I know from personal experience that at least some US pharmacies (the 7 or 8 of them I tried, last time I was over there) won't honour foreign prescriptions, even when I've offered them contact details so they could verify that it was legitimate. That's right--Customs allowed me to waltz into the country carrying enough codeine to keep someone stoned out of their mind for at least 2 weeks straight, but I couldn't buy Diklofenac (aka Voltaren). Not even with a prescription for it, which my doctor in Sweden gave me precisely because he knew it wasn't available OTC in the US.
This is why my remedy, if elected, for this situation would be to strip the FDA of all powers to regulate the market for drugs. Let it have proposed new drugs tested for safety and efficacy, as it does now, but let its findings be advisory only. Doctors, patients and insurance companies would generally follow its recommendations as a "gold standard," but absent any power to prevent consumers from shopping around on the world market for cheaper subscription fills and absent any power to enforce sweetheart deals with pharma, the free market would bring the US prices of medications into line with worldwide prices.
Right. And when someone takes something that's labelled "aspirin" but actually contains rat poison--because, after all, under your scheme, this would be entirely legal and there'd be no way to prevent it from occurring--and dies as a result, yeah, the market will correct that problem.
You think something like this can't happen? Think again.
Since some people take sense 2 ["virtually"] to be the opposite of sense 1 ["actually"], it has been frequently criticized as a misuse. Instead, the use is pure hyperbole intended to gain emphasis, but it often appears in contexts where no additional emphasis is necessary.
Translation: You use it like that if you're wanting to be a drama queen waiting to make a point just so you can appear intelligent.
That is *not* why 'c' is pronounced in two different ways in English.
The reason has a lot to do with pronunciation changing over time, and how orthography tends to lag a few centuries behind. This particular innovation took place in Vulgar Latin long before Anglo-Saxon even had a written form, and is present today in most European languages written with the Latin alphabet. Some of those languages (including English) also have a hard and soft 'g'. Swedish even has hard and soft 'k'.
(We don't spell, for example, "write" and "right" differently merely to distinguish them in writing. They're spelt differently because we still spell them today as they were pronounced 600 years or so ago.)
My microwave is not a general-purpose computing device and doesn't contain things like my address book, call records, email, browsing history, location, etc.
What do you expect from these low life who enjoy hitting each other/watch others ram into each others, making millions of dollars for doing it, and getting to sleep with models and pop stars.
A crock pot is not a pressure cooker. (Try "slow cooker".)
And my wife calls them Tupperware. She's from China, has never lived in an English-speaking country, and only made her first visit to the US about 4 years ago.
Here in Sweden, I hear the terms "rollerblade"; "Xerox", "Post-It", and "Plexiglass" used even in Swedish.
Rollerblades, BTW, are specifically *inline* skates, not any roller skates.
And nobody's had a need for White-Out in about 30 years; do they even still make that stuff?
Because it's my FUCKING computing device that I paid my FUCKING hard-earned cash for and I don't buy a computing device just so I can be FUCKING locked out of it.
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I know from personal experience that at least some US pharmacies (the 7 or 8 of them I tried, last time I was over there) won't honour foreign prescriptions, even when I've offered them contact details so they could verify that it was legitimate. That's right--Customs allowed me to waltz into the country carrying enough codeine to keep someone stoned out of their mind for at least 2 weeks straight, but I couldn't buy Diklofenac (aka Voltaren). Not even with a prescription for it, which my doctor in Sweden gave me precisely because he knew it wasn't available OTC in the US.
Obama's got fuck-all to do with this. Thanks for playing, though.
Hi Martin! So you do read Slashdot, after all!
And, if you think I'm being unfair comparing Shrkeli to a certain now-defunct hashtag group beginning with the letter "G"
Why don't you also mention he's a "J"?
Because, according to his old OKCupid profile (what, deleted? I don't think so...), he's a Christian.
