Re: information suppression by universities

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:59:01 -0800, Richard Clark <kb7qhc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:01:35 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Do I spend the money, or do I seach for your secret horde of free
university publications on antenna design?

Surely you must realize that this is not about money (a convenient
foil in this troll topic), but about skill (what the troll lacks).

If I had money and the necessary skills, I wouldn't be asking dumb
questions in this newsgroup.

The cheesy inventions that we have been breathlessly advised of have
the commensurate value of the bandwidth they return in a simple Google
search. It takes very little effort to recognize the moldy
fluorescence surrounding those meager offerings.

Wrong. Techno-hype became somewhat of a hobby of mine. During the
dot.com boom of the late 1990's, I was deriving considerable income
from doing technical sanity checks on business plans and projects.
During this time, I accumulated a fair collection of patents and ideas
that are pure bogus, yet were successfully promoted at least to the
point of being funded by technically clueless investors. Many are
still around today. Considering extent of the problem, and the fair
number of bogus patents, I would suggest that it is NOT easy to
recognize technical quackery.

If you want the exact article specified, yes you can shell out money.
If you want the research behind it, and probably more data than you
would care to wade through, you simply investigate the investigator.

I've been shelling out the money. I just want to shell out less
money. Your suggestion that there was some secret horde of free
research articles on antenna research at universities caught my
attention. I guess not.

Myself, if I don't want to spend any more than the cost of bus fare, I
go to the engineering library, check it out, bring it home, scan it,
and its done. As I am on campus twice a week anyway (and the cost of
bus fare is already covered for my other activities), it is hardly an
imposition and the university certainly isn't suppressing me as they
give alumni library privileges.

I haven't been on a bus in perhaps 25 years. The local multiversity
(UCSC) is on top of a mountain. I like to bicycle but at my age, the
hill is a challenge. Parking is impossible, expensive, or both. I'm
not an alumni, but am tempted to take exactly one class just to become
one. I've been "borrowing" accounts, but that has it's limitations.

Even public libraries have online access to special topic databases
(subscriptions) - unless you live in Bumf**k, Illinois.

Thanks, but I've tried that. See my other rant in this thread.

Now, if you happen to be a troll who visits a campus infrequently only
to spit on their library shelves, I can well imagine the ego-bruised
outrage that is visited upon us here after they give you the bum's
rush.

Punch my name into the Google Groups search page and read some of my
past postings. Then decide for yourself if I'm a troll or not. This
might help:
<http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?hl=en&enc_user=tWGMphwAAAAGTj9X4k0U7wKkGyU8QhaBhaxMG2M1PWkMtCZAt5tdxQ>

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

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