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Samurai Sanders posted:Aw, I wanted to hear the logic of why only a godly person can defeat radical Muslims. Remember that the three forms of Satanism are Satanists, Atheists, and Islam.
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Samurai Sanders posted:I'd feel worse for them if they weren't so influential in politics. I dunno. I think that with different leadership in their church they likely would be directing their efforts in a much more socially productive manner. But angry rants telling them that everything isn't their fault and that actually their godliness and that of a few stalwart members of society is all that is holding back a tide of evil fills pews and keeps collection plates full.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Remember that the three forms of Satanism are Satanists, Atheists, and Islam. You joke but evangelicals believe that if something doesn't come from God then it comes from Satan. All the other religions are deceptions created by the father of lies.
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Samurai Sanders posted:I'd feel worse for them if they weren't so influential in politics. The thing that makes me chuckle is how the news actually reports on whether or not a president goes to church in a secular country.
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I can't wait for a Muslim president  they will be more awesome than the JESUS TOLD ME TO gently caress REFUGEES shills and it will kill off the remaining freeper population from suicide/rage-induced strokes. Too bad it won't happen for a long time. 
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We have the magic number: 1237 That is the number of delegates needed to win the GOP nomination, per Call of the Convention just issued.
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Logikv9 posted:I can't wait for a Muslim president I don't quite understand why the solution to a Jesus Krispie is a religious Muslim. Ring me up when we get an agnostic president who openly tells the public "I ain't got time for this nonsense." Amergin fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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ComradeCosmobot posted:
This is a great read and holy poo poo why would short selling stock be legal? Is there any benefit to the economy at large?
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Sardine Wit posted:This is a great read and holy poo poo why would short selling stock be legal? Is there any benefit to the economy at large? Shorting should be legal IMO, but only in a perfect world where day trading is punishable by death and all investments must be held for a minimum of thirty days before they can be sold again.
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Sardine Wit posted:This is a great read and holy poo poo why would short selling stock be legal? Is there any benefit to the economy at large? Shorting has its purpose in lowering the value of an over-inflated stock, theoretically stopping speculative bubbles before they can form. It just gets press for all the other schemes people use it for, including  stuff like "naked short selling."
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Logikv9 posted:I can't wait for a Muslim president Obama's already president though?
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Sardine Wit posted:This is a great read and holy poo poo why would short selling stock be legal? Is there any benefit to the economy at large? it's just another form of financial speculation. unless you want to ban that outright there's no reason for it not to be
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Short selling is fine, this story is short selling combined with blatant market manipulation. Isn't this guy already under investigation by the SEC?
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haveblue posted:Isn't this guy already under investigation by the SEC? Yes, and a pending lawsuit from his previous pharmaceutical company.
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Dec 1, 2015 16:20
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If we are talking Martin Shkreli here, do we also want to talk about the insanity that is Dryvying? Or should we maybe have a separate thread for this kind of insane bullshit?
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Dec 1, 2015 16:21
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What I want to know if Shkreli is able to manipulate the market by dint of the amount of money he's throwing around or if he's leveraging his media-built persona as a ruthless shark to make more money.
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Fried Chicken posted:If we are talking Martin Shkreli here, do we also want to talk about the insanity that is Dryvying? What is dryvying?
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Crain posted:What is dryvying? http://dryvyng.com/ not to be confused with http://dryving.com/
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Fried Chicken posted:If we are talking Martin Shkreli here, do we also want to talk about the insanity that is Dryvying? zoux posted:What I want to know if Shkreli is able to manipulate the market by dint of the amount of money he's throwing around or if he's leveraging his media-built persona as a ruthless shark to make more money. As if that wasn't enough, he's basically saying "No, I won't drop the price on the drugs that are exclusive to us, but we will setup a patient assistance program (loan program) to purchase said drugs. I really REALLY hope the FDA revokes his patent.
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N00ba the Hutt posted:WaPo has a terrifying and yet somewhat hilarious report on What Carson Supporters Actually Believe. quote:“I read his book, and I was just awed,” Mike says, referring to “Gifted Hands,” Carson’s book about his rise from impoverished child to world-famous brain surgeon, in which he describes a God who answered his every prayer, no matter how urgent or mundane — from taking away his anger to giving him exam answers to locating his passport. “He believes there’s a higher power.” I wonder if they know what apophenia is.
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Crain posted:What is dryvying? It's some kind of ride-sharing app run by an MRA ex-revenge porn baron.
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Kilroy posted:The idea is that people who think a stock is loving worthless can still participate in the market for it, and it's basically a good idea in theory. The downside of course is that price manipulation becomes a lot easier. There are regulations against day traders short selling but I don't remember what they are beyond needing a certain amount in your account, margin trading can't be under 25%, and regulations say if you do it too often they'll do a margin call on you and ban you from trading for 90 days if you can't deposit enough cash to cover the margin, since the potential losses on a short sale are infinite.
