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Chopper

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  1. Nobody needs to hear the uneducated rantings of a lieunatic.
  2. @Sbbruin You may have aready seen it but I saw that Airbnb is offering assistance if you call 211 and that addt'l info is available on their website
  3. I suggest you pull the Malibu Barbie toy you've been playing with out of your ass and ask her, numbnuts.
  4. Yeah. Also last year I learned that fake turf is flammable. California AAA home insurance required my parents to tear out some out that was within a certain distance of their house before they'd reissue their policy.
  5. holy shit this is bone chilling
  6. You might want to take a look at this editorial written last month by a prof at the College of Liberal Arts https://www.texasobserver.org/censorship-ut-austin-professor-angela-valenzuela/ my guess is there's a lot more nonsense that we don't know about all across the University based on some of the other bullshit we've seen but which I won't mention.
  7. Don't like what you see? http://12thman.com/amplify Like what you see? https://www.texasonefund.org/
  8. I don't think I've ever heard a coach saying his players are too stupid to play zone defense and have been that way all season long. Proud moment for texum ags. Whooooop.
  9. Why did you post a bunch of Trump-related posts from xitter in this thread? Go fuck yourself in the face. Also if you had taken a minute to read what you quoted and what you cross-posted you'd have noticed they're nothing alike. Assuming you weren't wasted out of your mind.
  10. Things continue to slide for Trump's wannabe Attorney General, the noted magatard, rapist, sex trafficker and property of Putin, Matt Gaetz.
  11. The bar itself has to still be around somewhere, I would think. My neighbor purchased something similar in Chicago where she used it in her basement. When she moved to CO, she designed her house around using it as a kitchen counter, and cut off a portion to use in her laundry room. It's awesome.
  12. It's frustrating and distressing because it happened so quickly to my (somewhat mild) near-sightedness that I thought I was losing my mind just on the short drive home from the hospital. Also I had ordered new frames and lenses before I started with HOC and I can't even use 'em so I have no idea if they're even correct. Fortunately Fort Collins is small and I rarely have to drive more than a couple of miles. Before I started using the HOC I didn't need reading glasses but about a week ago my far-sightedness got worse. Tomorrow is my last day of using the HOC for at least 3 and a half weeks so we'll see if my eyesight returns to base. Apparently the therapy can "temporarily" change the shape of the eye lens.
  13. Temporary blurry vision is a common side effect.
  14. Also The Spy is lit. Sacha Baron Cohen in a real acting role.
  15. If you're familiar with what a hyperbaric oxygen chamber can do to a person's eyesight, hopefully temporarily, you'll understand when I tell you I cannot get the essentials of that full chart on my computer screen in a way that it's readable to me. It's too wide.
  16. 2 other excellent gangster shows that came to mind are Mr Inbetween and Boardwalk Empire. I also enjoyed Magic City but it was canceled after only 2 seasons, and I can't recall exactly how much action- or suspense-packed it is.
  17. There's both a US movie and a BBC special series. The BBC version is 7 episodes, stars Alec Guinness, and is superb. The movie is good but bad editing makes it a bit confusing. MI5, known as Spooks in the UK. Whitechapel, which is about MI6. Both of those are multi-season tv series. Smiley's People A Spy Among Friends Line of Duty - an excellent brit series about a police internal crimes unit that deals with nefarious crimes and is extremely well-written and produced. Not as highly produced as Slow Horses but definitely more realistic. Little Drummer Girl Tehran Homeland The Americans McMafia Burn Notice Deutschland 83, Deutschland 85 and Deutschland 87. Killing Eve
  18. OOPS https://kyivindependent.com/azerbaijani-plane-crash/
  19. The EBITDA in the pharma industry is 32% higher than the average of the S&P 500, and their profit margin (both gross and operating) is nearly double that of the S&P 500, thanks to the monopolization advantages to which they're gifted. Clearly they're doing alright without government subsidies (not counting their COVID subsidies). What society needs from them is to serve a public purpose but given their significant profit margins, they're gouging the fuck out of us. From one of the NIH studies I believe I linked above. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7054843/ Gross Profit Margin: Pharmaceutical companies have a significantly higher gross profit margin (70.3%) compared to the S&P 500 companies (37.4%) EBITDA Margin: Pharmaceutical companies have a higher EBITDA margin (25.2%) compared to the S&P 500 companies (19.0%) Net Income Margin: Pharmaceutical companies have a higher net income margin (10.2%) compared to the S&P 500 companies (7.7%) (Table 3). Research and Development (R&D) Expenses: Pharmaceutical companies dedicate a larger percentage of their revenue to R&D expenses (17%) compared to other industries (average R&D expenses as a percentage of revenue range from 2% to 10% for various industries) (Table 4). Marketing and Sales Expenses: Pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing and sales expenses (18-22 billion USD) compared to R&D expenses (8-12 billion USD) for some of the largest pharmaceutical companies (e.g., Bayer, Johnson & Johnson) (AHIP analysis). Operating Expenses: Pharmaceutical companies have higher operating expenses (selling, general, and administrative expenses) compared to other industries, with some companies allocating over 30% of their revenue to these expenses (AHIP analysis). Profitability: Pharmaceutical companies are generally more profitable than other industries, with an average operating profit margin of 23.1% compared to 12.1% for the S&P 500 companies (Table 4). My recollection is that I asked him the question you quoted because patent thickets were a key part of a topic in 2 prior posts of mine to which he responded but didn't address the topic of patent thickets. Also how the fuck am I to be expected to know what he does for a living? Logically it makes zero sense to me that multiple studies by the federal government and higher education over the past several years including by USCPB, the NIH, HHS, GAO and UCSD have pointed to the same problems with pharma patents, including a high rate of patent abuse. But hey a poster on Surly who apparently works for pharma is convinced about the correctness of his own arguments, which (unless I'm reading between the lines incorrectly which is certainly more than possible) seem quite likely to benefit him financially.
  20. I've been waiting roughly a couple years so far too, feel the same. The Kyiv Independent has an article up:
  21. and why would they divide pharmaceuticals into 2 categories? That just alters the overall numbers for the sector. fwiw here's a study published in JAMA that found no link between high drug prices and R&D expenses https://jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.18623
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