I figured that was your stance, but like your latter paragraph, I wanted to leave you the flexibility to have a different stance without putting words in your mouth.
If Bybee makes med claims, that'd go through the FTC, as that's a communication issue versus manufacturing a drug and not calling it so. The domains overlap heavily though in this issue and it's really semantics.
Ignorance already is fully exploited. One example I faced in this part of Panama regarded glyphosate. People really thought it was harmless and improved harvests. I could prove that was wrong, providing articles first and examples later (one, I could relate damaging mud slides to the use of glyphosate). That was quite instructive: the machete now is used again to chop weeds and people literally see the health of their crops improve.
Regarding audio, one only has to sim an amp for IMD with frequencies 1.9 and 2.3 KHz (equal amplitude, full power) to see what some manufacturers are trying to hide. The general issue is that humans evolved for cooperation which requires a high level of trust / confidence. This is proportional to the perceived status, a phenomenon now abused to the full.
No idea what a kangaroo court is? But yes, it's parlor talk, this is the lounge. And I don't want to start a quasi legal discussion here, but I took the example I did because many here have bend over backwards to prove that these devices did anything useful and came up empty handed every time, have analyzed the product and found nothing that could remotely be construed to have any of the claimed effects, etc etc, ad nauseatum, and the originator remains silent as well. I guess in theory he could come up with some positive effect that all the others have missed, but I don't hold my breath.
So that's why I used that as an example, but there are many others. I used it more as a container.
Jan
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Black Friday comes to mind where it is not unusual to find 'deals' that are higher priced than normal. Or eBay prices twice as high as those from reputable distributors like Mouser or Digikey.
Yes. Here too.
Jan
I went to a Grammar School...... We had a geography teacher called Bates....oh what fun we had
So did I. We had a "Religious Education" teacher who would kiss boys... He was a total ****wit, but it seems astonishing now!
But the, the biology head was fired for growing cannabis in the school greenhouse.
Different times!!
(not to mention when we blew up the tennis pavilion...)
Intersting question; while I don't mind Mr. Bybee ripping off rich idiots (after all, even hyenas have a very useful role in the ecosystem), I do mind any attempt to indiscriminately sell me the same crap. That I take as a personal insult.
Secondly, I find Mr. Bybee not even half as annoying as his unconditional disciples.
If you were at a garage sale and found an article that you KNEW for a fact was worth hundreds or thousands of times the tagged price...would you take advantage of their ignorance in a case like that?
I think that it all comes down to how willing is a person to ignore their better angels in order to to satisfy their greed...
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I have met some that laugh about these finds. What about both parties being ignorant like simply buying a painting at a yard sale because you like it and it turns out to be worth $250,000?
I'm wondering about a world where NO ONE knows better, as in the movie Idiocracy. On the other hand, there had to be a "first person" who lied about their energy drink being good for plants, and that person surely carries some blame for the near-collapse of civilization.
"Old computer board $25"
I probably would, to be honest.
I must confess, that some time ago I was offered a scope for $ 20 on the grounds that it was broken, 'there's no signal visible'. The position of the switches and knobs was totally inconsistent, so I suspected that the trace was just off-screen or not triggered. I accepted and ended up with a perfectly functional 4-channel 300MHz scope.
Should I have gone back and offer extra money?
Jan
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