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Many people have scorned and laughed at Thomas A. Edison, Albert Einstein, and Nikola Tesla, it says on Alex Chiu's famous Web site, where Alex explains the mysteries of the universe, tells us how we can make the future better, and offers immortality (for a very reasonable price) through his patented immortality devices.
Alex has enough of a following among Slashdot readers (and editors) that when I posted a two-line comment saying I'd ask him to do a Slashdot interview if I got 10 requests by email, I got lots more than that. So here we go! One question per post, please. We'll forward 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Alex on Monday, and post his answers as soon as we get them back.
I wonder if mortality rings would sell...
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You are obviously an ignorant non-believer in the great Alex. If the medical experts convince people to buy these rings, then nobody will get sick or die anymore, and that would put them all out of a job. It is quite plain to see that those quack "doctors" will try to dismiss these incredibly wonderful devices as "pseudoscience", but you will have to pry MY Immortality Rings off my cold, dead fingers...wait...um...
You clearly have no idea who Alex Chiu is. In an interview with Alex Chiu, the root comment is plainly insightful.
Western science has yet to describe why acupuncture works. Some theories say that they are merely touching nerves/veins with pressure, causing some kind of electro-chemical change. But that theory is flawed as there are numerous pressure points that when examined closely, show no veins/nerves within the area (only fat cells). Why do those pressure points work? Under MRI, it's proven that acupuncture changes brain activity in certain areas depending on the pressure point being manipulated. It has also been shown that there is a correlation between high/low "chi" as described by masters of accupuncture and brain activity as seen under MRI. The accupunture masters that were being used in the study were 86% accurate at guessing their patients chi problems (too high or too low) as compared to MRI brain activity measurements. Nobody really understand why it works, but it still works, with impirical data to prove that it is more than just a placebo effect. Ok with all that said about acupuncture, I'm pretty open minded about these rings working. Your explaination of why they work may be correct or flawed, but it doesn't matter if they still work, just like accupuncture.
I don't.
Quick question sir: Why does your product only have a ninety day warranty? Are you saying that your devices are less reliable than a Hyundai?
you cite edison, tesla and einstein as people who were "laughed and scorned at," presumably as parallel figures to yourself, but we can't help noticing that you're sort of missing something. edison, tesla and einstein were great scientists who, through a thorough and accurate understanding of the best scientific learning of their day, applied existing principles in groundbreaking and unexpected ways to advance contemporary physics. you, however, are applying your ignorance and lack of understanding of high-school level science - skimming through textbooks, parrot-learning words like "unique frequency," "magnetic flux" and "negative charge" - and producing your own bastardized version of contemporary science via the tried and tested method of 'just making shit up.'
you seem to be mesmerised, rabbit-in-headlamps style, by the magical idea of magnetism. apparently you're an intelligent enough guy, but please for your own magnetic god's sake educate yourself on the basic concepts of science, starting with the other three fundamental forces (or is it two? unification is so awkward!). cells don't cluster together because of magnetism. animals don't run from danger because they are "repelled by the negative energy." hey, maybe some form of teleportation will be possible in the future, but chances are it won't be courtesy of the fantastically well-thought-out "transmitting the unique frequency of an object." a quick vote amongst ourselves decided that gravity isn't caused by static electricity when the earth's core rubs against the crust, and as a race we're fairly certain that the sun isn't hot because of friction between its "layers". while you appear to be sure that you're pioneering, pushing the edge of science and coming up with fascinating and groundbreaking new ideas, it might be prudent to base your fantastic new theories on intelligent observation and existing science (as edison, tesla and einstein all did), rather than just gazing into space and pulling things out of your eternally-young ass. so the sun produces heat via some kind of "rubbing" process rather than nuclear fusion, mm? do you have some empirical evidence for this astounding revelation - which would be required to counteract the huge body of proof and data accumulated over the years for what we'll call the 'Enemy Theory' - or are you (all together now) just making shit up?
how a ufo works? hey, man, slow down! why not read up on how a gyroscope works? why don't you make one and try it out for yourself? it doesn't "defy gravity," it's not magic or magnetic or anything else even approaching alliterative mysticism. no, seriously. trust us on this one. it precesses, resisting any force that tries to tilt its axis of rotation. this is simple - honestly! we'll use italics! - simple newtonian physics; a gyroscope only "defies gravity" when it has something against which to exert a force. an unsupported spinning object will just drop like a stone unless it has astounding aerodynamic properties (which isn't what you're talking about) - try it for yourself! um, with a plate, or something! unless you've got some kind of inbred aversion to deduction by empirical observation!
we could go through your site and identify countless other examples; you're not being groundbreaking, you're not an eccentric genius of science who's thinking in new ways that nobody else would even consider. you're just blinkered and wrong and obsessed with making huge sweeping deductions from your own misguided half-cooked internal reasoning processes. which is a pity, because your conviction and dedication to your ideas is admirable. it just makes us sad - and moderately angry - to see an entire site dedicated essentially to stupidity; advocating and glorifying the practice of ignoring intelligent deduction and observation, promoting ignorance, and shamelessly condoning the attitude that if you can blindly concoct enough unfounded shit in your head, independently of any evidence or informed reasoning, it'll become true if you close your eyes and say you believe in fairies.
feel free to respond - whenever the mood of your flux allows.
A discovery as important as yours will not go unnoticed, especially as you publicize it as far and wide as you have in seeking to earn your capitalist profit as is your god-given American right (rooted in the 5th, 14th, and 10th amendments of THE CONSTITUTION). The only question is, who (or should I say "Who"?) will do the noticing?
Government agencies and secret police forces are your first threat, as they are for every righteous individual in this orwellian world of thought police and governmental indoctrination. No government can turn a blind eye to something as fundamentally anti-government as an immortality device. It may be too late for them to make Stalin or Roosevelt (there is no difference) immortal, since they died during the era where man did not interfere with GOD'S wish that we live and then DIE. But it is not too late for CLINTON or BLAIR or any other Liberal deity, and they certainly don't want you to have it in any event.
But the threats to your safety aren't confined to this planet alone. The alien races that populate our solar system and beyond may possess technology superior in every way to our own, but they have not yet perfected immortality. (I know this only through Divine providence and what I have witnessed with my own eyes: an elaborate Alien burial ceremony deep within the UN complex on sovereign American territory.) Your device would be of great help to their intergalactic conquests, and though they may respect you as a man of science, you are but one small pawn on a small blue planet in an undusted corner of their empire.
Be forewarned, cher Alex. Your continued safety is of the utmost importance to the survival of free Americans and the human race (excluding communists). Lead us to the promised land, but tread carefully. They are watching.
Perhaps your only rival on the internet is Gene Ray, the man who discovered Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous 4-day Time Cube.
Despite the fact that his work contradicts much of your research, he also faces similar obstacles in having his work accepted or at least evaluated. No "institution" of higher education will even return his calls. I spoke to him via phone recently, and Mr. Ray believes that this is because they're run by fundamentalists engaged in some kind of conspiracy to keep the truth away from the public. He was understandably very frustrated by this.
I can't help but to wonder if other scientists face the same problems. Can you offer a correlating viewpoint? In your efforts to have your work accepted, or at least taken seriously, do you find that fundementalists are a large obstacle? If so, do you believe that this is out of their own ignorance, or that maybe they do in fact have a sinister motive as Mr. Ray suggests?
Thank you for your time.
Hi,
I was talking with a friend today about you, Alex Chiu, and we found a real strange paradox (well, all paradoxes are strange).
If the famous people you cite on your site have been laughed of, and we only really recognize their value today, after they are dead, how can you really be recognized if you will never die? Does this means that you will never been recognized (and hence your rings don't work, so you die, so you are recognized, so your rings did work, so you don't die, so... ad infinitum)?
We got really confused, so we decided not to think on the subject anymore for today, but then we came to slashdot, and here is the topic once again.
I hope you can help us, as you've done with so many subjects already. Perhaps it's explained in the Bible code.
Thanks,
he's certainly charging enough for the foot braces...- -----
I like the idea of donating money to a charity to get them. I'd almost go ahead and do that.
but he's got pop-up ads when you leave the site.
that sort of thing always makes me doubt the veracity of the information withing...it's sort of a "we know you won't come back, so here' my last ditch way to get you to give me some money!"
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
You see, without that little doohicky, the universe stops.
http://propheteer.org
well, at least in this case you can always just take off the rings. or give a pair to your friends. and you don't even have to become a vampire! "hm...I think I need a few more years on me to look more dignified...maybe I'll just wear them every other night for a while.."- ------
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
You see, without that little doohicky, the universe stops.
http://propheteer.org
okay, assuming he's right (which I don't really believe) he has put the instructions up on the web on how to make them yourself. it's sort of too late for anyone to clamp it down. the hundreds (perhaps thousands) of slashdotters that looked at his page cached it in both their and their ISP's servers, so it's out there and likely out of anyone's control. ...- -
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
You see, without that little doohicky, the universe stops.
http://propheteer.org
magnets have been around in this manner for many years - new age style people, etc. have been encouraging the use of magnets on the feet and hands for as long as I can remember. why is your way better, why didn't theirs work, and what proof and facts do you have? your website was not very forthcoming on that last issue, though you claimed to have both.- ---
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
You see, without that little doohicky, the universe stops.
http://propheteer.org
The same problem testers of the efficacy of other "magnetic healing" devices have. Many of them claim to control for that by watching the subjects carefully, and keeping the environment mostly made up of plastics or non-ferrous metals, but still... what if the subject merely touches two of the supposed magnets to each other, and looks for repulsion or attraction?
