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For the geographically-challenged: present-day Austria is land-locked, and thus has no call for a navy, let alone a naval academy.
Why would that prevent them from having a small navy? Assuming some country is happy for them to pay to have a port somewhere. Although they don't it wouldn't surprise me much to learn that they did have one despite being land-locked.
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Why would that prevent them from having a small navy? Assuming some country is happy for them to pay to have a port somewhere. Although they don't it wouldn't surprise me much to learn that they did have one despite being land-locked.
Many moons ago I reconnected with an old friend who moved to Switzerland years before; just imagine my face when he told me he was working for a Swiss shipowner:).
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I would love to see the reviewer report.
https://scholarlyoa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/reviewer-... I'm not sure whether that's the full report though.
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Oh, it most definitely still is A Thing. There have been a few notable attempts to stop it happening, but none of them have really worked completely, and they only apply to some from-domains.
O'rly? Try sending a mail from satya.nadella@microsoft.com to anyone you know.
The story behind this is here: https://scholarlyoa.com/bogus-journal-accepts-profanity-lace... “After receiving a spam email from the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, Dr. Peter Vamplew of Federation University Australia’s School of Engineering and Information Technology sent the anti-spam article as a reply to the spam email without any other message, expecting that they might open it and read i…
Guess what? Ethics page is 404 - http://www.ijact.org/index.php/ijact/ethics Intentional or not, it is an irony
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For the geographically-challenged: present-day Austria is land-locked, and thus has no call for a navy, let alone a naval academy.
Why would that prevent them from having a small navy? Assuming some country is happy for them to pay to have a port somewhere. Although they don't it wouldn't surprise me much to learn that they did have one despite being land-locked.
Because a port that you're only borrowing can quickly become a port that either you're trapped in or not welcome to come back to if either you or your host get involved in a military conflict.
Anyone had a professional mailing list or spammer add your email and have no unsubscribe feature? Had this happen and had to find the guy on LinkedIn and tell him to remove my email.
I don't know if they've changed it since then, but as soon as he mentioned it I thought that it was a great suggestion. There should definitely be a way that I, as the owner of an email address, can log into Mail Chimp and manage what they are going to send to me.
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There are so many stories like this. My favorite (although this one is very good) is that that a bunch of academics got together and pasted together some absolute nonsense (I assume this is from the era before SciGen) and submitted it to a conference. When it was accepted they revealed the hoax, and the conference admins claimed that it was because these academics were obviously very good, they figured the paper was…
This reminded me of the guys who got a chapter of "Mein Kampf" accepted as a paper. [0] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20181003015636/https://www.wsj.c...
> Affilia put out a statement in response, noting, "The article does not espouse racism, anti-Semitism, or any other fascist ideology; the parallels to Mein Kampf were limited exclusively to word choice in the descriptive text." ...
> David Banks compared the article's text to that of the Mein Kampf chapter it was supposedly based on and "couldn’t find a single phrase that matched." He also pointed out that the message of the hoax article was quite different from that of Mein Kampf: "This isn’t an article demanding concentration camps for men, it’s just a pedantic argument about neoliberalism."
Anyone had a professional mailing list or spammer add your email and have no unsubscribe feature? Had this happen and had to find the guy on LinkedIn and tell him to remove my email.
You reminded me of something Cory Doctorow wrote about a few years ago. He wanted Mail Chimp to tell him all the mailing lists he was on and they wouldn't. I don't know if they've changed it since then, but as soon as he mentioned it I thought that it was a great suggestion. There should definitely be a way that I, as the owner of an email address, can log into Mail Chimp and manage what they are going to send to me.