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mmmmmbeeer
| Favorite team: | Georgia  |
| Location: | ATL |
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| Number of Posts: | 7581 |
| Registered on: | 11/1/2014 |
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re: Can we keep politics off this board as well?
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/26/24 at 11:16 am
[quote]I don't disagree with you. I have a Political Science degree and actually love discussing politics, at least in a vacuum. But at this point I try to avoid doing so as much as possible, as the "discussion" is usually just going to be a regurgitation of what the person's favorite talking head h...
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re: Can we keep politics off this board as well?
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/26/24 at 11:01 am
[quote]Unfortunately a very vocal minority are extreme in their opinion.[/quote]
And some of those folks travel in tribes around the boards to stalk and serial downvote folks they've labeled as liberals. What a sad, sad existence. They don't have any idea just how hilarious we (the targeted) fi...
re: What board on TD has the highest IQ/Caliber Poster/Quality Humans?
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/26/24 at 10:50 am
I mean, obviously the UGA board. Not sure why this even needs to be asked....
re: Southwest Airlines - changes coming (assigned seats)
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/25/24 at 8:18 am
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One thing I don’t see mentioned in that excerpt is the amount of fake preboarders that Southwest deals with.[/quote]
I have never felt such disdain for "handicapped" people as I do when waiting in line at a SWA gate. Absolutely infuriating and damn near every instance will have a handic...
re: Mitsubishi’s $1.3B chem plant in Louisiana “doesn’t work economically or enviromentally”
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/24/24 at 12:02 pm
[quote]I trust the market analysis of the company spending $1.3 billion to build the facility vs. IEEFA.[/quote]
Well, it's been 10 years and they haven't started the project. In fact, they closed the same sort of plant in India recently due to the economics of it. Seems Mitsubishi is having se...
re: Mitsubishi’s $1.3B chem plant in Louisiana “doesn’t work economically or enviromentally”
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/24/24 at 11:40 am
[quote]This is a non-profit that basically wants only green energy.[/quote]
Did you read everything pasted?
There are both economic concerns as well as environmental concerns. As to the latter, it's an especially dirty plant which doesn't need to be dirty....why would you want that near you...
re: Not sure if golf or political board is worthy of this
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/24/24 at 11:05 am
I would actually enjoy playing a round of golf with him, I think.
Bryson is a damn beast. ...
re: How are you frickers affording 70k+ Ford Expeditions and Chevy Tahoes?
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/23/24 at 11:13 pm
Just because they own them doesn’t mean they afford them. ...
re: How does the OT really feel about Free Market Capitalism? Govt control over pricing?
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/23/24 at 2:13 pm
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That doesn't mean that other companies cannot produce a similar drug with a similar mechanism of action, in the exact same drug class. It happens all the time for every condition out there. shite, how many branded statins and ARBs were on the market at the same time?
A patent in pharma ...
re: How does the OT really feel about Free Market Capitalism? Govt control over pricing?
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/23/24 at 2:03 pm
[quote]Why so silent on the demand side?[/quote]
JFC. Go back to macroecon 101.
3 dumb fricking replies in a row by you clowns....
re: How does the OT really feel about Free Market Capitalism? Govt control over pricing?
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/23/24 at 2:02 pm
[quote]If you are a customer of sufficient means or "demand" a commodity where a few dollars more doesn't disuade your decision to purchase then that falls very much into the theories of supply and demand. Targeted pricing models are as old as commerce itself, go read a few good history books.[/quot...
re: How does the OT really feel about Free Market Capitalism? Govt control over pricing?
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/23/24 at 2:01 pm
[quote]Drug patents don't last forever[/quote]
Yeah, no shite. He waited for it to expire and then patented it again. That was the whole game....
re: How does the OT really feel about Free Market Capitalism? Govt control over pricing?
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/23/24 at 1:48 pm
[quote]Your quoted example is a good one of the free market. If there can be that high of profits for such a drug it will bring other entrants into that market to claim some of those profits, and in turn increasing competition (which will ultimately bring prices down).[/quote]
He bought the paten...
re: How does the OT really feel about Free Market Capitalism? Govt control over pricing?
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/23/24 at 1:46 pm
[quote]Well that is supply and demand [/quote]
That is the absolute furthest thing from supply and demand as possible.
The theory of S&D says scarcity drives prices. In the model the OP has provided, scarcity has NOTHING to do with the price of the product. In this model, the price is a fu...
re: Secret Service Director Cheatle has RESIGNED: AP
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/23/24 at 10:25 am
[quote]
Good. Now whoever replaces her can answer our damn questions or they can kick rocks too until we find someone who can[/quote]
I saw this morning that Hakeem Jeffries is all in on this investigation, too. Whomever shows up better be prepared to be grilled any everyone with a mic in front...
re: Sheriff’s Deputy charged with first degree murder (Shooting video in OP)
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/23/24 at 9:40 am
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Watch the video again. She dumps the water out right in front of them.[/quote]
And then the motherfricker has the nerve to say there's water at his feet. Dude, there's no water at your feet you lying arse piece of shite. Already trying to cover up their b.s. ...
re: Billboard top 40 from July 1998. What are you jamming to?
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/22/24 at 10:31 am
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Our Ladt Peace was so underrated[/quote]
I added them to my Tidal recently and revisited.....did not age well, at all....
re: How much has your happiness improved as you’ve advanced through the rat race?
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/22/24 at 10:14 am
I'm still hungry. I like what I do, I'm fricking great at it, and I know I can make a difference. Money is also important to me, so it's a fair trade off.
My kids are grown so work has become a hobby, of sorts. There's always something to do and I'm not afraid of long hours.
I'm in my prim...
re: Joe Biden is dropping out of the race
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/21/24 at 8:55 pm
[quote]make peace with Xi and Orban[/quote]
Do you know what emulate means? It doesn't mean make peace.
WWIII? Wtf are you on about?...
re: Billboard top 40 from July 1998. What are you jamming to?
Posted by mmmmmbeeer on 7/21/24 at 8:53 pm
Gawd the late 90's had bad music. I forgot just how bad it was.
On that abomination of a list, I was listening to "Flagpole Sitta", The Verve, Days of the New, and DMB. Pearl Jam, too, but definitely not "Wish List", the worst song off of "Yield". ...
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