Ask Internet Icon Alex Chiu 272
Many people have scorned and laughed at Thomas A. Edison, Albert Einstein, and Nikola Tesla, it says on Alex Chiu's famous Web site, where Alex explains the mysteries of the universe, tells us how we can make the future better, and offers immortality (for a very reasonable price) through his patented immortality devices.
Alex has enough of a following among Slashdot readers (and editors) that when I posted a two-line comment saying I'd ask him to do a Slashdot interview if I got 10 requests by email, I got lots more than that. So here we go! One question per post, please. We'll forward 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Alex on Monday, and post his answers as soon as we get them back.
mortality rings (Score:1)
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Re:Okay Alex, here's one... (Score:1)
You are obviously an ignorant non-believer in the great Alex. If the medical experts convince people to buy these rings, then nobody will get sick or die anymore, and that would put them all out of a job. It is quite plain to see that those quack "doctors" will try to dismiss these incredibly wonderful devices as "pseudoscience", but you will have to pry MY Immortality Rings off my cold, dead fingers...wait...um...
Re:Don't you fear for your safety? (Score:1)
Re:hey, alex chiu (Score:1)
Question One (Score:2)
I don't.
Re:Question (Score:2)
hey, alex chiu (Score:5)
you cite edison, tesla and einstein as people who were "laughed and scorned at," presumably as parallel figures to yourself, but we can't help noticing that you're sort of missing something. edison, tesla and einstein were great scientists who, through a thorough and accurate understanding of the best scientific learning of their day, applied existing principles in groundbreaking and unexpected ways to advance contemporary physics. you, however, are applying your ignorance and lack of understanding of high-school level science - skimming through textbooks, parrot-learning words like "unique frequency," "magnetic flux" and "negative charge" - and producing your own bastardized version of contemporary science via the tried and tested method of 'just making shit up.'
you seem to be mesmerised, rabbit-in-headlamps style, by the magical idea of magnetism. apparently you're an intelligent enough guy, but please for your own magnetic god's sake educate yourself on the basic concepts of science, starting with the other three fundamental forces (or is it two? unification is so awkward!). cells don't cluster together because of magnetism. animals don't run from danger because they are "repelled by the negative energy." hey, maybe some form of teleportation will be possible in the future, but chances are it won't be courtesy of the fantastically well-thought-out "transmitting the unique frequency of an object." a quick vote amongst ourselves decided that gravity isn't caused by static electricity when the earth's core rubs against the crust, and as a race we're fairly certain that the sun isn't hot because of friction between its "layers". while you appear to be sure that you're pioneering, pushing the edge of science and coming up with fascinating and groundbreaking new ideas, it might be prudent to base your fantastic new theories on intelligent observation and existing science (as edison, tesla and einstein all did), rather than just gazing into space and pulling things out of your eternally-young ass. so the sun produces heat via some kind of "rubbing" process rather than nuclear fusion, mm? do you have some empirical evidence for this astounding revelation - which would be required to counteract the huge body of proof and data accumulated over the years for what we'll call the 'Enemy Theory' - or are you (all together now) just making shit up?
how a ufo works? hey, man, slow down! why not read up on how a gyroscope works? why don't you make one and try it out for yourself? it doesn't "defy gravity," it's not magic or magnetic or anything else even approaching alliterative mysticism. no, seriously. trust us on this one. it precesses, resisting any force that tries to tilt its axis of rotation. this is simple - honestly! we'll use italics! - simple newtonian physics; a gyroscope only "defies gravity" when it has something against which to exert a force. an unsupported spinning object will just drop like a stone unless it has astounding aerodynamic properties (which isn't what you're talking about) - try it for yourself! um, with a plate, or something! unless you've got some kind of inbred aversion to deduction by empirical observation!
we could go through your site and identify countless other examples; you're not being groundbreaking, you're not an eccentric genius of science who's thinking in new ways that nobody else would even consider. you're just blinkered and wrong and obsessed with making huge sweeping deductions from your own misguided half-cooked internal reasoning processes. which is a pity, because your conviction and dedication to your ideas is admirable. it just makes us sad - and moderately angry - to see an entire site dedicated essentially to stupidity; advocating and glorifying the practice of ignoring intelligent deduction and observation, promoting ignorance, and shamelessly condoning the attitude that if you can blindly concoct enough unfounded shit in your head, independently of any evidence or informed reasoning, it'll become true if you close your eyes and say you believe in fairies.
feel free to respond - whenever the mood of your flux allows.
