Even with this drug, the researchers will have to convince some drug company to manufacture and distribute this drug. How will they do it? By convincing the manufacturer that they will be able to make a profit off of it.
Since this drug is in high demand with the governments of several nations it shouldn't be hard to find someone to make these even if it wasn't profitable. If in doubt you'd just rely on the cheap meds industry that usually makes medicine whose patents have expired. Considering the high prices of most drugs that are still under patents (and that this drug is a competitor to a very expensive drug) selling them at a lower price than the patented drug would make it easy to take most if not all of the market from the competition. Since these are aimed at developing nations and those can't really afford a 16k$/a treatment it not only steals the original drug's market but also covers markets the original drug did not.
Hey, there are governments willing to declare martial law just to circumvent drug patents. There's a LOT of demand for drugs that treat third world diseases while being sold at third world prices.
Use a PC to build your portfolio. You have to prove you're a serious developer, not that you have experience with handhelds. Though I think Nintendo requires you to have a proper company and at that point you don't need to have anything released, you just need to show them that you can keep trade secrets (their primary requirement AFAIK).
That means data encoded in the prions, not the memory of the organism containing them. PrPSc is not conductive to your long-term memory since it causes brain death.
If you want to do good give money to the charity. Don't bother with downloading the music, there's no reason for you to do so other than your own unwillingness to give up the product of someone you proclaim you can live without. Prove that you don't need their music by not downloading it.
Noone's poaching musicians off the streets and forcing them at gunpoint to sign up with a label. To put it like an independent rapper I overheard on the train, those people who sign with the labels want everything handed to them on a silver platter and then start screaming when they see the bill. The label handles recording, advertising, bribing, suing and chart falsification for you but at a price. Those who are lazy or stupid will go with a big label in hope of instant fame and pay almost all the money to the label. If you want something done right you have to do it yourself and that applies to publishing music as well. Get those CDs pressed and shipped out of your own pocket and all the profit will go into your pocket, too.
If you don't like action RPGs stay away from the Tales games, if you want to perform at your best in battles in those games you need to take direct control of one or more characters and pull off combos like there's no tomorrow. I think I do 50% or more of the damage with my active character in Symphonia and Phantasia so leaving all characters to the AI will greatly reduce your party's damage output.
The goal of the Illuminati was to replace stupid politicians and religious leaders with the brightest minds of their generation, abolishing borders and unifying humanity under the leadership of intelligent, rational thought. If they manage to make that work I, for one, welcome our new Illuminti overlords.
We're talking about a system that adds one to a number when a button is pressed and then doesn't accept input until cleared (who says it has to run a GUI and not just have a bunch of physical buttons on the front panel next to little signs labelled with the names of the candidates?). Occassionally it tells its numbers to a central server (this step isn't even mandatory if you have designed the system to be immune to losing votes if it loses power, sending tallies manually to the next authority would be no less secure than our current system). The paper-trail printer can be handled by an unproven system since the user verifies the output immediately. The core system could be implemented by a guy with a bucket of transistors and a soldering iron in reasonable time. A turing machine acting as a voting machine could probably be written on one A4 sheet.
What the voting machines really need is an FPGA (since those can be verified to function properly and you can verify that the right "circuitry" goes into them) running the voting program and only the voting program. None of this OS crap. Give it a basic green and black LCD and (metal) buttons labelled with the candidate names.
Just because we have the "source" doesn't mean that it was precisely this code that was running on every e voting machine on election day.
That's why the procedure of setting these things up on election day should involve an oath that the program running on the machine is exactly as the source shows. The setup process could even involve building the program from the source.
What may be a problem is that the OS is off-the-shelf (Windows) and there cannot be any guarantees made about it. These things should run an OS for embedded systems, not a full fledged desktop OS. In a best case the machine would be designed to have no clock so it cannot tell whether it is being used in a test run or the actual voting.
Counting paper ballots is exactly what these machines were introduced to avoid. I do think that the machine itself should do the counting but still generate paper that is verified by the user and can possibly be counted by hand if necessary (or during random probes). The human counters aren't perfectly "secure" either but I assume random probes could be watched more closely than a complete count.
4) The allies beat back your attack, reach your country and your Führer commits suicide (losing after a war of agression isn't one of the scenarios you listed, what would have happened had the Nazis won?).
However, outside the states automatic devices (e.g. speeding cameras) CAN fine you automatically and insults can be fined too. As such, flipping off the camera can get you fined for insulting and possibly insulting a public officer (which carries a heftier fine than insulting random people AFAIK). The fine is dependent on the insult, I think "the bird" gives 30 day fines (i.e. as much as you earn in 30 days) in Germany, for example.
Additionally, since the camera wouldn't fine you automatically your accuser would be the person(s) operating these cameras, not the camera itself.
Probably because of the online comment. Of course people are stupid so this is still likely to happen but Nintendo did say they won't have online play ready until sometime in 2007. The original XBox didn't have online play from day one, either.
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Also Ritalin has nice side effects that make me think I'd rather have AD(H)D than take that crap.
Even with this drug, the researchers will have to convince some drug company to manufacture and distribute this drug. How will they do it? By convincing the manufacturer that they will be able to make a profit off of it.
