Posts by Fungus Bob 1347 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2014
"Who replies to text messages from numbers they don't recognise or people who won't identify themselves?"
I do as it's usually some idiot texting to the wrong number and I respond with the most bizarre thing I can think of (the metropolitan area I live in has four local area codes so right number but wrong area code calling is common).
“a total of 56 per cent of the 2,000 people surveyed in the inaugural National Personal Data in Research Survey would also stand in the way of advances in medical science by not allowing their data to be shared for research.”
Big Pharma needs to be beaten with the Cluestick *and* the Salmon of Correction - it's called Personal Data for a reason!
Read much?
From the link:
"More startling, Schwartz shows that everyone's received ideas about the fabled "smoking gun" memo are false (the one supposedly dealing with how it was cheaper to save money on a small part and pay off later lawsuits... and immortalized in the movie "Fight Club"). The actual memo did not pertain to Pintos, or even Ford products, but to American cars in general; it dealt with rollovers, not rear-end collisions; it did not contemplate the matter of tort liability at all, let alone accept it as cheaper than a design change; it assigned a value to human life because federal regulators, for whose eyes it was meant, themselves employed that concept in their deliberations; and the value it used was one that they, the regulators, had set forth in documents."
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