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  1. 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.
  2. https://www.bustle.com/rule-breakers/nancy-mace-covid-long-hauler-symptoms 30 minutes, 3x a week. What a badass. Lying cooze.
  3. Hola Isabel, como estas?
  4. Gotta love that turds like him support dismantling the CFPB.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. TwiceHorn

    Landman

    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.
  8. And, I don't disagree that the Patent Act, particularly those provisions peculiar to drugs, should be massaged/revised/repealed.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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Really not any worse than East Texas. In fact, it's pretty much the exact same place.
  12. 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.
  13. 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!
  14. As in the Jesuit tradition, a man for others.
  15. I mean I get that the magatekbros are targeting whites because it's assumed that non-azn browns can't do shit. But the white in that post hit me funny.
  16. Well, R&D is a real thing. Pharmas, among other entities, have to do it to stay afloat. I didn't say it justified their pricing. But to say they don't engage in R&D and don't actually innovate is foolish. There's a notion that patents stimulate or incentivize invention. I think that's false because inventors gonna invent. Patents do incentivize investment in invention. Patents also tend to be viewed a tool for abuse of little guys by big money. But they are also used to good effect by little guys, individuals and small businesses. Often when we "reform" the patent system, it winds up fucking little guys more than big ones. https://jtbg.org/about
  17. Do y'all turn certain sites like surly into an "app"? I find that give it a smidge more real estate on a phone.
  18. Bick 4 is good stuff works on just about any skin, but apply relatively often, even if you don't wear, keep em from drying out and cracking. Using your hands to flex the sole can help with breakin some. In the most traditional fit, the instep is quite tight and a) holds your foot in the boot b) keeps your foot from sliding down into the toe and c) makes them a bit of a bitch to get off, and maybe on. That will allow some heel slippage until the sole gets broken in. In the modern, D or E fits all, world, your heel slips like crazy because the boot doesn't really fit. So it's probably even more important to get the sole flexed ASAP.
  19. No, you fucking Afrikaaner cunt. You came to this country on a STUDENT VISA to avail yourself of superior educational opportunities provided by WOKE, DEI universities. A student visa that you violated by failing to enroll in Stanford and then gaining employment BEFORE obtaining an H1B visa. Most people that aren't rich white Afrikaaners would have been deported and subsequent visa applications denied.
  20. Interdasting. Did not know that. He patented the concept of a shopping maze, as well. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/cc/b8/73/07a11a4e391684/US1242872.pdf
  21. And apparently Stoker's heirs sued for copyright infringement and won and most copies of the original were destroyed.
  22. Look at this dumbfuck who thinks "globalism" isn't free market capitalism. Except H1-B data shows that we're primarily not importing "talent". We're importing "barely good enough" from overseas to work at wages that are much lower than the US talent market would otherwise allow for. Plenty of talented Americans exist to fill these roles but employing them is less profitable than importing foreigners with lower standards. It's just another aspect of the other issues America has in offshoring other jobs as well as manufacturing/production. All of this could be done by Americans, in America. But too many people stand to gain outsized profits by exploiting the H1-B system, and foreign labor. This isn't allowing the free market to regulate the job market. It's corporate globalists manipulating the domestic economy via foreign labor pools. Globalism to the detriment of Americans. If it continues to be accepted as a new American principle to favor corporate margins achieved via aggressive globalization over all other aspects of the American economy, and lives of American citizens then this country is doomed. I'm all in favor of bringing in the best, brightest, intellectually elite of the world to further American exceptionalism. And we should focus on that. Not sourcing the cheapest labor from third world countries to replace Americans on the cheap. THAT practice, if perpetuated and magnified, stands to have an equally negative impact on the US (albeit in a different manner) to illegal immigration.
  23. I have had two caddies straight. Second is an ATS coupe which is mechanically very similar to the ct4 and 5. Have had zero problems that weren't warrateed and it's 7 years old, knock on wood. Its CTS predecessor was nearly flawless for 90k miles. Early ATS had some problems with the piston rings that led to bigger problems with the engine, but that was 20 years ago and tehe current 4banger is just a variant. The turbo v6 is pretty well settled also. The bigger 4banger in the - V seems to be solid.
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