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On May 30, 9:39 pm, rh... at (no spam) email.com wrote:
Quote: http://mindstrain.com/
ROFL! The installation looks very professional. (LOL)
Given the dumbing down of America, you'll actually lure in at least
some ignorant folks with this scam. Also, before you ask, I've been
familiar with water injection now for over 50 years, am a professional
physicist and engineer, and as a result pity the fate awaiting your
vehicle. Water injection did offer some advantages on the high
performance engines used by WWII era fighter planes, but with car
engines creates more problems and damage than it solves.
Then too, if you are doing electrolysis of the water to produce
hydrogen, then injecting the hydrogen, the short term damage to the
vehicle is predictably going to be worse. Here, the hydrogen component
is relatively harmless to the engine in small enough concentrations,
but the impurities accompanying it are easily capable to utterly
destorying a car engine in under 20,000 miles or so. If you are using
the water to produce hydrogen, what is it that you are adding to the
water to turn it into a conductive electrolyte?
Lemme guess, you are not offering any warranty of any kind with the
purchase of your instructions, although if the method worked most
insurance underwriters would be happy to sell you are policy covering
a warranty of claimed performance results, and protection from engine
destruction resulting from someone following the instructions that
they purchase from you.
No, I suppose that is a silly idea! (LOL)
Heck, as one becomes older, much water has flowed under the bridge.
Back during the 1950 and '60s, much of the enertainment at state fairs
as provided by the pitchmen and their wonderful demonstrations, that
usually included magical devices that demonstrably improve either the
performance or fuel efficiency of your vehicle, and they demonstrated
this through the use of actually running car engines, and amazingly
produced the same results as were being claimed. The deceptions
employed by these pitchmen to sell their magical gagets was ofter very
ingenius. Some went as far as to secretly leak nitrous into the fuel
mixture, to dynamically demonstrate how water injection would boost
performance and increase gas mileage. In addition to water injection
schemes, other pitchmen would sell "radioactive spark plugs", "tuning
coils" that plug into the ignition coil between the coil and the
distributor, and other would sell gagets that you insert into the
carburetor that contained little spinning propellers in them that
would improve the vaporization of the fuel, which they would look into
your eyes and assure your that the addition of this little device
would increase your fuel mileage and boost the performance of your
engine by a significant amount.
Actually, that last item is still being sold on TV "infomercials"
today. The reason that this is allowed is because we live in a free
country where any ridiculous claim is allowed, unless it has an effect
on public health or welfare. Thus, the FTC cannot legally do a damn
thing, and the scammers assume that you will not contact an attorney
to collect damages, because the cost of hiring and attorney to
prosecute your lawsuit costs many time the cost of something like a
car engine.
On a positive note, these state fair scammers known as pitchmen
provided the best entertainment at the fair, and today the closest
thing approaching them in entertainment value are some of the TV
"infomercials", which always have a disclaimer of responsibility from
the TV station or the cable channel both before and after the
informercial is shown. This allerts the wise, and today some of these
are incredible and you will find these pitched to a much more affluent
target market than that of automobile performance improvement. Still,
they are entertaining to watch, and nobody will claim not to like the
adverts from the "Free Credit Reports" troubadours which is shown so
frequently that it is hard to avoid. OK, with "Free Credit Reports .
com), they will send you a free credit report, but read the fine print
that is flashed briefly only for a second or so at the bottom of the
spot. By requesting your free credit report, you obligate yourslef to
pay monthly for some other services of very questionable value, and
this will cost you much more in a year than you would pay to any
legitimate credit reporting firm (typically $30) for a paid credit
report. For me. this defines it to be a scam.
The other big time scam that is advertised on TV today is urging you
to invest in Gold, and showing you a pile of gold coins which while
you can today legally purchase them, you can never actually hold them
and slaver over them, because once the coins or mini-ingots leave the
seller's certified respository and reach your hands, they must be re-
assayed when you sell them to take the profit from your speculation.
This can cost between $30 and $70 per Godd item. Sellers of Gold are
reluctant to tell you this in advance, which is what in my mind makes
the pitchmen whose product is Gold, at learst partially scammers. They
don't lie to you, only fail to tell you all the facts. [Why the re-
assay is generally required is simply because there are other scammers
who would purchase the gold coins, and file a little gold away from
each, which a layman might not even notice. On the industrial scale,
there are scammers who would purchase the mini-ingots, cut off a
significan piece of gold, melt the remainder and add some other metal
that is difficult for a layman to detect, then re-cast the ingot so it
looks identical. often finishing the process by electroplating a very
thing deposity of pure gold to conceal the adulteration.
No, I am not a scammer or a criminal, it's simply that the work of the
criminal mind and their methods have always facinated me since I was a
teenager. Most of the scam artist on the Internet are, to our
advantage, largely a rather pathetic and uncreative lot. I consider
they Gypsies to be the most creative and clever of all scammers and
confidence artists, a craft that has been handed down for centuries
and deserves a certain degree of respect for the skill and dedication
that it involves. The "Irish Travelers" and "Tinkers" are another
group that facinate me.
Now to the average passer by reading this nesgroup, the things that
you should look for as a early warning to detect a scammer or
confidence artist (I don't distinguish between them). The will always
dangle some prize out as bait, like a fisherman. That bait usually
focuses on getting something of worth for nothing or exteme profit,
the use of sex and a lure, or some promise of a miracle.
OK, getting hungry, already said enough said to convey the idea. Now
time to nourish myself.
Now to the OP who posted the ridiculous link, I know that by posting
the above I have likely rained on your parade, but as scammers and
confidence artists go, you are pretty much the worst that I have ever
encountered in over 50 years. (Right, I am an old fart, and as a
criminal, beware of old farts unless you are stupid.)
Here is where you made your gross errors. You posted a photo of an
apparatus that was attached to a car by strings, and made of cord and
kitchen plastic food storage pots. This is not good for your scam.
Secondly, your pitch lacked credibility, and at no point did you
mention how many thousands of miles you have driven to test the
benefits of your system.
Here endith the pontification and lecture. :-)
Harry C. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:12 pm |
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On Jun 3, 11:31 pm, hhc... at (no spam) yahoo.com wrote:
Most interesting work Mindstrain.
I'm one of those lazy people who views all the videos.
Yours is just perfect.
You can change the width and height dimensions of the embedded video
by changing the values.
The embed code has an URL in it, like a link. src="here"
If you add:
&autoplay=1
To the end of the video URL it will start automagically.
Make it really big and put it all the way at the top.
It's not that your current lay out isn't pretty, I love how it looks.
It involves reading which isn't mandatory with your material.
<embed id="VideoPlayback" style="width: 1000px; height: 852px;"
flashvars="" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?
docid=5557824283692986642&hl=en&autoplay=1" type="application/x-
shockwave-flash">
It's a bit to big but I was lazy.  |
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