. The physician can WRITE for the particular product, but they have to actually do that.
For all of the Sturm Und Drang, I don't understand why the manufacturers of the other injectors and the mail order pharmacies don't run an advertising campaign to 'ask your doctor' to prescribe the specific product rather than 'Epi-Pen'.
Yes, Mylan is a slime ball company but there are ways around this.
Have you seen how your average taxi driver drives around cities?
I can just see how their flying will be.
Like this?
Now that is much more descriptive than "News for nerds, stuff that matters."
Just another symptom of a fundamentally fucked up system of justice.
If a peon employee does this he'd get dragged into court, but some fucked up high society brown nose asshole can fraudulently misrepresent his employment status and breach his contract with a small sideways glance.
Your description of an assistant editor at some half remembered website as 'high society' makes me wonder at just how far down the food chain you happen to be.
It must really suck to be you.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.....
Well we're most certainly not fixing the healthcare system so we might as well work on the infrastructure side.
No, no, sorry. DeLoren. Not thinking out of the coffee cup enough.
I knew there was a downside to a week of triple shot expressos in Seattle. Withdrawal is hell.
Nah, this is above proven technology. What other car manufacturer has managed to incorporate both a flux capacitor and a portable fusion reactor into their line?
You're just not thinking out of the box enough.
I dunno. I have a 3,1 MacPro which works for everything but 4K video. It won't make the cut to 'macOS' but it's running El Capitan. OTOH, the new OS really doesn't offer anything I'm terribly interested in and this machine is going on 7 years old. Yeah, it was expensive, but it has been working for ... 7 years. That's not bad. It will continue to work for a while longer. Adobe Creative Suite still runs. Autodesk stuff still runs.
You paid a premium and got a premium amount of work out of it.
It is really likely that this may be my last Mac since the new MacPros are really, really dumb and won't be viable machines for nearly as long a period of time. Nobody is going to make new video cards for them and the stock ones are pretty long in the tooth already. Thunderbolt stuff exists but it's never going to mainstream.
It's sad. Don't like Windows. 10 can be beaten into a sort of OK OS but still lacks a lot of polish compared to OS X.
Now, off my lawn. Time for a nap.
Is this the new buzz phrase for companies? Everything is always 5-10 years away, just you see!
That's it! Of course! Just as soon as we have fusion powered holographic storage this will be a trivial problem to solve.