I think there are two mayor issues with Nanotechnology. The first is FDA or whatever Administration who has to approve it in other countries. The FDA in some way set the precedent so thats something you consider when you are testing a product to be approved in your country. " Oh!! It was approved by FDA!! so it must be good" As "maggard" said
Even though I think the FDA is a severely compromised agency, often too close to the industries they regulate and constrained by political pressure from the administration So what happends if your almighty FDA fails? I will asume that guys in the FDA tries to make his best to test and to be sure that the product is not going to cause any harm. In Europe they have something called "precautionary principle" is a moral and political principle which states that if an action or policy might cause severe or irreversible harm to the public, in the absence of a scientific consensus that harm would not ensue, the burden of proof falls on those who would advocate taking the action. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_princip le
So this leads us to the second problem. Nanotechnologies are a trillion dollars industry, not bad for a newcommer. So what could happend if they they present false data or they put some pressure to the guys of the FDA or even to some congress men, to try to be a little more permisive on that matter. So it sets a precedent so any other Nanotech company will use to pushit even further. The company prefer to pay some millions in indemnification in the future to loose a trillion dollars market NOW.
The efect of the Nanotech are unknown as well as GMO. And not only in human beings, but any other living creature including vegetables. It is a difficult choice but the peoples health must be first.
Well thats funny, but only one question... whaat about if its your mother or your daughter? so be it? Dont tell me ive got the money. Because what im telling you is who can decide who lives and who dies? Having money is the only diference and sometimes is something you cant control.
As for the cost of drugs in the USA, keep in mind that the simple economic law of demand and supply applies in the pharmaceutical world as well.
There are limits to the wisdom and efficiency of the free market.
There is NO free market if there is only one kind of drug that you cant pay and you need it to save your life. Maybe if i want an Hamburger i can choose between many option... but also you can choose to not buy it and eat salads. But with drugs... you have no choice and high cost drugs leads you to buy or die... is that and option?
This data can be true, but you have to consider why this is true. Thanks God im not Northamerican, LOL, so i can tell you from another perspective. Another fact is that less educated people got more Venereal Disease and the lower incomme are the less educated. Nowadays, US has a great problem of Unemployment and a poor education quality. So maybe if you see those facts you can understand why Afroamercian and Latinamerican people are the most afected by AIDS.
US has one of the most restrictive laws in the world in relation with Pharmaceutical patents. The Pharmaceutical Industry (PI) get the patents for so long that you have to pay great amounts of money because there are no generic alternatives. The governement authorizes abusive practices. In fact WTO tries to impose protections for the pharmaceuticals in "third world" countries. Any time US negotiate a new commerce treaty with any "third world" they impose those conditions. But has been some changes, in Africa some drugs can be declared a "priority" for the Health System so the Lab HAS to give the patent to the gobernement so he can produce a low price drug to be distributed.
Another Thing is that de PI dont make trials in US, they do it on other countries and when the drug is safe to be sold, they come to the FDA in the US and the ask for permision. Of course those "other countries" are South America or Africa and of course not always the drugs are safe to be sold but the PI can pay very well to the FDA guys.
They could release an evoluting game thats a great concept. Each week they could release a patch to add features to the game.
Or maybe the programmers are writing the code for the 32 cores with 128-bit Intel Core 4 with Windows Vista Reloaded 2 you know just to be prepared... and what about DirectX 12? you didnt see that coming!!!! DAMN... another 5 years more....
Can this be true? I think this is a bad joke, maybe some kind of aprils fool from some lost island in Papua New Ginea or some place lost in the world. Because its hard to belive that someone in a country that claims to be defending "humans right" all over the world could allow something like this to happend in his own soil.
I read some great post. Specially this one, but im not agree with "Until Australia (and, for that matter, the UK) learns to stand up to the world's biggest bully".
When i followed the elections in US, the fist time Bush won... i saw that none of the two main candidats were a good choice. One was a puppet moved by "intrests" and the other one... a little too shy to be the the president of any country.
Well everyone knows that those elections were a fraud. But OK the power of the money.. bla bla bla... only resignation.
But the SECOND time????? So you begin to wonder if Northamerican really know how to vote.
I think maybe no one told them that you must mark the one you WANT TO BE PRESINDENT.. not the one you DONT WANT to be president.
So Every one who votes in US has some responsability with their own country and... to the rest of the world as well.
So yes!!! you can blame on the other president who wasnt strong enough to stand against the only country that can turn the rest of the world against you, but also what the people of US has done and continue doing with their political class, "DEMOCRACY system", voters and non voters too.
Great... now ill sell my four 8800 GTX.
and in... maybe 10 years i could get the money to buy ONE of those.
Damn AMDTI why are you keeping away from US!!!
I hope the price war will make the ULTRA a little bit cheaper.
I just want to play my starcraft with a Quad SLI ULTRA:-)
This kind of News are easy to make.
Just pick any guy and tell him to says that profits for M$ are great beter than expected.. and... thats it.
Any journalist will take this and print it.
