And in their case I think they'd let you finish speaking because they relish the challenge more than they want to simply squish you.
FaceDeer
joined 2 years ago
But there's one asking to enter so it turns out you're wrong about that.
If someone pulls a gun on me I can't declare "bullets aren't real" and expect to endure being shot without taking harm.
I guess we could ask OP to try saying "you may not" and see whether he survives to post confirmation that it worked?
Almost all medications start out as a luxury for wealthy classes.
When insulin was first discovered as a treatment for diabetes the first Americans to be treated with it back in 1922 were James D. Havens, son of former congressman James S. Havens, and Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, daughter of the US Secretary of State. I can just imagine the Reddit threads at the time decrying how diabetes research was only benefiting the "elites." But nowadays insulin is manufactured in bulk and anyone can have access to it.
Same here. It bothers me how many people have come to worship the Dragon-Tyrant and consider this guy to be somehow "selfish" for attempting this.
If he hits on an effective anti-aging treatment from his efforts then he'll help billions that way instead. Pretty much everyone eventually suffers from aging if they live long enough.
If the tests aren't being done on anyone else yet then he's not going to delay anything by trying it himself.
Frankly, I admire his daring. When people pilot experimental aircraft or climb a mountain nobody's climbed before they're considered to be adventurers, he's doing the pharmaceutical equivalent.
I read that the chair was originally supposed to have a motor in it to make it turn dramatically when the Emperor made his reveal to Luke and Vader. But the motor malfunctioned so they had Ian McDiarmid manually turn the chair by shuffleshuffleshuffling his feet on the floor with the movement hidden under his Emperor robes.
Much like the story of how Peter Cushing couldn't stand wearing the boots that were part of Grand Moff Tarkin's costume and so wore slippers instead whenever his feet were below the camera's frame (basically all of his scenes), it kind of takes away just a touch of the gravitas of the Empire knowing that.
Won't someone pleeeeeease think of the children!
Elon Musk started his companies in America.
If you want to judge Americans by global standards, then basically every single one of them is "born into wealth" because most of the people in the world live below the American poverty line.
After reading the book Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors by Edward Niedermeyer I came away with the feeling he really wasn't a pretty good self-made businessman.
Going from a $30,000 seed investment to $400 billion dollars would tend to suggest otherwise.
Call him a terrible person, sure. You can't buy a good personality. But as a businessman the numbers seem pretty clear.
The references there talk about them having tens of thousands of dollars to spend on things. That matches with what I linked above.
One difference is that we know one was definitely a bubble thanks to hindsight, whereas the other is only hoped to be a bubble because lots of people want it to turn out to be one. It remains to be seen whether it actually is.