No, it doesn't. Because (pay attention) nobody is trying to take away your guns. It's all just FUD created by the gun lobby to scare the yokels. Just like "transsexuals are going to be in the bathroom with your baby!"
There have been 15 black men killed by police just since Colin Kaepernick started kneeling during the anthem a couple of weeks ago. They're not "isolated incidents" any more.
And if "pulling a gun on law enforcement" is what it takes to get shot by police, why is the guy who set up with his sniper rifle and trained it on FBI at the Bundy standoff still walking around without repercussions?
You know your story about the kid with the BB gun getting killed by police? Look what happens when it's a white guy:
Pulling a gun on a police officer in a threatening manner often will lead to your death, even if the gun turns out to be a BB gun designed to look like a handgun.
If you're black, you don't even need to pull a gun. You just need to be black.
So if supply and demand don't apply to pharmaceuticals, why did you think it was appropriate to use pharmaceuticals as an analogy for uber drivers (to which supply and demand are certainly applicable)?
Because "supply and demand" really don't apply in late-stage capitalism. At all. People want to act like "supply and demand" in regard to economics is some natural law. It is not.
Supply and demand don't apply to pharmaceuticals. There is not a limit on how many chemotherapy doses they can make. They limit supply all on their own, artificially. Take the Hepatitis C cure, Sovaldi. There aren't that many people with Hepatitis C, so demand is low. So why is it $1000/pill? If "supply and demand" were a real thing, then the low demand would mean low prices, right? Except when it's life and death, "demand" isn't measured in the number of customers who want your product. It's measured in tragedy. This is how late-stage capitalism becomes destructive of civil society.
The patent (a government-granted monopoly) gives them the sole rights to make the doses. This is how intellectual property can be a death sentence for people. The only solution is to severely limit IP protections and allow the government to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies, the way it's done in Europe, Canada and other civilized places.
When I'm president we're going to have massive ice, all right? Strong, powerful ice that grabs you by the shoulders and pushes you down on your stomach and shows you what real ice is all about. Barack Obama let the ice get all thin and runny, which is really really sad. I'm going to make sure the ice is thick and hard and respected everywhere, all right? Respected everywhere. And it will be white, American ice, not muddy ice.
Like many of you, I'm completely comfortable with turning over the diagnosis and treatment of disease to members of Anonymous. What could possibly go wrong?
I understand that Anonymous is now stating that they have leaked evidence that Alexander Litvinenko actually died of a really bad cold complicated by getting a draft.
Here I have 4 kids, each requiring different car seats size / adjustments. We are bringing and keeping different stuff for the kids (Stroller, diapers, their favorite movies) which stay with us without needing to grab it at our Xth destination.
By the time there are ubiquitous self-driving cars, your youngest will be asking if he can have the keys to that old 2019 Pinto in the garage, because he knows it's too expensive to take his girlfriend out to the ridge to watch the submarine races in an self-driving Lyft.
Cars are about privacy. I'm shocked that the Elon Galt types don't get that.
There was a guy in Europe back in the 1930s who also delivered stuff that (mostly) worked. It didn't work out so well. He was an earnest, hard-working, high-performing teller of what he believed to be the truth.
If only if was as easy as putting a successful industrialist in charge of everything.
Repeat after me: Uber is NOT run by the government... that's both what makes it good... AND what leads to scenarios like this. You can't have the good (low fares, clean cars, drivers that give a shit) without allowing them to work with the free market (supply / demand).
That's such horseshit. Imagine there was a simple injection that costs $5 and cures cancer. However, if you have cancer, the drug costs $100,000.
You really have to be willing to accept monstrous immorality if you really want a "free market". And the funny part is, nobody really wants a free market. Not really. Even if such a thing was possible. Which it's not.
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Tobacco can't be any worse for my DNA than the 1970s were.
We've seen for certain that police are not subject to the same justice as citizens.
http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
No, it doesn't. Because (pay attention) nobody is trying to take away your guns. It's all just FUD created by the gun lobby to scare the yokels. Just like "transsexuals are going to be in the bathroom with your baby!"
You've been had.
There have been 15 black men killed by police just since Colin Kaepernick started kneeling during the anthem a couple of weeks ago. They're not "isolated incidents" any more.
And if "pulling a gun on law enforcement" is what it takes to get shot by police, why is the guy who set up with his sniper rifle and trained it on FBI at the Bundy standoff still walking around without repercussions?