Don't you fear for your safety? (Score:5)
Government agencies and secret police forces are your first threat, as they are for every righteous individual in this orwellian world of thought police and governmental indoctrination. No government can turn a blind eye to something as fundamentally anti-government as an immortality device. It may be too late for them to make Stalin or Roosevelt (there is no difference) immortal, since they died during the era where man did not interfere with GOD'S wish that we live and then DIE. But it is not too late for CLINTON or BLAIR or any other Liberal deity, and they certainly don't want you to have it in any event.
But the threats to your safety aren't confined to this planet alone. The alien races that populate our solar system and beyond may possess technology superior in every way to our own, but they have not yet perfected immortality. (I know this only through Divine providence and what I have witnessed with my own eyes: an elaborate Alien burial ceremony deep within the UN complex on sovereign American territory.) Your device would be of great help to their intergalactic conquests, and though they may respect you as a man of science, you are but one small pawn on a small blue planet in an undusted corner of their empire.
Be forewarned, cher Alex. Your continued safety is of the utmost importance to the survival of free Americans and the human race (excluding communists). Lead us to the promised land, but tread carefully. They are watching.
Do fundamentalists impede on your work? (Score:5)
Perhaps your only rival on the internet is Gene Ray, the man who discovered Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous 4-day Time Cube [timecube.com].
Despite the fact that his work contradicts much of your research, he also faces similar obstacles in having his work accepted or at least evaluated. No "institution" of higher education will even return his calls. I spoke to him via phone recently, and Mr. Ray believes that this is because they're run by fundamentalists engaged in some kind of conspiracy to keep the truth away from the public. He was understandably very frustrated by this.
I can't help but to wonder if other scientists face the same problems. Can you offer a correlating viewpoint? In your efforts to have your work accepted, or at least taken seriously, do you find that fundementalists are a large obstacle? If so, do you believe that this is out of their own ignorance, or that maybe they do in fact have a sinister motive as Mr. Ray suggests?
Thank you for your time.
Paradox? (Score:2)
I was talking with a friend today about you, Alex Chiu, and we found a real strange paradox (well, all paradoxes are strange).
If the famous people you cite on your site have been laughed of, and we only really recognize their value today, after they are dead, how can you really be recognized if you will never die? Does this means that you will never been recognized (and hence your rings don't work, so you die, so you are recognized, so your rings did work, so you don't die, so... ad infinitum)?
We got really confused, so we decided not to think on the subject anymore for today, but then we came to slashdot, and here is the topic once again.
I hope you can help us, as you've done with so many subjects already. Perhaps it's explained in the Bible code.
Thanks,
and ads on exit... (Score:1)
I like the idea of donating money to a charity to get them. I'd almost go ahead and do that.
but he's got pop-up ads when you leave the site.
that sort of thing always makes me doubt the veracity of the information withing...it's sort of a "we know you won't come back, so here' my last ditch way to get you to give me some money!"
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
Re:Immortality (Score:1)
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
Re:The cost of immortality (Score:1)
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
magnets have been used like this before... (Score:5)
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
Re:Testing of your immortality devices (Score:1)
Very difficult to eliminate the placebo effect.
(and yes, I do think the placebo effect is real, despite that meta-study. Countless studies show improvement in patients in both the control and actual group, an effect which can only be explained by placebo)
Re:Testing of your immortality devices (Score:1)
Why you spam? (Score:1)
Why you spam?
Re:hey, alex chiu (Score:1)
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Re:Testing of your immortality devices (Score:1)
Re:Immortality Rings (Score:1)
Of course, if it had had my only copy of a precious file, it would have gone if I'd sneezed within a mile of it.
Baz
How can we tell pseudo from real science? (Score:4)
the web is full of interesting sites on the fringes of science. Some may well be true, and some not. How can we tell which are written by people who also think they are Napoleon and which are written by true Edisons? Now how do these criteria apply to your material?
