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  Explain your acronyms (RSI?) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-07-06 15:38 -0400
    Re: Explain your acronyms (RSI?) Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-07-06 20:51 +0100
      Re: Explain your acronyms (RSI?) Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2013-07-06 22:11 +0200
        Re: Explain your acronyms (RSI?) Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-07-06 21:27 +0100

#50076 — Explain your acronyms (RSI?)

"rms has crippling RSI" (anonymous, as quoted by Skip).

I suspect that 'rms' = Richard M Stallman (but why lower case? to insult 
him?). I 'know' that RSI = Roberts Space Industries, a game company 
whose Kickstarter project I supported. Whoops, wrong context. How about 
'Richard Stallman Insanity' (his personal form of megalomania)? That 
makes the phrase is a claim I have read others making.

Lets continue and see if that interpretation works. "should indicate 
that emacs' ergonomics is not right". Aha! Anonymous believes that using 
his own invention, emacs, is what drove Richard crazy. He would not be 
the first self invention victim.

But Skip mentions 'worse for wrists'. So RSI must be a physical rather 
than mental condition. Does 'I' instead stand for Inoperability?, 
Instability?, or what?

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.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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#50078

On 06/07/2013 20:38, Terry Reedy wrote:
> "rms has crippling RSI" (anonymous, as quoted by Skip).
>
> I suspect that 'rms' = Richard M Stallman (but why lower case? to insult
> him?). I 'know' that RSI = Roberts Space Industries, a game company
> whose Kickstarter project I supported. Whoops, wrong context. How about
> 'Richard Stallman Insanity' (his personal form of megalomania)? That
> makes the phrase is a claim I have read others making.
>
> Lets continue and see if that interpretation works. "should indicate
> that emacs' ergonomics is not right". Aha! Anonymous believes that using
> his own invention, emacs, is what drove Richard crazy. He would not be
> the first self invention victim.
>
> But Skip mentions 'worse for wrists'. So RSI must be a physical rather
> than mental condition. Does 'I' instead stand for Inoperability?,
> Instability?, or what?
>
> 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.

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#50081

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.

Stefan

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#50085

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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