Very difficult to eliminate the placebo effect.
(and yes, I do think the placebo effect is real, despite that meta-study. Countless studies show improvement in patients in both the control and actual group, an effect which can only be explained by placebo)
-- perl -e'print pack"H*","6e656d6f406d38792e6f7267"'
That would work in Alex Chiu's case, not so well in the case where you have to check for, say, a reduction in pain.
-- perl -e'print pack"H*","6e656d6f406d38792e6f7267"'
Hey, Alex!
Why you spam?
Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen - http://iki.fi/juhtolv
Moderate this one up, please.
-Sir Woody Hackswell, the Arch-Fool
I once tried to wipe a floppy disk on a guitar speaker magnet. Left it there for a couple of days. Stroked it on the magnet a few times for good measure. Stuck it in my drive and it worked fine. These things can be more robust than you think.
Of course, if it had had my only copy of a precious file, it would have gone if I'd sneezed within a mile of it.
Baz
Alex,
the web is full of interesting sites on the fringes of science. Some may well be true, and some not. How can we tell which are written by people who also think they are Napoleon and which are written by true Edisons? Now how do these criteria apply to your material?
Baz
> Assuming I were to live forever, why should I want to?
"Personally, I've been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been that I'm willing to grapple with those issues for as many centuries as it takes." - Patrick Nielsen Hayden, rec.arts.sf.fandom
But seriously, it's not compulsary, and even if his rings worked you could take them off when you had enough.
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Or: why eternal life is not a good idea. Imagine Bill Gates still being alive in 100 years...
That's my favorite Carl Sagan quote.
Everybody, read some of his books. Even though he's dead for a couple years now, Alex C. says that he could use the money!
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Is it just me or do Alex Chiu's "discoveries" sound like they were cut from a Monty Python sketch? Read his description of how to build a teleporter and tell me it doesn't sound just like:
"Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvellous cure for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be any diseases ever again." -Monty Pythons Flying Circus
I guess my question for Alex is: Are you trying to start a new comedy troupe?
Out of personal curiosity, I noticed that on one of your pages, you state that you "wish China will one day take Taiwan back, peacefully or by force, at any cost!" Why is that? I can understand fierce national pride, after all, I am from the US.
It still irks me to see what amounts to little more utter racism on your site, even more so from someone with aspirations towards immortality. Is this really what we want for our future? Can you honestly stand by those beliefs, knowing that any application of immortality combined with that kind of narrowmindedness would eventually leave us in a world of people who all think and act in the exact same way?
I suppose the real question breaks down to: What exactly do you have against Taiwan to such an extent that you would attempt to deny an entire nation a chance at (supposed) immortality?
Raptor
Raptor
"Procrastination is great. It gives me a lot more time to do things that I'm never going to do."
Are you aware that, in addition to Edison, Einstein and Tesla, people also laughed at Bozo the Clown?
-- Don't Tase me, bro!
If people have eternal life then maybe they won't be in such a hurry to have kids. When inter-generation time streaches toward infinity, growth gets real slow.
"Any ass can publish on the internet."
I think the next target for Slashdot's hard hitting brand of journalism should be Gene Ray, the Timecube guy.
Laugh while you can, monkey boy!
How come you aren't in jail for fraud?
...of attaching these magnets to NT servers? I could do with one that doesn't die at least once every thirty days.
Thanks in advance.
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The gift of death metal does not smile on the good looking.
I agree. Kinda reminds me of poking fun at mumbling hobos or agents of the Lord (tm) on street corners.
Or worse yet - if you die within 90 days from the time of purchase, how will you be able to claim your refund?
I have done nothing, can I get my free rings now?
-- This sig is only a test. If this were a real sig it would say something witty. --
But it's also the story of my life. I think I'll go sob to myself in a corner now. --Shoeboy
Heh, this site is legit. I first saw it about 4 years ago. I honestly think this guy either is making fun of a lot of people or is completely looney. I go for the second. Somewhat of an Ed Wood type thing going on here, methinks...
Humours last great frontier - the internet.
I hope they never sanitize and control the internet to conform to the standards of surprisingly humourless slashdot readers.
Self parody loony fringe sites like this are hilarious. My question for Alex is, has he considered doing a standup show based on his scientific ideas?
A second possible question is what is Alex's expert opinion on Scientologist technology and how it works?
Yes we know Alex's ideas are a crock of shit scientifically, but so is Star Trek and we still enjoy it don't we?
Alex,
What does it feel like to be a nut?
Steve's Computer Service, Hobbs, NM
I plan to live forever... so far, so good. ;)
If I should die, it would only be because I got bored with living and decided not to live forever.
There. I now have immortality (for as long as I want it).
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Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow.
Price, Quality, Time. Pick none. What, you thought you had a choice?
Hi Alex Chiu
I have made some eternal life foot braces,
from some very strong neodymium magnets from old ibm harddics.
I do feel that it incress the blood flow in my feet,
but I am wondering if it is possible to make the magnet to strong ?
Knud
Hi Alex Chiu
Have you considered that an alternative
explanation for you eternal life device
is that it magnetise the telomeres
in the end of the chromosomes and thereby
attract on attache free iron atoms from the blood stream.
Knud
If you use the rings for immortality,
You woundn't have to drink the life energy
of humans!
Anyone who would want to save mother Theresa obviously hasn't read this or any of the other articles or books by Christopher Hitchens on the subject!
-- It only takes 20 minutes for a liberal to become a conservative thanks to our new outpatient surgical procedure!
I have made a modification to Alex Chiu's device which will bring this mainstream. Everyone will feel like they are in heaven.
Basically, it consist of a small brass cylinder with a contact explosive at one end (we'll call it a "primer"), then the cylinder is filled with shredded nitrocellulose cord (we'll call this "smokeless powder"), and the magnetic device is then friction fit into the end of the cylinder sealing in the "smokeless powder". You then purchase my BFG-GLOCK17 Immortality Insertion device for around $450US (after the mandatory 2 week waiting period), and insert the brass cylinder into the chamber. To operate the device, you take the end of the BFG-GLOCK17, and insert the open end of it into your mouth, and point it upward towards the roof of your mouth. When you pull the trigger, the magnetic device is propelled upwards and implanted within your brain, it's very painless.
By implanting the magnetic device within your brain, it will better control the magnetic flux of your body, and it will seem like you are in heaven.
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Hi Alex - I think you're great!! ;o)
Anyway, on your site, you say "The UFO's center does not rotate. The UFO's center consists of the control room, the fuel tank, and the jet engines"
A). Have you been abducted by aliens?
B). Did you thank them for letting you see their engine room?
C). If you have not been in a UFO, how do you know this?
D). If someone told you, how do you know they are telling the truth?
Hi Alex!! I still think you're amazing!!!
Anyway, I digest.
On your site you say, "Long, long time ago, in a far away galaxy, cells were formed. Cells are building blocks of different chemicals."
My problem is, when I try to tell people this, they just laugh at me, and sometimes they stick sharp things into me. Please can you point me to the proof of what you say, so that I can show these people once and for all!!
Love your site by the way, did you do those slick graphics yourself?
Hi Alex!! You still look really young!
I have a question - on your site, you say:
"Actually I'm very sure we can resurrect people because we have that technology already. Cloning an entire sheep has already successfully been done by Scottish scientists. In the future, cloning will be allowed because resurrection is promised in the Torah, and it is clearly the will of God."
If, (as everybody is aware of) people go to heaven (or hell) when they die, does the process of their ressurection involve removing the 'soul' of the person involved from heaven (or hell)?
I'm not sure that I speak for everybody, but if I was dragged from my peaceful cloud in heaven back into a semi-decomposed body, I think I might be pretty annoyed!
And also, is this not a loophole for those damned to eternity in hell?
Yours sincerely,
Endisnigh.
Hi Alex!! You're super! Where do you get all the inspiration for your website?
Anyway, here's my question -:
On your website, you say:
"If everyone is the same, than a retarded person should stand beside Bill gates. And Bill gates should hire farmers from third world countries to work in his computer firm."
Do you think that Bill Gates hires retarded farmers from third world countries to work in his firm? And how do you think this relates to the quality of the software produced by said company?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Endisnigh
No he specifically says this doesn't protect you for accidents or deisese, just that you don't grow any older. Oh and he also said the gravity is created by teh rubbing of the earth plates to create static-electricity, which he says is the same as gravity :)
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PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!
My father-in-law lost the fingers of his left hand in a construction accident. Is there any hope for him? What about a quadruple-amputee?
If these "transistors" are lost, what kind of effect does this have on the body?
PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!
When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you're insane? Maybe you're just sitting around, reading Guns & Ammo, masturbating, in your own feces...do you just stop and go, 'WOW! It is amazing how fucking crazy I really am.
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"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.." -Roy Batty
Why People Believe Weird Things ?
Immortality devices? What is your scientific proof? Scientific, not pseudo-scientific. You are a charlatan, sir.
But what really gives this guy away is that "there can be only one" [immortal] and everybody knows Connor McLeod has already won, so the guy must be a phoney. ...
I bet he is, or Connor would've kicked his butt long ago. I reckon
No, no, no - it is Duncan McLeod who is left now - Connor sacrificed himself so that their combined strength would defeat the bad immortal...
You are right about the ass-kicking, though...
Alex, your web page states:
"If you are not satisfied with the products, you have 90 days to refund them"
How am I supposed to know within 90 days if the immortality ring works?
Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck....
- Necron69
Um, OK, so I figure this magnetic ring thing seems like a pretty good idea and all, I mean, I want to live forever too and all...
My problem is that I do a lot of work on my PC at night, often until late hours, and I am worried about the magnets interfering with my video display and possibly erasing my floppy disks. Do you have any suggestions?
Everyone will start to cheer when you put on your sailin' shoes.
The fact that the parent post is currently moderated down as flamebait, while other posts who are taking themselves (and alexchiu.com) waaaay too seriously are being moderated up has proven something to me: Alex Chiu is smarter than most of the people here, if only for the fact that some of you people think he's serious.
< tofuhead >
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It is still the dark of night.
Well, I guess, I live in a universe of perfection - Every one does his best for the society's sake... and... never expcts to be paid back. And the life is beautiful... errr... not really... In my dreams maybe...
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But in general, I'd still want to state that this is true - the greatest works are done *in general* by people who do it not with the ultimate purpose of reaping rewards, but for the sake of others. That includes a lot of scientists, philosophers, well... that might be a little bit of a stretch, but... that's the idea of open source... kinda. We all know very well that open source does quite well as long as it is kept open, but we all know what happens to open source projects when you try to squeeze money out of them. They die.
(Actually, I was referring to Free Software, but "Open Source" is just a better buzz-word, in my opinion, and the two kinda go hand-in-hand here, as far as I am concerned; yes, I know the difference.)
Have a great day everyone!
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Jobs? Which jobs?
in addition to his obvious ignorance I would remind slashdotters that neither Einstein, not Tesla, nor any other great minds of the past seeked glory and recognition. They did it for the sake of the people, or at least just for the heck of it (read: science) but never seeked a reward. He does.
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His purposes and attitudes seem noble, at least donating money to a charity seems like a good idea. But then, again, if he does that clearly for-profit, FDA will stop that right there. In fact, he is expecting that any moment. Yes, I know, it might not be hurting anyone physically, but it is a scam anyway and that is something that the we have to deal with.
As far as his ignorance... oh, this is truly bad. Here he compares the way our body works to a transistor (resembles a recent movie, except there we were duracell batteries, right?). I do not know anything about how a body works, but it is apparent that he has no clue about how transistors work, that's for sure. He also seems to be missing the point that the energy can't be drawn (and amplified) out of the thin air. Tesla himself probably would have turned over in his grave if he heard something like that.
I would not even touch his perception of God ("God is the mathematical formula which runs our universe"). errr... hideous herecy, along with toddler level of comprehension put into scientific words!
!!!Last, but not least, every one of us has seen spammers and MLM promoters, right? Right. What do they use? Pop-ups that advertize you to buy a product - he's got it! Paid ads - he's got it! TESTIMONIALS OF SOMEBODY'S GREAT EXPERIENCE AND MIRACULOUS CURE IN CAPITAL LETTERS? - he's got that too! popups that open up when onUnload() happens? - He's got that as well. It doesn't take too much time to see that he is making money just off this website, just running it and getting money off advertizers with very nicely disguised ads (just look at the source code of his pages). And now, sice he is getting slashdotted, he is getting even more, we are helping him quite a bit.
Now, since I established that this is a rather typical scam, and this guy exhibits remarkable ignorance, and takes pride in it, makes money in the very detestable ways that slashdotters hate, and shamelessly considers and announces himself the next best thing in the Universe (or at the very least the next Einstein)... since all this is true... why in the world would Roblimo even think about interviewing the guy. Yes, it might be entertaining to see the gross stupidity and laugh at it, but did we really degrade far enough to interview a guy just to laugh at stupidity? I think this is something for those scandalous magazines that you can buy at any grocery store, not for slashdot!
Over and out. Very mad too.
Vlad
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Oh, oh!
Ask him exactly how his immortality device works!
"You worthless post!"
-Shakespeare, 2 Gentlemen of Verona, 1. 1. 147
Sorry, posted at the same time I guess. ;o)
"You worthless post!"
-Shakespeare, 2 Gentlemen of Verona, 1. 1. 147
Will an "eternal life" device keep my Windows box from experiencing the "blue screen of death"?
Assuming I were to live forever, why should I want to? As many tales have been written, one grows weary of seeing friends come and go and children age and die.
Umm... unlike all the fictional stories, if by some freak of nature his promise of immortality were true (or other means that may be arriving sooner and have a better chance of being true), your family and friends can also join in on the immortality thing, and you won't HAVE to see them age and die.
Besides, if you really do get tired of life, there's no reason you can't go and kill yourself, now is there? If you really think 50-100 years is enough for a human life, then by all means, you can go ahead and life that way. I, on the other hand, would much much prefer to have a little more say in when my time comes to a halt. I see thousands of years worth of technology in the future that I want to be around to see and experience.
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"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
Yes, it's still 'Stuff that Matters', but it's stuff that matters to only a very small, select set of people. Probably doesn't include you and me.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
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Alex Johns
Slashdot: Now THAT would be an interview! Un-ALTERED reproduction and DISSEMINA... oh, never mind...
If you've managed to achieve immortality through the clever use of nipple rings, why would you give a damn about the afterlife?
(That is, if you achieve immortality, I have a hunch God's gonna be more pissed at you for breaking his monopoly on eternal life than for your subsequent suicide. He'll probably thank you for offing yourself, because if you're otherwise immortal, how the hell can He send you to HELL for infringing on his immortality patent ;-)
I have no choice
As much as we rave about Linux here, I use a particular video card with TV inputs for my research and the video input and editing capabilities are only available on Windows.
Believe me, I would use Linux if I could.
Why the hell do you have popup adds on your site that crash IE and force me to end-task it?
grumble
Hi
You claim that it's possible to heal blindness with magnets, that's a bit far reaching even if we would asume your method of "speed-healing" has any truth in it.
There are so many reasons for blindnes, and by most of them I can't see (no pun intended) what there is to heal?
examples:
A undeveloped/non functional retina-nereve like in some born-blind cases
A retina that has broken off (sorry lack the english terme for "näthinne avlossning"(sv) ) In this case the retina _dies_ within ours - so what's left to heal?
A case of "poke in the eye", if the body of the eye is broken, and the lins is basically squashed to pieces, parts of it will exit with the foreign object is removed.
Where from would these pieces come, divine intervention??
A severe case of diabetes where the retina has been _dead_ for years, the dead cells have been removed from the body ages ago
Just to mention a few..
I was brought up Catholic (Sisters of Mercy / Marist Bros./ the whole fucking shit), at 6 years old I see my grandmother die of cancer, uncle, see kids on TV getting killed and raped, etc and think, how could there be a God, and if there is one, I will be arsefucked if I am going to worship the cunt.
Then I come across these arsehole religious mental cases who want to "save" me from my wicked ways (which are of course that I don't fall down onto my knees trembling for gods forgiveness that I am not "sorry for his death".
Ah Metallica...
Leper Messiah
Spineless from the start, sucked into the part
Circus comes to town, you play the lead clown
Please, please
Spreading his disease, living by his story
Knees, knees
Falling to your knees, suffer for his glory
You will
Time for lust, time for lie
Time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
And you'll get a better seat
Bow to Leper Messiah
Marvel at his tricks, need your Sunday fix
Blind devotion came, rotting your brain
Chain, chain
Join the endless chain
Fame, Fame
Infection is the game, stinking drunk with power
We see
Time for lust, time for lie
Time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
And you'll get a better seat
Bow to Leper Messiah
Witchery, weakening
Sees the sheep are gathering
Set the trap, hypnotise
Now you follow
Time for lust, time for lie
Time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
And you'll get a better seat
Lies lies lies lies lies lies lies liiiiiiiiiiieess!
Punch out a preacher today!
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
Quoting metallica is pretty much the most pathetic way of 'standing up' to people there is...
I'm not 'standing up' to anyone, I merely like the song and think it apt.
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
Looking at your user info, I can see you are just another pathetic troll who has nothing to contribute to anyone here but morbid curiosity. Unless of course you were to jump under the nearest fast moving truck/train/X-34. It would seem, that all you are capable of, is blindly 'standing up' to people with pathetic one liners. I bet you are not even anywhere near successful at your biggest 'standing up' ambition, of being a script kiddie.