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CommieGIR posted:As if that wasn't enough, he's basically saying "No, I won't drop the price on the drugs that are exclusive to us, but we will setup a patient assistance program (loan program) to purchase said drugs. You think that he's the only one falsely inflating the price of a drug or procedure, or do you think that's literally every pharma and medical company in America?
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zoux posted:You think that he's the only one falsely inflating the price of a drug or procedure, or do you think that's literally every pharma and medical company in America? I think it's more the sheer audacity of it with this guy. 5000% was the number I think? It's going to be bad if the pharma companies realize they can get away with even more than they already do.
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zoux posted:You think that he's the only one falsely inflating the price of a drug or procedure, or do you think that's literally every pharma and medical company in America?  When other major pharmaceutical companies are going "Woah now, we're not THAT evil", you've gone too far.
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Talmonis posted:I think it's more the sheer audacity of it with this guy. 5000% was the number I think? It's going to be bad if the pharma companies realize they can get away with even more than they already do. Well he's about to have the Senate take a big ol' dump in his mouth so hopefully that won't happen. it already works that way
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CommieGIR posted:
It's because he is a convenient scapegoat and infringing on their territory. Once he is dealt with by the government, the thirst for blood will be sated and your Merck pills will go up another 400% while people blame Obamacare.
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Mr Interweb posted:Ugh. I was watching my local channel 7 news and they ran a segment that was indistinguishable from something you'd see on Fox. This "congressional reporter" got a hold of some stupid report by a Republican who found $100 billion in "government waste" and said she wasn't able to find a single person who could defend the things in it (you know, the typical high-lariously useless sounding projects that conservatives love to tout like $5 million on mating habits of fruit flies and such). It was so Fox News-y that they even had lovely stock music playing in the background signifying how shady and wasteful the government is. The "reporter" ends the segment by saying that the "American people shouldn't expect answers any time soon". I know you aren't the one asking the question, but if you know how fruit flies mate you might be able to figure out a way to interupt them and therefore reduce their populations and spoilage. So $5 million in scientific research may save billions over the years in lost production.
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I know we're all hoping Shkreli winds up in a federal pound-me-in-the-rear end prison, but come on, let's be serious here. He's gonna get fined, and that'll be the end of it. Because our justice system loving sucks.
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Research also isn't a goddamn tech tree. We have no idea what seemingly useless research may pay dividends later.
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Well, looks like Trump was right about the 9/11 videos and we were all fools.
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Humans Among Us posted:Whats up with the coal references? Paris Climate Talks.
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N00ba the Hutt posted:WaPo has a terrifying and yet somewhat hilarious report on What Carson Supporters Actually Believe. You know, I was thinking about Carson talking about the Pyramids being used for grain storage. Isn't that what they did in the Civilization games? It'd be hilarious if Carson got his knowledge of ancient wonders of the world from a videogame.
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zoux posted:Well, looks like Trump was right about the 9/11 videos and we were all fools. Pack it in everybody, unknown radio show host said he saw it too.
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What if instead of showing people saying they remember the videos, what if they just showed the video for proof? Why aren't they showing the video itself????
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Gravel Gravy posted:How many until America gets a free sandwich? Obama's already served America a footlong.
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DeathSandwich posted:You know, I was thinking about Carson talking about the Pyramids being used for grain storage. Isn't that what they did in the Civilization games? It'd be hilarious if Carson got his knowledge of ancient wonders of the world from a videogame.
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CommieGIR posted:As if that wasn't enough, he's basically saying "No, I won't drop the price on the drugs that are exclusive to us, but we will setup a patient assistance program (loan program) to purchase said drugs. He doesn't have a patent. The drug is generic just nobody else bothered to go through the approval process to make it because the return just wasn't there for a specialty drug at $14 a pill. Even at the current $750 per other companies probably still won't try to get approval both because Mr Douchebro changed the distribution so it is harder to get the drug to do bioequivalence testing (which is one of the reasons he is under investigation) and because he can wait for them to do all the work and then crater the price to drive them out of the market. Fun little side note since you brought up patents: pharmaceutical companies area freaking out at the moment because hedge funds have started doing a rather nasty thing to make money at their expense. The hedge funds short the stock and then file challenges to critical patents the company has using a newly instituted review process at the Patent Office. The stock dips and they make money, and stand to make even more if the patent gets invalidated because some pharmaceutical companies basically only exist due to one or two drugs. But the pharmaceutical industry has largely hosed itself by being greedy and burning any political capital in favor of stuff like tax inversions and sky high near-term returns. Shifty Pony fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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