I agree with you about prices, as I said, not defending them at all, just saying it's not just marketing costs. Oh and I'm Canadian, so, those prices you cite for drugs seem as alien to me as little green men. It's just completely ridiculous.

Though it's sometimes true that drug patents come from universities (though certainly not the only source of drug patents), you have to be completely clueless about clinical trials to say that marketing costs are the only considerable expense. Let's say you get a 100 drug patents from university, you will refine purification and production methods for at least a few months and you might select 10 based on multiple criteria including in vitro toxicity for clinical studies. From those 10 drugs, maybe 2 or 3 will go to clinical trial phase 2b-3 and if you're really lucky, one will end up on the market. Clinical studies for safety and efficacy of drugs are VERY expensive and have low chances to yield a drug. This is in part why commercialised drugs are so expensive. That said, I certainly won't defend Big Pharma and say they are poor and need more support, but just keep in mind that there is a lot more to drug development than "freeloading" public university research.

Following that line of thought, public sector employees shouls have no private life at all, because everything they do with their money comes from the public! /s

I'm sure Microsoft and Bing have a consumer friendly/privacy friendly non track policy. They have such an astonishing track record!

Valve doesn't seem to be in the business of developping WORK software (though they may sell them soon). So saying that the keyboard and mouse is right for gaming because it was designed and optimized for work really misses the point.

Have any of you checked the "new digg.com" ? :)

Didn't know UK was in Asia!

I liked Vanilla Coke myself, alas I didn't know many others who did

No, they'll probably tack on those fees by supposing you'll dance at a wedding party. There will be no burden of proof with this, not unlike the levy on blank media

Don't forget the black Christopher Lloyd in one of the movies!

Just want to second the Atomic Robo choice. One of the best american comic out there right now, whatever your age is.

I meant more a transport for humans, no point in making a lunar base using water if we're not gonna go there

Hopefully they design a vehicle to take them to the moon first...

I think that while documentation is already freely available for a lot of medical conditions, integrations into a single device (that you carry all the time with you) can surely raise awareness about such documentation. I don't think that people wanting to know more about a medical condition is necessarily evil or a sign of not trusting doctors. Has the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake completely disappeared? "Self-medication" may well result in misdiagnosis and possible complications by not going to the doctor in some cases, but on the flip side, it might encourage others to go consult trained professionnals because they think they might not have something as benign as they first thought. Furthermore, there is a lot of developement in completely automated tools for diagnosing infections, genetic mutations, etc which might reduce the need for some medical consultation within the next 5-10 years.

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