At 10:18 AM 2/22/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
On 02/21/2011 03:01 PM, Joshua Cude wrote:
Promises have been made by Pons & Fleischmann first in 1989 (just
watch their interviews on youtube, where they claim it is the
ideal energy source: clean and unlimited and simple) and then by
just about every cold fusion advocate since, including McKubre on
60 minutes promising cars that don't need refueling, Rothwell's
entire book of promises, and promises from shady characters like
Dardik and Rossi. There are endless promises every time the topic
arises. [...] Cold fusion [...] has not delivered.
That's true in a field I've spent some time working in, too. People
promise all sorts of things, and then the things show up years late,
or more often never show up "as promised", at all. In fact, I've
made promises which later turned out to be impossible to deliver on,
weren't even possible in theory, as we figured out much later.
So, I guess the stuff I work with is all bunk, all just
phony-baloney, it's lies and coverups, it can't be real, because we
don't succeed in delivering on our promises. It's really too bad,
if the sort of stuff I worked on were real, it would make a big
difference to the world. But we miss on our promises, so it's all
hokum; that's totally conclusive, air-tight reasoning, Joshua sure
hit the nail on the head there.
Too bad.
I'm a programmer, by the way.
Well, that explains it. Programs don't exist, the relationship
between input and output is random, and attempts to show correlation
have completely failed. If information technology were real, it would
be reliable, and we would always get the same output.
People are fools to believe that a hunk of sand could handle
information and make decisions based on it, it's a fantasy, a product
of wishful thinking, fed by 1960s science fiction. When I was young,
people were still sensible enough to know that this would be
impossible, but the aggressive sales forces of Intel and Fairchild
and so forth overcame our common sense, and now we spend huge amounts
of time and money on complete fantasy, such as these conversations,
which clearly do not exist.
