Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Google translated:


 From about 20 days are repeated trials and demonstrations in Milan only
 for customers and for about a couple of months in Canada forever just to
 customers.


I see two problems with this marketing scheme.

First, you need a magic crystal ball to know who your customers are. When
you are selling things people often come to look, but it turns out they do
not want the product or they are not serious customers. It is impossible
for you to know who the real customers are ahead of time. It is impossible
for the real customers themselves to know this.

Second, your customers need ESP to find out about your product. Normally, a
company advertises, and presents information on its website. People who are
interested in a product find this information and learn what the company
offers. If you do not make information generally available, you are
invisible. In this case they are selling technology, so they need technical
sales information, suitable for engineers. They have not yet published that
sort of thing as far as I know.

- Jed


Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread Daniel Rocha
They are not fools. They are not doing that for customers.


2013/7/16 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com


 First, you need a magic crystal ball to know who your customers are. When
 you are selling things people often come to look, but it turns out they do
 not want the product or they are not serious customers. It is impossible
 for you to know who the real customers are ahead of time. It is impossible
 for the real customers themselves to know this.



-- 
Daniel Rocha - RJ
danieldi...@gmail.com


Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote:

They are not fools. They are not doing that for customers.


Then who are they doing it for? If a business does not do things for
customers, it is not a business.

- Jed


Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread Daniel Rocha
Public awareness?


2013/7/16 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com

 Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote:

 They are not fools. They are not doing that for customers.


 Then who are they doing it for? If a business does not do things for
 customers, it is not a business.

 - Jed




-- 
Daniel Rocha - RJ
danieldi...@gmail.com


Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread Alain Sepeda
2013/7/16 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com


From what they said , it seems they have too many candidates.
They seems like some LENR researchers I've heard about that they have more
friend than can hold their agenda.

It seems businessmen are more open than academics and media.

the behavior of defkalion is more rational when they are silent than when
they communicate... I put their imperfect communication on the pride,
friendship, and other human diseases ;-).

The finish of Etiam Oy, seems more... rational.
Rossi is the opposite...

anyway if they were rational they would be bankers.


Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread Daniel Rocha
But politics is important in this business.


2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 Public awareness works for politics.  Market awareness works for business.


 --
Daniel Rocha - RJ
danieldi...@gmail.com


Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread James Bowery
Public awareness works for politics.  Market awareness works for business.


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Public awareness?


 2013/7/16 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com

 Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote:

 They are not fools. They are not doing that for customers.


 Then who are they doing it for? If a business does not do things for
 customers, it is not a business.

 - Jed




 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com



Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread James Bowery
You want to know what it takes to overcome political opposition from
bureaucratic insiders to outside competition:

Look this guy 
uphttp://web.archive.org/web/20081212071704/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/testimny.htm.
 He seems to have some experience dealing with that sort of thing.  Clue:
 Defkalion's approach to politics has a log way to go and there is no
evidence they are pursuing the route they need to make it work.




On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 But politics is important in this business.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 Public awareness works for politics.  Market awareness works for business.


 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com



Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread Daniel Rocha
The difference it is that you wanted to change a policy. They want to raise
awareness about the existance of something.


2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 You want to know what it takes to overcome political opposition from
 bureaucratic insiders to outside competition:

 Look this guy 
 uphttp://web.archive.org/web/20081212071704/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/testimny.htm.
  He seems to have some experience dealing with that sort of thing.  Clue:
  Defkalion's approach to politics has a log way to go and there is no
 evidence they are pursuing the route they need to make it work.




 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 But politics is important in this business.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 Public awareness works for politics.  Market awareness works for
 business.


 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com





-- 
Daniel Rocha - RJ
danieldi...@gmail.com


Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread James Bowery
If the point of raising public awareness is political then what is the
point of pursuing politics if not to change policy?


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 The difference it is that you wanted to change a policy. They want to
 raise awareness about the existance of something.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 You want to know what it takes to overcome political opposition from
 bureaucratic insiders to outside competition:

 Look this guy 
 uphttp://web.archive.org/web/20081212071704/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/testimny.htm.
  He seems to have some experience dealing with that sort of thing.  Clue:
  Defkalion's approach to politics has a log way to go and there is no
 evidence they are pursuing the route they need to make it work.




 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 But politics is important in this business.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 Public awareness works for politics.  Market awareness works for
 business.


 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com





 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com



Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread Daniel Rocha
Because you cannot do it without having proved the existance of something,
that is, a high power reactor. So, you do both.


2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 If the point of raising public awareness is political then what is the
 point of pursuing politics if not to change policy?


