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Intellectual property, as it applies to modern medicine, and especially pharmaceuticals, leaves some 'crimes' less than sufficiently illuminated.

Consider how much of this 'Intellectual Property' was developed with tax-payers' funding, often by way of grants, after which (sometimes illegal, but often unprosecuted) monopolies and rigging of the market occur in ways that result in 10,000% or 100,000% mark-ups to the (often suffering) consumer.

In my opinion, modern medicine moguls and Big Pharma have been SO heartless, ruthless, opportunistic and more, that it justifies hijacking their entire operations, and turning it into open source. Put it out there to where we're getting reasonable medical care, at a reasonable price, instead of the upward spiraling screwing we're seeing so often.

Hack those buggers, and spread the wealth. We paid for a whole lot of it in the first place.
 
armedoldhippy

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"you must spread the wealth around before giving moose eater any more rep..." stupid fucking computer... :tiphat: i'll be back, moose.
 
Gry

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I faded on class 14 of trajectory of justice, due to illness and a lack of lucidity.

Caught the final class last night. It was powerful.
He chose to share more than he ever has before in a formal setting.
Those who seek insight as to how things work in our society,
as opposed to what we have been told, could do much
worse than to examine Sheehan very carefully.
The man has been involved with lawsuits that revolve around
the most classified events in our lifetimes.
There is a very unusual story that I have heard bits of for years.
Was blessed with a couple of tidbits more of it last night.

President Carter is a very interesting man.

Former commander of a nucular submarine. Who saw a UFO.
Once elected, but prior to achieving office,
he reached for the upper level Blue Book files.
At that time held by the director of the agency.
Who denied the request of the President elect.
One of the larger purges in agency history
took place shorty after his inauguration.

There is only one person that I am aware of
whom has been provided access to them.
Danny is that individual.
 
Gry

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How rope is made at the only traditional working ropewalk in the world

https://www.insider.com/how-traditional-rope-is-made-chatham-dockyard-ships-ropewalk-2018-11


Sort of neat, not nearly the detail it merits. Can recall seeing during travels, smaller privately operated configurations frequently which appeared to have been made from bicycle parts.


A video made in 1990 prior to the closure of Britannia Rope and Twine Works, Lancashire's last operational ...
[youtubeif]IaHQUvG8jzA[/youtubeif]


This one appears to have a bit more potential:

https://www.storyofrope.org/
This one delivers, it has a
lovingly produced film,
that runs 57 minutes and change,
along with several others.

The Ropewalk

Longfellow


In that building, long and low,
With its windows all a-row,
Like the port-holes of a hulk,
Human spiders spin and spin,
Backward down their threads so thin
Dropping, each a hempen bulk.

At the end, an open door;
Squares of sunshine on the floor
Light the long and dusky lane;
And the whirring of a wheel,
Dull and drowsy, makes me feel
All its spokes are in my brain.

As the spinners to the end
Downward go and reascend,
Gleam the long threads in the sun;
While within this brain of mine
Cobwebs brighter and more fine
By the busy wheel are spun.

Two fair maidens in a swing,
Like white doves upon the wing,
First before my vision pass;
Laughing, as their gentle hands
Closely clasp the twisted strands,
At their shadow on the grass.

Then a booth of mountebanks,
With its smell of tan and planks,
And a girl poised high in air
On a cord, in spangled dress,
With a faded loveliness,
And a weary look of care.

Then a homestead among farms,
And a woman with bare arms
Drawing water from a well;
As the bucket mounts apace,
With it mounts her own fair face,
As at some magician's spell.

Then an old man in a tower,
Ringing loud the noontide hour,
While the rope coils round and round
Like a serpent at his feet,
And again, in swift retreat,
Nearly lifts him from the ground.

Then within a prison-yard,
Faces fixed, and stern, and hard,
Laughter and indecent mirth;
Ah! it is the gallows-tree!
Breath of Christian charity,
Blow, and sweep it from the earth!

Then a school-boy, with his kite
Gleaming in a sky of light,
And an eager, upward look;
Steeds pursued through lane and field;
Fowlers with their snares concealed;
And an angler by a brook.

Ships rejoicing in the breeze,
Wrecks that float o'er unknown seas,
Anchors dragged through faithless sand;
Sea-fog drifting overhead,
And, with lessening line and lead,
Sailors feeling for the land.