Another point of making this kind of news is... well, our sells are surpassing way beyond our best thoughts... If you really thought that they would sell 10 Windows Vista per month... the sales are great... but you really think so?
An another thing... these amount considers the Vista OS tha they pput in soup, microwaves, tooth brush, shoes.... and of course EEVERY new computer that is sold? Even if i prefer XP o none of them?
I think we are in a place in computer history that hardware is creating the need, not the user.
I found myself watching prices of video cards, i own an ATI X850XT PE and i can play all my favorite games with any problem at great resolutions. But why could i need a quad SLI or an QUAD DUAL GPU SLI??? i know it doesnt exist but neither the software to handle it or to take advantege of it. My current operating system is running as fast as it can, my games are running smooth... so whats the need?
Well i think that the hardware market is trying to sell us space crafts to go to buy bread at the next door market. Yes it moves you, it can be bought but it lacks of better use.
Maybe the real goal right now could be investing more time and resources to in software domain to get this hardware in a better use.
We could talk pages and pages about pharmaceutical industry, and i think no matter where you are, you need money to continue researching and of course a LITTLE incentive. But i need to mention one particular case. Two years ago, i read an article about the HPV (Human Papiloma Virus) and the vaccine against Cervix Cancer. It said the vaccine was already aproved and tested, but the farmaceutic industry didnt wanted to release ir because the treatment for cervix cancer was way higher than the vaccine. So it wasnt business. TWO YEARS and i dont know how many women dead after, they have just announced that a vaccine has been found. So we can see that farmaceutics dont exist with the motivation of saving people... or at least is not the primary.
We could talk pages and pages about pharmaceutical industry, and i think no matter where you are, you need money to continue researching and of course a LITTLE incentive. But i need to mention one particular case.
Two years ago, i read an article about the HPV (Human Papiloma Virus) and the vaccine against Cervix Cancer. It said the vaccine was already aproved and tested, but the farmaceutic industry didnt wanted to release ir because the treatment for cervix cancer was way higher than the vaccine. So it wasnt business. TWO YEARS and i dont know how many women dead after, they have just announced that a vaccine has been found. So we can see that farmaceutics dont exist with the motivation of saving people... or at least is not the primary.
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The first is FDA or whatever Administration who has to approve it in other countries. The FDA in some way set the precedent so thats something you consider when you are testing a product to be approved in your country. "
Oh!! It was approved by FDA!! so it must be good"
As "maggard" said Even though I think the FDA is a severely compromised agency, often too close to the industries they regulate and constrained by political pressure from the administration So what happends if your almighty FDA fails? I will asume that guys in the FDA tries to make his best to test and to be sure that the product is not going to cause any harm.
In Europe they have something called "precautionary principle" is a moral and political principle which states that if an action or policy might cause severe or irreversible harm to the public, in the absence of a scientific consensus that harm would not ensue, the burden of proof falls on those who would advocate taking the action. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_princi
So this leads us to the second problem. Nanotechnologies are a trillion dollars industry, not bad for a newcommer. So what could happend if they they present false data or they put some pressure to the guys of the FDA or even to some congress men, to try to be a little more permisive on that matter. So it sets a precedent so any other Nanotech company will use to pushit even further. The company prefer to pay some millions in indemnification in the future to loose a trillion dollars market NOW.
The efect of the Nanotech are unknown as well as GMO. And not only in human beings, but any other living creature including vegetables.
It is a difficult choice but the peoples health must be first.
Well thats funny, but only one question... whaat about if its your mother or your daughter? so be it?
Dont tell me ive got the money. Because what im telling you is who can decide who lives and who dies? Having money is the only diference and sometimes is something you cant control.
As for the cost of drugs in the USA, keep in mind that the simple economic law of demand and supply applies in the pharmaceutical world as well.
There are limits to the wisdom and efficiency of the free market.
There is NO free market if there is only one kind of drug that you cant pay and you need it to save your life.Maybe if i want an Hamburger i can choose between many option... but also you can choose to not buy it and eat salads.
But with drugs... you have no choice and high cost drugs leads you to buy or die... is that and option?
This data can be true, but you have to consider why this is true.
Thanks God im not Northamerican, LOL, so i can tell you from another perspective.
Another fact is that less educated people got more Venereal Disease and the lower incomme are the less educated.
Nowadays, US has a great problem of Unemployment and a poor education quality. So maybe if you see those facts you can understand why Afroamercian and Latinamerican people are the most afected by AIDS.
US has one of the most restrictive laws in the world in relation with Pharmaceutical patents. The Pharmaceutical Industry (PI) get the patents for so long that you have to pay great amounts of money because there are no generic alternatives. The governement authorizes abusive practices.
In fact WTO tries to impose protections for the pharmaceuticals in "third world" countries. Any time US negotiate a new commerce treaty with any "third world" they impose those conditions.
But has been some changes, in Africa some drugs can be declared a "priority" for the Health System so the Lab HAS to give the patent to the gobernement so he can produce a low price drug to be distributed.
Another Thing is that de PI dont make trials in US, they do it on other countries and when the drug is safe to be sold, they come to the FDA in the US and the ask for permision. Of course those "other countries" are South America or Africa and of course not always the drugs are safe to be sold but the PI can pay very well to the FDA guys.
