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The Magic Box Hoax
Rasvar writes "Here is an interesting article from The Florida Times-Union about a high tech hoax that managed to pull in the likes of Blockbuster Video, US West, Ted Turner, Sen Orrin Hatch and numerous others. I actually attended one of the "demonstrations" of this device years back. I came away cynical becuase of the way he presented stuff. Sometimes it is good to be a cynic. This is a very good article on an impressive high tech scam."
The Slashdot headline was totally misleading, as usual. Nowhere in the article does it say that Intel itself invested anything in this guy, they simply bought a company that had previously given him some money. I also don't see anything about Orrin Hatch being taken in, just that he met the guy once, and it was Ted Turner's son that was duped, not Ted himself. Slashdot, your one-stop shop for yellow journalism!
His magic box is a glory hole and he sticking his penius in it right now, look at that face.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
Given that you say 2,000 years, I assume you're talking about the new fangled cult of Christianity. In that case, the story is "Hey! Did you hear about Original Sin? You're burning in hell, buddy. But wait! We've also got the solution! Forgiveness, at a surprisingly reasonable price."
Yeah, there are probably a few good priests, in the same way that there are probably a few good lawyers, good traffic cops, or (relevant to this story) a few good patent office clerks. But I really do believe that there are some professions where it's a good idea to keep the practitioners as far away from you as humanly possible. It's not right, but pragmatism rarely is. It's simply pragmatic.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
BAHAHAHA.. You are such a twit its not even funny.
if you didn't understand that the 'get fit before summer' scheme was a scam before now, no need to bitch us about it.