Baz
Re:Immortality (Score:2)
"Personally, I've been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been that I'm willing to grapple with those issues for as many centuries as it takes." - Patrick Nielsen Hayden, rec.arts.sf.fandom
But seriously, it's not compulsary, and even if his rings worked you could take them off when you had enough.
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Re:Here's one (Score:1)
Or: why eternal life is not a good idea. Imagine Bill Gates still being alive in 100 years...
Re:Bozo (Score:2)
Everybody, read some of his books. Even though he's dead for a couple years now, Alex C. says that he could use the money!
What do you have against Taiwan? (Score:2)
It still irks me to see what amounts to little more utter racism on your site, even more so from someone with aspirations towards immortality. Is this really what we want for our future? Can you honestly stand by those beliefs, knowing that any application of immortality combined with that kind of narrowmindedness would eventually leave us in a world of people who all think and act in the exact same way?
I suppose the real question breaks down to: What exactly do you have against Taiwan to such an extent that you would attempt to deny an entire nation a chance at (supposed) immortality?
Raptor
Bozo (Score:2)
Have you ever thought... (Score:2)
Thanks in advance.
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My plan... (Score:2)
If I should die, it would only be because I got bored with living and decided not to live forever.
There. I now have immortality (for as long as I want it).
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Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow.
saving mother Theresa... (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Re:Immortality Rings (Score:2)
If fingers are "transistors", what about amputees? (Score:3)
My father-in-law lost the fingers of his left hand in a construction accident. Is there any hope for him? What about a quadruple-amputee?
If these "transistors" are lost, what kind of effect does this have on the body?
Have you ever read... (Score:2)
Immortality devices? What is your scientific proof? Scientific, not pseudo-scientific. You are a charlatan, sir.
Re:Have you ever read... (Score:2)
You can prolly get it at your local library.
Re:Don't you fear for your safety? (Score:2)
Well done. It's too bad that the vast majority of this readership wouldn't recognize satire if it knocked them down and sat on them, because that was a fine example.
90 days? (Score:3)
"If you are not satisfied with the products, you have 90 days to refund them"
How am I supposed to know within 90 days if the immortality ring works?
Re:hey, alex chiu (Score:2)
Re:hey, alex chiu (Score:2)
Those "testimonials" are being written by people who are in on the joke, unlike yourself. Lighten up...have you read his message board, and the hilarious responses provided there?
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Re:Uhm...duh. (Score:2)
The fact that the parent post is currently moderated down as flamebait, while other posts who are taking themselves (and alexchiu.com) waaaay too seriously are being moderated up has proven something to me: Alex Chiu is smarter than most of the people here, if only for the fact that some of you people think he's serious.
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(read: SCAM) (Score:4)
His purposes and attitudes seem noble, at least donating money to a charity seems like a good idea. But then, again, if he does that clearly for-profit, FDA will stop that right there. In fact, he is expecting that [alexchiu.com] any moment. Yes, I know, it might not be hurting anyone physically, but it is a scam anyway and that is something that the we have to deal with.
As far as his ignorance... oh, this is truly bad. Here [alexchiu.com] he compares the way our body works to a transistor (resembles a recent movie, except there we were duracell batteries, right?). I do not know anything about how a body works, but it is apparent that he has no clue about how transistors work, that's for sure. He also seems to be missing the point that the energy can't be drawn (and amplified) out of the thin air. Tesla himself probably would have turned over in his grave if he heard something like that.
I would not even touch his perception of God ("God is the mathematical formula which runs our universe"). errr... hideous herecy, along with toddler level of comprehension put into scientific words!
!!!Last, but not least, every one of us has seen spammers and MLM promoters, right? Right. What do they use? Pop-ups that advertize you to buy a product - he's got it! Paid ads - he's got it! TESTIMONIALS OF SOMEBODY'S GREAT EXPERIENCE AND MIRACULOUS CURE IN CAPITAL LETTERS? - he's got that too! popups that open up when onUnload() happens? - He's got that as well. It doesn't take too much time to see that he is making money just off this website, just running it and getting money off advertizers with very nicely disguised ads (just look at the source code of his pages). And now, sice he is getting slashdotted, he is getting even more, we are helping him quite a bit.
