Re: [Vo]:November Popular Science- not kind to Rossi

2012-10-15 Thread Daniel Rocha
How is it possible that anyone can be simply kind to Rossi if he always
shoots his foot?

2012/10/15 Ron Kita chiralex.k...@gmail.com

 Greetings Vortex,

 I just received an e-mail from a friend saying Popular Science November
  issue was not kind to Rossi,
 But I have not seen it yet.

 Any Vortex members have seen it?

 I will be going out to see it.

 Is Popular Science relevant?

 Respectfully,
 Ron Kita,  Chiralex..will update Popsci shortly after viewing it.




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


Re: [Vo]:November Popular Science- not kind to Rossi

2012-10-15 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Mr. Krivit (New Energy Times) has also updated his critical comments about
Mr. Rossi, and the result is not paywalled.

FYI.

http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/RossiECat/Andrea-Rossi-Energy-Catalyzer-Investigation-Index.shtml

Jeff

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote:

 How is it possible that anyone can be simply kind to Rossi if he always
 shoots his foot?


 2012/10/15 Ron Kita chiralex.k...@gmail.com

 Greetings Vortex,

 I just received an e-mail from a friend saying Popular Science November
  issue was not kind to Rossi,
 But I have not seen it yet.

 Any Vortex members have seen it?

 I will be going out to see it.

 Is Popular Science relevant?

 Respectfully,
 Ron Kita,  Chiralex..will update Popsci shortly after viewing it.




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




Re: [Vo]:November Popular Science- not kind to Rossi

2012-10-15 Thread Daniel Rocha
His 1st statement is also the only description of Rossi in the text. He
writes:

 Andrea Rossi is a convicted white-collar criminal with a string of failed
energy ventures.



2012/10/15 Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com

 Mr. Krivit (New Energy Times) has also updated his critical comments about
 Mr. Rossi, and the result is not paywalled.

 FYI.


 http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/RossiECat/Andrea-Rossi-Energy-Catalyzer-Investigation-Index.shtml

 Jeff


 On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 How is it possible that anyone can be simply kind to Rossi if he always
 shoots his foot?


 2012/10/15 Ron Kita chiralex.k...@gmail.com

 Greetings Vortex,

 I just received an e-mail from a friend saying Popular Science November
  issue was not kind to Rossi,
 But I have not seen it yet.

 Any Vortex members have seen it?

 I will be going out to see it.

 Is Popular Science relevant?

 Respectfully,
 Ron Kita,  Chiralex..will update Popsci shortly after viewing it.




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





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


Re: [Vo]:November Popular Science- not kind to Rossi

2012-10-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Krivit wrote: Andrea Rossi is a convicted white-collar criminal with a
string of failed energy ventures.

This is a serious distortion. It should say that he was convicted of a
white-collar crime but later fully exonerated by the courts.

I do not know about the other failed energy ventures. I guess this means
the thermoelectric venture.


Getting back to the subject of this thread, has anyone see the November
Popular Science? They don't have magazines in drugstores anymore, and there
are practically no bookstores left in Atlanta. Amazon.com has done them in.

- Jed


Re: [Vo]:November Popular Science- not kind to Rossi

2012-10-15 Thread Peter Gluck
If I remember correctly, Steve Krivit has stated he will ignore Rossi.
Anyway Rossi was not convicted for the E-Cat, just for promising to make
fuel from trash.
Peter

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote:

 His 1st statement is also the only description of Rossi in the text. He
 writes:

  Andrea Rossi is a convicted white-collar criminal with a string of
 failed energy ventures.



 2012/10/15 Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com

 Mr. Krivit (New Energy Times) has also updated his critical comments
 about Mr. Rossi, and the result is not paywalled.

 FYI.


 http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/RossiECat/Andrea-Rossi-Energy-Catalyzer-Investigation-Index.shtml

 Jeff


 On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote:

 How is it possible that anyone can be simply kind to Rossi if he always
 shoots his foot?


 2012/10/15 Ron Kita chiralex.k...@gmail.com

 Greetings Vortex,

 I just received an e-mail from a friend saying Popular Science November
  issue was not kind to Rossi,
 But I have not seen it yet.

