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1. Five years ago, a new quirky-sounding consumer-rights group set up shop in a sleepy corner of Capitol Hill. “Consumers for Paper Options is a group of individuals and organizations who believe paper-based communications are critically important for millions of Americans,” the group explained in a press release, “especially those who are not yet part of the online community.”
/…/
You won’t be surprised to lean that Consumers for Paper Options is funded by paper mills, timber firms and the Envelope Manufacturers Association.
Дистиллированый пример.
2. Lobbyists For EpiPen Maker Included Former Clinton and McConnell Aides
Records show that Mylan spent more than $2 million on Washington lobbying in 2015.
/…/
Mylan's CEO, Heather Bresch, is the daughter of a Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin; when she recently spoke with The New York Times, she listed among her top accomplishments the passage of a federal law, the Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2012, requiring increased inspections of overseas drug manufacturers.
And this, kids, is why your EpiPen costs $300 per shot.
3. The release of Teva Pharmaceuticals generic for the anaphylaxis treatment, EpiPen (epinephrine), is now expected to be severely delayed after the FDA rejected its version, flagging “major deficiencies”.
And this, kids, is why... you know.
4. Кстати, насколько я понимаю, эпинефрин в этом устройстве в растворе 1:1000, 0.3мл - себестоимость не более 12 центов (на самом деле меньше, наверняка, ребята там по ссылке тоже не благотворительностью занимаются). Прикиньте, сколько стоит иголка, пружинка и пластиковый тюбик, и оцените норму прибыли.
5. Scott Alexander explains about EpiPens and regulations. With examples of failed attempts to create competition to Mylan.
Of course, socialists solution of problems caused by regulation is more regulation.
They didn’t yet propose yet to ban allergies though, following Venezuela example.
6. Postal Service scandal: Feds uncover stolen meds, embezzled funds — and 42,288 hoarded letters
7. “Today, I am pleased to announce that we will meet this goal more than a month ahead of schedule. Our 10,000th Syrian refugee will arrive this afternoon,” National Security Adviser Susan Rice said in a statement.
So there are government programs that can be run efficiently! Now we need to figure out if that applies only to importing Syrians or government can excel at something else too.
8. The Justice Department released a video this week encouraging companies not to terminate immigrants after their employment authorization expires, and indicated that doing so is a form of discrimination.
9. The things we really need are getting more expensive. Other stuff is getting cheaper. Why?
It’s a mystery allright. Why highly regulated and monopolized things are so much more expensive?
10. FBI’s Comey Proposes an ‘Adult Conversation’ About Giving the FBI Whatever They Want
No more those childish "civil rights", mmkay?
We want it, so we will scream until we get it! This is the adult way!
11. The FBI Distributes Child Pornography to Catch People Who Look at It
The FBI's version attracted some 50,000 visitors per week, up from 11,000 before the government takeover.
Of course, it had to come to this and it did.
12. BTW, regular person would get life in jail for this.
13. More Detroit Public School Principals Have Been Charged With Crimes in 2016 Than All the Charter School CEOs in John Oliver's Rant
14. The European Commission has concluded that Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13 billion to Apple.
Иными словами, привлекать бизнес снижением налогов - в ЕС незаконно. И чего дураки-бритты от этой красоты сбежать хотят?
15. Amtrak Spending $2.4 Billion on New 'Faster' Trains That Probably Won't Go Any Faster
Логично.
Нас бережёт
16. Brock Turner to be released from jail after serving half of six-month sentence in Stanford sexual assault case
So, three months in jail for a rape. That doesn’t look like justice.
17. Tampa SWAT Team Attempts to Serve Drug Warrant, Unarmed Man Shot and Killed
Two grams of marijuana reportedly recovered.
Worth it, right? Two whole grams!
Лучшие люди города
18. Newly Revealed Benghazi Emails Bring Hillary Clinton's Server Scandal Full Circle.
At least 30 of Hillary Clinton’s supposedly non-work-related emails discussed Benghazi attack.
But she didn’t do anything useful for Benghazi, she just lied a lot, so it’s not “work related”, it’s “fun-related”.
19. Investigative limitations, including the FBI's inability to obtain all mobile devices and various computer components associated with Clinton's personal e-mail systems, prevented the FBI from conclusively determining whether the classified information transmitted and stored on Clinton's personal server systems was compromised via cyber intrusion or other means."
When they say "all her devices," they're talking about 13 different mobile devices and 5 tablets, most of which were never found or turned over to the FBI for inspection.
