Howard Johnson Replication Tube Claim

[nyctuber]

If you look at it objectively, this is a superb example of how to deal with OU claims and why doubting someone's word is not something to feel bad about. Mylow got away with so much because of his persona, people believed they were hurting him somehow by doubting him. But just like GW, it's clear that it IS possible to be 'simple' yet have bad intentions.

[RunningBare]

I disagree very strongly, I fell for it and chose to ignore Alsetalokins disclaimer, but that's my responsibility, take responsibility for your own actions, if people chose to ignore the disclaimer, then it is their fault, I don't like it, but that's the way it is. 

He knows that if the audience wants to believe badly enough, they will focus on the bullshit and ignore his cautions.

Same with Al. Do you think he thought that people would ignore the impressive acceleration of his whipmag and focus on his quiet cautions about 17000 joules, etc? Of course not: he knew he was talking to people who wanted to believe this OU stuff.

[chrisC]

Did Mylow fake it? ......

So should our replication thread end here?

Well, for most people, it already has ended but maybe for Sterling he's holding on just in case MyLow has a better (and really truthful) explanation. He's probably going to say Howard Johnson's spirit made him do it but he didn't wanted to and finally got the cat and the parrot to pull those strings ... Now, where was I?

cheers
chrisC

[canam101]

ROTFL. You are saying that "al" LET them waste their money. That is ridiculous. "AL" had absolutely no control whatever of how other people, grownups all, I thought, CHOOSE to spend their money.

Right. No one has an obligation to stop fools from wasting their (the fools') money. But everyone has an obligation not to deliberately steer people down a path that will cause them to waste their money.

And don't tell me how you repeatedly told them your device was not OU: you knew that those True Believers would ignore what you said because they were dazzled by the video and wanted to believe.

You deliberately steered them down a path that you knew would cause them to waste their money.

Did you and your buddies at work laugh your asses off at how easy it was to fool the rubes?

[lumen]

Wow... after watching that video, I'm just as convinced it's a fake as I was it was real.
Just not surprised considering it's impossible to start with.
Does make me wonder why someone that couldn't take controversy would put theirself in such a position.