Glen -
Heh, you say "conspiracy theory" like it's a bad thing. 8^)
I've a friend with impeccable timing who can say:
"is it a conspiracy theory?"
.....
"or a good business plan?"
At first I didn't fully appreciate the duality... certainly "a good
business plan" requires a certain amount of secrecy and some
"conspiracy"...
I'm starting to worry that the literati are using "conspiracy theory" in the same way the
Trumpians are using "fake news". Regardless, I'm happy that people like this Tea Pain person
exist, just like I was happy to read the posts arguing that Obama's birth certificate was assembled by a
desktop publishing app. It's a great way to test yourself and your membership in your group(s) ... Do you
believe it? Yes? Why? No? Why? And (to go back to the subject of the thread) regardless of +(whether
anyone|who) believes some idea, can you _use_ it to accomplish your goals? It's pretty exciting/terrifying
to imagine "data scientists" being involved in whether or not Trump will remain president ... fact
or fiction, just as exciting as the (failed) extradition of dorks like Snowden, Assange, and Levashov.
We do live in interesting (exciting?) times? But for that I could
take a motorcycle out on the twisty NM roads just a little too fast and
wonder around which corner I was going to find the patch of gravel or
the elk or the pileup caused by the last person who went around that
corner a little too fast. I guess I"m getting old!
On 04/10/2017 03:50 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
[*] Data Patterns Reveal Trump Tower/Spectrum Health Ran a “Stealth Data
Machine” With Russia
https://teapainusa.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/data-patterns-suggest-trump-towerspectrum-health-ran-a-stealth-data-machine-with-russia/
<https://teapainusa.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/data-patterns-suggest-trump-towerspectrum-health-ran-a-stealth-data-machine-with-russia/>
Didn't this turn out to be a conspiracy theory built on a fact? There were
packets between Spectrum Health and a Russian bank, but what the packets meant
was largely made up -- oh, I see, this is a new spin on the story, a database
replication pattern is detected. That could still be made up.
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