Absolutely ridiculous. The idiot chemist who compounded fucking antifreeze into his drug should have gone to prison for manslaughter, and his company should have been sued, having its assets seized, liquidated, and the proceeds awarded to the families., and that should have been the end of it. You don't need the fucking FDA to tell you that diethylene glycol is deadly.
The incident should have served as a warning to other pharmaceutical companies who would institute more stringent quality control procedures to ensure they don't get sent to prison or lose their jobs to bankruptcy liquidation. Instead we get an agency that forces us to spend years or DECADES and millions of dollars proving that medicines and medical devices are super-duper safe, while the people they could be saving die.
Uhh, their parents would have sued the company out of existence, and without the corporate veil, a statist intervention in the marketplace, they could go after the assets of the shareholders as well. Actually being liable for the actions of the company you own would make them be a LOT more careful. With regulators, all they have to do is get a thumbs up, file as a corporation, and they are completely shielded from personal responsibility for their actions.
Now it's just a few hundred thousand a year dying of heart disease in America, while a drug that prevents arterial blockage with a 100% effectiveness rate while costing almost nothing exists in Europe and elsewhere. Regulatory capture by heart doctors is killing far, far more people than non-market based regulation ever saved.
"Neither the president nor congress controls the economy. "
But that's wrong. The economy faltered because CONGRESS passed and CLINTON signed into law an act which forced banks to lend to sub-prime people "in hopes of increasing the rate of homeownership", a policy that was just plain idiotic from the outset.
But hey, don't let the facts get you off of your high horse.
The only time it is good not to work is when you are fully self reliant. Do you really want to say that the majority, or even a significant minority of those not participating in the workforce have achieved such a state?
But now that they're leaving the workforce en masse,
No, they aren't. They are staying in the workforce, and graduating students are never able to enter it. Hand waving isn't going to dispel facts, and the fact is that the boomers aren't retiring, and it is the young people who are leaving/never entering the workforce "en masse".
But as a consolation prize, you sure sounded smart using that French term. I learned it as a boy from the Foxtrot book of the same name.
It was and remains a ponzi scheme. One that everyone who works "legitimately" is forced to participate in. Once population growth stops, which it has in native Americans, it's all over. This will be the last generation that participates in this idiot scheme.
It actually doesn't, when you achieve that weak growth by manipulating the denominator (ie destroying the value of money). All you get in the long run with such tactics is the destruction of economies by false economic signals.
Right, by kicking the can down the road, and making exactly ZERO reforms, increasing the perverse incentives that caused the crash in the first place, we have made everything better, FOREVER.
He heavily implied that black on white crime rates are so high as to not merit reporting or outrage (ie that blacks are violent thugs who will kill or rob you at the drop of a hat), where white on black rates are so low that each incident makes the national news (and thus white people are wonderful angels who din do nuffin).
Unlike liberals, I can see past the first level of an argument, and anticipate the implications (such as: liberals don't want to live anywhere near where blacks live--which is a fact. There are few libs in the South, where there are many blacks. They sequester blacks in ghettos in the cities too).
I wasn't alive in 1865. Racism is a subset of collectivism, and you have just proved yourself to be a collectivist. As such, I would not be at all surprised to find that you are yourself a vile racist.
I see, so you are saying that black on white crime is common, while white on black crime is uncommon. This is a fact. And yet anyone who dares to speak about this fact is called a racist, or in your case "ignorant", which is fucking stupid when discussing FACTS. It is the literal OPPOSITE of ignorance.
Do you fail to see your own racism here? Nevermind the implication that blacks are like animals, but the fact that you are talking about an evil, evil fact, just like those evil, evil racists?
If you want to talk about whether or not the difference is caused by socio-economic status (it isn't) or culture (it might be), or some other factor (like how human brains perceive skin color, see "The Scary Sheep" on Youtube), then that is fine, but don't shut down the conversation by labeling people.
You stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid person. Look at Europe. Anti-semitism is on the rise. Anti-immigrant parties are skyrocketing in the polls. Literal fucking Nazis rule Ukraine, and are the number three party in Greece. They pushed the pendulum harder and faster than we did, and that is the result. Here in America, I have met many people--NORMAL people--who are fed up with all the leftist bullshit. Exacerbate that with an ever more oppressive government and an economic depression, and you have a recipe for a civil war.
I'm told it's a place where black on white crime is documented and discussed, since no-one in the media will talk about it, meanwhile any violent act, justified or not, by a white (or quasi-white) person against a violent black felon makes the national news for weeks.
You can only push the pendulum so far in one direction before it starts to swing back, and violently. Sadly, that is now happening. The West has brought this on itself.
Xrf will just show you the composition of the plating, unless its just really, really thin. Sonic and conductivity tests are the preferred non destructive test methods for precious metals.
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SJWs are like fundamentalist Yahweh worshippers. It is 100% safe to put their opinions in the garbage can.
Uhh, you think pharmacies have government agents in them ensuring they aren't distributing sugar pills or watering down medicine?
Absolutely ridiculous. The idiot chemist who compounded fucking antifreeze into his drug should have gone to prison for manslaughter, and his company should have been sued, having its assets seized, liquidated, and the proceeds awarded to the families., and that should have been the end of it. You don't need the fucking FDA to tell you that diethylene glycol is deadly.
