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drug cartels can recruit people to build their own submarines and cell phone networks, so ...
by munin 14y ago
drug cartels can recruit people to build their own submarines and cell phone networks, so ...
- batista 14y agoThose submarines are crude, has you seen pictures? And submarines and cell phone networks are pretty standard technologies, well understood, that any competent engineer can build off of off the shelve components. It's not like drug cartels are Dr. No like enterprises...
- TeMPOraL 14y ago> And submarines and cell phone networks are pretty standard technologies, well understood,... But what about, well, drugs? Don't drug cartels employ chemists to refine old drugs and develop "better" ones?
- dfc 14y agoAre you comparing developing Flame to cooking meth or freebasing coke?
- TeMPOraL 14y ago> Are you comparing developing Flame to cooking meth or freebasing coke? No, of course not :). The point was about crime organizations hiring elite specialists to do high-tech research for them.
- batista 14y agoWell understood also. It's not like they're doing cutting edge pharmaceutical drug research that takes mega scientists and billions in funding and very precise enzyme targeting, etc. They mostly iterate on known drugs to make their making cheaper / more addictive. And they can easily test on junkies (I presume).
- TeMPOraL 14y agoOk, fair enough.
- rdl 14y agoThe "research chemical" community, out of China, SE Asia, Israel, and Europe, is pretty much doing cutting edge pharmaceutical drug research -- the point being to produce "interesting" club drugs while staying ahead of regulation. Not spending billions, but doing fairly reasonable drug discovery, synthesis, and testing. Of course, sometimes they get it wrong, and you end up with face flesh eating humans in Florida.
- niels_olson 14y ago> flesh eating humans in florida Citation?
- com4 14y agoSeriously? http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/29/2822971/new-video-shows-more-grisly-detail.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/29/2822971/new-video-show...
- niels_olson 14y agoThanks. Just to be clear, toxicology is pending. My gut says this is mental illness, not drugs, based on the perp's record. Also, I don't own a TV, don't watch TV, and get my news from friends and NPR. So I don't generally see much of this news-of-the-wierd. Thankfully, it appears.
- beedogs 14y agoI supplement my lack of TV news with a once-or-twice-daily visit to Drudge. It compresses all the utter lunacy down to one appropriately-ugly page and keeps me a couple days ahead of the GOP talking points at the same time.
- willvarfar 14y agoHmm I'll just interject that I don't think drug cartel submarines are crude, and I've seen lots of pictures. Its non-trivial building these submarines and most competent engineers would balk at being asked to, explaining they were not competent enough. Don't mistake a lack of polish, fanfare and machined parts for primitive as in easy to make work.