The Saudi's knew how the system worked. What was weird was when I graduated and got a job, I get an email out of the blue from King "Something starting with an M" University of Saudi Arabia that offered me a job flat out at $126k a year that included housing and a driver. But looking into it, it would pretty much require me to live in a compound. I almost took it, but I hate the heat and like booze too much.
I was a white guy, 3.8 GPA from 2 years of community college, looking for any help for University costs. I was like 22 living on my own. Father made like $2k above the poverty limit but wasn't even living in the same State as me. I got the grants package, like 40 pages like with 8 or so grants or assistance on each page. I qualified for 2; basic federal student loan and work study (work for min wage and they matched it 50% in reduced tuition).
Spez: I have applied for about 30 small grants and assistance through my undergraduate and graduate degrees, excluding research ones, I got one. I had nearly perfect GPAs, never less than 3.8. The one I got, was from a Prince in Saudi Arabia for like 8 grand in stipend assistance, meaning I could do less grunt work and focus more on my project. Every single women had grants and none of them had to do more than minimal TA work. Anyone who wasn't white was rolling in grants and had to do none. They guy from Saudi Arabia in the program who had enough money to not need to do none degree work, still got grants out the ass; he was making 50k a year in income from grants while I was pulling in 22k from side work.
What do you think community organizers that receive government grants spend the money on?
It needs to be completely redesigned and negotiated from the ground up and not the Frankenstein patchwork that it is now which is based of patent law for things like I phones. I would envision seeing a 2 step patent system with a research patent where as long as it is actively being pursued you are protected for a period of time from someone stealing it and then a market patent. I see the market patent having varying times like it sort of does now with incentives to create things that are more needed but less profitable.
There has been recently a huge push by the US government to re-purpose old drugs. It really picked up under Obama, something he does get some credit for. However, you are right there is really no incentive. They tried to make artificial incentives but that didn't work, so it mostly fell to the university grant system. But only a handful of Universities even have the ability to do small scale clinical trials. Like with HCQ, it is why you see 3 dozen tiny trials with like 10 people enrolled each measuring very specific metrics like the effect of HCQ on viral load in the sinus, or the effect on heart rhythm intervals.
Europe pretty much said "Sell this drug to us for X or you cannot sell it in Europe and we will just make it because it is our right." So companies were pretty much stuck with making a little money in Europe, or having them outright ignore drug patent law.
Drug patent law is like the most fucked up thing ever. I think Warfrin only had 2 years of market exclusivity, since the patent starts like 10 years before it every makes it to the major markets. Thus, no one wants to make new antibiotics. Why make something that doctors will actively use as a drug of last resort and reserve it (i.e. why Linezolid is like 5 grand). If you average out the cost of failed drugs, it is like 1 billion dollars = 1 new drug, 1000 candidate drugs being researched by a lab team each for years to get 1 that works.
Now drug companies are developing biotics, mostly antibody based technology. The reason for this is because you cannot make a generic. There is no standard or reasonable means to prove bio/chemical equivalency of an antibody produced from a cell culture that only you have.
I am not defending "Big Pharma" I have seen them from the inside and out and I dislike a lot of their practices. But they are a company, trying to make money, and current drug patent laws are messed up and incentivize bad practice.
Ok, I feel like I can comment a bit on this. Ignore textbook costs in China or India, they just steal those or use out of date ones.
Don't buy text books from the student book store, they are marked up insanely. If you check online you can usually find the modern calculus text book for $20-40. It is the topic specific ones that are expensive as all hell. These ones you cannot use 15 year old textbooks, otherwise you would be completely out of date on techniques and such; biology is a great example.
Modern textbooks can have up to 40 authors, they will usually only list the editors and maybe one or two main authors. I know someone who wrote one of these textbooks, he was an editor and wrote about 3 out of the 20 some chapters. In doing so he spent probably 4 solid months of work (40x4x4 h). Ignoring the mark up of college book stores (that is them individually marking them up) textbooks have high royalties compared to other books. However, there are 40 authors. He ended up getting paid like $12,000 for his work on that, and it was one of the main textbooks used for that field for like 4 years. He could have made more doing any other work in his field. His advice to me, never agree to write for a text book unless you're name is going to be on the front.
Bird repellent gel is a legal solution.
Unions and such. Their health care for life, the pension, their ability to get another job in their field 100% depend on compliance. If ONE of these cops said no, they would be fired and black listed so fast. They would receive a 1 time payout from their pension which would amount to like 1% of what they would receive if they retired. Also instantly lose amazing benefits for their entire family. Then they would not be able to get a job anywhere as a cop.