20. Reports have emerged that less than two weeks before the economic collapse of 2008, several members of Congress were pre-warned to take their money out of the stock market.
Well, it’s not like everybody wasn’t pre-warned that bubble is going to pop, repeatedly. But - it’s not the first time questions about insider trading in Congress arise.
Навстречу выборам
21. Hillary Clinton's fanatical supporters sing Gospel with "Hillary" replacing "Jesus" in lyrics
22. Apple: You can have taxes or you can have jobs, but you can't have both
23. Apple CEO Tim Cook is hosting a fundraiser for Clinton at up to $50,000 a ticket.
So the choice is “taxes”, then.
24. Clinton's 700-Mile Border Fence Is Just 300 Miles Shorter Than Trump's
Но это же совсем другое дело!
Беспристрастная пресса
25. Michael Moore Proven Right, And Matt Lauer Wrong, About Ryan Lochte Incident
Тут интересна даже не фактическая сторона - про неё уже всё ясно - а то, что Майкл Мур неожиданно оказался на стороне правды.
26. This is CNN.
27. CNN dropped the word "crooked" from a graphic quoting a Donald Trump tweet about his rival's health.
28. BBC докладывает из Крыма важное: Небольшое количество покемонов - это проблема любого маленького города.
Наука
29. New Virus Breaks The Rules Of Infection
Сборно-разборный вирус. Интересно, зачем это ему?
30. What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
Surprisingly interesting.
31. Ash conformity experiments and the reporting.
The misreporting of the results is probably not less illuminating than the experiments themselves.
32. Brainwashing most probably doesn’t work, cults have very low retention rates (and by low, it means low single digits percentage).
33. Being lazy is a sign of high intelligence, study shows.
Приятно, когда наука подтверждает, что я - гений.
Старомыслы не нутрят ангсоц
34. Раскрыт секрет бесшабашной смелости администрации Чикагского университета.
35. Guess what is celebrating murder of African-Americans? US national anthem!
36. The photographer behind Twinks for Trump, a photography series dedicated to homosexuals who support Donald Trump, was reportedly fired from his job after Milo Yiannopoulos praised him as part of a column on “How Donald Trump Made It Cool To Be Gay Again.”
Измена делу партии даром не проходит.
37. Georgetown University Plans Steps to Atone for Slave Past
История
38. Никсон приказал, чтобы в записях и стенограммах любая брань заменялась на expletive deleted. Естественно, это сыграло против него - т.к. люди начинали предполагать, что заменена самая что ни на есть площадная, грубая брань - а на самом деле там было что-то вроде damn, oh God или for Christ’s sake, a словами грубее shit он вообще никогда не пользовался. Так Никсон в заботе о своём имидже сам же его и испортил.
39. The Strange Reason Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction (You Guessed It: Rasputin!)
Россия - щедрая душа
40. В четверг четверо гражданских активистов вышли на Красную площадь с плакатами "За вашу и нашу свободу" в память о так называемой "демонстрации семерых" 25 августа 1968 года против вторжения войск стран Варшавского договора в Чехословакию для подавления демократических реформ, известных как Пражская весна.
Участникам акции 25 августа 2016 года удалось простоять с плакатами на Красной площади около 10 минут, после этого их забрали в полицию.
41. Премьер РФ Дмитрий Медведев на встрече с представителями книгоиздательской отрасли в начале июня поддержал идею о создании российского Национального энциклопедического портала, отметив, что он не должен уступать по оперативности "Википедии".
Но с блекджеком и фофудьями!
42. Участниц акции протеста во время панихиды по погибшим при захвате заложников в Беслане приговорили к штрафам и общественным работам, сообщает «Новая газета».
Логично.
43. Видеоблоггера Руслана Соколовского в Екатеринбурге арестовали на 2 месяца за ловлю покемонов в православном храме.
44. Российские врачи занимаются лечением президента Узбекистана Ислама Каримова, рассказал РБК источник в медицинских кругах и подтвердил научный руководитель Научно-исследовательского института нейрохирургии им. академика Н.Н.Бурденко Александр Коновалов.
Конец был немного предсказуем. Но какова фамилия!
Разное
45. SpaceX Falcon9 explodes on launchpad. Amos-6 is also destroyed.
46. No, the Internet Has Not Killed the Printed Book. Most People Still Prefer Them.
Sixty-five percent of adults in the United States said they had read a printed book in the past year, the same percentage that said so in 2012.
