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From: Eeyore on 3 Nov 2006 07:42 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > >Nice strawman...nobody ever said that *all* new drugs are just knock-offs of > >old ones. But a substantial number are. > > That is what generics are...knockoffs of an existing drug. Legal knock-offs I should add. Graham
From: Eeyore on 3 Nov 2006 07:43 T Wake wrote: > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>unsettled wrote: > >> > >>> Also compare the availability of goods and services in Europe > >>> and other places in the world to ours. > >> > >>What !!!! > >> > >>Are you being funny ? > > > > No, he's not. There are a lot of Europeans who come to the US > > to shop. > > Do you take this to imply there is a *shortage* of the goods and services in > Europe? I was hoping to discover this too. Maybe BAH can enlighten us ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 3 Nov 2006 07:50 T Wake wrote: > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > > >>There have been many flights bringing Europeans to shop at > >>the Mall of America in Minnesota. Straight in, shop all day, > >>get back on the plane the same day and go back. > > > > I hadn't heard that one. > > Neither had I. It seems unusual for people to fly over 10 hours each way to > go shopping. The prices there really must be rock bottom. > > > I suspect it would be the place to > > go with everything in the same building. > > Strangely, we have things like that in Europe as well. Maybe BAH and unsettled haven't heard of Bluewater ? Bluewater - the leading shopping and leisure destination in Europe. Explore over 330 stores and more. Off the M25/A2, Kent, UK. http://www.bluewater.co.uk/ http://www.kenttourism.co.uk/en/what_to_see_and_do/attractions/bluewater.asp http://www.showcasecinemas.co.uk/pages/bluewater.phtml http://streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=557881&y=173574&z=0&sv=da9+9st&st=2&pc=da9+9st&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf Graham
From: jmfbahciv on 3 Nov 2006 07:46 In article <1162480833.859040.321890(a)e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>, "MooseFET" <kensmith(a)rahul.net> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >[....] >> >Actually, yes, GDP includes things that are exported. >> >> One doesn't export intellectual property. It's not a thing. > >What a curious comment. Care to expand on it? I'll try. Let's try it this way....I know a piece of knowledge. This is intellectual property. I write it down on a piece of paper. Unless I formally put it into a corporate structure, anybody can use it to make their widget which then gets sold. IIUC, it is the selling the widget/year that gets included in GNPs and GDPs, etc. Now, I had to work hard, spend money, energy and time, to develop my piece of knowledge. Within the context of this sub-thread, all that energy spent for me to figure out that piece of knowledge is overhead and deemed to be "wasted" in the US. This "wastage" is not counted against the other countries who did not have to spend money on developing an idea but are making lots of money manufacturing the results of that idea. Do you understand what I'm trying to talk about? I don't know how write it more clearly. /BAH
From: Eeyore on 3 Nov 2006 07:52
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > First reimbursements are munched by paperwork > at the fed level. Then reimbursements are munched by paperwork > at the state level. And this doesn't happen with the NHS. Thank you for proving our cost model is more sensible. Graham |