You are my hero.
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
Awesome. Don't be shy then, are you going to keep us in suspense? Post a link to them so we can give your publications the huge peer review that /. can generate, and then maybe you'll manage to maintain a (Score:1) with the sudden respect you will receive.
/. posting 48 comments in the last 14 days, almost all of which are moderated down to -1 and spend the rest of your time designing our future?
You spend your spare time at
Me? I'm happy enough contracting in IT with loads of stuff from embedded to mission critical big iron at a rate I'm very happy with, going on 13 years combined with electronics (previously in electronic warfare, fire/missile control, etc, (I discovered D to A conversion and used it before I actually learned of its existence, back when I was designing some digital projects for college in the 80's). Hobbies, tinkering with an LFSR rand# gen device I've built, aiming for extreme entropy with a view to perhaps finishing it onto a PCI card with an FPGA (just descrete logic via par0 at the moment), and some stuff under NDA which sometimes gets a story here which I won't go into.
So anyway, the suspense is really killing me....
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
Having just had a quick look over some of your last posts...
What do you all think of the new God Dethroned cd? I think it's pretty good but a lot of people have said it sucks... *hmpf*
brutal death metal kills all your pussy music
I like NewOS... (Score:-1) for me to POOP ON!
Argh... oh well... listen to some death metal you fucks... I'm gonna be grooving to new aborted (yes the one not out until june) later today...
Would you superconduct my thick load of semen into your waiting mouth?
All hail master looge... can I have my weed now?
Why are you modding him down?
Can't handle the truth?
Can't handle the TRUTH!?!?!??!
Dear LORD you're a homosexual...
I like eggs
I realise that while I was working with fiber optics, 3D RADAR and anti-aircraft systems, you were probably just being born.
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
After penguinpowered went the way of the dodo, I never bothered to change my email details on /. Giving out my direct email address on /. is pretty unlikely.
/. is getting worse by the day.
I notice that you enjoy being anon in this regard also, so maybe you'd like to give me the gist of your works here for some discussion? I don't think people will mind much since this whole story is pretty crap as far as News for Nerds goes. Your stuff should be much more interesting than some guys ring.
BTW, I previously insulted the Christ out of you and now all of a sudden you are nice as pie and asking for my email address. How about just a few paragraphs on the details of your contributions to Comp.Sci/Comp.Eng? The whole email thing could get all messy. ; )
PS, I cruise at 2,
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
This is pretty impressive stuff if it is true.
Some of the Worlds smartest people can be pretty excentric, so, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Are your papers based on research into current technologies and the reasons for their effectiveness, or are you proposing improvements. If the latter how does one go about testing this kind of thing outside of building prototypes for testing. Just software emulation of concept algorithms?
What changes can be achieved with Itanium microcode updates? Can cache pipeline algorithms be adjusted through them, negating the need for emulation?
Bye for now.
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
Rare earth is a little more expensive, but they are much more powerful than ceramic.
What exactly is the benefit of this additional power? If they both keep you from dying, isn't it kind of a wash?
Thanks,
Rob
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i mean really!
The difference between Theory and Practice is greater in Practice than in Theory.
Immortality Neodymium Rings $45.00 Shipping included These rings are 21,000 gauss, exactly 21 times stronger than the classic Immortality Rings. But Foot Braces are still more powerful.
I was just curious what exactly is the difference between normal immortality, Neodymium immortality, and the ultra-powerful Foot Brace immortality?
Josh
...the genius behind taxi1010.com. More insane than you can possibly fathom.
Easy does it!
This comment has been submitted already, 276865 hours , 59 minutes ago. No need to try again.
I would be willing to put up some serious prize money.
-carl
. We've got computers, we're tapping phone lines, you know that ain't allowed - Talking Heads, "Life During Wartime"
Can't y'all find someone better to interview? The only insightful thing this guy could share with us is how he managed to rip off the patent system. And we already know how that works.
Have y'all been h4x0r3d again?
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Stephen C. VanDahm
If the answer is yes, what would a person look like after 200 years? I've seen people that are over 100, and they look the part.
If the answer is no, couldn't we just strap one of these things on a baby and see what happens after, say, ten years? Would it still be a baby? If so, sign me up because I think having an immortal baby would be cool!
--me
Hi Alex - :)
You were on The Daily Show awhile back, weren't you? If I'm recalling right, you were very entertaining on the show
However, I wanted to know that your rings provide imortality, right? Well.... all debates about the scientific properties aside, exactly 'how immortal' do your rings make their wearers?
Merriam-Webster defines immortality as an unending existence, being exempt from death, or being exempt from oblivion . If your rings provided that quality - how do you postulate the future conditions of the earth, and your ring-wearers' ability to survive in less-than-ideal conditions? Extreme cold? Lack of food? Toxic atmosphere? By Webster's definition of immortality, I would imagine being able to do all the things Superman does - tunnel through the earth, fly around the sun, hang out in the Fortress of Solitude... well, maybe not that last one, but you get what I'm saying.
How do your rings account for these extreme conditions, assuming that they will 'prevent death'?
Here's a list of some skeptical sites that I visit regularly or on occasion. They're, in my opinion, very useful in refining one's own baloney detection sense. (Re, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection" by Carl Sagan.)
The Skeptic's Dictionary. An A to Z of mythical, supernatural, and other bizarre topics, but looking at them from the point of view of, "Is this shit for real?" (Hint: the site basically debunks every mystical supernatural piece of BS you ever heard of.)
The Committee for the Scientific Inquiry into Claims of the Paranormal. A great general site with articles, references, links, etc. CSICOP basically keeps a watch out for people making paranormal or supernatural claims, and then investigating them scientifically to see if they stand up. (Strangely, they never do... maybe this tells us something about paranormality in general?)
The James Randi Educational Foundation. Similar to CSICOP, but headed by James Randi, a long-time debunker of the supposedly mystical and magical.
Also, go and read everything Carl Sagan ever wrote; it's a pity we lost him a few years ago, for he was one of the best skeptics the world had.
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
"...The HELL?!"
Why only 90 days money back? Your invention could take more than 4 years to proove it, no one gets older in 90 days, and if someone is sick and wears this device and doesnt work, he dies, and he wont be able to say anything. This device could cure cancer?
your webpage really sux, you can invent a device that makes you immortal, but you cant design a good webpage? or hire someone to make one? dont you have enough money? why do you have those cheap banner ads on your website? why the NASA hasnt hired you yet?
Oh my god! I can't! That means you must be right!
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In your interview with The Daily Show on Comedy Central, you mentioned your mother proudly wears your immortality devices. Does your mother honestly think she will live forever, or is she just wearing them to avoid hurting your feelings? The phrase "my mother thinks I'm special" comes to mind.
"No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!" - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
-Legion
Alex, why would you (or anyone else) want to live forever; i.e., What are the pros and cons of eternal life?
Got Rhinos?
Have you given free samples to people who you think ought to live forever, and if so, who are those people?
Got Rhinos?
Often, scientific discovery is nudged by ideas in science fiction or popular cultue. This leads to my question: Were you inspired by the "power bracelets" in the classic videogame The Legend of Zelda ? do you claim simultaneous-discovery with Link ?
Free Techno/Jazz/DNB/MI Music by guys obsessed with monkeys!
Did someone pee in them this morning?
Fish
Alex: I have a superior device. My device allows a person to live forever -- twice. (It is made of stronger magnets.) How can I collect my prize?
Wow. I'm so stoked that Rob took my post seriously enough to follow up on it. Yeah, nothing really interesting to add to this other than to point out my involvement in it! :)
Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.
What does "Nangi namaj perez" mean? Where did you get it from?
Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.
Alex, If your product actually does have the ability to give eternal life, why not just give these life time guarantees instead of 90 days.
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I like to watch.
Hey I understand the benefits of magnetism and asian medicine - but you are not going to tell me looking at that site, that you don't suspect it's just a gag of some sort - involving Roblimo and all.
For heaven's sake, looking through the site, reading some of the stuff it just amazes me the amount of crap that's there. The badly drawn images, the overly large text with bad colors and bad graphics, it's all just too much to be true. Not only that, when I've finally had enough of the crap on the site and tried to leave, new browser windows popped up for underage (lolita) porn! What the fuck?
If this ain't a joke, then Roblimo needs to have his head examined. What a fucking waste!
--Fesh
--Fesh
Kill -9 'em all, let root@localhost sort 'em out.
How old are you Mr. 'immortal' Chiu ?
Hey Alex, since you have all this free time due to your newfound immortality, what are you spending it on?
Netjak.com independent reviews of domestic & import video ga
Who t.f. is Alex Chiu ?
f.
Why is it that everyone assumes god exists at all? You get mad at people assuming god is this or that and then you don't see yourself assuming that he exists at all.
"It has always been this way and it won't change, god bless the fucked up USA" The Briefs
That does make sense. the idea of god is illogical in itself. its a self perpetuating idea similar to a virus. that's a gross oversimplification but for a good book about this stuff see "the biology of belief".
