Except that promiscuous behaviour isn't immoral because of unintentional babies at all.
You have missed the point of the argument. A group opposes promiscuity on moral grounds. Moral grounds are not a valid reason to pass a law, so they develop a related social issue, unintentional babies. When their social issue is ameliorated while still allowing people to partake in the "immoral" activity, they try to ban things in an effort to restore the social problem.
In any case, not everyone who has sex for pleasure is doing it as a fling. Many people in committed relationships simply do not want children, and thus partake in sex via safe means.
We tax both wages and earnings, however they are one and the same. Any wages paid are from corporate earnings; whichever side of the paycheck you tax it on the same amount comes out.
In any case, these schools aren't 'forced' to lease the spectrum; they simply find that it is more productive to their educational program to rent it out and invest the money in a more effective curriculum. Giving these schools ownership of spectrum is effectively giving them free money, very similar to giving them an apartment building.
Thank you for the math. Reading a little farther, these pills are taken daily for an unspecified period of time, so a 100 pill/patient figure is most likely an underestimate. Even at US clinical trial prices, $1.8B is a good deal of money to fund a drug and several failed attempts (quick figure). You've convinced me at least that the $1.65 figure they were seeking was quite steep.
I would like to see some data to back up what you find "reasonable". Note that in addition to buying chemicals and pressing them into pills, the drug companies also have to figure out which chemicals go in there, convince various governments that these chemicals are safe, and indemnify them against insane class action settlements in case something goes wrong down the road.
I have watched people I care for waste away on account of things that no existing treatment will cure. If you want people to go to the effort of expanding what is treatable, you need to give them reason to. Drug patents don't last forever; in time, random companies from India will be able to sell these pills to the whole word for pennies.
People have been dying for hundreds of thousands of years. It's not like this is plague or something where a huge portion of the population will die off in a few years time; AIDS takes a relatively long time to kill people, and it's pretty damned hard to spread.
The drugs were developed under the expectation that someone would pay good money for them. Perhaps next time Brazil's poor infect themselves with something, Merck won't bother.
When did I say that the republicans were the good party? Or really that I favored any party at all? I simply pointed out that if you think this is the last time you'll see Obama take from someone, it won't be, because he will take again and again for projects X, Y, and Z. You can say the same about the republicans.
Obama is a democrat, what did you expect? They're all about taking my things to pay for retirement for people who didn't save, and healthcare for corporations that don't provide it, and common sense for people who don't have it.
You got your new congress just after the new year. Same dumb fucks, different name. I have no doubt that a Democratic president would be just as painful to watch.
This isn't a branch communications issue, this is a "new product doesn't work to spec" issue. They made a new DVD. This DVD doesn't play in DVD players. Even if they were only selecting a few units as test cases, you'd think a Sony would be in the mix.
If the UPS truck could go 10mph over the speed limit, my stuff would get here faster. Doesn't make it right. And frankly, I see more benefit to the public in faster deliveries than in police cars wandering around sleepy towns.
(Resident of a sleepy town where the police are sometimes a little self important)
If Via's C7 were near the performance level of a Core 2 Duo or an Athlon FX, they would probably sell a lot more of them owing to them retailing for a fraction the price.
This is why they developed 'graphing' calculators that just accept expressions typed as written. TI even has a line of scientific calculators now that have a single line display that handles complex expressions.
Al Gore's movie clearly relates the devestation of Hurricane Katrina to global warming in general and carbon emissions in particular. There's an entire segment of the movie dedicated to it. He goes on to say that global warming will lead to more storms of that scale. We then had the absolutely anemic 2006 hurricane season, and everyone had to scale back their predictions of doom and gloom. If global warming is to be taken at all seriously, every off the wall prediction needs to be recinded, and the actual repercussions of single degrees per century discussed.
A top speed over 80 or so is pretty useless, but I praise having a large engine every time I merge onto the interstate from a slow ramp (either really tight so you can't take it at highway speed, or stuck behind something slow). Sometimes you don't have a lot more than 100 yards to get from 30 to 60.
Blackboard is the real problem here; it doesn't really work in ANY browser. It sort of works in IE6, except that the back button is usually broken. It continues to astound me how sites that are essentially a list of links to files can break under any browser, let alone the modern selection.
Actually, the opposite of that. A catalog showroom is the same as browsing Amazon. The inverse would be a store that has lots of things to look at but nothing for sale. You would try out the merchandise in the showroom, then go buy it wherever you found it online. Thus, the store would have immense overhead relative to sales volume, and would need some sort of subsidy either through online retailers advertised in-store as sources of the products, or by a fee to enter the showroom (such as Sam's Club or Costco).
I call myself a libertarian, and I think that retailers should most definately be able to set their own price. They bought goods from a manufacturer, and have the LIBERTY to do as the please with them. There's no need to make a stab at libertarianism when the real enemy is a common one (the erosion of property rights).
Dying in a subway bombing would suck, but how many people have really gone that way? You're probably about as likely to be smothered in your sleep by your first grade teacher (how was *I* to know she would take the snake in the drawer so hard and ruin her career?!). I would even go so far as to say that the number of innocents destroyed by the false accusations total information would bring would outnumber the victims saved. Bring on the terrorists!
What are these magical cars that I simply can't buy here in America? I will give you that the more popular models in the US aren't the most fuel efficient available, but I would suggest that, in the absence of a "buy SUVs" law, people simply find the advantages gained by larger more powerful vehicles to outweigh the added consumables costs.
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Except that promiscuous behaviour isn't immoral because of unintentional babies at all.
