yes, evidently you have longer arms than a normal person and are able to circle-jerk yourself, hence your desire to date yourself. You have to, because you won't put out without getting a decent meal first.

I believe the primary obstacle is that the gov't [particularly the federal gov't] loathes actually hiring people. they want to outsource everything, because of the mantra "private industry steals the best". and then to make sure only the crappiest companies bid on the project, make everyone submit hundreds of pages of mostly useless paperwork, and then pick the lowest bidder, regardless of ability to actually perform the work. Then, when the lowest bidder fails, award the contract to a close friend's company, and whatever price they suggest, because "it has to get done by yesterday".

Just start over and use "AAA".

No "may" about it....

it's both. the new molecule is similar enough that they argue that you can't make the generic without infringing the new patent and of course they stop making the old drug because the new improved version only costs 10% more for only a small decrease in effectiveness.

except big pharma games the system, where they release a drug under patent protection, then shortly before the patent ends, they re-patent the drug to cover some other condition, then say that generics can't make the drug for the first condition because they can't prevent it from being used for the second.

and in Canada, we are helpfully extending our patent time limits under the still secret Canada-EU trade agreement that Harper just signed. The Canadian people are too stupid to understand it, so we can't find out what he agreed to.

why does it have to continue on after the creator dies?
why not just a straight up fixed term, like 10 years?

certainly most stuff now makes their money fairly quickly, and the only thing long copyright length does [for the majority of things covered by it] is basically a lottery hit [way down the road, something randomly becomes super-popular for no particular reason, like the rick-roll].

does anybody believe any band of the last 100 years went "man, there's no point to writing this song if we don't get paid royalties from it for at least 25 years after we die"

movies make the vast majority of their money in the first couple of years, between the movie theatre release, then DVD/online movie sales.

yes, it needs a 4k display so you can transfer the porn vid to it so you don't miss anything getting another beer.

I believe they have accepted the "if you want the cable to be able to actually connect to anything in the US, you need to let us splice this box into the cable" proposition by the NSA.

they needed to quickly generate a multi-billion dollar tax loss

and prevent the main company that made Windows Phone-based devices from switching to Android

of course, they totally learned their lesson and won't be making that mistake again!

why the fuck did the austrian post office ask the chinese embassy if it was OK to print these stamps?

they love diving in water, as long as they are in a burlap sack.

not good enough. some of the animated characters have a vague resemblance to live people, therefore they have to pay those people as if they were acting in the film.

of course, the film was completely paid for, in advance. an 'indie film' is normally a small budget film with backers that receive a share of the profits of the film.

this is a film funded by backers who received a copy of the film [or rather "a license to view it"] in exchange for backing it.

all that's left is gravy....for the ones who didn't risk anything [I guess other than getting a bad rep for possibly making a bad movie].