The incident should have served as a warning to other pharmaceutical companies who would institute more stringent quality control procedures to ensure they don't get sent to prison or lose their jobs to bankruptcy liquidation. Instead we get an agency that forces us to spend years or DECADES and millions of dollars proving that medicines and medical devices are super-duper safe, while the people they could be saving die.
Uhh, their parents would have sued the company out of existence, and without the corporate veil, a statist intervention in the marketplace, they could go after the assets of the shareholders as well. Actually being liable for the actions of the company you own would make them be a LOT more careful. With regulators, all they have to do is get a thumbs up, file as a corporation, and they are completely shielded from personal responsibility for their actions.
Now it's just a few hundred thousand a year dying of heart disease in America, while a drug that prevents arterial blockage with a 100% effectiveness rate while costing almost nothing exists in Europe and elsewhere. Regulatory capture by heart doctors is killing far, far more people than non-market based regulation ever saved.
And you thought lutafisk was gross.
"Neither the president nor congress controls the economy. "
But that's wrong. The economy faltered because CONGRESS passed and CLINTON signed into law an act which forced banks to lend to sub-prime people "in hopes of increasing the rate of homeownership", a policy that was just plain idiotic from the outset.
But hey, don't let the facts get you off of your high horse.
"It's the Republicans fault the Democrats couldn't get their act together."
Oh, ok. So why should we vote for your party of disorganized idiots again?
The only time it is good not to work is when you are fully self reliant. Do you really want to say that the majority, or even a significant minority of those not participating in the workforce have achieved such a state?
But now that they're leaving the workforce en masse,
No, they aren't. They are staying in the workforce, and graduating students are never able to enter it. Hand waving isn't going to dispel facts, and the fact is that the boomers aren't retiring, and it is the young people who are leaving/never entering the workforce "en masse".
But as a consolation prize, you sure sounded smart using that French term. I learned it as a boy from the Foxtrot book of the same name.
It was and remains a ponzi scheme. One that everyone who works "legitimately" is forced to participate in. Once population growth stops, which it has in native Americans, it's all over. This will be the last generation that participates in this idiot scheme.
It actually doesn't, when you achieve that weak growth by manipulating the denominator (ie destroying the value of money). All you get in the long run with such tactics is the destruction of economies by false economic signals.
Not all socialists oppress people based on what they believe, but all Nazis sure do. And yes, Nazis were a subset of socialists.
Right, by kicking the can down the road, and making exactly ZERO reforms, increasing the perverse incentives that caused the crash in the first place, we have made everything better, FOREVER.
He heavily implied that black on white crime rates are so high as to not merit reporting or outrage (ie that blacks are violent thugs who will kill or rob you at the drop of a hat), where white on black rates are so low that each incident makes the national news (and thus white people are wonderful angels who din do nuffin).
Unlike liberals, I can see past the first level of an argument, and anticipate the implications (such as: liberals don't want to live anywhere near where blacks live--which is a fact. There are few libs in the South, where there are many blacks. They sequester blacks in ghettos in the cities too).
I like how you advocate oppression of people based on their beliefs. Do you wear a swastika armband, or do you just talk like that on the internet?
I wasn't alive in 1865. Racism is a subset of collectivism, and you have just proved yourself to be a collectivist. As such, I would not be at all surprised to find that you are yourself a vile racist.
I see, so you are saying that black on white crime is common, while white on black crime is uncommon. This is a fact. And yet anyone who dares to speak about this fact is called a racist, or in your case "ignorant", which is fucking stupid when discussing FACTS. It is the literal OPPOSITE of ignorance.
Do you fail to see your own racism here? Nevermind the implication that blacks are like animals, but the fact that you are talking about an evil, evil fact, just like those evil, evil racists?
If you want to talk about whether or not the difference is caused by socio-economic status (it isn't) or culture (it might be), or some other factor (like how human brains perceive skin color, see "The Scary Sheep" on Youtube), then that is fine, but don't shut down the conversation by labeling people.
So talking about things that everyone already knows is racist?
Talk about fucking Orwellian.
You stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid person. Look at Europe. Anti-semitism is on the rise. Anti-immigrant parties are skyrocketing in the polls. Literal fucking Nazis rule Ukraine, and are the number three party in Greece. They pushed the pendulum harder and faster than we did, and that is the result. Here in America, I have met many people--NORMAL people--who are fed up with all the leftist bullshit. Exacerbate that with an ever more oppressive government and an economic depression, and you have a recipe for a civil war.
But I guess that is racist too, isn't it?
Black on white crime is common? Much more so that white on black crime? And no-one talks about it? Those who do are racist?
There is something legitimately wrong with you.
Uhhh, you do realize that it is incredibly racist to say that whites are like humans while blacks are like dogs, right?
I always find it hilarious when liberals show their true colors. "I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years."
Go start another war in the Mideast.
I'm told it's a place where black on white crime is documented and discussed, since no-one in the media will talk about it, meanwhile any violent act, justified or not, by a white (or quasi-white) person against a violent black felon makes the national news for weeks.
You can only push the pendulum so far in one direction before it starts to swing back, and violently. Sadly, that is now happening. The West has brought this on itself.
Xrf will just show you the composition of the plating, unless its just really, really thin. Sonic and conductivity tests are the preferred non destructive test methods for precious metals.
IIRC it is used mainly to examine organic bonds and their spatial relationships. Pretty sure ionic bonds are transparent at those wavelengths.