Re: (ET) Re: Any Takers/scams

[Bfayette aol com]

Oh, I get it.  Writers shouldn't be paid for books.  Only the printer.



In a message dated 2/4/2005 8:18:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, Dan Conine 
<dconine dotnet com> writes:

>Having worked for an inventor, and too late realizing that everyone has 
>the same obvious ideas, I say don't buy it. As your idea shows, the 
>people all around us will come up with good quality ideas and most of 
>them would be insulted if you handed them money every time they pointed 
>out a simple solution to a problem.
>
>The idea that ideas are worth money is the scam. Your good work is worth 
>money. If someone builds something for you, then they should get paid. 
>If they just come up with 'ideas', then they should show you the 
>product. Ideas are like armpits; no matter how bad it smells, there is 
>probably another one just like it, and someone else will have two more.
>
>Net creativity. If you think hard and come up with an idea, then you are 
>just burning up energy and not creating something for the universe to 
>use. If you build it or grow it, then you've done something that will be 
>useful in the future (hopefully).
>
>Everything else is overhead.
>
>Dan Conine
>
>P.S. Join the Pitchfork Party today!  Don't do business with anyone you 
>can't reach with your pitchfork. Buy less, buy local, buy only what you 
>need. Peak Oil is coming and it isn't going to be pretty.
>
>
>>looking for a glider.  FWIW, It also turns up this page:
>>
>>http://www.solarandwind.com/contact.htm
>>
>>Wild guess: he's built a mechanical PWM device, using a modified 
>>commutator from a 
>>starter motor, driven by another motor.  Envision a commutator where the 
>>segments 
>>are cut into triangles, so at one end of the com the segments are close 
>>together, and 
>>at the other they're far apart.  With something like this, the 
>>commutator is just a big 
>>switch.  You spin it and vary the duty cycle by moving the brushes fore 
>>and aft. 
>>
>>The idea is an old one; 
>>
>>  
>>
>
>
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  Brad