 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 The difference it is that you wanted to change a policy. They want to
 raise awareness about the existance of something.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 You want to know what it takes to overcome political opposition from
 bureaucratic insiders to outside competition:

 Look this guy 
 uphttp://web.archive.org/web/20081212071704/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/testimny.htm.
  He seems to have some experience dealing with that sort of thing.  Clue:
  Defkalion's approach to politics has a log way to go and there is no
 evidence they are pursuing the route they need to make it work.




 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 But politics is important in this business.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 Public awareness works for politics.  Market awareness works for
 business.


 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com





 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com





-- 
Daniel Rocha - RJ
danieldi...@gmail.com


Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread James Bowery
As Alan Fletcher said Sounds even worse than a Rossi event.

Rossi events don't prove the existence of anything significant.  They
raise public awareness and appear to have had no impact on *anything*.
 Oh, we can *speculate* about *invisible* impact, but the fact remains that
there are no customers coming forth and saying that they have purchased a
Rossi device, nor are there any changes in public policy nor even admitted
behavior of stake-holding funding sources.

Due to centralization, we live in a very perverse authority structure that,
even when vital interests are at stake, is impervious to all but very
carefully crafted presentations.  Rossi's behavior I can understand if he's
willing to sacrifice share-holder opportunity in order to buy further
discredit of centralized authority structure.  But when you have 2
competitors racing for the market, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that
we are dealing with fools -- not in the technical sense, but in the sense
of dealing with the perverse realities of current authority structures.



On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 Because you cannot do it without having proved the existance of something,
 that is, a high power reactor. So, you do both.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 If the point of raising public awareness is political then what is the
 point of pursuing politics if not to change policy?


 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 The difference it is that you wanted to change a policy. They want to
 raise awareness about the existance of something.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 You want to know what it takes to overcome political opposition from
 bureaucratic insiders to outside competition:

 Look this guy 
 uphttp://web.archive.org/web/20081212071704/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/testimny.htm.
  He seems to have some experience dealing with that sort of thing.  Clue:
  Defkalion's approach to politics has a log way to go and there is no
 evidence they are pursuing the route they need to make it work.




 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Daniel Rocha 
 danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 But politics is important in this business.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 Public awareness works for politics.  Market awareness works for
 business.


 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com





 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com





 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com



Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread Axil Axil
*But in the sense of dealing with the perverse realities of current
authority structures.*

What is the best way to work within the current authority structures?

It seems to me in this current day and age that the current authority
structures are based on corporate control of governments by international
companies who have the money, organization, propaganda outlets, and
influence to move people and governments to their collective will.

For example, maybe Fox news and Rupert Murdock would be an appropriated
prototypical customer.

 A strategy based on this reality would be prudent, not bottom up popular
attitude shifting.




On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:56 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote:

 As Alan Fletcher said Sounds even worse than a Rossi event.

 Rossi events don't prove the existence of anything significant.  They
 raise public awareness and appear to have had no impact on *anything*.
  Oh, we can *speculate* about *invisible* impact, but the fact remains
 that there are no customers coming forth and saying that they have
 purchased a Rossi device, nor are there any changes in public policy nor
 even admitted behavior of stake-holding funding sources.

 Due to centralization, we live in a very perverse authority structure
 that, even when vital interests are at stake, is impervious to all but very
 carefully crafted presentations.  Rossi's behavior I can understand if he's
 willing to sacrifice share-holder opportunity in order to buy further
 discredit of centralized authority structure.  But when you have 2
 competitors racing for the market, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that
 we are dealing with fools -- not in the technical sense, but in the sense
 of dealing with the perverse realities of current authority structures.



 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 Because you cannot do it without having proved the existance of
 something, that is, a high power reactor. So, you do both.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 If the point of raising public awareness is political then what is the
 point of pursuing politics if not to change policy?


 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 The difference it is that you wanted to change a policy. They want to
 raise awareness about the existance of something.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 You want to know what it takes to overcome political opposition from
 bureaucratic insiders to outside competition:

 Look this guy 
 uphttp://web.archive.org/web/20081212071704/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/testimny.htm.
  He seems to have some experience dealing with that sort of thing.  Clue:
  Defkalion's approach to politics has a log way to go and there is no
 evidence they are pursuing the route they need to make it work.




 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Daniel Rocha 
 danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 But politics is important in this business.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 Public awareness works for politics.  Market awareness works for
 business.


