Here's a good one. Take two gears, a foot of wire and some pvc pipe and affix them together so that all the energy from one gear transfers to the other, and vice versa. If you do it just right, you should have a crude but basically safe perpetual motion machine. Make sure to do it outdoors, preferably on a bed of gravel, so that the heat you generate does not cause a fire. You can use the surplus energy to run your computer lab and any other miscellaneous power needs for the next week or so, until the machine is consumed in a flash of excess heat. My girlfriend used it to reverse her polarity. However, the implementation can be kind of difficult. Warning: do not attempt in an atmosphere of pure hydrogen. Do not attempt with radioactive building materials. Do not, under any circumstances, attempt with midgets.
I would write a pamphlet & some promotional materials about it. Then I would get on TV and advertise news of the DISCOVERY THAT COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE for the low low price of $79.95, payable in thr3e separate no money down installments. I would be sure to budget for rainbow special effects and classy but inoffensive jazz music. I would also hire folksy homebody types to speak from the heart w/lines such as
This discovery has changed my life forever.
I make sure to tell all my friends because w/this information, the sky is the limit!
If people only knew what I knew, they would run - not walk - to the phone & order now, while there's still time.
Now only my dreams can limit me!
etc. I would also set up a strangely compelling web site and finagle an interview from slashdot, contributing to my already sizable following. By the time the Attorney Generals came around to investigate me, I would unleash my unstoppable superweapon on the world (because that's what it would be, right?), collect my followers & live peacefully ever after in the new utopia, with myself as benevolent king and my clone army ready to succeed me.
And who could forget the passage that reads: "I think many of us would prefer that those who don't 'get it'... would either a) do so quickly, or b) get the hell out of the way."
I could. It's very cliched. I'm not acquainted with this blog but that's precisely why I bring this up; without anything else to go on, I read this review and think, if this is his best material I don't want to read the book. Which is why I think the reviewer should make a conscientious effort to select the strongest quotes for the uninitiated, because they take it as representative and will conclude it's not worth reading if it isn't very good.
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Here's a good one. Take two gears, a foot of wire and some pvc pipe and affix them together so that all the energy from one gear transfers to the other, and vice versa. If you do it just right, you should have a crude but basically safe perpetual motion machine. Make sure to do it outdoors, preferably on a bed of gravel, so that the heat you generate does not cause a fire. You can use the surplus energy to run your computer lab and any other miscellaneous power needs for the next week or so, until the machine is consumed in a flash of excess heat. My girlfriend used it to reverse her polarity. However, the implementation can be kind of difficult. Warning: do not attempt in an atmosphere of pure hydrogen. Do not attempt with radioactive building materials. Do not, under any circumstances, attempt with midgets.
This discovery has changed my life forever.
etc. I would also set up a strangely compelling web site and finagle an interview from slashdot, contributing to my already sizable following. By the time the Attorney Generals came around to investigate me, I would unleash my unstoppable superweapon on the world (because that's what it would be, right?), collect my followers & live peacefully ever after in the new utopia, with myself as benevolent king and my clone army ready to succeed me.I make sure to tell all my friends because w/this information, the sky is the limit!
If people only knew what I knew, they would run - not walk - to the phone & order now, while there's still time.
Now only my dreams can limit me!
The real-life man-sized six-legged tree-harvesting freak used for commercial foresting.
I could. It's very cliched. I'm not acquainted with this blog but that's precisely why I bring this up; without anything else to go on, I read this review and think, if this is his best material I don't want to read the book. Which is why I think the reviewer should make a conscientious effort to select the strongest quotes for the uninitiated, because they take it as representative and will conclude it's not worth reading if it isn't very good.