Of Course it blends, and what about the next model a phone+shaver+frigobar+compass...
itll be ready for next fall
Pre-order it now!!
They could release an evoluting game thats a great concept.
Each week they could release a patch to add features to the game.
Or maybe the programmers are writing the code for the 32 cores with 128-bit Intel Core 4 with Windows Vista Reloaded 2
you know just to be prepared... and what about DirectX 12?
you didnt see that coming!!!!
DAMN... another 5 years more....
Im even afraid of posting this very words... :-S
I will go to jail?...
Someone is knoking my door...
and saying.. FBI?? what is that....
Have to go....
Can this be true?
I think this is a bad joke, maybe some kind of aprils fool from some lost island in Papua New Ginea or some place lost in the world.
Because its hard to belive that someone in a country that claims to be defending "humans right" all over the world could allow something like this to happend in his own soil.
I hope its a joke... really
Like Eddie Vedder would say: "It's Evolution BABY!!!"
Darwin would be proud
It's always great to see iniciatives like this one.
I think that this one could be a lot better because of the people and partners who are involved.
Anyways there are always room for good pages like these two, so now we only have to collaborate and spread the word.
I read some great post. Specially this one, but im not agree with "Until Australia (and, for that matter, the UK) learns to stand up to the world's biggest bully". When i followed the elections in US, the fist time Bush won... i saw that none of the two main candidats were a good choice. One was a puppet moved by "intrests" and the other one... a little too shy to be the the president of any country. Well everyone knows that those elections were a fraud. But OK the power of the money.. bla bla bla ... only resignation.
But the SECOND time????? So you begin to wonder if Northamerican really know how to vote.
I think maybe no one told them that you must mark the one you WANT TO BE PRESINDENT.. not the one you DONT WANT to be president.
So Every one who votes in US has some responsability with their own country and... to the rest of the world as well.
So yes!!! you can blame on the other president who wasnt strong enough to stand against the only country that can turn the rest of the world against you, but also what the people of US has done and continue doing with their political class, "DEMOCRACY system", voters and non voters too.
This is a great idea.. and the advancing knowledge problem is easy.. you will know how to change it!!!
Something like Azureus.
Its a great feature because lets everyone use it but the right amount of config options.
Could this be possible with an OS?
i prefer coustomization than annoying effects like AERO in Vista
Great ... now ill sell my four 8800 GTX.
and in ... maybe 10 years i could get the money to buy ONE of those.
Damn AMDTI why are you keeping away from US!!!
I hope the price war will make the ULTRA a little bit cheaper.
I just want to play my starcraft with a Quad SLI ULTRA :-)
This kind of News are easy to make. Just pick any guy and tell him to says that profits for M$ are great beter than expected.. and... thats it. Any journalist will take this and print it. Another point of making this kind of news is ... well, our sells are surpassing way beyond our best thoughts... If you really thought that they would sell 10 Windows Vista per month... the sales are great... but you really think so?
An another thing... these amount considers the Vista OS tha they pput in soup, microwaves, tooth brush, shoes.... and of course EEVERY new computer that is sold? Even if i prefer XP o none of them?
I`ll get hand cancer with one of those mouse
I think we are in a place in computer history that hardware is creating the need, not the user. I found myself watching prices of video cards, i own an ATI X850XT PE and i can play all my favorite games with any problem at great resolutions. But why could i need a quad SLI or an QUAD DUAL GPU SLI??? i know it doesnt exist but neither the software to handle it or to take advantege of it. My current operating system is running as fast as it can, my games are running smooth... so whats the need? Well i think that the hardware market is trying to sell us space crafts to go to buy bread at the next door market. Yes it moves you, it can be bought but it lacks of better use. Maybe the real goal right now could be investing more time and resources to in software domain to get this hardware in a better use.
We could talk pages and pages about pharmaceutical industry, and i think no matter where you are, you need money to continue researching and of course a LITTLE incentive. But i need to mention one particular case. Two years ago, i read an article about the HPV (Human Papiloma Virus) and the vaccine against Cervix Cancer. It said the vaccine was already aproved and tested, but the farmaceutic industry didnt wanted to release ir because the treatment for cervix cancer was way higher than the vaccine. So it wasnt business. TWO YEARS and i dont know how many women dead after, they have just announced that a vaccine has been found. So we can see that farmaceutics dont exist with the motivation of saving people... or at least is not the primary.
We could talk pages and pages about pharmaceutical industry, and i think no matter where you are, you need money to continue researching and of course a LITTLE incentive. But i need to mention one particular case. Two years ago, i read an article about the HPV (Human Papiloma Virus) and the vaccine against Cervix Cancer. It said the vaccine was already aproved and tested, but the farmaceutic industry didnt wanted to release ir because the treatment for cervix cancer was way higher than the vaccine. So it wasnt business. TWO YEARS and i dont know how many women dead after, they have just announced that a vaccine has been found. So we can see that farmaceutics dont exist with the motivation of saving people... or at least is not the primary.