"It has always been this way and it won't change, god bless the fucked up USA" The Briefs
One of the common reasons a person desires to live forever is to keep learning. Do you think if a person had a limitless amount of time that they would be able to learn a limitless amount of information? or do you think that there is a capacity on the amount of knowledge a single person can possess?
"You can now flame me, I am full of love,"
Actually, this is brilliant. I think that what is happening here is an attempt to bring down the page through the power of an effect that not even this guy (or the timecube guy) can comprehend... the Slashdot Effect!
--It burns! --It's loaded with wasabi.
How many kinds of fish can you name?
Surely of all the cranks in the world, you could have picked a more interesting one.
max
you should interview my friend, dave, check out his web site: http://members.home.net/djaeger8/
Why did I lurk so long before registering for a Slashdot account? I could have had a Slashdot ID of less than 100000.
In the year 3535
DisneyCo will begin its next three-year lobbying campaign for yet another 20-year copyright extension, bringing the total term to 1,635 years of government-granted monopoly for all works for hire and life plus 1,610 for freelance works. (Sure, the US won't be around anymore by then, but whatever federation takes over its job will probably be just as easy to buy off.)
ObQuestion: Mr. Chiu, what's your opinion on retroactive copyright extensions? Good or bad thing?
Will I retire or break 10K?
Assuming I were to live forever, why should I want to?
Every 20 years, DisneyCo lobbies the world's major powers for yet another 20-year retroactive extension on its monopolies under copyright law. Assuming you live longer than DisneyCo, you'll finally get to see copyrights expire into the public domain.
Anyway, on to my question:
Say I'm buying rings for aging patients in the hospital. Would you guarantee that they wouldn't die in the next 90 days with the rings on? Would you guarantee that you'd have enough money in the bank to cover all the refund checks?
Will I retire or break 10K?
OK, I've only seen the movie, but I think that I've got the base storyline right.
It's... It's...
"We can confirm that Debian does *not* ship the version with the trojan horse. Our version predates it." [CA-2002-28]
...how come your website can't survive the /. effect for 15 minutes?
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Alex,
Does your ankle bracelet casue any problems with my home detention/house arrest ankle bracelet? It would not be a good thing if my probation officer thought i was violating my probation when i was really at home. I am not sure i wanna live forever if i am in jail the whole time.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but 3 lefts do - Lew of GO magazine
Amazing, how the IT sector, with a much higher than average percentage of agnosts, atheists and downright good old-fashioned nonbelievers, are so quick to jump on Alex's inventions. Inventions that smack of little more than a covered wagon, carnival barker and a crate of snake oil. My elderly mother, who has MS, tried "magnetic therapy" devices (shoe innersole, and shiatsu massager) some time ago. After having witnessed the (complete and utter) lack of usefulness, I firmly believe these devices work in so much that they are extremely effective in seperating the user from $30 of their hard-earned money. What will you people be posting about next? Phrenology? The Scientology aura-reading device?
THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK.
You can't get it at Redwood City, CA. library, because no one took their copy out, so they sold it. To me. For $3. Its an excellent read, too. Especially the section on the Amicus brief refuting scientific creationism. And the chapter about the Cult of Ayn Rand.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Very, very rude.
"Rub her feet." -- L.L.
What kind of crack do smoke?
One nice thing about claiming immortality is that it takes a lifetime for anyone to prove you wrong. But legitimate scientists in life extension research have a simple alternative: mice, which only live about 2 years, have very similar metabolisms to humans and other mammals. Honest, repeatable experiments with life extension techniques like calorie restriction can routinely produce mice that live 3-4 years. So surely any immortality device can easily produce a 5-year-old mouse. So where is it? And if you can't produce one, why should anyone take you seriously?
--Lee Daniel Crocker : http://www.etceterology.com My life is in the public domain.
In all of 5 min I have been shown the self proclaimed heaven & hell of the internet.
Thanks Slashdot, I was wondering where I'd get my daily dose of disgust.
Next time just vomit up a link to goatse.cx or something to forewarn us 'normals' so we can keep our what's left of our sanity.
sl0w
Is your web page a spoof like Spinal Tap?
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This
A keen grasp of the obvious I see. Yeah, everyone here already knows he's a quack promoting pseudoscientific/fraudulent merchandise. It's supposed to be taken as a joke, lighten up. Ask why he didn't use his immortality rings to save mother Theresa or something. It's meant to be funny!
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
While I'm sure Alex Chiu's massive (some might even say cyclopean) Einstein like intelect must have though about this and will surely be ready with an answer, I, a mere mortal, would like to know what it is.
This is why I think the parent of this post should be moderated upwards
Here's an interesting question, especially since it doesn't involve whether your inventions work or not. ;) What is your opinion on people living forever? Do you think it is a good idea? Why or why not? And have you thought at all about how immortality would/is affecting people's minds, thoughts, and behaviour?
Cheers,
Chris
-- Humans, because the hardware IS the software.
If this is not serious, it is just mean.
If the Slashdot readers and editors think this guy is serious, then I wonder about them.
If they think he is delusional, then asking him questions hoping to get funny asnwers is mean.
And if he is a fraud, then interviewing him is not the way to expose him.
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
[Sig:] Before you ask, I already have a boyfriend and he's more of a man than you'll ever be.
Hmm.... I think I have to ask...
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
If someone visits your site using IE 5, once they leave they are tormented by very digusting kiddie porn popups, and they suddenly have kiddie porn bookmarks. I used to be able to forward http://www.alexchiu.com/ to anyone in need of a good laugh. Can't you fix this?
This well alert you to all of the most common errors in logic people use in every day thinking, and will help you detect when someone is using bad stastics, outright logic errors, or other misleading practices to feed you a line of baloney. For instance, a texas lawmaker once wanted to outlaw divorce because a study strongly related divorce and poverty. His flawed logic was that by outlawing divorce, it would end poverty. Many, many thought proccesses like this slip by us today without us really noticing, but by reading The Fine Art of Baloney Detection we can notice them.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
After reading your page I now know that the universe was formed by thunder, magnets will keep people young forever and UFOs run on jet engines and gyroscopes! Good thing those topics didnt come up at a party or I wouldve seemed pretty dumb!
I cannot believe Slashdot would post this kind of "story"... it's not even "good" non-traditional thinking.
Atoms made up of "frequencies", China planning to nuke the world and then live forever, and WTH is a "100meg metal ball"?? What are you people thinking? At least take some basic physics/chem classes before trying to push your own theories.
The bible codes thing I've seen before, it's basically people looking for patterns in a jumble of characters. Given a large-enough sample of randomly generated characters I could probably find the phrase "hitler is evil" too. It's all in how things are interpreted.
Can we get back to posting some real news articles now?
Simple. Use comatose test subjects. Even more amazing if they suddenly wake up cured and well.
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Skivvy Niner? Email me!
HEY! Look left just ONE MORE TIME!
A 21 year old selling an immortality device? Wouldn't he sell more if he claimed to be 2,100?
Ok, this is minor, but it makes me look stupid.
The second question SHOULD be "Has anyone ever told you that they did?" instead of have.
Thanks.
"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." --Carl Sagan
Have you ever ruined any disks (floppy, hard disks, etc) or other media (VHS tape, etc) with your immortality rings? Have anyone ever told you that they did? Do you have insurance against lawsuits?
"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." --Carl Sagan
I'd like to inquire about an issue your web site doesn't seem to cover: the potentially devastating effects of the Immortality Device on our nation's system of jurisprudence.
Follow with me here. The Supreme Court has held that every inmate in an American prison has a Constitutional right to effective medical treatment. Your Immortality Device is, obviously, the most effective form of medical treatment, as it prevents death itself. Ergo, prisoners have the right to be treated with the Immortality Device.
Now, the theory of incarceration is based upon the assumption that we all have only a short time to live, and therefore we fear losing our freedom, and with it, a span of the precious years allotted to us.
When everyone is immortal, who will fear imprisonment? We are already plagued by criminals who don't fear a five- or even ten-year prison sentence; how will we control them when a decade behind bars seems like a short vacation?
How do you respond to the charge that, far from being humanity's savior, you are in fact ushering us into a dark age of horrifying submission to an army of immortal killers, rapists, arsonists and pot smokers?
-- He's fantastic, made of plastic....
After wearing the rings, you should feel the results: starting to look younger, becoming healthier, becoming more energetic, etc. You know what? I wanted to state that I guarantee that The Eternal Life Device definitely lets you stay physically young forever! But a few of my friends told me not to claim it. They said that such a claim can get me into big trouble. I am pretty sure, though, that it DOES make you stay physically young forever! I can only say that it is believed to let you stay physically young forever or turn you younger, AND I am PRETTY SURE of it.
Did you eat a giant bowl of dumbass for breakfast?
Question Are you a complete and utter f'ing Loon?? Nothing could be simpler than that question :)
Check this interview and see for yourself how a great scientist is this guy
Fade To Black 2) How exactly does the "Eternal Life Device" work, and what exactly does it do?
