While they do make an industry, these companies are in competition with each other. One company, regardless of their feelings towards the other, just wants to make the most money. I can't imagine a pharmaceutical company passing up the opportunity to be the company that cured cancer. Their company name would become instantly household recognizable.I imagine that currently one company does not get all the cancer patient's business, but if they had the freakin' cure that would change. When trying to cure your cancer do you want the original or knockoff?

Besides, a cure is different from a vaccine. And people can get many types of cancer. With a cancer cure it is possible that a person would need treatments several times in their life. As they get older, that number would increase. A cure would probably not be the deathblow to pharmaceutical sales that people say.

But maybe I'm being silly.

I remember the first book of her's I read. It was an anthology of short Pern stories. I must have been around 12. They opened me up to the world of fantasy/scifi literature and started me down the path to being an avid reader. Anne McCaffrey changed my life for the better and I wish I had been able to thank her before her passing.

I would like to throw on top of this that there are a number of drivers who do not stop before a crosswalk. They think it is okay to stop in the crosswalk. Which is problematic because a pedestrian and the nose of a car can't occupy the same space safely.

Try google's stock screener: https://www.google.com/finance#stockscreener

Vote for someone else. I mean, if you truly, honestly believe that your vote doesn't make a whole lot of difference than what is the harm in showing support for a candidate from a third party? I am being 100% serious here. If everyone who felt disenfranchised voted for someone other than the republicans and democrats maybe we could have a functioning country again. And maybe seeing "Joe Third Party" on a result board some where will actually make people wake up to the fact that they DON'T have to vote for the wangs paraded around in front of us by the republican and democrat parties.

Sorry for the digression.

I don't know much about climate myself, but I do know that the atmosphere is several layers of chemically goodness.

If the heat is trapped below the area where most of the ozone resides than the heat wouldn't get to pass through the ozone layer on its way out into space, thus not being able to warm it. When I tried to look up the phenomena in an article I read recently all they said was that it was generally accepted that increased surface temperature results in chillier atmosphere (which is not a helpful explanation) http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-10/so-now-there%E2%80%99s-ozone-hole-over-arctic-what-does-mean.

That can only be read as a justification if you want it to read that way. All the poster said was that landmines do automated killing. He passed no obvious judgment on the morality or righteousness of either method of killing. It is up to the reader of the statement to figure out whether or not landmines strengthen or weaken the case for automated killing machines.

People keep saying this and trying to get people to switch to streaming content. Well, that totally blows for two kinds of people. The poor and the technologically inept. Netflix would still have had a solid dvd business for the next 5-10 years. Now they won't have a solid business between the two.

Sounds like another case of people wanting more of something for less money. People seem to not realize that everything costs money, and their governments should spend wisely, not less.

Who would buy playboy for the naked ladies? You can get that shit free on the internet.

People tend to run the other direction when they hear gunshots. Regardless of who is firing them.

Microsoft's number of shares: 8.38 Billion 51% of MSFT: 4,273,800,000 Market Price per share: $25 Cost to buy 51% at Market Price: $181,845,000,000 (Roughly $182 Billion) Apple's Net Income for Q2 2011: $7 to $8 billion Conclusion: Apple would be better served doing a massive buy-back of their own stock. They would drive the value of their stock up (something people seem to covet). They wouldn't have to deal with a nasty and fruitless FCC investigation. And they wouldn't be purchasing a sinking ship (as many see MSFT).

That is the most ludicrously stupid response ever. Most people don't live in cities (the places with the good mass transit) because its fucking expensive out the yang. But I'm sure that doesn't occur to the average person. If everyone that worked in cities lived in cities the prices for renting/owning would be through the roof, and to compensate, everything in the city would be more expensive. Because that guy flipping burgers at one of the city's 10 McDonald's has to pay to live in his $2000 studio, because "zOmG, he has to live nearby or else he's stupid!!!".

Get real. Cities are expensive. Commuting is the solution to both expense and overcrowding. Mass transit further lowers both.

This. Nearly everyone would get most of what they want. The game would be playable in any circumstance thus widening their market.

The extremely funny thing is there are no identifying characteristics to the cartoons at all. No names or anything of that nature are used. So you have to have a strong knowledge of the police department and what has happened there to even know it was Renton police department, not to mention the cartoons were obscure. Had they kept their mouths shut about the whole thing probably no more than a few hundred people would have ever known it was their police department. But because they came out and are actively fighting against it, countless more people know about it all over the country. And their are some harsh allegations in those cartoons that would be enough to get people fired and potentially prosecuted.

Well played Renton.