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Comment Re:I now work for the govt, the waste is obscene (Score 1) 58

yet the health needs of the American people is clearly underserved by Big Pharma. Perhaps research prizes for solutions to specific goals, but the Imaginary Prperty rights are retaained by the prize authority for licensing. I dont have any information on how cost efficient NASA Xprizes are administered, but a tunnel vision focus on next quarters profits has not provren to be an optimal path for medical research. Could money lost to waste and inefficiencies be that much worse than puting it into corporate/critter coffers?

Comment Re:Be careful what you wish for. (Score 2) 58

I have no faith in the government, but I doubt we could be raped worse by an R&D bureacracy than we are by sociopaathic corporations. Given how beholden the critters are to them, theyd never stifle the cash flow from them to make it happen, regargdless of how much better it would be as a solution for their constituents.

Comment Re:Be careful what you wish for. (Score 2) 58

The falacy of your argument is that we must rely on Big Pharma companies for appropriate r&d. Given their failure to address non-profitable therapies and cures and their preference for ongoing cash cows of therapies inteas of cures not to mention their manipulation of the patent system to maintain monopolies on drugs that should have passed into generic manufacturing. Big Pharma should be PROHIBITED from performing R&D or in the case of foreign companies selling self researched drugs/therapies in the USA. Drug R&D should be done in by government funded institutions and licensed by the goverment for manufacture to a minimum of three US based sources. Let them compete for their corporate dollars instead of gifting them with more biribe money to feed the congress critters.

Comment "secrecy was necessary" (Score 1) 57

If they are not doing anything wrong then they should mot have anything to hide. All interpersonal interactions of all government functionaries with public citizens should be recorded and filed electronically by the media audio/vidieo and metadata to be made available immeadiately following the conclusion of the inquiry/investigation. Make them responsible for their (in)actions. Any extensions beyond a sunset date must be individually approved and summary reports published on how many extensions were approved made on a monthly basis. Let the cockroaches scurry for the baseboards when the light comes on.

Comment Re:Surprise is that this doesn't happen already (Score 1) 443

Unfortunately Baen has essentially guttted their free library due to ebook deals it is making. I especially appreciated that David Weber's Crown of Slaves was there, when I tried to point an acquantence to the URL (I didnt feel right passing her a copy of mine) and it was no longer to be found. I am gretaeful that they left OBS and THoTQ there. But it is a shadow of what it once was.

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