Alex Chiu I first came up with only the pinky rings. Later found the toe braces would function like the pinky rings. (Magnets located on toes similar to the fixture of the magnetic rings on the pinkies.) My theory is the fingers and toes are transistors of the human body. If a little bit of energy is induced into the toes/fingers, a bigger energy gate would open up allowing more chi flow throughout the body enhancing blood circulation and metabolism. The device based on my experience stops aging completely and also alter aging. So if a 50 year-old puts on the eternal life device, maybe 10 years later he would look physically 20 years younger. The alter aging process depends on the strength of the device.
His experience? is he a 60 year old that looks like a 30 something? Then it must be true!
Kilroy was here!
His site is blocked by SmartFilter at work, saying the site is a "cult or occult" website. Interesting that SmartFilter is aware of something that the slashdot editors can't seem to grasp.
Your reality is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever. - Baron Munchausen
Ok, so I only have one real question...
What are the chances of you releasing a list of your customers so the rest of us will know who is worthy of our unending pointing and laughing... umm... I mean, respect?
(Perhaps we could also ask that you use your influence as an "internet icon" to get that Mind and Spirit moron to open her list up, too.)
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
Is this supposed to make us believe in the power of your ring?
Tom.
Oh arse
Hi Alex. I have seen a similar product on the web. It's also a magnetic ring that you wear to give you special powers. It's not worn on the fingers or toes though, so perhaps you'll see it as a wonderful complement to your existing products. Here is a link to what I like to call The Ring of Immorality.
Here's my question: If my hands are already strongly drawn to my genitals, would wearing this product in concert with yours be unwise? What if I become "stuck"?
Thank you.
Alex Chiu, you're obviously very interested in religion, especially things that are written in the Bible or Torah (from your site: http://alexchiu.com/philosophy/beastsign.htm). In fact, on that page, you claim that people who do not believe in the Bible are "Antichrists".
So let me ask you this: are you comfortable selling me some of your rings and giving me, an Antichrist, immortality? How does your God feel about helping me, an Antichrist, live forever? Or will your rings not work on an Antichrist? (I didn't see that exception in your claims.)
Duh, that wouldn't work. It doesn't cure disease, it just protects from natural death. Read the facts next time, man!
If your "basic" Immortality Rings work as you claim, why would I choose to purchase the more costly Neodymium rings? Will they make me "more immortal?" Or do they make me immortal faster?
Immortality is like infinity. Twenty-one times infinity is still infinity.
Madness is only a state of mind
Isn't it just a shame that all the testimonials on the site all suffer the SAME subtle lack of English grammar knowledge. A little variety in the mistakes (or a few testimonials WITHOUT them) would help improve the credibility a whole lot imho. Now where's that guitar....the pickup magnets were neodymium.......or was that my car speakers.....or.......rings ahoy!
Guess you can't patent immortality....
Sounds like he patented wearing a magnet on your fingers and toes....
A magnetic ring adapted to be worn on the little finger of the hand. The magnetic ring includes a ring and a pair of permanent magnets that extend from the ring. When the magnetic ring is worn on the little finger of the right hand, the pair of permanent magnets are oriented on the top and bottom, respectively, of the little finger, with the South pole of the magnet that is oriented on the top of the little finger generally contacting the top of the little finger, with the North pole of the magnet that is oriented on the top of the little finger in opposition thereto, with the North pole of the magnet that is oriented on the bottom of the little finger generally contacting the bottom of the little finger, and with the South pole of the magnet that is oriented on the bottom of the little finger in opposition thereto. When the magnetic ring is worn on the little finger of the left hand, the position of the polarities of the pair of permanent magnets are reversed from that of the right hand. The magnetic ring can also be made to fit around all the fingers of the hand and all the toes of the foot.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
Honestly, you've had millions of visitors to your site looking at "immortality rings" and other nonsense which is clearly based entirely out of ideas you made up in your head with not one shred of evidence to support them (this has been exhausted by previous posts, so I won't belabor the point).
Don't you think that now is the perfect opportunity to expose your site as a plot for attention and website hits, so we can all laugh at ourselves for being suckers and congratulate you for snookering us?
From the 'philosophy' pages of your site I quote 'You don't need to have children anymore because you stay young forever'. Do you not feel that there is a bit more to living than simply eating and breathing? Your pages imply that once we've cracked health and farming we're sorted from there on in. Don't we need some sort of goal or ambition? Isn't a common goal to procreate? Do we spend the rest of eternity wearing rings and writing Perl?
http://twitter.com/onion2k
Alex, if your device were ever to prove true in the eyes of the medical profession, do you feel that a patent is suffient defense against some corporation (or perhaps government) taking control and only allowing their view of the 'right people' to have one? Could your device spark a forth reich, a new 'master race', immortals versus mortals?
http://twitter.com/onion2k
Alex:
You've obviously shared the secret of eternal life with the CGI that processes applications for "Free Eternal Life Rings" via 40 referrals - it gives no response whatsoever, but never dies a timeout death. Eternal life indeed.
Are you willing to impart the details of eternal life to a CGI on my server?
Shaun
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
I'm sorry, what following does this guy have? He looks like a crackpot to me.
Right up there with magnetic water softeners.
Which comet is flying near Earth now?? My usual, reliable news outlets haven't mentioned anything.
But what really gives this guy away is that "there can be only one" [immortal] and everybody knows Connor McLeod has already won, so the guy must be a phoney. ...
I bet he is, or Connor would've kicked his butt long ago. I reckon
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Whoa now, evangelism=sales. In some ways they're related, but sales often doesn't care whether the product helps you. Those who evangelize do. As an evangelist myself, I almost resent this. =)
-- Geof F. Morris
I didn't think Slashdot would fall for this. Bad HTML, pseduo-science that doesn't even begin to follow the scientific method...
If I didn't see the link from slashdot myself, I would have ignored this site just like I do any other half-baked philosiphy site. But with a Slashdot link... now I'm worried.
That immortal 19 year old boy doesn't look a day over 40. Perhaps his rings need to be tweaked further.
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D. Fischer
ShoutingMan.com
I've noticed that your site seems to lack some design elements that might make it seem more attractive and less like a "scam" as many have assumed. Do you have any plans for redoing the site design?
I've also noticed that you have an amazing number of advertisments and popups, that add to the "scam" feel that hits the user as they first enter the site. Do you have any plans to change the way you do advertising on the webiste?
And lastly, I've found a page that lists how people can make their own rings. Do you think that this open way of letting people make their own rings may somehow affect your sales?
Alex,
If what you say is true, would moving into a house directly beneath power wires be to my advantage? The houses are cheap, and the electromagnetism is free of charge! (pardeon the pun)
From hell's heart I fstab at /dev/hdc
Alex,
In the "How to Bring Global Peace" section of your website (http://alexchiu.com/philosophy/corp.htm - readers please visit this page, the future of our world may depend on it), did the child who drew the crayon pictures suffer from Tourette's Syndrome? Or was it simply crippling mental retardation.
Also I can't quite comprehend the significance of the "upside down flying staircase" in the first picture. Could you please clarify what you were trying to express with this imagery?
From hell's heart I fstab at /dev/hdc
Apparently he doesn't yet use a token immortality ring based network.
From hell's heart I fstab at /dev/hdc
I would like to know how his device would work had the a person no place to wear one of his rings.
Assumptions are narcotic!
Domesticated rats live an average of 2.5 years. Why not make a device to sustain a rat indefinetly and then show the public an 8 year old rat 8 years from now? That way, he can demonstrate that his device works well within the lifetime of all his detractors.
Show me an effect without cause and then I'll believe in chaos.
For me, it's this woman of wiles.
Btw, were you to achieve immortality, do you think this would be a recurring problem?
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All your
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Alone and bored, on a thirtieth century night.
Will I see you on the Price is Right?
--Barenaked Ladies, It's all been done
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All your
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
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All your
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
Whoa! Just like today!
In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
Well, that's certainly worth waiting for...
In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine's doing that for you
Probably got an Itanium 4 with a big 'ol heatsink on it, stirrin a big bowl of grits. Probably need a machine to pour em down the pants, too.
In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube, whoa-oh
Probably no Viagra, either, where's the fun in a future like that?
In the year 7510
If God's a-comin' He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day
Have you been saved today? Better head over to the Walmart Moon, eternal salvation, 15% off!
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again, whoa-oh
This time, without ICANN, oke?
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old Earth can give
And he ain't put back nothin, whoa-oh
Cept about 3,141,592.7 tonnes of McDonald's packaging, which still won't decompose for another 40,000 years.
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday
That or it's the aliens afterburners as they head to the next harvest.
-- .sig are belong to us!
All your
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
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All your
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Have you ever tested your immortality devices in terminally ill patients in a double blinded placebo controlled study. For example, have you recruited a cohort of cancer patients, applied a randomization technique whereby one group gets your device(s) and the other receives similar, yet inactive rings and braclets? Certainly, if your products provide immortality then none of the subjects in the active group would die. With that amount of statistical power, it would be simple and relatively cheap to demonstrate your claims.
Regards,
W.P.
Curb CO2 emissions: Kill yourself today!
