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Comment Streisand effect? (Score 1) 253

This kind of over-reacting tends to generate a meme.
Flock installers would be better off just doing their job
and avoiding comments to bystanders.
Scurrying for cover and crying for protection draws attention.
Sadly in this day and age that behavior can lead to being
targeted for doxing, or worse yet, swatting.
Fleeing as if guilty invites questions and pursuit.
Similar to news videos from the corridors of Congress.
And the idea of a surveillance camera installer claiming
to be threatened by a reporter filming them defies credibility.
If someone actually physically interferes with their work
then the full force of the law, courts, and juries
will take action on the installer's side.

Comment Reliability (Score 5, Interesting) 57

Switzerland is taking reasonable precautions.
Under our current regime the USA can not be relied upon
on a day-to-day basis, let alone over the years.
That goes for our U.S. citizens as well as for foreign interests.
Rick Wilson, American Republican strategist said it well
just before Trump's first election:
"Everything Trump touches dies"
Events since then have proven him right.
Especially regarding the United States.

Comment Losers' Legal Tactics (Score 1) 96

What an age we live in.
If you get booted out of the courtroom, never give up.
Keep doubling down!
Massage the verbiage of your lawsuit.
Invent a new cause of action.
Find a new legal team.
Refile in a different venue.
Sometimes it's never over, done with, and gone.
SCO, or Xinuos, or Trump; same tactics, same results.
Which is the chicken, which is the egg?
Unfortunately for Xinuos, they don't have SCOTUS in their pocket.

Comment Trump refunding tariffs to who? (Score 2) 169

Expect some refunds to go swiftly to businesses favored by Trump.
Others, not so much; they didn't donate to Trump or praise him.
Refunds will likely be depleted by the Trump supporters.
Little or none may be left for the rest of the applicants.
All they can expect is 'a dollar short and a day late'.
And small businesses might as well forgeddaboudit.
They aren't even on Trump's radar.

Comment Ignobels move offshore (Score 1) 255

This doesn't bode well for the Trump administration.
Moving offshore frees the Ignobel Prize Committee from
retaliation, revenge, and retribution if they were stateside.
We can look forward to Trump and his followers WINNING!!!
They have worked hugely to WIN!!!
They strongly deserve a slew of Ignobel prizes.
Even in categories never imagined by man before.
And the judges, with tears in their eyes, will beg
"Please SIR!!! Can we give you more prizes?"

Comment Lost bullet (Score 1) 104

Y'all tell Spectrum thanks for finding my missing bullet. .
Lost it while practicing with my AK on that day's rack of
empty Lone Star beer cans in my condo's small back yard.
I knew I missed but never could find any messed up turf
where it hit or Rick-O'Shayed off the ground.
Lordy! I was 100% addled about where it might have
ended up as I staggered 'round huntin' for it.
Sorry for all the damage and the internet outage.
But thoughts and prayers! Thoughts and prayers!

Comment Re:publish journals as GNU/GPL (Score 1) 28

Ages ago, with journals, we got credible research information.
That day has passed.
Open sourcing can provide an improved alternative, if curated.
Curation can be accomplished by establishing review boards.
Each review board would consist of members elected by qualified peers.
The various boards would belong to a global umbrella organization.
That top organization would consist of elected administrators with organizational skills.
These boards are NOT like corporate boards furnished with plush perks.
They would be âworkingâ(TM) boards with responsible members dedicated to their specialty.
The entire endeavor would be of, by, and for research organizations.
Start financing the open source venture with funds currently spent on dead tree journals.
Almost all correspondence, submissions, review, and publication would be digital.
Much of the physical/digital foundation already exists, but in scattered, disordered pieces.
The system should be able mesh with existing research/education bodies fairly easily.
Participating organizations would mutually gain improved reliability and respectability.
Various existing open source ventures have developed the techniques needed to succeed.
Begin with dedication, cooperation, and persistence.

Comment Re:I could never follow the logic of this (Score 1) 150

However, the logic of why drugs are so expensive in the USA is easy to follow from this post.
Just write off $15M/year as the "research costs" that big pharma uses to justify overpriced meds.
That, and the $279.5M pharma spent in 2017 lobbying to "access" our lawmakers.

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