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US Government and Big Pharma putting pressure on India to stop cheap drug production

Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too. 1. R&D, Regulatory, Operational costs are ridiculous to bring a new drug to market. 2. Most pharma companies are and have been experiencing layoffs the past several years. Mergers are very common. 3. US is subsidizing the cost of bring...
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- Post #75
- Feb 8, 2014
- Forum: Politics and News
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Snowden - Hero or Traitor?

Hero. Our fore fathers were "traitors" too. Rules do not decide right or wrong. Ethics do. And a monitored human is not free. The power the NSA has--complete omniscience--is the type of power once attained, allows you to stay in power forever and extinguish any mavericks. As...
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- Post #47
- Aug 26, 2013
- Forum: Politics and News
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Poll - "Americans": Do you think you are free?

I, for one, applaud NSOM's views on a moral society. I'm tired of being forced to pay tribute to fund wars I do not care for. When thinking about how such a society can function, the same arguments always crop up: what about the courts. Roads. Education. Thats like arguing, but who will pick...
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- Post #259
- Aug 26, 2013
- Forum: Politics and News
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Virtual currencies recovering!

Nope. Therein lies the ingenuity of the bitcoin protocol. Every node keeps the universal ledger you're talking about. Each node is communicating with each other, verifying and recording new transactions for one universal ledger, all the while avoiding fake/malicious attacks. The...
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- Post #502
- May 21, 2013
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Virtual currencies recovering!

lol @ having blind faith in a corporation over mathematics.
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- Post #457
- May 17, 2013
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Virtual currencies recovering!

What a boring tiresome thread. Same arguments over and over. It's really simple. There are two possibilities: 1. Over time, people will start accepting bitcoins, increasing its adoption, demand, and overall value. 2. Over time, people will abandon bitcoins. Presumably from it being decreed...
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- Post #410
- May 3, 2013
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Drug Cartels - Any solution possible?

This is the correct answer. It's illegal because it extends control and allows the inner circle to profit. Speaking of drugs, wasn't it recently that HSBC was caught laundering billions of dollars of drug money, for which persecution was not pursued because too-big-to-fail? Yup, profit.
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- Post #52
- Mar 27, 2013
- Forum: Politics and News
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Bitcoin sellers remorse.... how many people are kicking themselves for cashing out>?

It accomplishes the goal of creating an incentive to amass as much computing power as possible for the miners. This adds to the security of the network and prevents it from being hijacked. The calculations themselves are pointless as you say. It's a case where inefficiency adds to the beauty...
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- Post #238
- Mar 27, 2013
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Airline 'fat tax': Should heavy passengers pay more?

I guess to most people believing in freedom means agreeing to keep the things you enjoy and removing things that annoy you and keeping the ones you enjoy. Sorry, this is a slippery slope and I disagree with it. And I think fat people are disgusting.
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- Post #67
- Mar 26, 2013
- Forum: Politics and News
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Bitcoin sellers remorse.... how many people are kicking themselves for cashing out>?

A small market has less liquidity so yes, it's more prone to wild swings. Only invest at your own caution with money you're willing to part with. If bitcoin does go mainstream, we are still way in the early adopter stage. Even techy ppl can't understand it. It'll be a long time until the average...
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- Post #207
- Mar 26, 2013
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Bitcoin sellers remorse.... how many people are kicking themselves for cashing out>?

Transaction fees are expected to replace the reward for mining blocks. Miners are a misnomer. What "miners" are doing is maintaining a universal transaction ledger. In doing so, they get a reward based on their computer cycle contribution to this network. The reward includes both the block...
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- Post #167
- Mar 26, 2013
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Bitcoin sellers remorse.... how many people are kicking themselves for cashing out>?

Understanding bitcoins is pretty difficult. Be patient with it. One simple reason it's complicated is because most people don't understand how their own money works. Why do people still think the dollar is backed by something? It's worth reading about the evolution of currency, through...
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- Post #131
- Mar 25, 2013
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Christmas Gift For My Daughter: iPad? Kindle Fire?

iPad Mini.
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- Post #5
- Nov 20, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Apple Now Owns The Page Turn

It's not that useful guys.
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- Post #6
- Nov 16, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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20k in Student Debt/30k in Bank

Aside from the numbers, consider the emotional impact for paying it off. Some people feel the monthly payments as undesired external pressure and these people are happier without any debt.
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- Post #34
- Nov 1, 2012
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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So why didn't the iPhone 4 get Siri?

Siri is barely reliable on the 4S. Having it on the 4 with its substandard microphone and proximity sensor would trash Siri's reputation as being reliable even more. Apple cares about its image and brand above all else. So even though old gen hardware is capable of running new technology...
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- Post #25
- Aug 29, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Breaking Bad Season 5 - Official Discussion Thread

Address was... cartel's home base ?
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- Post #57
- Jul 15, 2012
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The Great Post-It-Notes Debate

For the most part, all the great creative people who produce their finalized work on computers typically come to the realization that computers are a very poor way to start. Brainstorming sessions and other early work are much better done with a pen and paper (or post-it notes). It's way more...
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- Post #37
- May 11, 2012
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Petition to increase NASA's budget

Nasa's budget is tiny. One half of one percent. And people want to cut that when we're spending ~200x on other bs social programs and wars. You can't throw money at social issues to fix it. We need to innovate our way out of this mess. The only way to do that is to inspire the next generation...
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- Post #52
- Apr 2, 2012
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Should I get an iPad 2 or 3?