1. Five years ago, a new quirky-sounding consumer-rights group set up shop in a sleepy corner of Capitol Hill. “Consumers for Paper Options is a group of individuals and organizations who believe paper-based communications are critically important for millions of Americans,” the group explained in a press release, “especially those who are not yet part of the online community.”
/…/
You won’t be surprised to lean that Consumers for Paper Options is funded by paper mills, timber firms and the Envelope Manufacturers Association.
Дистиллированый пример.
2. Lobbyists For EpiPen Maker Included Former Clinton and McConnell Aides
Records show that Mylan spent more than $2 million on Washington lobbying in 2015.
/…/
Mylan's CEO, Heather Bresch, is the daughter of a Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin; when she recently spoke with The New York Times, she listed among her top accomplishments the passage of a federal law, the Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2012, requiring increased inspections of overseas drug manufacturers.
And this, kids, is why your EpiPen costs $300 per shot.
3. The release of Teva Pharmaceuticals generic for the anaphylaxis treatment, EpiPen (epinephrine), is now expected to be severely delayed after the FDA rejected its version, flagging “major deficiencies”.
And this, kids, is why... you know.
4. Кстати, насколько я понимаю, эпинефрин в этом устройстве в растворе 1:1000, 0.3мл - себестоимость не более 12 центов (на самом деле меньше, наверняка, ребята там по ссылке тоже не благотворительностью занимаются). Прикиньте, сколько стоит иголка, пружинка и пластиковый тюбик, и оцените норму прибыли.
5. Scott Alexander explains about EpiPens and regulations. With examples of failed attempts to create competition to Mylan.
Of course, socialists solution of problems caused by regulation is more regulation.
They didn’t yet propose yet to ban allergies though, following Venezuela example.
6. Postal Service scandal: Feds uncover stolen meds, embezzled funds — and 42,288 hoarded letters
7. “Today, I am pleased to announce that we will meet this goal more than a month ahead of schedule. Our 10,000th Syrian refugee will arrive this afternoon,” National Security Adviser Susan Rice said in a statement.
So there are government programs that can be run efficiently! Now we need to figure out if that applies only to importing Syrians or government can excel at something else too.
8. The Justice Department released a video this week encouraging companies not to terminate immigrants after their employment authorization expires, and indicated that doing so is a form of discrimination.
9. The things we really need are getting more expensive. Other stuff is getting cheaper. Why?
It’s a mystery allright. Why highly regulated and monopolized things are so much more expensive?
10. FBI’s Comey Proposes an ‘Adult Conversation’ About Giving the FBI Whatever They Want
No more those childish "civil rights", mmkay?
We want it, so we will scream until we get it! This is the adult way!
11. The FBI Distributes Child Pornography to Catch People Who Look at It
The FBI's version attracted some 50,000 visitors per week, up from 11,000 before the government takeover.
Of course, it had to come to this and it did.
12. BTW, regular person would get life in jail for this.
13. More Detroit Public School Principals Have Been Charged With Crimes in 2016 Than All the Charter School CEOs in John Oliver's Rant
14. The European Commission has concluded that Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13 billion to Apple.
Иными словами, привлекать бизнес снижением налогов - в ЕС незаконно. И чего дураки-бритты от этой красоты сбежать хотят?
15. Amtrak Spending $2.4 Billion on New 'Faster' Trains That Probably Won't Go Any Faster
Логично.
Нас бережёт
16. Brock Turner to be released from jail after serving half of six-month sentence in Stanford sexual assault case
So, three months in jail for a rape. That doesn’t look like justice.
17. Tampa SWAT Team Attempts to Serve Drug Warrant, Unarmed Man Shot and Killed
Two grams of marijuana reportedly recovered.
Worth it, right? Two whole grams!
Лучшие люди города
18. Newly Revealed Benghazi Emails Bring Hillary Clinton's Server Scandal Full Circle.
At least 30 of Hillary Clinton’s supposedly non-work-related emails discussed Benghazi attack.
But she didn’t do anything useful for Benghazi, she just lied a lot, so it’s not “work related”, it’s “fun-related”.
19. Investigative limitations, including the FBI's inability to obtain all mobile devices and various computer components associated with Clinton's personal e-mail systems, prevented the FBI from conclusively determining whether the classified information transmitted and stored on Clinton's personal server systems was compromised via cyber intrusion or other means."
When they say "all her devices," they're talking about 13 different mobile devices and 5 tablets, most of which were never found or turned over to the FBI for inspection.
