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False, a trade secret was stolen, and said employee did not have the right to copy it or disclose it.
Wait a sec... so get rid of patents, copyrights but leave the concept of trade secrets? How does that make sense?
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How about an educated electorate that votes and votes good representatives into office who will diligently represent the interests of their informed electorate? Read through that sentence again, let it soak in, you will begin to see everything that is wrong with the American political system.
I think it's very tough to make the case that America is uniquely bad in this regard. Do you seriously think that Europe is a political utopia that elects people who only do the best for citizens, or that entrenched interests haven't captured public power and funds??
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"it's closer to $1 billion on average." As mentioned, that's a hugely suspicious "fact". As noted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. "In the March 2003 edition of the Journal of Health Economics, a trio of economists from the United States wrote about a number. Soon after, that number began popping up all over the place — in newspapers and political speeches, on television and the Internet. But the…
I agree that the numbers thrown around are often a lot of hand waving. However, let me make a few points few points. 1. Check out the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. They calculate the cost to create a new drug and their methodology is very transparent. http://csdd.tufts.edu/research/research_milestones 2. You can do a simple sniff test on these numbers. Simply call up a CRO that runs clinical trials…
Not only does this provide a dangerously (murderously?) distorted view of the compound in question, it means patients (read: victims) will be paying exponentially more for their "treatments".
It's an increasingly sordid business, and not one that can be defended in good conscience. As the Economist notes in its current review of "Bad Pharma" "This is a book that deserves to be widely read, because anyone who does read it cannot help feeling both uncomfortable and angry."
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"Would the innovation have happened if Apple hadn't driven it? Not any time soon." I am fascinated by this statement. What evidence do you have to support it?
The entire mobile industry pre-iPhone? This is and endless argument, you either acknowledge that they pushed it forward or you don't but there wasn't a significant application platform, touch was nearly nonexistent and even dismissed by RIM, and while many of these things might be dismissed as obvious, Apple made it stick and they beat the entire current crop of competitors to the market. Everything is easy once you'…
http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/02/21/review-cingular-8125/ This was released over a year before the first iphone.
I think that apple's contribution was not so much innovation as it was popularisation.