mister d wrote:I guess the counter argument is obvious too, but I'm curious where people fall on ethics vs proprietary advantages. I assume I know how the vote would go here, but I wonder how sports fans in general would react if they found out some ethically bankrupt team, lets say the Pittsburgh Penguins, have been sitting on data or technology for the last two seasons that could have prevented dozens of concussions.
I don't think there would really be great proprietary advantages. It seems that players' careers just aren't that long, and they move around to other teams too often, for there to be a big competitive advantage in keeping such data or technology secret. Plus, even there were a big competitive advantage, that wouldn't necessarily translate to a huge monetary one.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
He always knew he would get on with life. He was a top student, and in time he became an obstetrics & gynecology doctor, delivering so many babies, maybe 3,000, a gregarious guy who remembered birthdays and who could make a nervous expectant mother grin. He had a beautiful home and a wife and a young daughter and a teenage son. He was a son of western Pennsylvania and life was grand.
He shakes his head: Until it wasn’t.
It was about seven years ago that the now 42-year-old Abraham said he began to notice his temper flaring without reason. His memory and judgment became flickering lamps. In a panic, he began a medical trek that ended with an inconceivable diagnosis: neurodegenerative dementia.
I'm sure they would have been REVERSE RACIST if that baseline saved them hundreds of millions instead. That it worked out this way was more of a have your cake and eat it too result.
Johnnie wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 8:13 pmOh shit, you just reminded me about toilet paper.