 Any Vortex members have seen it?

 I will be going out to see it.

 Is Popular Science relevant?

 Respectfully,
 Ron Kita,  Chiralex..will update Popsci shortly after viewing it.




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





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




-- 
Dr. Peter Gluck
Cluj, Romania
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com


Re: [Vo]:November Popular Science- not kind to Rossi

2012-10-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote:


 This is a serious distortion. It should say that he was convicted of a
 white-collar crime but later fully exonerated by the courts.


Whatever you think of Rossi, the legal facts are clear: he was fully
exonerated. Not pardoned; exonerated. Meaning that in the eyes of the law
he was never guilty in the first place. It was a miscarriage of justice.

Perhaps Krivit feels the original sentence was just and should not have
been overturned. However, legal decisions are absolute. They are binary,
and not disputable. A person is either guilty or innocent in the eyes of
the law.

- Jed


Re: [Vo]:November Popular Science- not kind to Rossi

2012-10-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Based on my own past associations with Mr. Krivt, he really likes to
bring it on. I think Krivit envisions himself as one of those scrappy
investigators that likes to stick it to his targets - like a festering
thorn. This tactic often seemed to have worked in past investigations.
However, it remains to be seen if it will produce the desired results
against Rossi. I suspect Rossi is a lot more resilient than SK is
capable of comprehending.

It seems to me that constantly bringing up Rossi's past white collar
convictions suggests (at least to me) that Mr. Krivit may not really
have all that much hard evidence in which to convict Rossi with. I was
also struck by something Mr. Rothwell recently brought up:

 Perhaps Krivit feels the original [white collar conviction]
 sentence was just and should not have been overturned.

It seems to me that Mr. Krivit continues to bring up Rossi's past
convictions for no other reason than it suits him to perceive Mr.
Rossi as a nothing more than unsavory criminal. In a sense Rossi has
become the personification of an evil character that Krivit needs to
place on a pedestal - an effigy to constantly spit at. I suspect
Krivit has felt this way with other individuals, including one
particularly vocal Vort member who begged to differ with the
investigative reporter's extensive analysis of McKubre's M4 data. In
Krivit's mind, Rossi has become a personification of everything that
is bad about the Alternative Energy world. Captain Ahab is hunting his
whale.

I think it's pretty obvious to most that there is little respect 
affection between Rossi and Krivit. As such,I have little faith in
Krivit's ability to be objective when it comes to analyzing the
complexities and contradictions that make up Andrea Rossi's persona.
It's as if it's beyond Krivit's capacity. I recall a previous attempt
on Krivit's part to make Rossi out as a befuddled thinker in front of
his readership. He quoted Andrea's broken and halting English speech
patterns verbatim in an attempt to insinuate that Rossi couldn't think
very clearly. To have done so in such a manner is something no
professional reporter in his right mind would think of doing. But that
didn't stop Mr. Krivit, whom I presume perceives himself as a
professional investigative reporter.

Perhaps Mr. Krivit might complain that I'm bringing up something a
little unsavory from the reporter's own past reporting style that
perhaps he is no longer happy about. Perhaps he even wishes it would
remain buried. If so, what compassion and understanding has Mr. Krivit
shown towards Rossi, of Rossi's alleged past - which incidentally in
the eyes of the law Rossi was exonerated of?

With that said, I can understand why Mr. Krivit remains highly
suspicious of Mr. Rossi. The blatant truth of the matter is that this
flamboyant Italian does not help his own case. As I understand it,
Rossi's refuses to be up front with his own experimental data. It
makes him out to be a charlatan in the eyes of many. Most have every
right to remain suspicious of Mr. Rossi! To me, Rossi, comes across as
a kind of carnival barker.

We shall see what this curious Italian; a flamboyant character of
history will offer up next. A cat on a hot nickel roof would be
nice, or perhaps a cup of hot tea. But who really knows.

Never a dull moment.

Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
www.zazzle.com/orionworks



Re: [Vo]:November Popular Science- not kind to Rossi

2012-10-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote:


 Krivit has felt this way with other individuals, including
 one particularly vocal Vort member who begged to differ with
 the investigative reporter's  extensive analysis of McKubre's M4 data.


