From: Free Lunch on 20 May 2007 22:14 On Mon, 21 May 2007 01:33:50 GMT, in misc.transport.road Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in <4650F723.BB672FC7(a)hotmail.com>: > > >"Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote: > >> Jeffrey Turner wrote: >> > Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote: >> >> > > 3) Boeing's commercial division has to make a profit or why have it? >> > >> > You're so eager to separate the two, but you admit they share designs, >> > which is a major cost in the industry. >> >> That specific airplane does but the military division of Boeing isn't >> just a rehash of the civilian one. > >Why duplicate at all ? Lower development cost.
From: Free Lunch on 20 May 2007 22:15 On Mon, 21 May 2007 01:26:50 GMT, in misc.transport.road Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in <4650F57F.4414BB5B(a)hotmail.com>: > > >"Matthew T. Russotto" wrote: > >> Eeyore wrote: >> >"Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote: >> > >> >> Boeing competes for its military contract sales. >> > >> >Airbus describes them as 'pork barrel contracts'. >> >> That's just because they have nothing which can best them in combat. > >That's because Airbus doesn't make combat jets. > >Graham EADS does.
From: Matthew T. Russotto on 20 May 2007 22:33 In article <4650F207.110C0E29(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Here's a classic example. It's all but the same chemical but the new version >gets a new period of patent protection which inflates profits for the drug >company and costs for the patient. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escitalopram From that article: "However preclinical as well as various clinical studies have shown differentiated effects of citalopram and escitalopram" -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one.
From: Matthew T. Russotto on 20 May 2007 22:34 In article <4650F723.BB672FC7(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >"Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote: > >> Jeffrey Turner wrote: >> > Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote: >> >> > > 3) Boeing's commercial division has to make a profit or why have it? >> > >> > You're so eager to separate the two, but you admit they share designs, >> > which is a major cost in the industry. >> >> That specific airplane does but the military division of Boeing isn't >> just a rehash of the civilian one. > >Why duplicate at all ? Because re-inventing the wheel when relatively small modifications of an existing airframe gets the job done would be very stupid. -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one.
From: Fred G. Mackey on 20 May 2007 23:15
Eeyore wrote: > > John Mara wrote: > > >>Fred G. Mackey wrote: >> >>>But the ones who can afford it, do get private insurance. That's >>>telling, isn't it? >> >>Those who can afford BMWs get them instead of Toyotas. If someone wants >>luxury health care let them pay for it. > > > Indeed. It's their choice after all. If you want gold-plated hospitals you can > pay for them, otherwise you don't have to. > Are they paying for gold-plated hospitals? Or are they just paying to make sure they don't end up with inordinate wait times for medical procedures? > Graham > |