Explain your acronyms (RSI?)

Rotwang sg552 at hotmail.co.uk
Sat Jul 6 16:27:17 EDT 2013


On 06/07/2013 21:11, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Rotwang, 06.07.2013 21:51:
>> On 06/07/2013 20:38, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>> "rms has crippling RSI" (anonymous, as quoted by Skip).
>>> [...]
>>> Let us try Google. Type in RSI and it offers 'RSI medications' as a
>>> choice. Sound good, as it will eliminate all the companies with those
>>> initials. The two standard medical meanings of RSI seem to be Rapid
>>> Sequence Intubation and Rapid Sequence Induction. But those are
>>> procedures, not chronic syndromes. So I still do not know what the
>>> original poster, as quoted by Skip, meant.
>>
>> Repetitive strain injury, I assume. Not sure if you're joking but over here
>> the top 7 hits for "RSI" on Google, as well as the three ads that precede
>> them, are repetitive strain injury-related.
>
> Both of you might want to delete your browser cookies, log out of your
> Google accounts, and then retry. Maybe disabling JavaScript helps. Or
> enabling the Privacy Mode in your browser. Or try a different browser all
> together. Or a different search engine. Google has lots of ways to detect
> who's asking.

The results I mentioned above were in private browsing in FF. I'm in the 
UK though so that certainly will have made a difference.




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