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Quoting from the last thread:Fried Chicken posted:I am not, in any great sense, a spiritual man. Yet it still strikes me as something very twisted about following a day of thanks and being grateful for what you have with a weeklong orgy of mass consumerism, manufactured greed, and impulse acquisition, where crowds literally beat each other to death in the name of getting more, more, more. It is just the marketers' revenge for the American family steadfastly refusing to let Thanksgiving be turned into a gift giving holiday.
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Samurai Sanders posted:I'd feel worse for them if they weren't so influential in politics. I dunno. I think that with different leadership in their church they likely would be directing their efforts in a much more socially productive manner. But angry rants telling them that everything isn't their fault and that actually their godliness and that of a few stalwart members of society is all that is holding back a tide of evil fills pews and keeps collection plates full.
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CommieGIR posted:As if that wasn't enough, he's basically saying "No, I won't drop the price on the drugs that are exclusive to us, but we will setup a patient assistance program (loan program) to purchase said drugs. He doesn't have a patent. The drug is generic just nobody else bothered to go through the approval process to make it because the return just wasn't there for a specialty drug at $14 a pill. Even at the current $750 per other companies probably still won't try to get approval both because Mr Douchebro changed the distribution so it is harder to get the drug to do bioequivalence testing (which is one of the reasons he is under investigation) and because he can wait for them to do all the work and then crater the price to drive them out of the market. Fun little side note since you brought up patents: pharmaceutical companies area freaking out at the moment because hedge funds have started doing a rather nasty thing to make money at their expense. The hedge funds short the stock and then file challenges to critical patents the company has using a newly instituted review process at the Patent Office. The stock dips and they make money, and stand to make even more if the patent gets invalidated because some pharmaceutical companies basically only exist due to one or two drugs. But the pharmaceutical industry has largely hosed itself by being greedy and burning any political capital in favor of stuff like tax inversions and sky high near-term returns. Shifty Pony fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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They are having a hard time finding the tape because they stored it in the clean coal power plant.
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Dec 1, 2015 17:36
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discoukulele posted:Things are starting to get a bit more tense between Texas' Health & Human Services Commission and the non-profit sector. Last week, HHS started requesting assurances from various non-profits that they won't be serving Syrians and threatening lawsuits and funding blocks if they do. At this point I would be shocked if the ACLU didn't step in with a lawsuit first.
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Dec 1, 2015 18:12
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hobbesmaster posted:This is clever. I'm assuming he's taking the position that any medication that has any theoretical potential to interfere with implantation is an abortifacient. This means that "contraceptives" is defined basically only as condoms. No he's just lying.
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Dec 1, 2015 19:09
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hobbesmaster posted:Plan B and other hormonal contraceptives being abortifacients is the view of many evangelicals. I know, but they don't limit themselves to just those things. 2014 Texas GOP platform posted:School Health Care- We urge legislators to prohibit reproductive health care services, including counseling, referrals, and distribution of condoms and contraception through public schools. We support the parents’ right to choose, without penalty, which medications are administered to their minor children. We oppose medical clinics on school property except higher education and health care for students without parental consent. Link
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Dec 1, 2015 20:11
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Radbot posted:I'm ashamed to admit I've been active on Reddit for five years or so, and I can definitely say it hasn't always been this bad. The admins tried to ignore the problem and let it take root instead of stomping it out right away. It wasn't until there was a full fledged network of racist subreddits which straight up called itself the "chimpire" with a hundred thousand users that they decided to take action.
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Dec 1, 2015 20:50
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The dogge thread is good but the Yospos catte thread is where it's at 
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Dec 1, 2015 21:18
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Trump is actually catching some heat for his call in advocating for a literal war crime in specifically targeting the families of anyone associated with terrorists. Including a former Israeli minister for Netanyahu of all people saying that Trump is advocating things that would make us no better than the terrorists. I mean you don't kill their families, you just destroy everything they own and leave them homeless and on the street. A funeral is a one time thing but every day destitute is a new lesson!
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Dec 4, 2015 13:20
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Could they not find a Bush supporter to give a data point?
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Dec 4, 2015 17:29
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The Aardvark posted:Arizona is not that far. Or Nevada. And I presume it works just like it does when a state which bans fireworks borders one that does not - a whole bunch of stores spring up right over the border selling anything you could possibly want.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:47
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What I want to know is why the gently caress does Liberty University still have a tax exemption?
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Dec 6, 2015 17:48
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Luigi Thirty posted:As long as they don't back a specific candidate or speak for or against a specific candidate's policies they keep their tax-exempt status. While they are remarkably even handed in some areas (the Bernie speech) the university leadership has in the past been quite outspoken in criticizing policies and politicians on the left. In this speech for example he said "It just blows my mind that the president of the United States [says] that the answer to circumstances like that is more gun control”. Now unless the IRS is operating on a looser version of the Senate's "my friend from [state] is an idiot" style technicalities or that Obama is somehow no longer considered a candidate under IRS rules that seems pretty blatant.
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Dec 6, 2015 19:14
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Rhesus Pieces posted:I think I found the text, via twitter: Might be worth seeing if the ACLU knows about that.
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I'm really not looking forward to the possibility of Christmas politics chat when I visit my parents in SC.
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Dec 8, 2015 17:52
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By far the best part of this scenario would be three person general election debates with Trump pissed at the GOP nominee for beating him.
