"Perpetual Motion DeLorean" Scammers Face $26M Judgment

An anonymous reader writes "Back in 2002, we discussed a story about the so-called 'Perpetual Motion DeLorean,' which could 'supposedly go "hundreds of miles" at speeds over 100MPH without stopping to recharge.' More than seven years later, the final shoe has dropped on this saga, with a $26 million judgment against Carl Tilley and his wife, who propagated this scam that ran for several years. Probably the height of its audacity was when Tilley told his shareholders in May of 2002 that GE had offered $2 billion 'sight unseen' to buy out the technology."

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Re:Open the borders

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H1B is a scam?

Yes it is, and it was perpetrated on the American people at the behest of those CEO-types I referred to in my original message. When Microsoft lays off several thousand workers while in the same breath complaining that the H1B Visa allotment is too low, I consider that a scam. Congress has bought into it wholesale, as have you, and that's unfortunate.

Where you were born is random chance, so it hardly seems fair for me to hoard the benefits of living in the USA.

And it's that very attitude that has substantially reduced the benefits of living in the U.S. of A. You're apparently one of those drain-bamaged individuals who believe that everyone is entitled to a share of what everyone else has acquired or built for himself. Do you really, deep in your heart of hearts, truly believe that? Do you actually feel guilty that your ancestors built something wonderful for you to enjoy? Well, get over it. Believe me, the people who came before you would be ashamed of your attitude. You probably believe that a welfare state is a good thing too. Well, just remember, there are plenty of Pauls and not enough Peters to go around. I, for one, have no desire to live in a third-world hellhole and it's attitudes like yours that are fucking making it happen!

Furthermore, there are few, if any, nations on this planet whose people believe as you do, whose official immigration policies accept anyone from anywhere, regardless of the consequences. So why do you believe that it would be in the best interests of your country to behave otherwise?

Take Mexico for example: have you read Mexico's immigration requirements? Probably you haven't, but you should. It's interesting reading, and not at all in line with your ideas. That from the nation that exports more illegal aliens than most.

Frankly, open borders are NOT what we pay our government to do. ALL nations reserve the right to decide who does and does not get to immigrate. Get used to that: America has the same right as any other country to place such restrictions that we deem appropriate. The only countries which don't attempt to control and limit the number and quality of immigrants are those which are so lawless that they have no clue who is crossing their borders. Why don't you go live in Somalia, I understand they're pretty lax about border controls and such. Of course, you probably wouldn't survive the experience, which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.

Regardless of the "accident" of birth, the reality is that this is our country, it is not theirs, and we can and should defend what is ours. Do you have a family? Do you have anyone whose future well-being concerns you? If so, then it's obvious you don't really care about them. You might want to think about that for a moment, and think about what it means when a nation fails.

Americans who honestly believe that we should just let everyone take whatever they wish from us, jobs, homes, money, whatever, out of some misplaced sense of guilt, are getting dangerously close to treasonous in my opinion. Maybe they don't see it that way, but I do. Put it this way: I place my fellow Americans before those of all other nations, and I fully expect them to feel the same.

And just for the record, my girlfriend (well, okay, she's more than that now, since we'll be getting married later this year) immigrated here from North Africa many years ago, and is a U.S. citizen now. The thing is, people who espouse views like yours are particularly abhorrent to her, because she knows firsthand what happens to a society that fails to protect its own.