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Comment Re:What they don't tell you (Score 1) 588

The links for soy protein don't say much. The first is a single case study based on a guy drinking 3 quarts of soy milk a day. The second concludes:

Only one study has examined soy and whey protein supplementation together in conjunction with resistance training. Kalman et al. [46] reported that after 12 weeks of supplementation with soy there were no significant differences between groups for total testosterone, free testosterone, and SHBG. This study expanded upon the limited prior research examining the effects of soy and whey protein supplementation on testosterone, SHBG, and cortisol responses to an acute bout of resistance exercise. Contrary to popular misconceptions, soy protein supplementation does not appear to hinder anabolic signaling postexercise by means of eliciting increases in estradiol concentrations. However, our main findings demonstrate that 14 days of supplementation with soy protein does appear to blunt serum testosterone. In addition, whey might influence the response of cortisol during an acute bout of resistance exercise by also blunting its normal increase. Further research will need to explore a possible interaction effect on sex hormone binding globulin.

Comment Re:And don't forget mercury in the CFLs... (Score 1) 173

There is nothing anti-science about having slaves and

Of course that is anti-science. Any economist would tell you that it is much cheaper to just get rid of minimum wage and overtime laws and then put your workers in a company town than it is to import, purchase and maintain slaves.

Comment Re:its not about the education (Score 1) 161

Connections, yes, but also peers. Are you surrounded by incredibly smart and ambitious people in your school? Do they have Incredible work ethics, creative ideas, already planning the companies they want to start? Or are you surrounded by people who are going to college because, um, it's what you do after high school and before real life?

Some folks will do a lot or a litte no matter what their environment is, others will take a lot of cues from the folks around them.

Comment Re: What the heck? (Score 4, Funny) 354

As I understand it Bukkit is a mod licensed under the GPL. The Minecraft server is proprietary. They don't share any code, so individually they're not derivates of anything. CraftBukkit combines the server code with the mod code. This is illegal both ways - the server license doesn't let you link to Bukkit, the Bukkit license doesn't let you link to the proprietary server.

You either just described what the argument is about in an accurate, succinct and understandable way (a first for this thread) or you are completely wrong in a succinct and understandable way. You should really do technical writing or PR on the side, depending on which is true.

Comment Re: What the heck? (Score 1) 354

He rightly claims that Bukkit is distributed in violation of the GPL, because it contains parts of Minecraft server that aren't licensed under the GPL, and that license violation is grounds for the DMCA takedown /p>

OK, I'm confused. Bukkit contains parts of Minecraft server or reverse engineered parts of Minecraft server?

Comment Re:What's next after the smart watch? (Score 1) 87

Smart watch buckle + smart ring = phone. Wear whatever nice looking watch you like: the buckle will have a microphone added to it. The ring has a speaker. Hold your hand up to your ear and you have a phone. That or glue-on beauty marks will become the fad when they become the microphone.

Comment Re:Answer - The E Dumbing Down Of Society {ModMe} (Score 1) 116

As a an early adopter of the the first i pod touch I shelled out 600 dollars Australian with the intention that within a matter of months a decent .pdf reader and asociated apps would spring up allowing me to reads books and all of the scientific literature i could get my hands on. .

-Keegan

I went the opposite route because no matter the .pdf software, scientific literature means text that can't be reflowed, tiny fonts (the subscripts and superscripts tend to be important), and needing to see the entire page at once to avoid spending more time flipping pages between the figure legend and the figure than trying to understand the content. A 10" color screen is pretty much the minimum.

Comment Re:Chinese angry about verification codes (Score 1) 79

True, but the anti-monopoly justification is being used against foreign corporations in lots of different industries: mobile phones,car parts, eyewear, shipping... they're also using other methods to go against foreign drug companies. Getting "Windows on the cheap - Or Else" is just one part of China flexing its muscles in new ways.

Comment Re:Because they could't sue the Government (Score 1) 212

Then there's the use of expensive still patented drugs in cases where equally good generics are just as usable at a tenth the price. That's not caused by an excess of regulation.

A lot of the time that is happening because a doctor fought an insurance benefits manager for days to keep a patient on the expensive drug because the generics also used for the condition aren't nearly as good for that for that particular patient. "me too" drugs almost always benefit some groups of patients more than the first in class drug does. If they didn't they couldn't get approved.

Comment Re:Because they could't sue the Government (Score 1) 212

Guess what: until recently you had both. Some batches of that imported generic lipitor you took in the 'aughts quite likely had little of the active ingredient, due to nonexistent QC protocols at the time. A few billion dollars in fines, plants getting banned from exporting to the US, and increased inspections of foreign plants by the FDA is (hopefully) making the situation better.

Comment Re:Because they could't sue the Government (Score 1) 212

Did you ever wonder why nobody else makes the old formulation when it goes generic? It;s because the holder of the exclusive on the new formulation pays them not to.

That did happen, so congress made the practice illegal. So instead the the Pharma and the generic manufacturer would enter a careful dance of lawsuits concerning infringement, which would end up with the Pharma settling and paying the generic some money. Congress Made that illegal too ... to some extent. Loopholes remain. Basically a Pharma can keep exclusivity for 6-24 months after the patent runs out depending on how they work it. When the first generic competitor finally comes online, there is very little change in price. Neither wants to start a price war. The big price drop happens when the third generic manufacturer joins the party, at which point competition for market share overtakes the lure of high profit margins.

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