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Wonder if he will feel the same about what should happen to monopolies if spacex becomes a monopoly on sending shit into space.

Well, they're not a monopoly now, and the richest man in the world is _one_ of his/SpaceX's competitors. So, there's that :)

Well, a lot of SpaceX stuff breaks itself up anyway, so no need to worry.

Male horses as well.

Wot, stallions? Or is that an instance of the spell check goblin fouling up again?

You mean chickens surely?

I'm thinking that it would be awesome if Amazon was more selective about the books which it offers for sale. The number of loony conspiracy books (ebook or printed-on-demand) that are available almost drown out the legitimate books for certain topics. And when you pop over to the Korean or Japanese book sections to see what's new, you find yourself drowning in softcore porn rags. Even with the 'adult content' filter enabled.

But I guess good on this nut for getting another conspiracy book on Amazon.

Please do support your local bookstore.

"I'm thinking that it would be awesome if Amazon was more selective about the books which it offers for sale."

Very slippery route. Who decides what books should not be sold? "The Amazon 451F Committee"?

To be honest, I find this all very entertaining.

I don't have a twitter account, and I don't need to visit their site to know what's going on. Practically every news site the world over has something on their front page from there.

All very amusing.

(i'm not mentioning anything about medication in this post, not, no... damnit!)

I haven't read the book but if the author stated the virus originated from a certain "Asian country", then I can understand Amazon's decision.

"Unreported truths" sounds remarkably like a euphemism for "false allegations and downright lies"

I assume the book has not been peer-reviewed by real scientists???

Indeed.

He's written a bunch of action thrillers featuring a character called John Wells (nothing to do with "George Parr" or John Fortune I suspect) as well as

"Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence"

No doubt a carefully researched and balanced account of the issues to create a more informed debate on the subject*

So my BS meter is redlining like a Geiger counter in the engine compartment of a Cold War era Soviet nuclear submarine.

*And if you believe that I also have a nice bridge for sale.

And people buy cars from this nutjob

It is 22 pages long according to the Amazon listing. https://www.amazon.com/Unreported-Truths-about-COVID-19-Lockdowns-ebook/dp/B089P216NP

I would put that about an order of magnitude shorter than a Book. How about a booklet - the term the author uses - or a pamphlet.

BTW Anything with "truth" in the title is not going to be scientific. Truth is a big word for scientists - so big they never use it. Science isn't about finding the "Truth" it is about finding more accurate understanding of the world - so nothing is ever the final word as there is always a better theory around the corner.

...into the Reg.

...and the Ister.

I have no idea why, I haven't thought this through at all, I just wanted to type something.

Sorry.

Are you CRAZY?

and infringe on the iCompanies trademark? and shut it all down?

as if theregister has no issues with the iThingy company......

obviously your keyboard works and the "i" key is not disabled..... I am using a legitimate hardware device from the iCompany.. thus i am entitled to use the "i" key... I paid for it... ;)

If I had the money to buy one of his ridiculous video games with a car bolted on, I wouldn't. The total nutjob needs taking down a peg or two. Seriously, it's got fucking video games built into the infotainment centre.

I don't think I have ever gone from admiring someone to cringing every time I see their name as quickly as I have with Elon Musk. In a world where far too many of the super rich spend their money on private boats and hedonistic persuits Elon seemed to be focussing on developing technologies that would make real improvements to science and the future of the world. Recently though he seems to have lost sight of the reason to do these things and is trying to achieve them at any cost.

I think he's never been extremely stable, and often he's said stuff that were downright stupid. He's just currently ranting on a particularly bad subject, because his precious Tesla factory in California got impacted by the shutdowns, so he's yapping at the mainstream Covid response.

For a guy who has admittedly accomplished quite a lot, he does seem to have a rather fragile ego. I'm not sure whether he thinks giving his kid a stupid name is a proof of his genius or originality...?

At least, unlike some Hotel magnates, he didn't name the poor kid after one of his products -- Model_3 or Hyperloop or Boring.

Elon Musk, isn't he a 'Pedo Guy'?

I am sorry if perhaps that terms means something else in the US, as where I am from it is a common term for someone who uses a pedometer to count their daily walking activity.

We would not have this problem if the word had been properly formed as podometer from two Greek roots, rather than as pedometer from a mix of Latin and Greek!

Person Exporting Devices to Orbit

I think you are missing an "Actively" there.

I can save you the trouble of reading as I can guess exactly how this conspiracy theory will be framed and why Amazon refused to sell it.

The death rate has only increased because hospital are not doing routine operations, treatments and diagnosis.

Yet another stupid conspiracy theory. The simplest answer to this and all the others on the it doesn't exist theories are that

A. How would get every government on the planet including Iran to conspire to invent a fake virus? Impossible.

B. The total cost involved to every nation would not be worth whatever they could ever expect to get back from doing it.

There you go. debunked. Amazon should have sold it and put it in the fiction section.

Where else do you find billionaires hurling abuse at normal people (aka plebs) or other billionairs? Indeed some 'billionairs' even feel the need to post pictures of them pouting in various states of undress with dodgy tans and too many photoshop edits. Don't even get me started on the Orange One. And yet the great unwashed seem to lap it all up, the fools.

Why does it need to exist? Really?

While (without having looked at it) I think we can assume the booklet is a pile of drivel, you either accept that people are (more or less[0]) free to say/write what they want, or you accept (as mentioned above) that books will be vetted by the committee of truth. In this case, you have a powerful commercial organisation imposing it's own committee on truth with no oversight and without even saying what rules it's applying.

[0] Yes, there's the obvious thing that shouting fire in a crowded theatre is "not a good thing", and neither is inciting people to violence. So you can never have complete and unfettered rights to freedom of expression. But in civilised societies, we have the bare minimum of restrictions so as not to suppress fringe ideas - and lets face it, history is littered with "crazy fringe ideas" which later turned out to actually be rather sensible. The big problem is the much larger number of properly crazy ideas that aren't sensible.