You have missed the point of the argument. A group opposes promiscuity on moral grounds. Moral grounds are not a valid reason to pass a law, so they develop a related social issue, unintentional babies. When their social issue is ameliorated while still allowing people to partake in the "immoral" activity, they try to ban things in an effort to restore the social problem.
In any case, not everyone who has sex for pleasure is doing it as a fling. Many people in committed relationships simply do not want children, and thus partake in sex via safe means.
We tax both wages and earnings, however they are one and the same. Any wages paid are from corporate earnings; whichever side of the paycheck you tax it on the same amount comes out.
In any case, these schools aren't 'forced' to lease the spectrum; they simply find that it is more productive to their educational program to rent it out and invest the money in a more effective curriculum. Giving these schools ownership of spectrum is effectively giving them free money, very similar to giving them an apartment building.
Thank you for the math. Reading a little farther, these pills are taken daily for an unspecified period of time, so a 100 pill/patient figure is most likely an underestimate. Even at US clinical trial prices, $1.8B is a good deal of money to fund a drug and several failed attempts (quick figure). You've convinced me at least that the $1.65 figure they were seeking was quite steep.
I would like to see some data to back up what you find "reasonable". Note that in addition to buying chemicals and pressing them into pills, the drug companies also have to figure out which chemicals go in there, convince various governments that these chemicals are safe, and indemnify them against insane class action settlements in case something goes wrong down the road.
I have watched people I care for waste away on account of things that no existing treatment will cure. If you want people to go to the effort of expanding what is treatable, you need to give them reason to. Drug patents don't last forever; in time, random companies from India will be able to sell these pills to the whole word for pennies.
People have been dying for hundreds of thousands of years. It's not like this is plague or something where a huge portion of the population will die off in a few years time; AIDS takes a relatively long time to kill people, and it's pretty damned hard to spread.
The drugs were developed under the expectation that someone would pay good money for them. Perhaps next time Brazil's poor infect themselves with something, Merck won't bother.
When did I say that the republicans were the good party? Or really that I favored any party at all? I simply pointed out that if you think this is the last time you'll see Obama take from someone, it won't be, because he will take again and again for projects X, Y, and Z. You can say the same about the republicans.
Obama is a democrat, what did you expect? They're all about taking my things to pay for retirement for people who didn't save, and healthcare for corporations that don't provide it, and common sense for people who don't have it.
"When the plane strikes the ground at 400 knots, brace yourself on the seat in front of you and await instructions from the cabin crew"
You got your new congress just after the new year. Same dumb fucks, different name. I have no doubt that a Democratic president would be just as painful to watch.
This isn't a branch communications issue, this is a "new product doesn't work to spec" issue. They made a new DVD. This DVD doesn't play in DVD players. Even if they were only selecting a few units as test cases, you'd think a Sony would be in the mix.
If the UPS truck could go 10mph over the speed limit, my stuff would get here faster. Doesn't make it right. And frankly, I see more benefit to the public in faster deliveries than in police cars wandering around sleepy towns.
(Resident of a sleepy town where the police are sometimes a little self important)
If Via's C7 were near the performance level of a Core 2 Duo or an Athlon FX, they would probably sell a lot more of them owing to them retailing for a fraction the price.
This is why they developed 'graphing' calculators that just accept expressions typed as written. TI even has a line of scientific calculators now that have a single line display that handles complex expressions.
Al Gore's movie clearly relates the devestation of Hurricane Katrina to global warming in general and carbon emissions in particular. There's an entire segment of the movie dedicated to it. He goes on to say that global warming will lead to more storms of that scale. We then had the absolutely anemic 2006 hurricane season, and everyone had to scale back their predictions of doom and gloom. If global warming is to be taken at all seriously, every off the wall prediction needs to be recinded, and the actual repercussions of single degrees per century discussed.
Or high on prescription drugs.
I hear Big Brother is a real pro in fixing up gunshot wounds (yours, not your assailant's, since your law-abiding self isn't allowed a gun).
A top speed over 80 or so is pretty useless, but I praise having a large engine every time I merge onto the interstate from a slow ramp (either really tight so you can't take it at highway speed, or stuck behind something slow). Sometimes you don't have a lot more than 100 yards to get from 30 to 60.
Blackboard is the real problem here; it doesn't really work in ANY browser. It sort of works in IE6, except that the back button is usually broken. It continues to astound me how sites that are essentially a list of links to files can break under any browser, let alone the modern selection.
Actually, the opposite of that. A catalog showroom is the same as browsing Amazon. The inverse would be a store that has lots of things to look at but nothing for sale. You would try out the merchandise in the showroom, then go buy it wherever you found it online. Thus, the store would have immense overhead relative to sales volume, and would need some sort of subsidy either through online retailers advertised in-store as sources of the products, or by a fee to enter the showroom (such as Sam's Club or Costco).
I call myself a libertarian, and I think that retailers should most definately be able to set their own price. They bought goods from a manufacturer, and have the LIBERTY to do as the please with them. There's no need to make a stab at libertarianism when the real enemy is a common one (the erosion of property rights).
Dying in a subway bombing would suck, but how many people have really gone that way? You're probably about as likely to be smothered in your sleep by your first grade teacher (how was *I* to know she would take the snake in the drawer so hard and ruin her career?!). I would even go so far as to say that the number of innocents destroyed by the false accusations total information would bring would outnumber the victims saved. Bring on the terrorists!
What's the battery replacement time on the Prius? The article cited the nickel in the battery as the most environmentally expensive component.
What are these magical cars that I simply can't buy here in America? I will give you that the more popular models in the US aren't the most fuel efficient available, but I would suggest that, in the absence of a "buy SUVs" law, people simply find the advantages gained by larger more powerful vehicles to outweigh the added consumables costs.