And about 15 minutes after this appeared, he made his Twitter feed private.
"Placebo" does not mean or even imply "subtle".
I agree with everything with the exception of your conclusion, which is erroneous because you're trying to spin the facts to suit your ideology.
The correct conclusion is that less corporate control over government is the solution.
This is why my remedy, if elected, for this situation would be to strip the FDA of all powers to regulate the market for drugs. Let it have proposed new drugs tested for safety and efficacy, as it does now, but let its findings be advisory only. Doctors, patients and insurance companies would generally follow its recommendations as a "gold standard," but absent any power to prevent consumers from shopping around on the world market for cheaper subscription fills and absent any power to enforce sweetheart deals with pharma, the free market would bring the US prices of medications into line with worldwide prices.
Right. And when someone takes something that's labelled "aspirin" but actually contains rat poison--because, after all, under your scheme, this would be entirely legal and there'd be no way to prevent it from occurring--and dies as a result, yeah, the market will correct that problem.
You think something like this can't happen? Think again.
If you don't like the cow trolls, you're free to skip over them. As for me, I regard them as "mostly harmless", and I've even posted one myself.
Pretty much what I thought as soon as I read TFS.
My dictionary says (emphasis added),
Since some people take sense 2 ["virtually"] to be the opposite of sense 1 ["actually"], it has been frequently criticized as a misuse. Instead, the use is pure hyperbole intended to gain emphasis, but it often appears in contexts where no additional emphasis is necessary.
Translation: You use it like that if you're wanting to be a drama queen waiting to make a point just so you can appear intelligent.
And then the fleet was instantly and irrevocably grounded.
No, it wasn't. Air France 4590 crashed on 25 July 2000. Regular Concorde passenger flights resumed the following year and continued for about 2 years after that.
That's a very nice sentiment that sounds real good whenever the US goes charging off to make the world safe for democracy--but that's about all it is.
That is *not* why 'c' is pronounced in two different ways in English.
The reason has a lot to do with pronunciation changing over time, and how orthography tends to lag a few centuries behind. This particular innovation took place in Vulgar Latin long before Anglo-Saxon even had a written form, and is present today in most European languages written with the Latin alphabet. Some of those languages (including English) also have a hard and soft 'g'. Swedish even has hard and soft 'k'.
(We don't spell, for example, "write" and "right" differently merely to distinguish them in writing. They're spelt differently because we still spell them today as they were pronounced 600 years or so ago.)
My microwave is not a general-purpose computing device and doesn't contain things like my address book, call records, email, browsing history, location, etc.
My phone certainly is and does.
What do you expect from these low life who enjoy hitting each other/watch others ram into each others, making millions of dollars for doing it, and getting to sleep with models and pop stars.
TFTFY.
A crock pot is not a pressure cooker. (Try "slow cooker".)
And my wife calls them Tupperware. She's from China, has never lived in an English-speaking country, and only made her first visit to the US about 4 years ago.
Here in Sweden, I hear the terms "rollerblade"; "Xerox", "Post-It", and "Plexiglass" used even in Swedish.
Rollerblades, BTW, are specifically *inline* skates, not any roller skates.
And nobody's had a need for White-Out in about 30 years; do they even still make that stuff?
As a former announcer, I'm not sure what to make of that. Maybe I'm formerly not that smart?
I've watched GNFOS, much funnier than you.
You're just holding it wrong!
In the old days, we got to have the exact same argument at least twice a day.
Because it's my FUCKING computing device that I paid my FUCKING hard-earned cash for and I don't buy a computing device just so I can be FUCKING locked out of it.
You have a profound misunderstanding of the use case. And you grow increasingly annoying.
In other words, “the music is not in the piano”.
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Your anecdote is not data.
I had three years of Spanish in high school, and can still converse in it reasonably well some 30-odd years later.
So I would suggest that *your* Spanish teacher get the axe, not mine, because he apparently did quite a good job for me.