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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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