Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why did Hitler open a second front in WWII? It doomed him to inevitable > loss. He did it anyway. > I read that he thought the war with Britain was over. He thought the Brits would continue to posture and shout, but they would never cross the channel and attack. He could hold them at bay with an occasional bombing. He sent much of his army back to civilian life as reservists after the invasion of France. Why were the defecting soldiers, fleeing the Russian army, treated so badly > by the Germans? They threw away a possible chance a inducing mass mutiny > in Stalin's troops, for essentially no gain. > Because they were sure they would win, easily. They did not think they needed defecting soldiers. They thought a mutiny was a sure thing. Regarding the Soviet Union, Hitler said, "the whole rotten edifice will collapse in a few weeks." > Over-the-top overconfidence? Blind inability to see the possibility of > failure? > Yup. Plus plain old stupidity. Failure to take advantage of golden opportunities. > It's also possible that people like Rossi are typically far less > intelligent than we give them credit for (bluster can look like brains . . . > I used to think he was pretty clever. Then I saw the sample data and some of the things described by Rossi in the Lewan interview, and in Exhibit 5. Such as the pipe going into the secret customer site, the ludicrous choice of flow meters, and the blatantly obvious fake data, with the same flow rate and 0.0 bar pressure stuffed into the tables. A slight variation in temperature followed by days with exactly the same temperature. In a Florida warehouse?!? "Is that supposed to be a joke" was my response. I lost all respect for Rossi in his role of as a clever con man. He didn't con anyone this time. It was an amateur attempt at deception, doomed to failure. Maybe he was just phoning it in. Maybe he used to go to the trouble to do convincing fake tests, but now he just goes through the motions. He can still deceive true believers by remote control. People who read his blog and believe every word. But people who visited this test, looked at the data, or read Exhibit 5 in a clearheaded, unbiased frame of mind instantly saw that Rossi is full of crap and his claims can't be real. - Jed