Some fanboys were willing to shell out $1000 for retna iPad. Get the 3.
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- Post #8
- Mar 8, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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It's Official: Wikipedia Blackout scheduled for 1/18/2012 in order to protest SOPA.

Ummm.. regarding all these citing sources nonsense: You know, there is life after school. Education doesn't stop at college and writing papers. There is no way you can absorb all the rich knowledge of the world in college. Wikipedia is invaluable for many people who are not 'writing papers'.
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- Post #104
- Jan 17, 2012
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Intel Windows 8 tabs to start at 600 USD?

If photoshop doesn't port a decent enough of app onto the iPad, another company will swoop right in and start stealing market share. The tablet will eventually be ready for content creation. Companies just need to figure out how to do it. I base this on one thing: Manipulating by touch is more...
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- Post #39
- Jan 16, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Samsung is rivalling Apple as the dominant smartphone maker

You know, Apple spent ~3yrs or whatever developing the iphone. If they simply just copied they must be the laziest, most inefficient employees on earth!
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- Post #40
- Jan 5, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Thanks, Apple...

Textbooks are (will be) dead. Adapt or die.
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- Post #28
- Jan 3, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Cult of Mac: Why the iPad is the most hated gadget of all time

Umm, if you work for some of these companies you're livelihood is at risk. I can see some hate going on if the iPad truly dominates the world.
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- Post #22
- Dec 18, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Google's Eric Schmidt throws down the gauntlet

That still leaves Apple with an order of magnitude dominance on Android. 6 months to flip it around? Way off base.
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- Post #50
- Dec 8, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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I didn't know Steve Jobs was a crybaby.

Anti-apple people just don't have taste. They see the world analytically in a calculated way where the best things about a computer are features to check off in a list. It's an emotionless numbers game stripped of humanity. Apple's all about emoting feelings through technology, something the...
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- Post #61
- Nov 14, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Sydney escort agency selling 19-year-old's virginity for $15,000

As george carlin said. Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why is selling fucking not legal?
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- Post #41
- Nov 8, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Apple Operations: Supply Chain Management

I disagree with saying the touch screen phones similar to an iphone experience would have made it to the market irregardless of apple in due time. The technology was always there. Apple refined it, sure. But the biggest barrier to innovation was the carriers' lockdown and totaliarism like...
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- Post #30
- Nov 7, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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How much do you want to bet that Jobs "cracked" TV by

Itunes is the best if and only if you have: 1. SSD. 2. Desire/appreciation for well organized music. And no, organizing by folders/filenames is like living in the stone age.
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- Post #42
- Oct 24, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Steve Jobs Biography describes Jobs as hell bent on destroying Android

I read this on another tech site: Regarding the source of the good artists quote, its often attributed to Pablo Picasso, but it turns out its a bastardized version of a quote from a T.S. Elliott essay: One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in...
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- Post #26
- Oct 21, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Buy new iPhone 4S or wait....

Sell your 4. Fund it towards 4S. When 5 comes out, sell the 4S. Easy.
- Sloper
- Post #13
- Oct 10, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Do You Respect Steve Jobs?

If you can name one person to credit the advent of the Information Age, who would it be? Steve Jobs is up there, no?
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- Post #21
- Oct 8, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Iphone 4S not what people wants

4S pretty much has everything. iOS 5 pretty much negates any adv android had, and gets +1 for doing it in style. iCloud will be pretty tough for android to pull off. And this Siri stuff.. this can be potentially very ground breaking. Type in a word and google gives you hits. Siri goes beyond...
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- Post #273
- Oct 5, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Thread of lurkers, foggy computer screens and heavy breathing

Pm please~
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- Post #310
- Sep 2, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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2011: The year of the android tablet?

2:1, not really. http://daringfireball.net/2011/07/ipad_dominance
- Sloper
- Post #61
- Jul 22, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Life in prison for selling $10 crack rock (Strike 3)

I don't give a shit how retarded he is, or how much "less" drugs will be in the community now that he's gone. I give a shit about the taxes I pay and I didn't sign up for this bullshit.
- Sloper
- Post #81
- Apr 25, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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How did Apple succeed in Tablets (ie: iPad) when everyone else failed miserably?

Nice analogy!
- Sloper
- Post #362
- Apr 18, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Should Chiropractic "medicine" be covered by a universal healthcare?

If placebo WORKS for some people, then they should be able make themselves feel better with it.
- Sloper
- Post #48
- Apr 5, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Tablet marketshare numbers

The way I see it, the tablet market will evolve differently compared to smartphones. Everyone NEEDS a phone. And if you're due up for a free new phone in the states, there is nothing really stopping you from getting the latest be it android or ios or whatever. Thus, the growth for android in...
- Sloper
- Post #6
- Mar 10, 2011
- Forum: Mobile Devices

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