All these scenes do I behold,
These, and many left untold,
In that building long and low;
While the wheel goes round and round,
With a drowsy, dreamy sound,
And the spinners backward go.




Perhaps the best for last;
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Tubbs_Rope_Walk


or maybe not.
Plymouth Cordage Company was the world’s largest maker of ropes and twine in the late 19th century. Founded in 1824 in Plymouth, Massachusetts by Bourne Spooner, Plymouth Cordage Company was the largest employer in Plymouth for over 100 years and recruited workers from all over the globe, including Ireland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Cape Verde, and the Azores.
We caught up with Bill Rudolph, the curator at the Cordage Company Museum, to learn more about this historic company and its fascinating history. Here’s a condensed history of Plymouth Cordage Company, as told by Bill Rudolph:
Borne Spooner, a native of Plymouth and a Direct Descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims, learned how to make rope while he was in New Orleans after the War of 1812. Spooner believed that using paid labor as opposed to slave labor (as was used in Louisiana) would make for better business, as he wouldn’t have to train new workers each and every day; rather, he’d pay them well and treat them well and his workers would want to produce results.
In 1824, Spooner and several businessmen from the South Shore and Boston put up $20,000 for the Cordage Company. He chose the location in North Plymouth because it was an abandoned grist mill, and started Ropewalk in 1824.
The buildings are called “Ropewalks” because of the way workers manually twisted rope while walking backwards down the ropewalk; 600 feet of rope required 900 feet of space, which is why ropewalks are typically long narrow buildings.
In 1824, Cordage Company was completely surrounded by farmland, and it was there that Spooner built his house, which is now Davis Funeral Home.
Plymouth Cordage Company began actively recruiting workers from across the globe by offering them and their families a fare over, a job, and a place to live. In 1830, the first foreign worker was brought in to work at the Cordage Company; a man from Ireland. After that, communities from Ireland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Cape Verde, and the Azores immigrated here to work at Cordage.
In 1899, Cordage started what they called “Industrial Welfare”, a program through which they provided good and inexpensive housing, health benefits, full-day kindergarten services for kids, and more for their workers, they’d stay on longer. The Loring Reading Room was created as a place for workers to read books in their native languages and continue their home country’s traditions and customs, and the company began offering housing units with vegetable gardens for workers- they thought if people were happy and healthy, they’d serve as better employees.
The Plymouth Cordage Company was the largest rope manufacturer in the world between WWI and WWII, and when the Town of Plymouth had a total population of 12,000, almost 20% of them worked at Cordage Co.
Unfortunately, the Cordage Company went through a hostile takeover in 1964 and was bought out by the Columbian Rope Company in 1965, but its legacy as being ahead of its time in employee welfare and benefits and a driving force in the world’s rope industry continues today.
 
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White Beard

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Thanks for the excellent posts, Gry - really glad you’re feeling well enough to join us.
Your presence is much appreciated.
 
Gry

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Leadbelly's tribute to DC,
"The Bourgeois Blues"
[youtubeif]Z2t-X-v7dAM[/youtubeif]
 
OranguTrump

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Re: Original thread premise of what/when did everything go to shit for a certain country.


Too many people willing to do too many things for profit. Plus, the lawyers all need to be killed.
 
armedoldhippy

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OranguTrump said:
Re: Original thread premise of what/when did everything go to shit for a certain country.


Too many people willing to do too many things for profit. Plus, the lawyers all need to be killed.
Click to expand...

we will still need defense attorneys until the police stop arresting folks just to hit quotas. but ambulance chasers & assholes that sue you for existing should all be killed on sight, with no season or limits...:dance013:
 
Gry

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Protestors storm and take Legislative Council building in Hong Kong.
Trashed it, covering the portraits of past leaders in red spray paint before the police were able to retake it.
Remember seeing Red Guard youth march back in the mid to late sixties.
Wish these protesters well, have grave concerns for them.
 
Gry

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A rather impressive quake just rolled through this area. Odd to the feel the ground move and was strange seeing large trees tremble.

No damage, here, sure do hope all is well elsewhere.


Magnitude 6.6 earthquake
Affected countries: United States and Mexico
11 miles from Ridgecrest, CA · 10:33 AM
 
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