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	<title>Comments on: GT200 Conclusion: Big Names Exposed</title>
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		<title>By: john francis lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>john francis lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The invocation of animist beliefs is a smear on animists. It is a red-herring brought up to protect not just those who pulled this scam but those who will pull the next, and the next...

Look at the perfection of this specimen scam, brought about by years of trial and error testing, not unlike a scientific breeding program, by the uniformed scammers in the Thai Military and Bureaucracy.

An essentially empty box with a great big price tag. The reduction in cost of &quot;R&amp;D&quot;, manufacturing, and materials allows nearly the entire purchase price to be split between the procurer and procuree, with the procurer undoubtedly taking the lions&#039; share of each particular &quot;sale&quot; and the procuree &quot;making it up on volume&quot;.

Truly the best of breed of such scams! Scientifically achieved.

Like all such Military procurements and Bureaucratic mega-projects it actually makes worse the problems it purports to &quot;fix&quot;. But once the fix is in more such scams will be &quot;required&quot; to address the problems brought about by the last scam.

The only ones to suffer are the Thai land and the Thai people, i.e everyone but the Military and Bureaucrats. As far as the Bangkok &quot;elite&quot; are concerned the scam was a great success, certainly one to be defended to the dying bureaucratic breathe.

As for those deadly ill-effects... can&#039;t see them, or their corpses, from the Bangkok &quot;elite&#039;s&quot; houses.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The invocation of animist beliefs is a smear on animists. It is a red-herring brought up to protect not just those who pulled this scam but those who will pull the next, and the next&#8230;</p>
<p>Look at the perfection of this specimen scam, brought about by years of trial and error testing, not unlike a scientific breeding program, by the uniformed scammers in the Thai Military and Bureaucracy.</p>
<p>An essentially empty box with a great big price tag. The reduction in cost of &#8220;R&amp;D&#8221;, manufacturing, and materials allows nearly the entire purchase price to be split between the procurer and procuree, with the procurer undoubtedly taking the lions&#8217; share of each particular &#8220;sale&#8221; and the procuree &#8220;making it up on volume&#8221;.</p>
<p>Truly the best of breed of such scams! Scientifically achieved.</p>
<p>Like all such Military procurements and Bureaucratic mega-projects it actually makes worse the problems it purports to &#8220;fix&#8221;. But once the fix is in more such scams will be &#8220;required&#8221; to address the problems brought about by the last scam.</p>
<p>The only ones to suffer are the Thai land and the Thai people, i.e everyone but the Military and Bureaucrats. As far as the Bangkok &#8220;elite&#8221; are concerned the scam was a great success, certainly one to be defended to the dying bureaucratic breathe.</p>
<p>As for those deadly ill-effects&#8230; can&#8217;t see them, or their corpses, from the Bangkok &#8220;elite&#8217;s&#8221; houses.</p>
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		<title>By: uberVU - social comments</title>
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		<dc:creator>uberVU - social comments</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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This post was mentioned on Twitter by tumbler_p: BLOG: GT200 Conclusion: Big Names Exposed http://bit.ly/a3UM5K...</description>
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		<title>By: David Brown</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Brown</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>just to be really clear, the test did not show that the device &quot;might detect bombs&quot; in some cases

it showed there was no evidence that the device ever detected bombs

the result was as good as if the operator tried to guess where the bombs were without having any device at all

so the result means that:

1 the device is worthless for its stated purpose and 

2 the army would achieve the same results by asking its soldiers for their best guess on whether there is a bomb or not

an advantage for the sellers of the fake equipment is that:

1 when there is a success then people are alive to claim the success

2 when the operator fails to guess there is a bomb the explosion destroys the evidence and there are less people to complain about the failure</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>just to be really clear, the test did not show that the device &#8220;might detect bombs&#8221; in some cases</p>
<p>it showed there was no evidence that the device ever detected bombs</p>
<p>the result was as good as if the operator tried to guess where the bombs were without having any device at all</p>
<p>so the result means that:</p>
<p>1 the device is worthless for its stated purpose and </p>
<p>2 the army would achieve the same results by asking its soldiers for their best guess on whether there is a bomb or not</p>
<p>an advantage for the sellers of the fake equipment is that:</p>
<p>1 when there is a success then people are alive to claim the success</p>
<p>2 when the operator fails to guess there is a bomb the explosion destroys the evidence and there are less people to complain about the failure</p>
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