And you, sir, might be right!
So.... in the medical business... mentioning cancer drugs and getting cleared by FDA ... and he's not developing a pharmaceutical?
I'm not a native English speaker, but I did assume that developing drugs and medicine could be said to be in the medical business. But no? Is medical business only machinery? Or what is the difference? Or is it something else I'm missing?

You, Sir, has clearly not RTFP!
Please at least read page 13 of the paper, and throw out your well preserved assumptions of how the world works.
- I'll give you a taste of page 13:
"There are four things that should be born in mind in thinking about the role
of patents in the pharmaceutical industry. First, patents are just one piece of a
set of complicated regulations that include requirements for clinical testing and
disclosure, along with grants of market exclusivity that function alongside patents.
Second, it is widely believed that in the absence of legal protections, generics would
hit the market side by side with the originals. This assumption is presumably based
on the observation that when patents expire, generics enter immediately. However,
this overlooks the fact that the generic manufacturers have had more than a decade
to reverse-engineer the product, study the market, and set up production lines.
Lanjouw’s (1998) study of India prior to the recent introduction of pharmaceutical
patents there indicates that it takes closer to four years to bring a product to market
after the original is introduced—in other words, the fifi rst-mover advantage in pharmaceuticals
is larger than is ordinarily imagined. Third, much development of
pharmaceutical products is done outside the private sector; in Boldrin and Levine
(2008b), we provide some details. Finally, the current system is not working well:
as Grootendorst, Hollis, Levine, Pogge, and Edwards (2011) point out, the most
notable current feature of pharmaceutical innovation is the huge “drought” in the
development of new products."

I'm European and live in Europe. I've been to 14 different countries in Europe and lived in two of them. People don't have guns. Police do. And yes, police officers are also people, but let's define people then. People != police in my previous comment.

It was in Europe - people don't have guns, and doesn't get shot during break-ins.

Could all the people calling this person a troll, and "domyjobforme"-idiots just stop wasting others and their own time with these ridiculous negative non-helping no-good-for-anyone answers ? Who are you people anyways ? Why bother with answering ? What do you get from posting such answers?
You are so awfully clever on others behalf that it sickens me.
Give some proper answers - his a fellow nerd that asks perfectly legit questions to a community of nerds. It doesn't matter if he is out of his league, a new bee or a professional for that matter. He asks for advice, and those kind of negative answers is a waste of everybody's time and energy. Pardon my French, but go post your stupid answers somewhere else...

As a Dane I'm interested in why Denmark is not on your list ? Being quite similar to Norway and Sweeden and in many ways the Netherlands as well, Denmark should be somewhere among those countries - why not ?

Maybe episode 3 = HL3. Or maybe they have some wicked new ideas for Ep3/HL3, but they are waiting for technology to catch up...

Well from what I've read your country saves WAY more money on this bill than what is spent on it.
See the link in my comment further down:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1590674&cid=31565886

So seeing this bill from your country's point of view, some of the 'trillion' dollors, saved not spend, are going out to all of it's citizens - resulting in a richer and probably more healthy America...
Try the first two pages to see some huge numbers:
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/113xx/doc11355/hr4872.pdf

... and then there's the 30 million people without cover .... humans are way more important than money, but somehow the discussions always ends up beeing about money, and not the ones that actually make the money in the first place...

"Most of the people living on it [the planet] were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small, green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole, it wasn't the small, green pieces of paper which were unhappy. And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable..." - Douglas Adams

The text of the bill:
http://www.opencongress.org/senate_health_care_bill

The economy of the bill:
http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=508

Congrats from Europe :)

I help friends and family for free. I also help some relatives and co-employers privately, but for them I charge money. And by word of mouth I've gotten more "customers", but I'm backing out of it now. Not because I don't like helping, or because of the money, but because some people seem to think that I'm always available.
They call me desperately again and again and again instead of leaving a message and wait until I have the time to answer. They call me or disturb me with their private computer problems at work. I've even have some people sending me text-messages in the middle of the night with their PC-problems (Mostly it is not the computer that's the problem).
I have a hard time figuring out how these people, that otherwise seem like friendly and kind, can suddenly be so desperate and rude when their PC is broke, or they cannot figure out how to use it. I spend way too much time ignoring desperate calls, and then sometimes giving in and help even though I should be doing something else. My advise to anyone considering going into this business: Help your closest friends and family, but say no to anyone else - they can use one of the many PC-repair shops that exists.

I liked the movie quite a lot.

I got the notion that
1) all the aliens were sick and because of their sickness they could not think clear enough to do anything beyond basic things.
2) they were all on drugs -> catfood

The only thing they needed the fuel for was the little ship - the little ship might have been the easiest way to operate the big ship - but in their condition and situation it took them 20 years to build it.
The kid and his father were not eating catfood, the father, somehow, had gotten well. The kid was probably born in the district and not sick at all.

Agreed - it is very weird that the fuel also acts as a virus/bioweapon ... but I think that's the only flaw in the movie.