Dick moves in your line of work.

[Brazen]

Our publisher has announced there are to be no pay rises again this year. Bearing in mind we already work for a pittance, this pretty much ensures they will lose anyone good or experienced to another title.

We've considered going on strike as the journalists form one of the big news-wires have threatened after they were offered a "mere" 1.5% rise. But then who would that inconvenience?

Sadly, in journalism, there are too many people prepared to do it for love rather than a living.

[The Brain]

The sex industry has the same problem. NB I DO NOT CONSIDER JOURNALISTS TO BE SIMPLE WHORES

[CountDeMoney]

Our publisher has announced there are to be no pay rises again this year. Bearing in mind we already work for a pittance, this pretty much ensures they will lose anyone good or experienced to another title.

We've considered going on strike as the journalists form one of the big news-wires have threatened after they were offered a "mere" 1.5% rise. But then who would that inconvenience?

Sadly, in journalism, there are too many people prepared to do it for love rather than a living.

Where can I forward my resume and writing samples?

[dps]

The sex industry has the same problem. NB I DO NOT CONSIDER JOURNALISTS TO BE SIMPLE WHORES

Yeah, I have a lot more respect for sex workers than for journalists, too.

[Malthus]

Nevertheless, if scoring good coke and a never-ending littany of hottie bimbettes is your kind of lifestyle, BigLaw's where it's at.

Somehow, I missed out on that. 

Mind you, my job is to deal with the somewhat impenitrable bureaucracy created by government - nothing really sexy in that.

I spent the last two weeks putting together a drug pricing proposal for the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board. If they have bureaucracy in hell, it surely resembles this. The "guidelines" are an incomprehensible (to outsiders) mass of jargon ... I love stuff like this, pages and pages of it:

Moderate Improvement

C.11.5 The introductory price(s) of a new drug product providing moderate improvement will be presumed to be excessive if the National Average Transaction Price or any Market-Specific Average Transaction Price exceeds the Maximum Average Potential Price at introduction as determined by the higher of:

a.The mid-point between the price obtained in paragraph
b.below and the median international price determined by the Median International Price Comparison test (see Schedule 5), and (b) The highest non-excessive price of the drug products identified pursuant to section C.8.7 based on a TCC test (see Schedule 3).

[Grey Fox]

5$/pill sounds fair to me.

[Barrister]

Nevertheless, if scoring good coke and a never-ending littany of hottie bimbettes is your kind of lifestyle, BigLaw's where it's at.

Somehow, I missed out on that. 

But you have remarked on a few occasions that you are the exception in your firm by still being married to your first wife.

The option to go get a young trophy wife bimbette is certainly there if you wanted to pursue it.

[Malthus]

But you have remarked on a few occasions that you are the exception in your firm by still being married to your first wife.

The option to go get a young trophy wife bimbette is certainly there if you wanted to pursue it.

Heh, I would not know how, even if I wanted to. The lifestyle of office-sleep-office allows little time for bimbette-cultivation ... though I suppose there is always the Internet! 

[HVC]

But you have remarked on a few occasions that you are the exception in your firm by still being married to your first wife.

The option to go get a young trophy wife bimbette is certainly there if you wanted to pursue it.

Heh, I would not know how, even if I wanted to. The lifestyle of office-sleep-office allows little time for bimbette-cultivation ... though I suppose there is always the Internet! 

that's where the coke comes you. that you you get to cut out the sleep part

[Malthus]

that's where the coke comes you. that you you get to cut out the sleep part

Plus, chicks dig a raging, paranoid, delusional asshole.

[Barrister]

that's where the coke comes you. that you you get to cut out the sleep part

Plus, chicks dig a raging, paranoid, delusional asshole.

The bimbette wanne-be trophy wives certainly do.

[Ideologue]

Nevertheless, if scoring good coke and a never-ending littany of hottie bimbettes is your kind of lifestyle, BigLaw's where it's at.

Somehow, I missed out on that. 

Mind you, my job is to deal with the somewhat impenitrable bureaucracy created by government - nothing really sexy in that.

I spent the last two weeks putting together a drug pricing proposal for the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board. If they have bureaucracy in hell, it surely resembles this. The "guidelines" are an incomprehensible (to outsiders) mass of jargon ... I love stuff like this, pages and pages of it:

Moderate Improvement

C.11.5 The introductory price(s) of a new drug product providing moderate improvement will be presumed to be excessive if the National Average Transaction Price or any Market-Specific Average Transaction Price exceeds the Maximum Average Potential Price at introduction as determined by the higher of:

a.The mid-point between the price obtained in paragraph
b.below and the median international price determined by the Median International Price Comparison test (see Schedule 5), and (b) The highest non-excessive price of the drug products identified pursuant to section C.8.7 based on a TCC test (see Schedule 3).

Seems straightforward enough.

[Malthus]

that's where the coke comes you. that you you get to cut out the sleep part

Plus, chicks dig a raging, paranoid, delusional asshole.

The bimbette wanne-be trophy wives certainly do.

The funny part is the only real cokehead bimbette-chasers I know about for sure in real life are either trustifarians or solid blue collar union men - like my worthless brother in law, who makes sufficient salary working overtime as a skilled mechanic in a factory (meaning he mostly sits around waiting for something to break) to afford a hefty coke habit.

[Malthus]

Seems straightforward enough.

I'l love to give you a mass of drug data and the Guidelines, and see what you came up with.

The problem, as you would quickly see, is that each test refers to other tests, which refer to still others ... and applying 'em to drugs (no two of which have exactly the same dosage forms or dosing regimes) is not easy.

How, for example, is someone supposed to compare the price of a pediatric drug that has an initial dose of certain amount of mg/kg body weight, is titrated upwards to the final dose, with a possible maximum of 60 mg, with another where the usual dose is 30 mg but at the physician's election may be dosed as low as 20 or as high as 50? And how about where the comparative dosage strengths are not the same, and the price of the comparator does not scale linearly as a function of price per mg?

It can be done, and we have done it, but it is hardly straightforward.

[HVC]

that's where the coke comes you. that you you get to cut out the sleep part

Plus, chicks dig a raging, paranoid, delusional asshole.

Sarcasm Becasue i actually know a few that do