It just isn't funny to make fun of the mentally ill. This man is either a fraud, in which case giving him any exposure is a bad idea, or, more likely, simply delusional. Leave the poor man alone. Laugh at him in private if you must, but there is really no need to hold him up to public ridicule.
At least until someone cuts off your head!
My other sig is extremely clever...
Which immortality device (Immortality Rings or Immortality Foot Braces) has proved more effective? How do you judge their effectiveness, given that most people probably use both? How do you know that one of them doesn't in fact not contribute at all? Some statistics would be appreciated.
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How would you feel if you had to LIVE IN HEAVEN ETERNALLY WEARING A FOOT BRACE??? If you use this device you'll have to!! Because if you live forever wearing this thing, THIS IS your heaven!!!
And even if you DO die, Scientology is inconclusive about whether your heavenly body will REFLECT whatever you were wearing when you died, as the Pharoas of Egypt were told by the Aliens. And even if it turns out we live in the Matrix, after you've worn it for years the brace would become part of your residual self-image. Either way you're screwed. Don't do it people!!!!
This is a joke. It makes fun of zealotry. Don't find it funny? Move on.
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- Would I be correct in assuming that you allow third-parties (spouses/families) to ask for a refund within 90 days of the deceased person's order?
- And if you do, what percent of your orders result in a refund within 90 days for the specific reason of death? (ie. not including other "not satisfied for any reason" s).
- Does this figure include refunds for causes of death unrelated to mortality?
Your answers and statistics are appreciated.~
Chiu's concept of corporatized unified government is hardly pioneering, with many SF stories portraying a glactic administration or post-nuclear city-state based along these lines. Chiu betrays his inexperience of matters corporate and political as he promotes the supposed stability of such a system. He believes that being part of the whole prevents elements within the system from breaking away or mischief-making. Has he never heard of spin-outs, as management divisions seek to monetize their perceived value breaking away and forming their own money-making enterprise? Civil wars of secession also underline the potential pitfalls. I personally think that some kind of supra-national government with teeth has a role to play provided that their is a common morality and system of values that serve as the foundation of such an administration in which the nation-states place the good of humanity above that of individual member's citizens. the problem with that though, is that nation-states very raison d'etre is their self-perpetuation and preservation. As for Alex's murky concept of a master race which he claims he created, the true answer probably needs to be understood by watching the Pokemon DVD version of the previously untold story of Mew 2's creation. Understand Pokemon and only then can you understand man's ability to evolve physically, emotionally and spiritually, for better or worse. Finally, as to the rings of power, there is a school of thought that believes that these rings are all feeble surrogate for a single ring of power that must be destroyed. This objective will only begin in earnest at the end of this year and will take three years to complete. Incidentally, do Chiu's rings have any decoder features on them?
If you were to end up dying someday, who should I contact for a refund on my eternal life device?
Thanks in advance,
American AC in Paris
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Dear Mr. Chiu: I was reading your fascinating site, in particular, a page about how cells are created. You say that I can make my own cells by mixing in a bunch of organic materials into boiling water. While I don't have the rare Asian herbs necessary to perform this experiment myself, I was wondering if you had considered refuting Pascal's disproof of Spontaneous Generation, by replacing the meat with these special, potent, and indeed magical herbs. So have you considered performing the experiment in a professional manner and submitting it to formal review?
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Alex, I visited your sight and found it very interesting. I was especially interested in your total disregard for Maxwell's equations and Lentz' Law. It must have taken you at least 10 minutes to browse through a physics book and be inspired by the pictures of magnetic field lines. Then you used your own versions of magnetic flux to come up with a totally new and refershing theory on aging. I am an advocate of all poorly researched psudo-science with testimonials that dosnt make any sence. If i could, i would spend all the money i had on devices such as yours. The only problem is that imortallity is so easy to come by in this world of homeopathy, accupuncture, scientolgy, new-age medicine, heavens-gate, super blue-green algee. What are the reasons you belive your placibo is better than all the other ones on the market?
The only reason I would fork over the cash for something like that, is to see the future. But that's not much of an issue, I look forward to dying as an old man. So because you people will be pioneering toward the future, and us lazy people still wanna see what's ahead in time without the immortal side effects..... Will there be a service sometime that I could use to be removed from my timeline and taken to the future as soon as Time Travel is invented?
First of all this guy is for memepool, not for slashdot. I read most of his site, and in my opinion he is insane. However I do have an interesting question to ask him.
Do you seriously believe that your immortality stuff works? If you do, then you are insane. However if you don't, I think you might actually be a pretty smart guy. You are doing what every evangelist and salesperson does. You are taking advantage of really stupid people by lying and selling stuff.
What I'm basically asking is this.
A) Do you believe that this stuff works or are you just a clever salesman?
B) If you believe this stuff works, what do you say to all the (intelligent) people who think you are insane?
C) If you believe this stuff works, what are you smoking, and can I have some? I don't do drugs, but, hell I'm immortal so I can do whatever drugs I want!
The GeekNights podcast is going strong. Listen!
Ok,
So let's say that the largest countries in the world incorporate.
Where do you host the stockholders' meeting?
-D
Also,
Since Neal Stephenson came up with the idea of countries going public (see Snow Crash...love Uncle Enzo!), I think that means that prior art exists, and if the world incorporates, Neal could sue and become sole dictator of the world! (inc)
-D
I think that a lot of the people who visit your page think that you are a bit of a loony and a lot of a profiteer. While I like the fact that you offer 'free' rings in exchange for a donation to certain charities, I can't help but feel that you are probably not using the best of peer-reviewed science to back up your ideas.
Despite this, I bet you feel that what you're doing is pretty important.
Tell us then, Why do you think no medical experts come forth to do studies on your devices or reccomend their use?
For some this will be a vindication of your ideas. For others it will be a glimpse into one of the minds that makes the web as truly a strange and wonderful place that it is.
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
I fully understand what your concerns are. Sticking magnets to people does have a true positive effect.
The principle here is that red blood cells carry oxygen through the utilization of hemoglobin, and hemoglobin contains iron. Now my basic academic knowledge (and I hope yours too) includes an idea that magnets attract themselves to iron materials. Hence, magnets do draw blood into an area and thus enhance regeneration and the such.
There you have it, the basic science of magnetism. How does it work? Through tried and true tests of basic Chinese treatments over thousands of years. What is disgusting is the advertising of this product as an "immortality device". Certainly we would be able to meet centuries old Chinese people if that were the case. Blood flow isn't increased, it's only redirected. This person simply utilized what his mother told him and got a patent on it. He makes money off the principles of ages-old science.
He also makes it plainly obvious that much of it is marketing bs. Personally I use magnets as well as several people (being Chinese myself). Its not much of a loss. Get some ceramic magnets and use a good adhesive to put them where the old medicine books say to.
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Oh bother.
Imagine how foolish you'll feel if his ideas about magnetism are true.
Not saying they are, but just imagine how chagrined you'll feel.
Display some adaptability.
Agreed! This man is an unrepentant spammer, and anyone who monitors the net-abuse newsgroups knows it. If you're going to ask him anything, don't forget to bring this up.
If we keep this up, will the next person /. chooses to interview be Sam Khuri, the infamous Benchmark Print Supply spammer? We could ask him about all those judgements against him and how he manages to keep going after getting sued so many times. Or, I don't know, maybe we could get the University Diplomas spammer(s) on here to discuss nontraditional education. Sheesh!
That light you see at the end of the tunnel might be from an oncoming train.
Alex, you say that this invention of eternal life that you have developed and/or promote is true, and comparable to Einstein, Tesla, and other 'great scientific minds.' Exactly how can you prove that? The only way would be to show that a person could live infinitely, and since there is no end to infinity, you would never be able to end your expirement and provide conclusions in true scientific form. If you have a better explanation, please feel free to share.
Why does Alex Chiu look so old?
It is intelligent, if flaming.
BTW, I'm beginning to think I'm lost; is this still the site of, "Stuff that Matters"
Would you believe these claims if someone else made them?
...you jump off a cliff while wearing the magnets, what happens?
Bah...more pseudo science. The placebo effect can do many things, but it can't stop aging and cell decay. I can't wait till the guy dies, wrapped with magnets and doohickys, complaining bitteryly that he's immortal.
My Karma is so good, I'm the Dalai Lama...or something.
How big of a laugh have you had from your site?
mwtr / THIS SIG HAS BEEN PRAYED OVER AND MAY BE USED AS A POINT OF CONTACT (ACTS 19:12)
the site is so famous that it's nonexistant. Marvelous.
by the way, my opinion of roblimo's journalistic integrity has now reached absolute zero. good job, kiddo.
Your incredible skills are no match for my cowardice!
So is there a lifetime warranty on this guy's device, or what?
Are you single?
If so, are you open to a new relationship?
I'm 5'10, 140lbs with brown hair and blue eyes.
I want to spend the rest of my (eternal) life with someone like you.
--Kara
--Kara
Before you ask, I already have a boyfriend and he's more of a man than you'll ever be.
Yeah, they say so much good about rings, they give them away, and it's all great until you discover there's a catch. :)
-- B.
-- B.