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Dec 8, 2015 21:19
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zoux posted:The Senate is reauthorizing NCLB today, does anyone know if it got tweaked or what? NCLB basically is dead, the senate bill is a replacement which returns a bunch of policy making power to the states while keeping performance tracking for schools. http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/12/08/458844737/no-child-left-behind-an-obituary
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Dec 9, 2015 17:18
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The Diane Rehm Show today is going to be about trump and the GOP party's internal divisions. Could be interesting. WAMU will have it at 10 eastern
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SavageBastard posted:Jeffrey Lord is on Diane Rehm right now likening pro-Trumpers with civil rights activists and I'm getting itchy. Listening as well. Holy poo poo this guy.
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JT Jag posted:I don't go out of my way to say this about a lot of people, but the world would actually be better off if Martin Shkreli died. He is a literal blight on our species. I hate to say it but drat if you aren't right. He wants to change the same amount ($50k-$100k) that is being charged for the hep c cure, the goddamn poster child for pharmaceutical price gouging.
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Dec 12, 2015 20:51
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The NY Times has a bonus tidbit for the Shkreli arrest:quote:Evan L. Greebel, a corporate lawyer at Kaye Scholer who has worked with Mr. Shkreli, was also arrested on Thursday morning. A spokesman for the firm declined to comment.
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Gail Wynand posted:I'm not seeing any primo crazy at /r/sandersforpresident, help a brother out There's a bunch of them posting (and upvoting) theories that the database "firewall" was deliberately lowered by DWS and Hillary to trap the Sanders campaign.
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Dec 18, 2015 16:32
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Sir Tonk posted:http://www.texastribune.org/2015/12/18/patrick-appoints-allen-west-former-florida-congres/ As a Texas voter I agree. 
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On the flip side if they reinstated access after Hillary asked them to it makes it look like Hillary calls the shots at the DNC.
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Welp! (Hillary's Press Secretary)
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Dec 19, 2015 01:52
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Maybe roll back Sander's data to the day of the breech? That would probably be a campaign death sentence in all but name though.
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Dec 19, 2015 02:03
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ReidRansom posted:The breach was Wednesday. Four days data lost with only ~50 left until the NH primary is quite the body blow.
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Logikv9 posted:I too read Game Change and how awful the Hillary campaign was behind the scenes. Doesn't change the fact that this election the Bernie supporters are all circlejerking off in their own bubble. As a great example of this /r/sandersforpresident currently seems to think that keeping the lawsuit going would be a good thing. Some seem to think that a potential ~$1M in damages in exchange for becoming a complete political pariah (seriously you can't fully put into words just how awful a trade that would be) would be a win and others are crowing about how the discovery process would turn up a grand conspiracy to get Hillary elected. Audit the
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A bunch of people did this in Austin last night too: Now where have I seen that sort of thing before....  Oh.
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Mo_Steel posted:Saw it for Obama in 2012, because it's a cheap easy way to get attention. Eh maybe it is regional. Around here I've only ever seen Paulites, that Impeach Obama campaign, Infowars types, and Open Carry advocates doing it. 
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gradenko_2000 posted:Are we talking Mark Penn levels of bad here? Well they did have a national data director who apparently didn't realize a database full of data worth hundreds of million of dollars would have detailed access logs.
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greatn posted:These are all terrible analogies. I'm saying the data he stole wasnt worth $100 million dollars. Maybe the entire database is. I never said the data he stole was, but the value of the database as a whole is what dictates the security applied. A better analogy might be someone at a high stakes table at a casino reaching over and taking their neighbor's chips when a drink is spilled and not expecting security to see it when they replay the tapes. There's simply no way that a person reasonably competent in IT would not have known that a security bug in a new patch was certainly going to trigger a log check to see if anyone took advantage of it.
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Mitt Romney posted:Also it's not some niche section of Sanders supporters, it has 140,000 subscribers and they are very vocal and go to almost every other internet community. I think it is semi-official as well. A decent number of the people posting there are involved with the campaign in more than a phonebanking/volunteer capacity.
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Dec 20, 2015 19:12
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People defending a flat tax aren't going to care if it fucks the poor. The best strategy is to appeal to the demand for "fairness" that the flat tax is supposed to address. The rich businessman depends significantly more on the government and public infrastructure to make their money than Joe Somebody. If the court system were closed starting tomorrow most working class people would never notice but Wall Street would poo poo itself due to losing the ability to enforce contracts. If the US Navy were to be mothballed the resulting uptick in Somalia-style piracy wouldn't be a worry for us but the Waltons would have a real bad time.
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fosborb posted:Well sure, but before that happens living wills do things like "don't Terry Shiavo me" and "I want Clouds_ThemeMain_Theme_Final_Fantasy_VII(Orchestral_Version).mp3 played as I'm cremated " Just hope they don't download it from Limewire or who knows what you'll get. But yeah I need to make a will. And get all my beneficiaries in order for retirement accounts and life insurance and whatnot. When does the fiduciary rule go into place for retirement advisors? The omnibus bill was the last stand to kill it and that rider didn't make it.
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Kilroy posted:Nah, he wanted an AUMF so Republicans couldn't gently caress him over on Syria later on. Little did he know they were going to do that anyway. I would give the GOP credit for at least being smart enough to learn from Kerry and Hillary how supporting an open ended conflict can go sideways on you, but I'm pretty sure they are only opposing the AUMF because Obama asked for it.
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Dec 22, 2015 16:32
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Which is more influential: the man who figured out how to make the boat float or the man who convinced people to punch holes in the bottom?
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Dec 26, 2015 18:58
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Radish posted:It's really great we're at the point where you have to think "is calling the cops going to make this situation much, much worse because they are trigger happy maniacs?" since the legal system heavily encourages that behavior. That has long been the case for the affected communities just now it is getting attention.
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DemeaninDemon posted:resort town gets hacked! Their script was probably crawling the Web and found the McCall website was running a software package which had a known exploit. Pretty common occurrence for small infrequently updated websites.
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