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  1. Let's also shit on him for individual kicking performances too. And Bolden's craziness. The only huge ST error we've had all season is the fake punt by UGa.
  2. JFC, Blackwell missed the block by a cunt hair. A small execution error. The call had him coming free. Let's all shit on Banks.
  3. This strikes me as unfair. What Dillon Gabriel did, he mostly did to PK, who also was pretty seriously undermanned at DB. This is not to dismiss Gabriel by any means. He good. But we are a different and better team than we were then.
  4. Why can't companies eat a little shit along with the rest of us? Why do they get to externalize everything?
  5. Welp this looks like a smooth buttfucking.
  6. This is not terribly groundbreaking, but for those who are questioning. https://www.texasbar.com/AM/Template.cfm?Section=articles&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=66428
  7. Well, and don't forget the murder. Browns do lots of murder. But azn browns don't. Oh, wait. https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/29/politics/us-prosecutors-charge-indian-man-with-attempted-murder-for-hire-plot-against-sikh-activist-on-us-soil/index.html
  8. I find it fascinating that it seems to be perfectly acceptable that consumers bite the pillow during inflationary periods, but it is also perfectly acceptable that businesses raise prices so they don't have to bite the pillow. Not to mention that the prices rarely, if ever, go down once the supply-chain normalizes and inflationary COGS goes down. It's like maybe we're not all in this together.
  9. I know. But the point is, she is now alleging a vaccine injury, when, at the time, she was calling herself a long-Covid victim. while also admitting that she wasn't vaccinated prior to getting it, although on the rational ground that, at the time, she didn't want to exercise legislator priority, letting the old and sick get it first. She is, quietly, one of the most performative magats out there.
  10. I think in theory, yes. But, practically, they are for jobs that allegedly can't be filled from domestic talent, so there's not, allegedly, a real market comparison. Plus, the legal work for an H1B is not cheap and you know corporations ain't absorbing that themselves. But it all gets back to how abusive is that corporation.
  11. https://www.bustle.com/rule-breakers/nancy-mace-covid-long-hauler-symptoms 30 minutes, 3x a week. What a badass. Lying cooze.
  12. Hola Isabel, como estas?
  13. Gotta love that turds like him support dismantling the CFPB.
  14. No "reappeal." He can try to go to the Supreme Court, but even they will decline cert. This also means that the second trial result will also be affirmed. Jury verdicts are very difficult to overturn on appeal, but there are three areas that can be fruitful: insufficient evidence, the trial judge's evidentiary rulings, and the instructions to the jury. Trump had some plausible appeal points on the first two, so this is very good news.
  15. Yknow, now that Trump has finally STFU about rigged elections -- because he won -- he needs to be hammered relentlessly on why this wasn't a rigged election this time. FUCKING HAMMERED. For his entire term. If he's so fucking concerned about "election integrity," why the fuck isn't he still barking about "irregularities"? Fucking fuck this guy in his fucking face.
  16. TwiceHorn

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    Well, alcoholics engage in all kinds of self-justifying and rationalizing behavior, like "I don't drink liquor, just beer," so I kind of figured the Ultra meme was one of those. But, and I'm way behind, maybe permanently behind, BBT's character seems to be highly functional. Kinda like the old saw, Coors Light is water. Well, yeah, it kinda is, but it's high-alcohol water.
  17. And, I don't disagree that the Patent Act, particularly those provisions peculiar to drugs, should be massaged/revised/repealed. Pharma is one of the only industries that has peculiar patent provisions. My worry is that we engage in some sort of wholesale "patent reform" that fucks up everything for everyone.
  18. The march-in rights I refer to actually force the patent owner (of an invention made with federal assistance) to grant licenses to qualified licensors and if they fail to, the government itself can do it. So it's in the nature of an ownership interest. Such rights rarely or never are exercised. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44597 It's pretty similar to what's known as a compulsory license, which tend to be disfavored in most capitalistic/commercial economies, kind of like price controls. But, Bayh-Dole, which provides for it, does automatically grant the government a license to use the invention free of charge. But, you're right, the practicalities of the scenario probably mean the government acquires "molecules" on the open market like anyone else, assuming there's any complexity to making them.
  19. Well, patents in the general case can be a bit of a pain in the ass for competitors, and, in turn, for customers. But while the patent monopoly ostensibly confers pricing power, it doesn't often result in the exorbitant prices we see from pharma. Part of it is the nature of pharma patents: chemical composition patent claims tend to be pretty precise and foreclose most if not all "equivalents," making them difficult to avoid or design-around. This is not necessarily the case with mechanical or electrical/electronic patents. So the monopoly conferred by a pharma composition patent may be broader and more effective than other types of patents. Also, there are tons of other market distortions at work in pharma pricing that patents don't account for.
  20. Really not any worse than East Texas. In fact, it's pretty much the exact same place.
  21. Well, I think universities do a lot of fundamental research, but that doesn't deliver final product or clinical trials of final product. Some have called the latter development. So the feds potentially have march-in rights on the university patents, but that would be taking revenue from universities, who license-out to industry, so they don't really do that.
  22. So many great and diverse songs. I have a hard time naming a favorite, because it changes all the time, even after 40 years of listening to them. Bankrobber and Magnificent Seven are getting a lot of plays these days. Cheeseboiguh!
  23. As in the Jesuit tradition, a man for others.
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