Now, since I established that this is a rather typical scam, and this guy exhibits remarkable ignorance, and takes pride in it, makes money in the very detestable ways that slashdotters hate, and shamelessly considers and announces himself the next best thing in the Universe (or at the very least the next Einstein)... since all this is true... why in the world would Roblimo even think about interviewing the guy. Yes, it might be entertaining to see the gross stupidity and laugh at it, but did we really degrade far enough to interview a guy just to laugh at stupidity? I think this is something for those scandalous magazines that you can buy at any grocery store, not for slashdot!
Over and out. Very mad too.
Vlad
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Dear Mr. Chiu (Score:2)
Re:Immortality (Score:2)
Umm... unlike all the fictional stories, if by some freak of nature his promise of immortality were true (or other means that may be arriving sooner and have a better chance of being true), your family and friends can also join in on the immortality thing, and you won't HAVE to see them age and die.
Besides, if you really do get tired of life, there's no reason you can't go and kill yourself, now is there? If you really think 50-100 years is enough for a human life, then by all means, you can go ahead and life that way. I, on the other hand, would much much prefer to have a little more say in when my time comes to a halt. I see thousands of years worth of technology in the future that I want to be around to see and experience.
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Re:Immortality (Score:2)
If you've managed to achieve immortality through the clever use of nipple rings, why would you give a damn about the afterlife?
(That is, if you achieve immortality, I have a hunch God's gonna be more pissed at you for breaking his monopoly on eternal life than for your subsequent suicide. He'll probably thank you for offing yourself, because if you're otherwise immortal, how the hell can He send you to HELL for infringing on his immortality patent ;-)
Here's one (Score:2)
grumble
Make your own! (Score:2)
Rare earth is a little more expensive, but they are much more powerful than ceramic.
What exactly is the benefit of this additional power? If they both keep you from dying, isn't it kind of a wash?
Thanks,
Rob
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shit, you oughtta thank him for that service! (Score:2)
Different levels of immortality? (Score:2)
Immortality Neodymium Rings $45.00 Shipping included These rings are 21,000 gauss, exactly 21 times stronger than the classic Immortality Rings. But Foot Braces are still more powerful.
I was just curious what exactly is the difference between normal immortality, Neodymium immortality, and the ultra-powerful Foot Brace immortality?
Josh
My Question - (Score:2)
I would be willing to put up some serious prize money.
-carl
WTF?!? (Score:3)
Have y'all been h4x0r3d again?
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Stephen C. VanDahm
Short and to the point (Score:2)
The ultimate question (Score:2)
Free samples (Score:4)
Zelda power Bracelets (Score:2)
Often, scientific discovery is nudged by ideas in science fiction or popular cultue. This leads to my question: Were you inspired by the "power bracelets" in the classic videogame The Legend of Zelda ? do you claim simultaneous-discovery with Link ?
I have beaten your device! (Score:3)
90 day gaurantee (Score:2)
Why are we bothering with this Slashdot interview? (Score:2)
Hey I understand the benefits of magnetism and asian medicine - but you are not going to tell me looking at that site, that you don't suspect it's just a gag of some sort - involving Roblimo and all.
For heaven's sake, looking through the site, reading some of the stuff it just amazes me the amount of crap that's there. The badly drawn images, the overly large text with bad colors and bad graphics, it's all just too much to be true. Not only that, when I've finally had enough of the crap on the site and tried to leave, new browser windows popped up for underage (lolita) porn! What the fuck?
If this ain't a joke, then Roblimo needs to have his head examined. What a fucking waste!
Colleagues? (Score:2)
--Fesh
Here's a semi-serious one. (Score:2)
Sonny Bono question for Alex (Score:2)
In the year 3535
DisneyCo will begin its next three-year lobbying campaign for yet another 20-year copyright extension [8m.com], bringing the total term to 1,635 years of government-granted monopoly for all works for hire and life plus 1,610 for freelance works. (Sure, the US won't be around anymore by then, but whatever federation takes over its job will probably be just as easy to buy off.)
ObQuestion: Mr. Chiu, what's your opinion on retroactive copyright extensions? Good or bad thing?
Question about warranty terms (Score:2)
Assuming I were to live forever, why should I want to?
