When it comes to sticking to my principles, it does not matter what people think of me.
I'm the kind of person who goes into church and asks Christians, "who would Jesus bomb." At that point I'm automatically considered an evil liberal. In this life you can usually take two roads when it comes to most decisions. The first road is the one that is a compromise of your principles, and branches out to many different roads. This road is often easier to ride on, has fewer bumps, and makes a commute easy. The second road is the one where you refuse to budge one inch on your principles. It is full of bumps, and can easily get you a flat tire. For example, a woman divorcing her husband after being cheated on (THE FIRST TIME) despite having ten kids and no way to financially support them, and her husband apologizing. Divorce is the only appropriate answer, even if it could mean the kids end up being sent to orphanages and never seeing each other again. Some may say she should have not divorced her husband, but I believe her principles are more important than anything else. If I were Andrea Rossi and if my technology had been copied without permission (I'm not saying it has) I would let the world consider me the most evil man in history. I would sleep just fine at night knowing that I did the right thing, by standing up for not only my rights, and the property rights of all other inventors. A world without absolute rights is not worth living in. Sadly, the way the world is going, individuals are having their rights violated more and more each day. ________________________________ From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <svj.orionwo...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Test day in Greece time noone noone sez: > If I invented a billion dollar technology and someone copied > it without my permission, I would not accept a trillion > dollars from a lawsuit. > > The only thing I would accept is for the other company to be > forced to re-call all their products. Then I would make money > by selling the products from my own company. Good luck. You give me the impression that you think you can go to court and win your case in a just few weeks, and then everything will be honky dorey. Think again. Think years. Many, many years. And during all those contentious years of unending litigation that will make many a lawyer rich, and while you are demanding all those recalls, and to a complete halt to sales, just think of all the good PR you will be generating for yourself. People across the planet are desperate for any kind of cheaper energy. But your sense of demanding "justice" could end up potentially denying a huge portion of the population that opportunity - all on personal principle. I'm sure they will all understand your personal sense of outrage for not getting even richer off of your invention. But of course you'll be right. You have that going for you. Don't get me wrong. I would be pissed off, too, if someone stole my invention. But consider the ramifications of how best to get even with the competition. Try to get even without turning yourself in to the energy pariah of the century - someone who will be written up in the history books as having denied millions of desperate individuals access to cheap energy because he was unhappy over the fact that someone was making profits off of something that he thought he should be profiting over himself. > If Rossi's technology has been stolen, I hope he refuses any > credit, money, or other compensation. I would also hope he > would turn down the nobel prize. I hope his mission in life > becomes to stop anyone who has used his technology without > permission. Shish! I'm glad I don't think the way you do. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