 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com





 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com





 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com





Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-16 Thread James Bowery
Think of civilization as a very primitive multicellular organism that takes
humans and turns them into asexual cells that perform various specialized
functions.  When I say very primitive I mean you have to look back _far_
beyond 600 million years ago (the point at which cellular specialization
reached its pinnacle in sexual reproduction) to find anything among
multicellular organisms this primitive.  The people are an illusion.
 They aren't people.  They're poorly functioning specialized cells --
poorly functioning since they retain vestiges of their sexual individuality.

Given that picture, you can start to see how these immobile organisms would
have ridiculous immune systems and would be riddled with peripatetic
parasites that jump from organism to organism exploiting their weaknesses
and moving on before death of the organism.  One of the key features of a
virulent parasite like this is that it attack any nascent immune system and
take it over -- sort of the way HIV infects the stem cells that are
supposed to produce white blood cells and causes them to, instead, churn
out HIV.  The organisms these parasites infect are maintained in an utterly
clueless state.

So basically, you have to figure out how to trick the parasites into doing
something that is more like what they would evolve to do if they
werevertically transmitted (hence forced to evolve symbiosis) rather
than
horizontally transmitted from immobile host to immobile
hosthttp://www.ted.com/talks/paul_ewald_asks_can_we_domesticate_germs.html.
 Careful, though if you are to open about what you are doing --
exposing the parasites as parasites -- there are mechanisms set up to sic
the host immune system on you.


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote:

 *But in the sense of dealing with the perverse realities of current
 authority structures.*

 What is the best way to work within the current authority structures?

 It seems to me in this current day and age that the current authority
 structures are based on corporate control of governments by international
 companies who have the money, organization, propaganda outlets, and
 influence to move people and governments to their collective will.

 For example, maybe Fox news and Rupert Murdock would be an appropriated
 prototypical customer.

  A strategy based on this reality would be prudent, not bottom up popular
 attitude shifting.




 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:56 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote:

 As Alan Fletcher said Sounds even worse than a Rossi event.

 Rossi events don't prove the existence of anything significant.  They
 raise public awareness and appear to have had no impact on *anything*.
  Oh, we can *speculate* about *invisible* impact, but the fact remains
 that there are no customers coming forth and saying that they have
 purchased a Rossi device, nor are there any changes in public policy nor
 even admitted behavior of stake-holding funding sources.

 Due to centralization, we live in a very perverse authority structure
 that, even when vital interests are at stake, is impervious to all but very
 carefully crafted presentations.  Rossi's behavior I can understand if he's
 willing to sacrifice share-holder opportunity in order to buy further
 discredit of centralized authority structure.  But when you have 2
 competitors racing for the market, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that
 we are dealing with fools -- not in the technical sense, but in the sense
 of dealing with the perverse realities of current authority structures.



 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 Because you cannot do it without having proved the existance of
 something, that is, a high power reactor. So, you do both.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 If the point of raising public awareness is political then what is the
 point of pursuing politics if not to change policy?


 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Daniel Rocha 
 danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 The difference it is that you wanted to change a policy. They want to
 raise awareness about the existance of something.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 You want to know what it takes to overcome political opposition from
 bureaucratic insiders to outside competition:

 Look this guy 
 uphttp://web.archive.org/web/20081212071704/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/testimny.htm.
  He seems to have some experience dealing with that sort of thing.  Clue:
  Defkalion's approach to politics has a log way to go and there is no
 evidence they are pursuing the route they need to make it work.




 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 But politics is important in this business.


 2013/7/16 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

 Public awareness works for politics.  Market awareness works for
 business.


 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com





 --
 Daniel Rocha - RJ
 danieldi...@gmail.com





 --
 Daniel 

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-15 Thread Alain Sepeda
I see no evidence of any LENR related conference, presentation, showcase,
unlike last year...
Even Defkalion corrected the enthusiams of a reporter (Jeane Manning I
think) who announced a demo at NIWeek...
It seems NI was afraid that LENR may eclipse NI usual business.


2013/7/15 blaze spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com

 Hi,

 I was wondering if anyone can confirm or has information about the
 likelihood of Defkalion demo'ing at NI-WEEK.

 Cheers,

 Blaze.



RE: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Cravens
I asked Defkalion directly and got a non committal reply- neither confirming 
or denying.  
We do not disclose what we will present in NI Week and ICCF-18. 
 
I would say that I will be doing a small demo there and the powers that be 
are aware of that.   I don't think it is a mater of eclipsing NI. 
 
Dennis
 
From: alain.sep...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:45:02 +0200
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com

I see no evidence of any LENR related conference, presentation, showcase, 
unlike last year...Even Defkalion corrected the enthusiams of a reporter (Jeane 
Manning I think) who announced a demo at NIWeek...