Every 20 years, DisneyCo lobbies the world's major powers for yet another 20-year retroactive extension [pineight.com] on its monopolies under copyright law. Assuming you live longer than DisneyCo [disney.com], you'll finally get to see copyrights expire into the public domain.
Anyway, on to my question:
Say I'm buying rings for aging patients in the hospital. Would you guarantee [alexchiu.com] that they wouldn't die in the next 90 days with the rings on? Would you guarantee that you'd have enough money in the bank to cover all the refund checks?
If You Can Keep A Human Living Forever... (Score:3)
...how come your website can't survive the /. effect for 15 minutes?
Re:Have you ever read... [-1 Offtopic] (Score:2)
Here's a question for the snake-oil bastard... (Score:2)
Very, very rude.
Where's the 5-year-old mouse? (Score:3)
Re:hey, alex chiu (Score:2)
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Is this serious? (Score:3)
If this is not serious, it is just mean.
If the Slashdot readers and editors think this guy is serious, then I wonder about them.
If they think he is delusional, then asking him questions hoping to get funny asnwers is mean.
And if he is a fraud, then interviewing him is not the way to expose him.
Baloney Detection Kit (Score:2)
This well alert you to all of the most common errors in logic people use in every day thinking, and will help you detect when someone is using bad stastics, outright logic errors, or other misleading practices to feed you a line of baloney. For instance, a texas lawmaker once wanted to outlaw divorce because a study strongly related divorce and poverty. His flawed logic was that by outlawing divorce, it would end poverty. Many, many thought proccesses like this slip by us today without us really noticing, but by reading The Fine Art of Baloney Detection we can notice them.
Re:Question One (Score:5)
This has got to be an all-time low for the site.
(If we're interviewing nutbars, I would rather see an interview with the Timecube.com guy.)
Re:Immortality Rings correction (Score:2)
The second question SHOULD be "Has anyone ever told you that they did?" instead of have.
Thanks.
Immortality Rings (Score:4)
Damned Smart Filter (Score:2)
Answer Me These Questions Three... (Score:2)
What are the chances of you releasing a list of your customers so the rest of us will know who is worthy of our unending pointing and laughing... umm... I mean, respect?
(Perhaps we could also ask that you use your influence as an "internet icon" to get that Mind and Spirit [mindandspirit.com] moron to open her list up, too.)
Compatible with "Ring of Immorality"? (Score:2)
Here's my question: If my hands are already strongly drawn to my genitals, would wearing this product in concert with yours be unwise? What if I become "stuck"?
Thank you.
Immortal Antichrist? (Score:5)
So let me ask you this: are you comfortable selling me some of your rings and giving me, an Antichrist, immortality? How does your God feel about helping me, an Antichrist, live forever? Or will your rings not work on an Antichrist? (I didn't see that exception in your claims.)
Immortality (Score:3)
The cost of immortality (Score:4)
Alright, straight to the point. (Score:2)
You've obviously shared the secret of eternal life with the CGI that processes applications for "Free Eternal Life Rings" via 40 referrals - it gives no response whatsoever, but never dies a timeout death. Eternal life indeed.
Are you willing to impart the details of eternal life to a CGI on my server?
Shaun
Don't mix the two! (Score:2)
Whoa now, evangelism=sales. In some ways they're related, but sales often doesn't care whether the product helps you. Those who evangelize do. As an evangelist myself, I almost resent this. =)
Website design, popups, and open ring design (Score:2)
I've noticed that your site seems to lack some design elements that might make it seem more attractive and less like a "scam" as many have assumed. Do you have any plans for redoing the site design?
I've also noticed that you have an amazing number of advertisments and popups, that add to the "scam" feel that hits the user as they first enter the site. Do you have any plans to change the way you do advertising on the webiste?
And lastly, I've found a page [alexchiu.com] that lists how people can make their own rings. Do you think that this open way of letting people make their own rings may somehow affect your sales?
Re:Pseudo-Science (Score:2)
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All your
What Alex has to look forward to: (Score:2)
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
Whoa! Just like today!
In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
Well, that's certainly worth waiting for...
In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine's doing that for you
Probably got an Itanium 4 with a big 'ol heatsink on it, stirrin a big bowl of grits. Probably need a machine to pour em down the pants, too.
In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube, whoa-oh
Probably no Viagra, either, where's the fun in a future like that?
