OT: Re: If you think you have an infinite energy machine...

In article <Xns9630B325291D1damon161attbicom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<damon1six1@xxxxxxxxxxx> Damon Hill wrote:
> "H. E. Taylor" <het@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:425340D3.3C51
> @despam.autobahn.mb.ca:
>>
>> Okay here is the deal. Don't bother trying to convince the people
>> around here. They've seen it all before. They're too skeptical.
>> They have all these old fashioned ideas like the laws of thermodynamics.
>> They have no idea how brilliant you are. Here's what you do. Put
>> one together and set it up to generate electricity. Then sell the
>> electricity, without saying where it came from. People will begin
>> to wonder where is this power coming from and -- word of mouth is the
>> best salesman -- before you know it, they'll be beating a path to your
>> door. You'll make a bundle.
>
> Sorry, it won't work. All these brilliant 'inventors' have to
> share their brilliance with the world, or whoever they can
> stop long enough to talk to. Actually DOING something is
> secondary at best, even if they COULD do something!
>
> Which, almost invariably, they can't. Ego too often wins
> over intellect.
>

Perhaps.
I just got tired of seeing this garbaage, and decided
to start putting together a stock response.
<fwiw>
-het


--
"Concentrate on what cannot lie. The evidence..." -Gil Grissom

How's yer crap detector? http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/detector.html
H.E. Taylor http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/
.

Relevant Pages

  • If you think you have an infinite energy machine...
    ... Okay here is the deal. ... Don't bother trying to convince the people ... one together and set it up to generate electricity. ...
    (sci.energy)
  • Re: If you think you have an infinite energy machine...
    ... Don't bother trying to convince the people ... > They have no idea how brilliant you are. ... > one together and set it up to generate electricity. ...
    (sci.energy)
  • Re: Just curious
    ... Why don't you ask your local grand wizard? ... Not brilliant, but absolutely true. ... Does it bother you.. ... And worst of all a Croatian idiot? ...
    (soc.culture.jewish)
  • Re: Move from the Superdome to the Astrodome?
    ... >Whose brilliant idea was this? ... functioning toilets, electricity or air conditioning. ...
    (alt.politics.bush)
  • Re: Tool gloat: Unused Shaper
    ... only 3 pictures with something looking like a shaper. ... minutes to convince myself, to phone the dealer and place a order. ... Brilliant Find, all comes to he who waits! ...
    (rec.crafts.metalworking)