The world's most evil entrepreneur?

while it doesnt take anything away from how terrible selling these things was, since this story came around I have been incredibly confused at how someone spent £60million and wasnt absolutely certain they worked.

Re: The world's most evil entrepreneur?

#5

Post by touseefliaqat » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 3:44 PM UTC

"The government has just banned the export of these devices to some countries on the grounds that they could put the lives of UK forces at risk, but they are still able to export to other countries."

Because "lives of UK forces" are at risk and only they needed to be protected by evil entrepreneur of UK. Evil what???

Re: The world's most evil entrepreneur?

#6

Post by b-man » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 3:50 PM UTC

Man, how on earth would you explain this[1] to your boss?

[1]http://www.ubergizmo.com/tags/ade-651

Re: The world's most evil entrepreneur?

#7

Post by b-man » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 4:00 PM UTC

I propose a test for this guy.

Let's plant some live mines in a large field, and simply ask him to cross it a few times, using his little tech wonder detector.

I'll bet all my possessions that he will promptly refuse, on some 'atmospheric impossibility' or some other shit.

Re: The world's most evil entrepreneur?

#8

Post by sofal » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 4:01 PM UTC

b-man wrote: post #6

Man, how on earth would you explain this[1] to your boss? [1] http://www.ubergizmo.com/tags/ade-651

I don't think it would be too hard to explain that a pathetic little blog post somewhere on the Web falsely claims that you purchased 1,500 of these things.

Re: The world's most evil entrepreneur?

#9

Post by RiderOfGiraffes » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 4:05 PM UTC

Much discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070732

Re: The world's most evil entrepreneur?

#10

Post by glymor » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 4:34 PM UTC

touseefliaqat wrote: post #5

"The government has just banned the export of these devices to some countries on the grounds that they could put the lives of UK forces at risk, but they are still able to export to other countries." Because "lives of UK forces" are at risk and only they needed to be protected by evil entrepreneur of UK. Evil what???

National security usurps the companies right to otherwise sell stuff that doesn't provably work. If only we could get UK forces to use homeopathy.

In other news the director of the company has been arrested for fraud so they are doing something.