You know your story about the kid with the BB gun getting killed by police? Look what happens when it's a white guy:
http://www.wmur.com/news/polic...
Here's what happens when a white guy points his rifle at cops:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
And here's what happens when a drunken white guy pulls a gun on cops:
http://www.wfmj.com/story/2775...
If you'd like, I could go on and on and on. Being white in this country has privileges. One of them is the Second Amendment.
There was a Democratic president and Democrats held both houses of Congress in 2008. Nobody took your guns.
There are more guns in private hands than ever. Get over the fact that you've been snookered by the gun lobby.
We've been hearing this for going on half a century. "They're coming for our guns!" Yet there have never been more guns in private hands.
Nobody has come for your guns. You are literally Chicken Little.
Yes, I've made an app.
If you're black, you don't even need to pull a gun. You just need to be black.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/vid...
I'm looking for volunteers to fluff my pillow and scratch my balls.
It's an unpaid position, but think how good it will look on your resume.
How about pulling an actual sniper rifle and pointing it at police?
http://static1.businessinsider...
http://cloudfront.mediamatters...
I've got the patent on the paper back filled with dog poop lit on fire and left on a doorstep.
I can live off the license payments from Halloween alone.
Don't forget, DPRK state media has endorsed Donald J. Trump for president (this is not a joke).
http://www.reuters.com/article...
http://www.politico.com/story/...
Because "supply and demand" really don't apply in late-stage capitalism. At all. People want to act like "supply and demand" in regard to economics is some natural law. It is not.
Supply and demand don't apply to pharmaceuticals. There is not a limit on how many chemotherapy doses they can make. They limit supply all on their own, artificially. Take the Hepatitis C cure, Sovaldi. There aren't that many people with Hepatitis C, so demand is low. So why is it $1000/pill? If "supply and demand" were a real thing, then the low demand would mean low prices, right? Except when it's life and death, "demand" isn't measured in the number of customers who want your product. It's measured in tragedy. This is how late-stage capitalism becomes destructive of civil society.
The patent (a government-granted monopoly) gives them the sole rights to make the doses. This is how intellectual property can be a death sentence for people. The only solution is to severely limit IP protections and allow the government to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies, the way it's done in Europe, Canada and other civilized places.
When I'm president we're going to have massive ice, all right? Strong, powerful ice that grabs you by the shoulders and pushes you down on your stomach and shows you what real ice is all about. Barack Obama let the ice get all thin and runny, which is really really sad. I'm going to make sure the ice is thick and hard and respected everywhere, all right? Respected everywhere. And it will be white, American ice, not muddy ice.
Like many of you, I'm completely comfortable with turning over the diagnosis and treatment of disease to members of Anonymous. What could possibly go wrong?
I understand that Anonymous is now stating that they have leaked evidence that Alexander Litvinenko actually died of a really bad cold complicated by getting a draft.
The prosecution rests.
Oh, OK. It might as well be an "army of Anonymous Cowards from Slashdot". For a second, I thought this was real.
By the time there are ubiquitous self-driving cars, your youngest will be asking if he can have the keys to that old 2019 Pinto in the garage, because he knows it's too expensive to take his girlfriend out to the ridge to watch the submarine races in an self-driving Lyft.
Cars are about privacy. I'm shocked that the Elon Galt types don't get that.
I'm only interested if it's got Adam Sandler and/or Kevin James. I bet those guys would be hilarious in 4k.
There was a guy in Europe back in the 1930s who also delivered stuff that (mostly) worked. It didn't work out so well. He was an earnest, hard-working, high-performing teller of what he believed to be the truth.
If only if was as easy as putting a successful industrialist in charge of everything.
That's such horseshit. Imagine there was a simple injection that costs $5 and cures cancer. However, if you have cancer, the drug costs $100,000.
You really have to be willing to accept monstrous immorality if you really want a "free market". And the funny part is, nobody really wants a free market. Not really. Even if such a thing was possible. Which it's not.
You need to add, "...while black".
Remember this guy at the Bundy standoff in Nevada?
http://static1.businessinsider...
Neither was Tyre King or Tamir Rice, and that didn't stop police from gunning them down. In fact, they didn't even have real guns.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireS...
He was a white guy. If he'd been black, they would have nuked him from space.