(1) Although it is not federally mandated that employers provide health insurance to their employ, it is still necessary to do this in order to attract the ideal workforce and keep morale high. What your insurance company pays for your drugs is much less than what you would pay for them, considering the large contracts that have been made with pharmaceutical suppliers. This is profitable means of practicing business, when you consider the economies of scale. The amount of money that these insurance companies has ammassed from you consumers is certainly enough to influence media, politicians, etc.
Your doctor is contracted with your insurance company, and is very likely to sell you the drugs that they are told to sell you.
(2) Pharmaceutical companies don't spend as much money on research as they would like you to believe. It's not hard to mass-produce little pills when you consider the economies of scale. They make lots of money on these little pills that "fix" the consumer's ailments (or at the least get them to stop whining). The amount of money that pharmaceutical companies has ammassed is large enough to build giant research facilities to prove how awesome they are at making marketable drugs. Their money is also useful in influencing media and politicians.
Media is good at instilling fear in the public by common shows like CSI, where two thirds of the episodes contain stories of [insert drug of choice here]-crazed psychopaths murdering, raping, and doing other things unacceptable by the moral standards imposed at every Sunday sermon. Politicians play on that instilled fear by using "Wars on [insert morally unacceptable behaviors here]" to get the thing that they're really after: campaign money from insurance companies and pharmaceutical producers.
We currently use the Eisenhower infrastructure to transfer our goods and services. This will fail unless we design a way to use the existing infrastructure without using oil. Getting the product to the consumer will be difficult in these times of expensive transport... Police systems may not be able to afford to enforce the law, so laws may change to allow the consumer to grow their own "meds". I think we're going to need them when the time comes...
So, this money is for medicines and food for the third world. Medicines that have already been established as proprietary drugs from "Big Pharm". It makes sense that putting a band-aid on someone's boo-boo is touted by the media as a fantastic philanthropic act, but only when it's on such a large scale. The media caters to average Joe Middleclass, and these ideas sound high fantastical to him, or at the very least his wife.
Trying to sell proprietary drugs to third world countries with AIDS problems seems kind of silly when you could be teaching them how to use condoms, and providing condoms for their use, so as not to contract and spread disease in the first place. Or how about, God forsake it, a religion and discipline enough to not have to screw eachother (literally) in order to cope with life in that setting. This brings to mind the theory of natural selection.
Missions work is far more effective if, instead of using a tool to fix their problems, or even giving them the tools to fix their problems, you teach them how to make their own tools and invent new ones when they're required.
I believe that it takes a whole lot more than drugs and band-aids to improve the third world.
I use FiOS. Signed up at 45$ -15Mbps/2Mbps. Was paying for verizon phone service (land line with features) ~50$. Switched to Vonage cheap plan (500 minute ceiling with all the same features + e-mailed voicemails) at 15$.
Verizon added 5$ to my FiOS, so now it's 65$ total for telecom. Saving 30$ per month gives me warm fuzzies.
I'm not too concerned about having the latest greatest high definition consumer media in my house, to me it's not worth it. Music is more important to me than television. I don't invite people to my house to show off my awesome HDTV and all of my cool stuff.
However I do like to trade records / cd's. You know, kind of like the 1970's.
Cellphones have become an appendage to the human body in recent years.
Does this mean that the new fuel cell, in close proximity to the already methane-enriched colon, will catalyze the phenomena of spontaneous combustion?
Will this aid in our societal cessation of tobacco smoking, a fetish enjoyed by yours truly?
If seven people's tumours are pointing to the Towers above, would each person sitting at their desk have a pointy tumour uniquely angled to point at the tower from their station?
So does this mean that my Verizon Fiber To The Premises fat pipe can upgrade with erbium cables and all the video I will get before I click Download starts with the Happy Ending?
I know this may seem weird, but it's the real world......I see a serious issue with Malware when Big Brother figures out how to use this stuff to their advantage.
Are humans(consumers) in the current car culture paradigm economically viable?
When the boiling begins, my suggestion is to start with the title holders of Tahoes, Escalades, and Canyon Arrows. The buyers/owners in that market surely contain the largest volumes of lipidous material.
Side Note: I'm happy the Fed is raising the interest rate....hopefully this will curb the demand for $40k loans. Trim the fat off the market.
How can you make money if you're letting software do all of your work for you? I have had far greater opportunities to buy-out and compare sub's scopes by ditching the software gig entirely. The local profit margins are at 3-4%, but when you do your job as a Manager it's not hard to realize 10-15% just by sitting down and doing work that other people aren't willing to.
This is America. This is a hedonistic society who's sight is not set on the future and living sustainably. Consumers are bombarded with advertisements to cure the ails that other products cause. It's a wheel and it goes round and round. Corporate America and their ad campaigns win. The little guy loses, mostly because the little guy is too lazy to gain an education and stop consuming those things he need not consume.
There are holistic approaches to living life, and these are automatically labelled hippy by Fox News, and the peanut-heads that live and breathe Fox News are so outspoken that no one can refute them. Fox News tells us that the economy is good. And that Fox News is the only media that will tell you that the economy is good. Of course the economy is good to those who have investment capital. What about the little guy?
There will eventually be a breaking point, and we will have a paradigm shift, much like the fall of Rome.
The consumer machine will break.
TYAN manufactures server mobo's with 4 chipsets (socket 940) capable of dual-core. You can use Opteron's for a total of 8 cores. There is also an expansion available to add 4 more socket 940 chips, although I am not sure of Opteron's ability to assimilate 16 cores. notice the memory bus architecture on the boards. if money were no object.....