20. Reports have emerged that less than two weeks before the economic collapse of 2008, several members of Congress were pre-warned to take their money out of the stock market.
Well, it’s not like everybody wasn’t pre-warned that bubble is going to pop, repeatedly. But - it’s not the first time questions about insider trading in Congress arise.
Навстречу выборам
21. Hillary Clinton's fanatical supporters sing Gospel with "Hillary" replacing "Jesus" in lyrics
22. Apple: You can have taxes or you can have jobs, but you can't have both
23. Apple CEO Tim Cook is hosting a fundraiser for Clinton at up to $50,000 a ticket.
So the choice is “taxes”, then.
24. Clinton's 700-Mile Border Fence Is Just 300 Miles Shorter Than Trump's
Но это же совсем другое дело!
Беспристрастная пресса
25. Michael Moore Proven Right, And Matt Lauer Wrong, About Ryan Lochte Incident
Тут интересна даже не фактическая сторона - про неё уже всё ясно - а то, что Майкл Мур неожиданно оказался на стороне правды.
26. This is CNN.
27. CNN dropped the word "crooked" from a graphic quoting a Donald Trump tweet about his rival's health.
28. BBC докладывает из Крыма важное: Небольшое количество покемонов - это проблема любого маленького города.
Наука
29. New Virus Breaks The Rules Of Infection
Сборно-разборный вирус. Интересно, зачем это ему?
30. What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
Surprisingly interesting.
31. Ash conformity experiments and the reporting.
The misreporting of the results is probably not less illuminating than the experiments themselves.
32. Brainwashing most probably doesn’t work, cults have very low retention rates (and by low, it means low single digits percentage).
33. Being lazy is a sign of high intelligence, study shows.
Приятно, когда наука подтверждает, что я - гений.
Старомыслы не нутрят ангсоц
34. Раскрыт секрет бесшабашной смелости администрации Чикагского университета.
35. Guess what is celebrating murder of African-Americans? US national anthem!
36. The photographer behind Twinks for Trump, a photography series dedicated to homosexuals who support Donald Trump, was reportedly fired from his job after Milo Yiannopoulos praised him as part of a column on “How Donald Trump Made It Cool To Be Gay Again.”
Измена делу партии даром не проходит.
37. Georgetown University Plans Steps to Atone for Slave Past
История
38. Никсон приказал, чтобы в записях и стенограммах любая брань заменялась на expletive deleted. Естественно, это сыграло против него - т.к. люди начинали предполагать, что заменена самая что ни на есть площадная, грубая брань - а на самом деле там было что-то вроде damn, oh God или for Christ’s sake, a словами грубее shit он вообще никогда не пользовался. Так Никсон в заботе о своём имидже сам же его и испортил.
39. The Strange Reason Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction (You Guessed It: Rasputin!)
Россия - щедрая душа
40. В четверг четверо гражданских активистов вышли на Красную площадь с плакатами "За вашу и нашу свободу" в память о так называемой "демонстрации семерых" 25 августа 1968 года против вторжения войск стран Варшавского договора в Чехословакию для подавления демократических реформ, известных как Пражская весна.
Участникам акции 25 августа 2016 года удалось простоять с плакатами на Красной площади около 10 минут, после этого их забрали в полицию.
41. Премьер РФ Дмитрий Медведев на встрече с представителями книгоиздательской отрасли в начале июня поддержал идею о создании российского Национального энциклопедического портала, отметив, что он не должен уступать по оперативности "Википедии".
Но с блекджеком и фофудьями!
42. Участниц акции протеста во время панихиды по погибшим при захвате заложников в Беслане приговорили к штрафам и общественным работам, сообщает «Новая газета».
Логично.
43. Видеоблоггера Руслана Соколовского в Екатеринбурге арестовали на 2 месяца за ловлю покемонов в православном храме.
44. Российские врачи занимаются лечением президента Узбекистана Ислама Каримова, рассказал РБК источник в медицинских кругах и подтвердил научный руководитель Научно-исследовательского института нейрохирургии им. академика Н.Н.Бурденко Александр Коновалов.
Конец был немного предсказуем. Но какова фамилия!
Разное
45. SpaceX Falcon9 explodes on launchpad. Amos-6 is also destroyed.
46. No, the Internet Has Not Killed the Printed Book. Most People Still Prefer Them.
Sixty-five percent of adults in the United States said they had read a printed book in the past year, the same percentage that said so in 2012.
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