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Nivek

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  1. You do realize we have Abbott, and Mike Miles fucking fought a smile for a moment when talking about the rodent problem in HISD schools. (see other thread)
  2. https://houstonlanding.org/hisd-leaders-failed-to-get-board-approval-for-up-to-870-million-in-spending-records-show/ The board is bullshit. The superintendent is bullshit. But hey, they are fixing the rodent problem at Lanier MS, by using sticky traps so they can be cruel as fuck to animals too. https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-isd-rat-infestation/285-0b5b6764-e8aa-42f0-8f85-75808ccfdc36 I guess rodent piss and shit is part of making america great in education. Fuckers. Note that at around 1:50 in the video he looks to be fighting back a smile when talking about the maintenance crew being on top of it. Also remember, this is the replacement crew since he fired/gutted the maintenance crews and specialists. Big fucking surprise it is failing.
  3. Dude, he was able to provide his kids names. That is amazing.
  4. To be fair, I find shooting paper quite calming for my mind. I generally am able to tune out most distractions and just focus on putting a bullet on a spot of paper without any other mental distractions and I spend a bit of time on each shot.
  5. Get a boat! With flames and a mini-fridge.
  6. They are not followers of Christ, but they still call themselves that.
  7. you got to be a stupid motherfucker to get fired on your day off offseason.
  8. I am pro pure shit sandwich. Let’s stop pretending.
  9. amazing they can pull this off while simultaneously underfunding 80% of the school districts.
  10. HAHA HAHA HAHA
  11. Neither are Christians.
  12. I saw a pet in the grocery store. I wish it was legal to euthanize these people.
  13. Election was rigged. I’ve a cousin who said they wuz forced to stuff ballots, he even videotaped it with his google glasses.
  14. how much is Luigi's bail?
  15. sounds like you need a blinky envelope...
  16. Well, I think my example pushes the costs an order of magnitude higher. ~$7k is strictly for recouping the investment and research of $11 billion, assuming that is all purely company sponsored internally (cash) and not financed through debt/equity or offset by research grants. The cost of manufacturing should also be included but I have no idea where to even start with numbers here. But it does seem to indicate that if the costs per treatment were $80k/treatment than that would be pretty absurd in a vacuum. I suppose the question is the cost of failures (those never made it out of trial/research) and possibly offsetting costs for research into other diseases which have far fewer patients to spread the costs among. I simply do not know enough about this industry to give a credible and honest critique. But like you, I do suspect the industry which also gave us the opioid epidemic might not be so benevolent across the board.
  17. Just look at pre injury QE offense this year. Note the difference there too.
  18. I think the challenge with @chainsaw's approach is that it doesn't reflect the complexity of finance well enough. A better way would be to calculate the net present value and split the research costs across 10 years, add a discount rate (say 7%) and projected cashflow rate from the sale in years 10-30 (assuming patent protected and monopoly) and then a generic alternative for years 30-40. If you only generated $1 billion for years 10-30, and .5 billion for years 30-40, you end up with a total revenue of $25 billion on an $11 billion investment. However, the NPV is negative, meaning you will be in the hole about $2.5 billion. The IRR for this project is ~5%. So if the investors only required 5% return, then this is a coin flip of a project. Now this excludes the foreign markets were price controls and approvals will vary. In that case, those 4 million US souls will pay $26 billion over the course of 30 years of being on the market to company X, which works out to about $6500 (very quick and dirty estimate) per treatment. Assuming no new people get sick. No inflation is assumed as well. This is also overly simplistic, with numbers, strategy, and distribution of costs all pulled from a hat.
  19. The fucking guy's software was directly used by bad actors to create a genocidal event based on fake news John Pym style.
  20. As a geologist, the only surprise was how ignorant the people were that this would happen. It isn't and if situation. Nice to see someone offer to help us out. We should fuck them over.
  21. I am confused, I thought they were supposed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and the most dangerous words were "I am from the government and I am here to help." Or was that different?
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