It seems NI was afraid that LENR may eclipse NI usual business.

2013/7/15 blaze spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com


Hi,
I was wondering if anyone can confirm or has information about the likelihood 
of Defkalion demo'ing at NI-WEEK.


Cheers,
Blaze.

  

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-15 Thread Akira Shirakawa

On 2013-07-15 16:01, DJ Cravens wrote:

I asked Defkalion directly and got a non committal reply- neither
confirming or denying.
We do not disclose what we will present in NI Week and ICCF-18. 


This is unconfirmed news, but it seems there will be a Defkalion GT demo 
in Milan, Italy on July 22nd which will be live streamed on the internet 
and during ICCF18. Some skeptics, scientists and journalists from the 
international press have been invited to this demo. More details will be 
made available in due time.


Cheers,
S.A.



Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-15 Thread blaze spinnaker
http://22passi.blogspot.fr/2013/07/stasera-defkalion-ospite-di-moebius.html#1373899462684

MYSTERY said ...

@ Thu , 22 In the demo there will be a representative of CICAP, a physicist
from what I understand, journalists from the BBC and will be streaming at
the same time to another streaming dall'ICCF18, there will be enough room
for other people, technicians, curious , etc..
From about 20 days are repeated trials and demonstrations in Milan only for
customers and for about a couple of months in Canada forever just to
customers.

CICAP ..  *CICAP, the Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims on
the Paranormal,* promotes a scientific and critical enquiry of supposed
paranormal and mysterious phenomena

Unconfirmed rumor at this point, but if true:  (face palm)

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Akira Shirakawa
shirakawa.ak...@gmail.comwrote:

 On 2013-07-15 16:01, DJ Cravens wrote:

 I asked Defkalion directly and got a non committal reply- neither
 confirming or denying.
 We do not disclose what we will present in NI Week and ICCF-18. 


 This is unconfirmed news, but it seems there will be a Defkalion GT demo
 in Milan, Italy on July 22nd which will be live streamed on the internet
 and during ICCF18. Some skeptics, scientists and journalists from the
 international press have been invited to this demo. More details will be
 made available in due time.

 Cheers,
 S.A.




Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-15 Thread Akira Shirakawa

On 2013-07-16 03:23, blaze spinnaker wrote:


Unconfirmed rumor at this point, but if true:  (face palm)


Towards the end (minute 32:50 onwards) of the following podcast (in 
Italian) of a radio show about science and technology (Moebius [1], 
from Radio24, an all-news radio station owned by the newspaper Il 
Sole24 Ore [2]) the hosts briefly mention that:


- A cold fusion demo will take place on July 22nd at around 
23:30-00:00 italian time;
- They have been invited to participate in it and to bring an expert of 
their choice to supervise the demo and discuss about possible tricks;
- More details about it (they hardly mention any during the show) and a 
live stream will be soon made available on the radio station website [3];

- They will cover this event again on their next show;
+ Other small things I might have missed (most of the segment is a quick 
overview of CF/LENR history and about how physics sometimes can appear 
to be settled science although it never really isn't).


http://audio.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/radio24_audio/2013/130714-moebius.mp3

They don't directly link Defkalion GT to this demo, but the hearsay 
information I've read around (22passi like you pointed to and a 
different blog where the same author occasionally writes) does and seems 
reliable. So, it's still mostly unconfirmed news but a demo of some 
sort will most definitely occur on July 22nd.


Cheers,
S.A.

[1] http://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/programma/moebius/index.php
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_24_%28Italy%29
[3] http://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/



Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-15 Thread blaze spinnaker
 They don't directly link Defkalion GT to this demo, but the hearsay
 information I've read around (22passi like you pointed to and a different
 blog where the same author occasionally writes) does and seems reliable.


Which blog is that?  I read about this via lenr-forum.com   Alain is pretty
good at spotting things quickly.


Re: [Vo]:Defkalion to demo at NI-WEEK .. can anyone confirm?

2013-07-15 Thread Alan Fletcher
 From: blaze spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com
 Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 7:48:47 PM

http://fusionefredda.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/preparata

Google-translated comment :

Andrea writes:
July 15th, 2013 at 2:33 pm
In the demo of 22 there will be a representative of CICAP, a physicist from 
what I understand, journalists from the BBC and will be streaming at the same 
time to another streaming dall'ICCF18, there will be enough room for other 
people, technicians, curious, etc. . 
From about 20 days are repeated trials and demonstrations in Milan only for 
customers and for about a couple of months in Canada forever just to customers.

- - - - 

Sicks, if true.  Sounds even worse than a Rossi event.