Who? Me? Krivit is silly about this. McKubre is pretty upset with him
though.



 In Krivit's mind, Rossi has become a  personification of everything
 that is bad about the Alternative Energy world. Captain Ahab is hunting
 his whale.


Good analogy.

I have to agree that Rossi does personify many of the problems in this
field. The own worse enemy syndrome in particular.



 I think it's pretty obvious to most that there is little respect
  affection between Rossi and Krivit.


I don't mind Krivit. I guess I would if he attacked me the way he attacks
McKubre.

I think he is being very silly when he pontificates about theory and
promotes the W-L theory. I admire his chutzpah when he gets his views into
the New York Times and the ANS, but I also cringe. As I wrote here: This
would be like me singing at the Metropolitan Opera even though I am tone
deaf and unable to read music.

The way I see it, Krivit is annoying, but you have to annoying to survive
in this field. As I have related before --

I was once kvetching to Mizuno about how the researchers in this field are
a bunch of stubborn, self-centered stick-in-the-muds. He said, yeah, we
are, but if we weren't we would have quit long ago.

Touche.

- Jed


Re: [Vo]:November Popular Science- not kind to Rossi

2012-10-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez:

 Krivit has felt this way with other individuals, including one
 particularly vocal Vort member who begged to differ with the
 investigative reporter's  extensive analysis of McKubre's M4 data.

 Who? Me? Krivit is silly about this. McKubre is pretty upset with him
 though.

Nope! Not you Jed! Guess again. ;-)

 I was once kvetching to Mizuno about how the researchers in this field
 are a bunch of stubborn, self-centered stick-in-the-muds. He said,
 yeah, we are, but if we weren't we would have quit long ago.

Probably true.

It's possible I'm being harder on Krivit than necessary.Nevertheless,
his handling or Rossi's broken English was the straw that really broke
the back for me.

Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
www.zazzle.com/orionworks



Re: [Vo]:November Popular Science- not kind to Rossi

2012-10-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote:


 It's possible I'm being harder on Krivit than necessary.Nevertheless,
 his handling or Rossi's broken English was the straw that really broke
 the back for me.


That was tacky. Also, strangely old-fashioned. People used to do that in
popular culture and movies in the 1930s. I think people more often assumed
that a foreign accent or an unusual native speaker accent is a sign of low
education or low intelligence.

Many people are still biased against Southern accents, and Appalachian
dialects (so-called hillbilly accents). People go to classes to rid
themselves of these dialects. It is a crying shame because they are among
the oldest and most expressive forms of English. In Japan people are also
biased against regional and rural dialects, which are rapidly disappearing.
This may impact my retirement plans for when I am 90, blind and wheelchair
bound. I hope to spend my remaining days ensconced in the back room of some
seedy bar or house of prostitution in Kyoto where I can listen to the way
the women talk. It doesn't matter what they say: I just can't get enough of
that rising intonation, the negative (-hen) and those copulas. Hubba hubba!

My wife is from Yamaguchi, which is quite different from Kyoto. It is
similar to Appalachian English, with words hundreds of years out of date,
like the English yonder.

- Jed


RE: [Vo]:November Popular Science- not kind to Rossi

2012-10-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
Jed sez:

 

...

 

 In Japan people are also biased against regional and rural dialects,

 which are rapidly disappearing. This may impact my retirement plans

 for when I am 90, blind and wheelchair bound. I hope to spend my 

 remaining days ensconced in the back room of some seedy bar or house

 of prostitution in Kyoto where I can listen to the way the women talk. It

 doesn't matter what they say: I just can't get enough of that rising

 intonation, the negative (-hen) and those copulas. Hubba hubba!

 

 My wife is from Yamaguchi, which is quite different from Kyoto. It

 is similar to Appalachian English, with words hundreds of years out

 of date, like the English yonder.

 

Sounds like a well planned retirement strategy, Jed.

 

Just don't let your wife catch you listening in. ;-)

 

Regards,

Steven Vincent Johnson

www.OrionWorks.com

www.zazzle.com/orionworks