On 45 there's only room for like 2 songs, man! I think things are gonna cook when we can use a 33 1/3 process. I could please my woman to Sade for at least 30 minutes per side.
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You mean to tell me that what I just downloaded on Usenet Friday is broken? It appears to be working fine enough for testing purposes...
Reasons that drugs are not legalised:
(1) Although it is not federally mandated that employers provide health insurance to their employ, it is still necessary to do this in order to attract the ideal workforce and keep morale high. What your insurance company pays for your drugs is much less than what you would pay for them, considering the large contracts that have been made with pharmaceutical suppliers. This is profitable means of practicing business, when you consider the economies of scale. The amount of money that these insurance companies has ammassed from you consumers is certainly enough to influence media, politicians, etc.
Your doctor is contracted with your insurance company, and is very likely to sell you the drugs that they are told to sell you.
(2) Pharmaceutical companies don't spend as much money on research as they would like you to believe. It's not hard to mass-produce little pills when you consider the economies of scale. They make lots of money on these little pills that "fix" the consumer's ailments (or at the least get them to stop whining). The amount of money that pharmaceutical companies has ammassed is large enough to build giant research facilities to prove how awesome they are at making marketable drugs. Their money is also useful in influencing media and politicians.
Media is good at instilling fear in the public by common shows like CSI, where two thirds of the episodes contain stories of [insert drug of choice here]-crazed psychopaths murdering, raping, and doing other things unacceptable by the moral standards imposed at every Sunday sermon.
Politicians play on that instilled fear by using "Wars on [insert morally unacceptable behaviors here]" to get the thing that they're really after: campaign money from insurance companies and pharmaceutical producers.
We currently use the Eisenhower infrastructure to transfer our goods and services. This will fail unless we design a way to use the existing infrastructure without using oil. Getting the product to the consumer will be difficult in these times of expensive transport... Police systems may not be able to afford to enforce the law, so laws may change to allow the consumer to grow their own "meds". I think we're going to need them when the time comes...
How about this, can you pound 3 beers and still do long division?
So, this money is for medicines and food for the third world. Medicines that have already been established as proprietary drugs from "Big Pharm". It makes sense that putting a band-aid on someone's boo-boo is touted by the media as a fantastic philanthropic act, but only when it's on such a large scale. The media caters to average Joe Middleclass, and these ideas sound high fantastical to him, or at the very least his wife.
Trying to sell proprietary drugs to third world countries with AIDS problems seems kind of silly when you could be teaching them how to use condoms, and providing condoms for their use, so as not to contract and spread disease in the first place. Or how about, God forsake it, a religion and discipline enough to not have to screw eachother (literally) in order to cope with life in that setting. This brings to mind the theory of natural selection.
Missions work is far more effective if, instead of using a tool to fix their problems, or even giving them the tools to fix their problems, you teach them how to make their own tools and invent new ones when they're required.
I believe that it takes a whole lot more than drugs and band-aids to improve the third world.
I use FiOS. Signed up at 45$ -15Mbps/2Mbps. Was paying for verizon phone service (land line with features) ~50$.
Switched to Vonage cheap plan (500 minute ceiling with all the same features + e-mailed voicemails) at 15$.
Verizon added 5$ to my FiOS, so now it's 65$ total for telecom. Saving 30$ per month gives me warm fuzzies.
I'm not too concerned about having the latest greatest high definition consumer media in my house, to me it's not worth it. Music is more important to me than television. I don't invite people to my house to show off my awesome HDTV and all of my cool stuff.
However I do like to trade records / cd's. You know, kind of like the 1970's.
The RF closed captions must be getting to your head; your sig is already infected.
Does this mean that the new fuel cell, in close proximity to the already methane-enriched colon, will catalyze the phenomena of spontaneous combustion?
Will this aid in our societal cessation of tobacco smoking, a fetish enjoyed by yours truly?
If seven people's tumours are pointing to the Towers above, would each person sitting at their desk have a pointy tumour uniquely angled to point at the tower from their station?
I know this may seem weird, but it's the real world......I see a serious issue with Malware when Big Brother figures out how to use this stuff to their advantage.
When the boiling begins, my suggestion is to start with the title holders of Tahoes, Escalades, and Canyon Arrows. The buyers/owners in that market surely contain the largest volumes of lipidous material.
Side Note: I'm happy the Fed is raising the interest rate....hopefully this will curb the demand for $40k loans. Trim the fat off the market.
Is it that hard to find time to do quality work?
This is America. This is a hedonistic society who's sight is not set on the future and living sustainably. Consumers are bombarded with advertisements to cure the ails that other products cause. It's a wheel and it goes round and round. Corporate America and their ad campaigns win. The little guy loses, mostly because the little guy is too lazy to gain an education and stop consuming those things he need not consume. There are holistic approaches to living life, and these are automatically labelled hippy by Fox News, and the peanut-heads that live and breathe Fox News are so outspoken that no one can refute them. Fox News tells us that the economy is good. And that Fox News is the only media that will tell you that the economy is good. Of course the economy is good to those who have investment capital. What about the little guy? There will eventually be a breaking point, and we will have a paradigm shift, much like the fall of Rome. The consumer machine will break.
TYAN manufactures server mobo's with 4 chipsets (socket 940) capable of dual-core. You can use Opteron's for a total of 8 cores. There is also an expansion available to add 4 more socket 940 chips, although I am not sure of Opteron's ability to assimilate 16 cores.
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notice the memory bus architecture on the boards. if money were no object.....
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8qw.htm
On 45 there's only room for like 2 songs, man! I think things are gonna cook when we can use a 33 1/3 process. I could please my woman to Sade for at least 30 minutes per side.