Science’s Pirate Queen

Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by garmaine on Thursday February 08, 2018 @08:02PM (#16337043)

> Why this simple concept would elude the US government is beyond me.

Money.

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Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by theGimp on Thursday February 08, 2018 @08:33PM (#16337188)

Does money not exist in Europe?

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Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by incompatible on Thursday February 08, 2018 @08:55PM (#16337286)

I suspect politicians in Europe are less dependent on private contributions.

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Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by namelost on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:08PM (#16337343)

Europe has wider variation in political corruption (less corrupt in Germany, more corrupt in Romania). Whereas US politicians always seem to be moderately corrupt, wherever they come from.

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Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by 8bitsrule on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:46AM (#16338163)

Kind of you to put it that way. 'Always' is too blanket, but those who are not are clearly diminishing in number. (They ... 'retire'.)

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Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by vecr25 on Thursday February 08, 2018 @08:54PM (#16337281)

I'm pretty sure we have that thing here too.

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