Since this drug is in high demand with the governments of several nations it shouldn't be hard to find someone to make these even if it wasn't profitable. If in doubt you'd just rely on the cheap meds industry that usually makes medicine whose patents have expired. Considering the high prices of most drugs that are still under patents (and that this drug is a competitor to a very expensive drug) selling them at a lower price than the patented drug would make it easy to take most if not all of the market from the competition. Since these are aimed at developing nations and those can't really afford a 16k$/a treatment it not only steals the original drug's market but also covers markets the original drug did not.
Hey, there are governments willing to declare martial law just to circumvent drug patents. There's a LOT of demand for drugs that treat third world diseases while being sold at third world prices.
Just wait until Web 3.11 for Workgroups.
I perfer games like [..] Disgaea on PSP. I just can't get into old rehashes of games I played ten years ago.
Something about this statement strikes me as interesting.
Use a PC to build your portfolio. You have to prove you're a serious developer, not that you have experience with handhelds. Though I think Nintendo requires you to have a proper company and at that point you don't need to have anything released, you just need to show them that you can keep trade secrets (their primary requirement AFAIK).
Wouldn't cooking at sufficient temperatures denature the prions and thereby render them harmless? Just don't eat your steak rare.
That means data encoded in the prions, not the memory of the organism containing them. PrPSc is not conductive to your long-term memory since it causes brain death.
I wish presidency required high security clearance, then.
We put all kinds of people away and make them unemployable for life for things that would not have even been crimes 75 years ago.
Like killing niggers?
And what about nicotine and ethanol?
If you want to do good give money to the charity. Don't bother with downloading the music, there's no reason for you to do so other than your own unwillingness to give up the product of someone you proclaim you can live without. Prove that you don't need their music by not downloading it.
Noone's poaching musicians off the streets and forcing them at gunpoint to sign up with a label. To put it like an independent rapper I overheard on the train, those people who sign with the labels want everything handed to them on a silver platter and then start screaming when they see the bill. The label handles recording, advertising, bribing, suing and chart falsification for you but at a price. Those who are lazy or stupid will go with a big label in hope of instant fame and pay almost all the money to the label. If you want something done right you have to do it yourself and that applies to publishing music as well. Get those CDs pressed and shipped out of your own pocket and all the profit will go into your pocket, too.
If you don't like action RPGs stay away from the Tales games, if you want to perform at your best in battles in those games you need to take direct control of one or more characters and pull off combos like there's no tomorrow. I think I do 50% or more of the damage with my active character in Symphonia and Phantasia so leaving all characters to the AI will greatly reduce your party's damage output.
It's like crack... you can take OUTSIDE!
Wait, no, that actually makes sense and would never make it past Sony's marketing execs.
The goal of the Illuminati was to replace stupid politicians and religious leaders with the brightest minds of their generation, abolishing borders and unifying humanity under the leadership of intelligent, rational thought. If they manage to make that work I, for one, welcome our new Illuminti overlords.
We're talking about a system that adds one to a number when a button is pressed and then doesn't accept input until cleared (who says it has to run a GUI and not just have a bunch of physical buttons on the front panel next to little signs labelled with the names of the candidates?). Occassionally it tells its numbers to a central server (this step isn't even mandatory if you have designed the system to be immune to losing votes if it loses power, sending tallies manually to the next authority would be no less secure than our current system). The paper-trail printer can be handled by an unproven system since the user verifies the output immediately. The core system could be implemented by a guy with a bucket of transistors and a soldering iron in reasonable time. A turing machine acting as a voting machine could probably be written on one A4 sheet.
What the voting machines really need is an FPGA (since those can be verified to function properly and you can verify that the right "circuitry" goes into them) running the voting program and only the voting program. None of this OS crap. Give it a basic green and black LCD and (metal) buttons labelled with the candidate names.
Just because we have the "source" doesn't mean that it was precisely this code that was running on every e voting machine on election day.
That's why the procedure of setting these things up on election day should involve an oath that the program running on the machine is exactly as the source shows. The setup process could even involve building the program from the source.
What may be a problem is that the OS is off-the-shelf (Windows) and there cannot be any guarantees made about it. These things should run an OS for embedded systems, not a full fledged desktop OS. In a best case the machine would be designed to have no clock so it cannot tell whether it is being used in a test run or the actual voting.
Counting paper ballots is exactly what these machines were introduced to avoid. I do think that the machine itself should do the counting but still generate paper that is verified by the user and can possibly be counted by hand if necessary (or during random probes). The human counters aren't perfectly "secure" either but I assume random probes could be watched more closely than a complete count.
People call everything a dystopia these days. It's like the GDR never existed.
4) The allies beat back your attack, reach your country and your Führer commits suicide (losing after a war of agression isn't one of the scenarios you listed, what would have happened had the Nazis won?).
However, outside the states automatic devices (e.g. speeding cameras) CAN fine you automatically and insults can be fined too. As such, flipping off the camera can get you fined for insulting and possibly insulting a public officer (which carries a heftier fine than insulting random people AFAIK). The fine is dependent on the insult, I think "the bird" gives 30 day fines (i.e. as much as you earn in 30 days) in Germany, for example.
Additionally, since the camera wouldn't fine you automatically your accuser would be the person(s) operating these cameras, not the camera itself.
Your parents have way too much money. I had to buy my Wii myself since it's too expensive to be a christmas present.
Probably because of the online comment. Of course people are stupid so this is still likely to happen but Nintendo did say they won't have online play ready until sometime in 2007. The original XBox didn't have online play from day one, either.
I'm telling you the OP is affected, as a typical geek you probably didn't RTFA and as such weren't exposed :P.
See? It's working.