>From Jed:
... > I am pretty sure the reason is because he wants to keep a low > profile. He wants enough people to believe it is real to attract > customers, but not so many that it attracts competition or > attention from the authorities. He does not want the DoE to > think it is real. I wouldn't want that either, if I were him. > Heck, I wouldn't want that, being me. The longer they stay > out, the better. Only the DoD is helpful. In Rossi's case, trying to maintain a "low profile" is a delicate business tactic that has limited shelf life. Eventually, I would imagine deception tactics of this nature, where one deliberately attempts to insinuate through deliberate inaction the possibility that their controversial technology is invalid, will fall apart as the technology essentially validates itself via through normal market conditions and the competition catches wind. Obviously, Rossi knows this all too well. I believe Rossi has essentially said so in different words & ways. Still, the longer Rossi can continue to insinuate to the general public the possibility that his technology might be invalid (and especially to potential competition) he increases his chances of sealing additional business deals from a few select businesses that have performed their own due diligence. Incidentally, I suspect many of those businesses may also, for strategic competitive business reasons of their won, not be in any hurry to destroy Rossi's charade. This is, however, a delicate business tactic that I suspect is not easily mastered. On a similar tact, I believe our own flawed intelligence gathering eventually concluded that Saddam had attempting to insinuate to his adversaries a belief that he possessed WMDs while simultaneously trying to convince the US that he didn't. In Saddam's case, he got mixed results. We invaded Iraq. Actually, I don't think there was anything Saddam could have done (or insinuated truthfully or not truthfully) to have kept the "evil eye" of the military industrial complex out of his country, but that is definitely another OT discussion. All I can say is that in Rossi case, I hope he fares better. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