He's gonna get JFK'd.
In defense of this, the information we had coming out of China and the WHO, at the start was scary. Those models from College of London that every one shits on were models for a "worst case scenario" because we can't trust China at all. The initial data showed a SARs/MERs like virus with a 3-19% mortality from age 30+ and a 2 week asymptomatic but infectious period.
Although after 3-4 weeks, and studying outbreaks on cruises/military ships, we should have reevaluated, but by then too much political capital had been invested. It is funny, because I research infectious disease and I can throw down fucking CDC data to my co workers and get called a conspiracy theorist and they will "Not even have this conversation." Like What the flying Fuck.
Not really, just the opt in by default and make it confusing and time consuming and prone to errors to opt out.
People think that organ donation is limited to just things like liver for transplant. Scientists use a lot of the donated tissue for things like primary tissue research. There are entire labs dedicated to things like breaking up liver cells to single cell suspensions so they can be frozen and sold. I am not advocating against this, but rather that the consent be very clear and explicit. I have used a lot of human tissue, but the tissue I have used always came from surgeries so I had to write a consent form which clearly explained what we were going to do with the donated tissue.
There is a lot of money in processing and selling primary tissue cells. (https://www.eversightvision.org/careers/openings/clinical-technician-tissue-processing-chicago/)
I think she is actually a she. B.A. i Japanese studies. M.A. in Speech Pathology and briefly taught kindergarten.
She holds all the qualifications that one should need to develop a child education curriculum, expect for education, training, or experience.
Illinois has it as opt out box on a variety of forms. If you miss it once you're put in a confidential list that you need to contact to be opted out.
There are tons of reports from those who have the means to do private funeral services, open casket vs. getting cremated remains from the city. It's common to hear "They sent my childs body to me with no bones and full of saw dust." Some investigative journalists did a piece on this a year or so back and it was shut down faster than pizzagate.
Spez: I implied it was my child.
The previous night they strongly implied that wife beating was not illegal in the US before like 1960, which is odd because we used to publicly flog people for it.
Don't fuck with animals or kids is pretty much it.
I was waiting for this, I knew it was coming.
No it wasn't JUST BLM.
That was John Thompson, DFL endorsed candidate for district 67A of the Minnesota House who threatened minors and called for the burning down of Hugo Minnesota. Don't worry, it wont affect his chances of winning, his district is 95% going to vote for the person with a D next to their name.
Another fun fact. Whites constantly tried to ban slavery, both in the north and south, since the first slaves arrived. They did not do it out of altruism, but rather wages and they didn't want black people around. This took the form of local governments passing import taxes, property taxes, regulations, or religious laws like only Christians can be here and Christians cannot be slaves. These were constantly overturned by the local aristocratic and mega companies that essentially owned all the land and ruled as oligarchies.
Take those stories with a grain of salt. While I do not doubt that there are incredibly cruel tortures and executions, they are likely done "privately"; as in everyone knows but there is no evidence. What the ones with AA guns, mortars, or dogs are is likely propaganda. NK works with China or w/e to release a "leak" that a senior offical was executed by dogs. It makes it to a clip on CNN or w/e then North Korea trots out the guy with the news clip and is like "look at this American propaganda" to its citizens. Same with Vlad's daughter dying of a Covid vaccine, bet cha a buck shes fine.
Those tickets did. There was a thread that said the plane crashed here in the sea and you will see debris was ashore in Madagascar in 3 months. 3 months later...
The irony of it is drop hanging is probably the quickest death, even faster than decapitation, as it causes cervical dislocation by pulling the spine out of the brain. I dunno, but I see being strapped to a chair with needles in your arm surrounded by guys in lab coats as much more terrifying.
Well I do think there is a huge problem with pedos in the rich, and I am not talking about this specific case, I think they use this charge to "party van" people. Be careful when you hear this news. It is amazing how many low level hackers/activists/militia leaders/leakers get arrested for CP. It is the perfect charge, "how could you support/listen-to a monster." Then when they are killed by their cell mate 9 months later, or locked in solitary for life, no one is none the wiser.
This first question I always ask when I see a story like this is, would someone want this person to disappear? It is hard to ask that question now, as trying to dig up info about him is hard with the flood of 10,000 copy pasted news stories and the deletion of his social media (either by him/his lawyer/other).
To be clear, I think pedos should have a stone tied around their neck and throw into the sea. They should get no mercy.
Do a hair tests. It tests for essentially as long as the hair is but usually cut at 3 inches or so or about 3 months.