shortened version of rant... first version 13K and rejected as too long... so the line breaks WILL be messed up, sorry..
gee, well lets see, i helped develop a new iodine locked laser, the first one that did not require an expert to operate. i worked on an absolute gravimeter, the first commercially available that measured gravity to 12 or 13 decimal places. my boss who had a Ph.D. thought i was a genius, and i'm excellent at trouble shooting and smelling bunk. just because someone has professional experience doesn't mean that they are honest and will not try to peddle snake oil, which is the case with the brick wall. also many with credentials are vulnerable to a good sales pitch, particularly when it is outside their field of expertise (and i have a very, very well rounded knowledge of the sciences, which few with degrees do). suffice it to say that the brick wall technology looks good on paper when casually analyzed in the "first order", when looked at more carefully, considering the non-ideal nature of things in the real world, it looks like garbage. many people with credentials have proposed perpetual motion machines, that doesn't mean that such a thing is possible or likely. i certainly do not and will not waste further time arguing this, i do have a life. the guys a con artist, which should be apparent by his involvement with "star wars", another "technology" which everyone who isn't making money from it says is bunk (at least all of those who understand physics, world politics, etc.). it would be nice to believe in both of these technologies, which is their simple appeal, but to anyone who understands the real problems and nature of the engineering required they are not worth wasting further time or resources on. as i mentioned before, having patents doesn't prove anything either, have you ever heard of a "patent medicine"? most of those are worth what the bottle they come in is worth. you don't have to prove that something works or is a good solution to get a patent! there are patents for "eye protectors for chickens", "horse water wings" and a slew of other impractical and often unworkable ideas. if i had the money to waste i could have several hundred worthless patents by the end of the year, so could you! holding patents does not prove a thing. the question is how many of those patents have been licensed by companies that actually made money off of them (and if the industries involved have found them useful)? seriously, there's nothing to prevent someone from getting a patent on a new scsi connector that's also good for wiping your' butt! that hardly means that having such a patent proves that someone has good ideas. i'm not a con artist, or someone with money to waste on worthless patent applications, the person in question is! i'm sure you'll get the person in questions standard, prewriting reply to such criticism, complaining about how the establishment doesn't except new ideas well. i in fact love new ideas, but i also look at them with a critical eye and see the flaws as well as the good points of a potential solution. i'm a critical thinker. also, you have quoted what J. Rudy Hartford claims as his professional career, people nearly always exaggerate such descriptions, in fact most resumes have outright lies. how do other people describe his involvement in developing ground tracking equipment? was he the guy that fetched spare fuses and test gear for the real engineers and was laughed at behind his back? was he a lead researcher? was he they guy that built new cables for them? what exactly was his connection with the "star wars" proposals? did he type them? did he do the bogus math? did he come up with the silly animation's demonstrating what they hoped would work? was he incharge of denying that the first test blew up a communications satellite rather than the target? was he in charge of silly ground demonstrations against objects that weren't moving and had been previously sited in with great effort? what do the people at RCA think of him? was he fired? did he leave on his own? was his work good, average, or terrible? having worked on tv sets i can tell you that many of the first integrated circuits in them were terrible, i.e. they failed often and didn't do their job well. just how many integrated circuits did he help design and what was his role in that work? and again, how good or bad was his work? i could easily exaggerate my credentials and look even more impressive to someone who didn't check up on my prior work. that doesn't mean it would be "true", while at the same time i could have claimed to have done some of the work related to all of the potential claims of greatness i could make. in fact, i'd bet money that you won't find his equipment being used at any of the "star wars" facilities. if he were any good, considering the vast amount of money being spent on star wars he'd be working on that project now for a high fee, but he isn't, because he isn't that helpful or useful. he'd also have other successful products if was was that good of an engineer, but he doesn't, just the one scam which makes him good money, if he ran other scams it might be more apparent that some of them were scams, harming his primary scam. ask ten people with a degree in EE, ask a few with a doctorate in physics or electronics, most if not all of them will tell you it's a bad solution at best, and certainly not the best way to do things. the brick wall units are a waste of perfectly good copper wire. i have no financial interest in his or any other company in that field, and never have, i've never met him and have no personal grudges. i do have a disdain for him because the brick wall is a scam. hey, i know what works, i read the trade journals, i've built surge suppressors and noise filters, i've built them into power supplies for high end equipment. i'd never even consider the "brick wall" approach even if there weren't patent issues, it's based on a flawed analysis and understanding of the problem. i've been to that site, to anyone with a nose for bogus claims it has a very strong smell. it's great salesmanship, really superbly crafted explanations of how it works, but it's not a correct analysis. fyi, you won't find his technology used in critical military applications either, which should tell you a lot about his technology and his work for the military. in fact, i'd bet money that you won't find his equipment being used at any of the "star wars" facilities. if he were any good, considering the vast amount of money being spent on star wars he'd yeah, i've wasted way too much time and effort on this, scams just infuriate me, along with people who have no analytical or critical thinking skills and don't bother to do any "fact" checking, or even a google search. do a google search for the guys name, or for "brick wall" and "surge" and i'm sure you'll find many, many other people who think it's garbage and few if any that think it's a great product, damn few. -- Why are republicans afraid of the U.N. observing our elections? 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