Comment Flip the Curriculum (Score 1) 85
I propose flipping the two. Teach kids keyboarding in grade school so they don't develop bad habits early. In middle school, teach cursive as an art form and work on developing unique and beautiful writing.
There can be no doubt that a new drug costs of the order of a $1bn to discover, develop, TEST and distribute.
That part I understand. It's when a drug goes off patent and is still extremely expensive that I get outraged. R&D costs should be covered by that point, but the "free market" isn't doing its job.
Governments should just buy patent licences for these drugs and make them available to their citizens at cost. It would probably be cheaper than buying them at commercial rates.
Under current laws, the pharmaceutical company gets to name the price for the licences. I don't see this panning out.
However, patents aren't the only thing driving up drug prices. Despite being off patent, a lot of drugs are still only available from a single supplier. There needs to be more competition, but unfortunately strict government regulations pose a high barrier to entry for competitors. Reducing that barrier, perhaps through some sort of government subsidy, could be a remedy.
So Frontier buys 14 states worth of customers from Verizon in 2010 for $8.6B, and now Verizon is buying that (shrunken) business back for $9.6B + $10B in debt in 2024.
These guys are business geniuses!
It was 13 states, and technically Verizon spunoff a new company called "New Communications" which Frontier purchased.
But yeah. 2010 called and it wants its Verizon back.
Wallets lined with copper mesh.
Any decent wallet already has RF blocking as a feature. Only very cheap, or "designer" wallets don't. Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
I guess reading this, I was kinda shocked to think that anyone really hooks their TV up to the internet....
How the hell do you watch Netflix?
I cannot conceive that anybody will require multiplications at the rate of 40,000 or even 4,000 per hour ... -- F. H. Wales (1936)