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"they are good at finding concealed drugs but haven't found much that could bring down an airplane."

Wow. Could that possibly be because drug smuggling is not that uncommon, but shitheads actually attempting to bring down airliners really is? Seriously, in the last decade how many attempts HAVE there been, out of the hundreds of millions of passengers flying during that same period? How many hand grenades and Popiel pocket nukes did they expect to find, anyway?

"Security theater" beliefs aside, and I'm not saying there is not a lot of security theater that is senseless and ineffective, I can always say it would be easy to figure out how to do it - but if it actually were that easy I believe we'd have seen a lot more attempts. Some would probably have been successful. Instead we get dipshits trying to light fuses on shoes and underwear.

[I know that insolation will raise the temp, but I thought it was funny].

Obviously you haven't heard of the ronco inside the shell egg scrambler.

http://ronco.com/rco_prodinfo.aspx?pid=RO200110100 1&color=&active=ascry&sendroicid=b7d1082f-3861-4fe 0-8310-79957dc38e95&sendroikwd=ronco+egg+scrambler

Oh, oh!! Tinfoil edition GLH! I can't wait for that infomercial!

...is WEAR IT and...[audience]HIT IT!

From the inventor of the Showtime(TM) and the GLH hair system!

(I couldn't think of a two-syllable word for sex that rhymed with "wear"...)

Now with a scroll ring!

Makes me wish there was a <popeil> tag for the desired effect and notation.

- Tony

Sure its not this guy?

"Called EcoBot II, the robot is part of a drive to make "release and forget" robots

Soon to be sued by RonCo for infringing on their "set it and forget it" trademark.

ronco.com

I'm a guy, I live alone, I have never purchased a TV dinner or package of ramen. When I was getting my place set up, I did have a few frozen pizzas, but not any more.

It's really easy to cook. Pasta's easy, hamburgers are easy, even homemade pizza is easy. The crock pot and bread machine are great time savers. Pork chops are easy: be sure to brine them before cooking (put them in water with some sugar and salt; osmosis does the rest). Just throw them in a pan and brown them, then add some chopped onions and other vegetables. Goes well with rice.

Jalapeno poppers are pretty good to make once in a while, too. Pancakes, bacon, and hashbrowns are 100 times better when made at home, compared to fast-food or frozen variants. The best thing about cooking at home is the leftovers: you're making a meal not only for today, but you're rescuing yourself from pulling a mystery-meat burrito from the vending machine at work tomorrow.

Initially it takes some time, but you'll grow much more efficient. It's a good life skill to have, and you'll eat cheaper and healthier. Just make sure to buy small portions of food that perish quickly, and use them up before they go bad. You need some good tools, too. Sharp knives are a must. The first and only thing I've ever considered buying from Ronco is this huge knife set, and I'd have to say that for the price, they're a good deal and decently made.

Ok, so a Ronco "Mr. Microphone", or an iMrMicrophone would be illegal... should Karaoke in general be outlawed ? I wouldn't want that one put to a vote !

And what about those McDonalds drive-thrus, I think they us FM band ? So do garage door openers and baby monitors !

Don't you mean the Ignoble Prize? I mean, he's right up there with that guy who invented airtight underwear with a charcoal filter - not to mention he's neck-and-neck (in my books, anyway) with Ron Popeil, who came up with the Inside-The-Shell Egg Scrambler. Incredible!

Seriously, it doesn't take a genius to come up with the idea of making something smaller so you can put it in your pocket - now, a real genius would just get a bigger pocket...

Ron Popeil and others make "infomercials" of very high broadcast quality. I'm sure one of them wouldn't mind your customers seen demonstrations of their products.

He's the guy who invented a lot of that stuff like the Pocket Fisherman(tm). If you haven't heard of him or his stuff (crap?) you obviously haven't watched enough late night TV infomercials :)

Learn a little about him on his website

This guy brought us the GLH hair spray/paint and the Pocket Fisherman among other gadgets. He's considered something of a snake oil salesman except that some of his products can be useful. In the 70's and 80's, his ads were everywhere and RONCO was somewhat a household name.

This guy brought us the GLH hair spray/paint and the Pocket Fisherman among other gadgets. He's considered something of a snake oil salesman except that some of his products can be useful. In the 70's and 80's, his ads were everywhere and RONCO was somewhat a household name.

Alfred Loomis, "one of the most powerful men on Wall Street in the 1920's, a brilliant physicist, inventor of RADAR, LORAN, and the man who kicked off the race to build the atom bomb."

Alfred Loomis? Are you sure that's not Ron Popeil?

Thank you for your kind and world dominating consideration,
Ron Popeil

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And even when you try to explain the issues to those types, you still come off as some kind of crank.

I remember having a conversation last week with a very clued person who just didn't realize that the key to the future was getting easy-to-use, censor-proof apps out to Joe User. Sure, he and I could always start UUCP links and such if the net as we know it becomes obsolete thanks to "we must protect the chillllllllldren" laws, but I really don't want to go back to my high school days, where I was considered "31337" just by virtue of passing out hard copies of Phrack and getting free sex line calls from the school payphone.

Of course, do you think they would take the effort to learn how to do it themselves? No, they didn't see the future, and they were too lazy.

Teach a man to fish, and all that, but it seems that unless AOLers aren't provided with a Pocket Fisherman they're not going to get too far.

Maybe that's what we need to focus on...

They dice up your brain and sift through the contents to see what you were after.

If someone gives you some aluminum, and some bauxite, it's not obvious how you got one from the other. You need the patent in order to find this out. If someone gives you ronco's patent electric egg scrambler (in the shell no less), then you can take it apart and find how it works.

Erector sets with motor: to heck with Mindstorms. I was building destructor the robot with this thing when I could barely walk. That was a concept ahead of it's time.
Here's a great quote: "The first artificial heart constructed at Yale was powered by an Erector Set motor."

The remote control: Let's face it. We still don't need the dang thing and we couldn't live without it. It fits the definition perfectly.