In the year 7510
If God's a-comin' He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day
Have you been saved today? Better head over to the Walmart Moon, eternal salvation, 15% off!
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again, whoa-oh
This time, without ICANN, oke?
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old Earth can give
And he ain't put back nothin, whoa-oh
Cept about 3,141,592.7 tonnes of McDonald's packaging, which still won't decompose for another 40,000 years.
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday
That or it's the aliens afterburners as they head to the next harvest.
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All your
Immortality (Score:5)
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All your
Testing of your immortality devices (Score:5)
Have you ever tested your immortality devices in terminally ill patients in a double blinded placebo controlled study. For example, have you recruited a cohort of cancer patients, applied a randomization technique whereby one group gets your device(s) and the other receives similar, yet inactive rings and braclets? Certainly, if your products provide immortality then none of the subjects in the active group would die. With that amount of statistical power, it would be simple and relatively cheap to demonstrate your claims.
Regards,
W.P.
Questions. (Score:4)
- Would I be correct in assuming that you allow third-parties (spouses/families) to ask for a refund within 90 days of the deceased person's order?
- And if you do, what percent of your orders result in a refund within 90 days for the specific reason of death? (ie. not including other "not satisfied for any reason" s).
- Does this figure include refunds for causes of death unrelated to mortality?
Your answers and statistics are appreciated.~
Question (Score:5)
If you were to end up dying someday, who should I contact for a refund on my eternal life device?
Thanks in advance,
American AC in Paris
Immortality would Suck (Score:2)
Been waiting to as (Score:4)
Do you seriously believe that your immortality stuff works? If you do, then you are insane. However if you don't, I think you might actually be a pretty smart guy. You are doing what every evangelist and salesperson does. You are taking advantage of really stupid people by lying and selling stuff.
What I'm basically asking is this.
A) Do you believe that this stuff works or are you just a clever salesman?
B) If you believe this stuff works, what do you say to all the (intelligent) people who think you are insane?
C) If you believe this stuff works, what are you smoking, and can I have some? I don't do drugs, but, hell I'm immortal so I can do whatever drugs I want!
Okay Alex, here's one... (Score:5)
Despite this, I bet you feel that what you're doing is pretty important.
Tell us then, Why do you think no medical experts come forth to do studies on your devices or reccomend their use?
For some this will be a vindication of your ideas. For others it will be a glimpse into one of the minds that makes the web as truly a strange and wonderful place that it is.
Slashdot hacked again? (Score:3)
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Re:/. promotes spam now? (Score:2)
Agreed! This man is an unrepentant spammer, and anyone who monitors the net-abuse newsgroups knows it. If you're going to ask him anything, don't forget to bring this up.
If we keep this up, will the next person /. chooses to interview be Sam Khuri, the infamous Benchmark Print Supply spammer? We could ask him about all those judgements against him and how he manages to keep going after getting sued so many times. Or, I don't know, maybe we could get the University Diplomas spammer(s) on here to discuss nontraditional education. Sheesh!
Re:Immortality (Score:2)
To go kill yourself - now there's a plan. Think of all the emotional scars you'll give others when they find out you couldn't stand this life anymore (which means you couldn't stand it even enough with them by your side). What will they have to look forward to, except a life that will eventually end by suicide. You have a very self-centered view of what immortality in this life would be like if it were possible.
Prove it... (Score:3)
Hypocrisy (Score:2)
If... (Score:2)
Pseudo-Science (Score:3)
anyone else notice that... (Score:2)
by the way, my opinion of roblimo's journalistic integrity has now reached absolute zero. good job, kiddo.
Hah (Score:2)
how long? (Score:5)
How long have you been making these amazing devices? If fewer than 130 years, please describe how you *really* know they work? If >= 130 years, please prove you aren't one of those bouncing Chinese vampires by eating 5 "bundles" of sticky rice and posting the video on your website. Thank you.
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Are You Racist? (Score:5)
Do you wish for Taiwanese citizens to be exterminated? How do you explain your views if 1) you were born in the U.S. and not China (are you not an American?), and 2) China repeatedly abuses and tortures its citizenry, including Chinese forced abortions of Tibetan women [google.com]? Wouldn't Chinese deserve not to become immortal?