This sig does in fact not have the property it claims not to have.
Thats what you get when you promise silly things, isn't it. Internet Icon he may be, but this is no church of bob...
FYI, rabbits don't get trapped in headlights like deer do. (I have empirical evidence concerning rabbits, the part about deer I'm assuming.) However, the video for "Rabbit in Your Headlights" by U.N.K.L.E. is friggin cool.
Looks like someone was after his free rings.... [taken from one of those popup's] ---SNIP----- We do not profit from donations made to those organizations. Or ...
Donate NOTHING and receive FREE RINGS! You can spread the word for alexchiu.com and receive a FREE pair of Immortality Rings. NO COST TO YOU.
---END SNIP----
Congrats, I think you spread the word pretty well.
Cheers
Rich
That's what the banner ad at the top asks. It is then followed by this article. QED!
How long have you been making these amazing devices? If fewer than 130 years, please describe how you *really* know they work? If >= 130 years, please prove you aren't one of those bouncing Chinese vampires by eating 5 "bundles" of sticky rice and posting the video on your website. Thank you.
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Gone to a large nursing home and give every resident a set for a year.
Then, compared thier mortality rate. If anyone dies from "old age"....
Did anyone see the movie Trial and Error where Rip Torn sold pennies to people for $19.95 a piece? Then Michael Richards (Kosmo Kramer from Seinfeld) tried to defend him by telling the jury he had eaten too many twinkies.
Does Alex live near a Hostess factory?
DocWatson
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It may be intended as a joke (that is not clear from the website), but the frightening thing is that there are many gullible people in the world who actually believe this sort of nonsense, and shell out big bucks to the charlatans who perpetuate this bilge...
*** Quantum Mechanics: The Dreams of Which Stuff is Made ***
The claims he's making seem to fall into the realm of the paranormal. Here's a question I'd like to see him answer.
If these devices work the way you claim, why don't you make a quick million dollars by taking and passing the James Randi challenge?
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
what kind of a news site promotes spam webpages that try and get you to buy useless crap?
Whats the difference between this guy and oh say scientologists?
will slashdot one day become just a haven for cheap marketing ploys, pyramid scams and hawking useless shit?(oh wait we have thinkgeek for that last one)
maybe the mystical dr. Chiu can answer those questions.
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I suppose there weren't enough immortality rings around his web server's network cable to keep out all the negative energy from /.'ers. I can't even check out the pseudo science site.
/. -- collaborative DoS or news site? You be the judge.
Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Given the fact that the human race's numbers will explode without natural selection taking place, how do you propose to control the population of the earth? Do your rings have some kind of a sterilization effect?
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I guess taxes are the only sure thing now.
On your site you state: "I am not a Taiwanese. I am Chinese, and I wish China will one day take Taiwan back, peacefully or by force, at any cost! A Taiwanese who does not consider himself to be Chinese does not deserve to become immortal."
Do you wish for Taiwanese citizens to be exterminated? How do you explain your views if 1) you were born in the U.S. and not China (are you not an American?), and 2) China repeatedly abuses and tortures its citizenry, including Chinese forced abortions of Tibetan women? Wouldn't Chinese deserve not to become immortal?
"There ought to be limits to freedom"
I was just about to order Eternal Life when I realized I had the choice of Super 21,000 gauss Neodymium Eternal Life. I'm not Taiwanese and I would like to know if Super 21,000 gauss Neodymium Eternal Life lasts longer than Ordinary Eternal Life.
Please Help.
Here is an anti-bullshit detection kit for the Slashdot community:
Based on the book "The Demon Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark" published by Headline 1996.
The following are suggested as tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments:
Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the facts
Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.
Arguments from authority carry little weight (in science there are no "authorities").
Spin more than one hypothesis - don't simply run with the first idea that caught your fancy.
Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it's yours.
Quantify, wherever possible.
If there is a chain of argument every link in the chain must work.
"Occam's razor" - if there are two hypothesis that explain the data equally well choose the simpler.
Ask whether the hypothesis can, at least in principle, be falsified (shown to be false by some unambiguous test). In other words, it is testable? Can others duplicate the experiment and get the same result?
Additional issues are:
Conduct control experiments - especially "double blind" experiments where the person taking measurements is not aware of the test and control subjects.
Check for confounding factors - separate the variables.
Common fallacies of logic and rhetoric:
Ad hominem - attacking the arguer and not the argument.
Argument from "authority".
Argument from adverse consequences (putting pressure on the decision maker by pointing out dire consequences of an "unfavourable" decision).
Appeal to ignorance (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence).
Special pleading (typically referring to god's will).
Begging the question (assuming an answer in the way the question is phrased).
Observational selection (counting the hits and forgetting the misses).
Statistics of small numbers (such as drawing conclusions from inadequate sample sizes).
Misunderstanding the nature of statistics (President Eisenhower expressing astonishment and alarm on discovering that fully half of all Americans have below average intelligence!)
Inconsistency (e.g. military expenditures based on worst case scenarios but scientific projections on environmental dangers thriftily ignored because they are not "proved").
Non sequitur - "it does not follow" - the logic falls down.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc - "it happened after so it was caused by" - confusion of cause and effect.
Meaningless question ("what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?).
Excluded middle - considering only the two extremes in a range of possibilities (making the "other side" look worse than it really is).
Short-term v. long-term - a subset of excluded middle ("why pursue fundamental science when we have so huge a budget deficit?").
Slippery slope - a subset of excluded middle - unwarranted extrapolation of the effects (give an inch and they will take a mile).
Confusion of correlation and causation.
Straw man - caricaturing (or stereotyping) a position to make it easier to attack..
Suppressed evidence or half-truths.
Weasel words - for example, use of euphemisms for war such as "police action" to get around limitations on Presidential powers. "An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public"
Further resources:
The Critical thinking Community
http://www.sonoma.edu/cthink/
CSICOP/Skeptical Inquirer
http://www.csicop.org/
Australian Skeptics
http://www.skeptics.com.au/
Less serious sites:
Journal of Irreproducible Results
http://www.jir.com/index.htm
The Annals of Improbable Research. (with the Ignobel Awards)
http://www.improb.com/
Prepared by Michael Paine
27 January 1998.
This has to be trying to make up for the ill conceived April Fool's Day jokes.
How's my typing? Call 1-800-eta-shut
More than that, if we can understand the reson for cell decay (i.e. not so digitally perfect copying of DNA? maybe) then who needs the stem cell research! If a cell is programmed to make exact copies of themselve, and carry out the exact same tasks as it's "parent" then we'd live forever, one example of the malfunction is in skin. The name of the elastic protien escapes me now, but the body slows->stops production of it causing wrinkles, hanging skin, etc. Why would it do this. I think the study of aging should start w/ a simple place like this, not magnets!
The reason why a person gets healthier if his or her magnetic flux increases is that blood circulation is directly proportional to magnetic flux. Our body circulates blood with its natural turbine, magnet flux, which consists of no moving parts but yet still propels blood into the blood circulatory system. Wait, am I reading this worng? What does the heart do then? I always thought it propelled the blood around LOL!
And so far, I am living forever. I don't know why I bought them. I don't know why I have a breadmaker either but I seem to have a lot of stuff that was manufactured with good intentions. I wish everyone could read his messageboard though. The best post was from this guy, a loyal fan and supporter of Alex, who was begging for Alex's help. This loyal Alex fan gets so pissed off when he reads posts from other users who say that they are not using the rings for immortality but for better health, that he is practically driven to murder...and he really means it. I guess that means that immortality for most won't come afterall. This dedicated, sickeningly loyal fan, also spouts off about living dead Americans and nuclear holocaust. I do have a few of questions for Alex, however: 1. Are you going to make an immortality device that helps protect people from other insane immortality device users? 2. Could a guy wear one immortality device on his member as an inexpensive alternative to viagra? 3. If Bruce Lee had your eternal life device, do you think he would still be alive today? 4. You seem to have the answer to all of the world's complex problems. Is it safe to say that the immortality devices are really just secret alien technology you have worked with during your other job as a scientist for the military's most top secret mind-control projects and that the rings are really nothing more than devices used to control the masses, all hidden under the guise of a hyperactive Chinese pip with a bookshelf of Barron's study guides?
The purpose of life is to fart around and don't let anyone tell you otherwise - paraphrased, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Alex, here's a freebee;
I was once told by a Nikken distributor (MLM crap), that by putting a bunch of their magnets in your mattress would improve your health as you slept.
But better than that she claimed that - "sex was fantastic!!!!!"
I replied- "Sounds great. What do you do, keep flipping the polarity?"
The subsequent vacuous look on her face proved that although her body may have been healthy, the cheese had slipped off her cracker.
The public is ready for the "Immortal Tumescence Mattress", Alex, go for it big guy.
Yours in limbo;
Ironlungs
O'Flaherty's Corollary to Murphy's Law: "Murphy was an optimist".
One of the bigger spammers on the Internet and you want to ask him questions? Ok, how about "why do you spam?". For those of you who actually believe his claims, I own the fountain of youth on Mars and I'm willing to sell you the right to visit for a measly $20 million...