X-Message-Number: 31094 From: "Chris Manning" <> References: <> Subject: Finance on Rudi Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:48:30 +1000 I think if you are going to make this sort of attack it would be polite to tell us your real name. (Further comments below.) > Message #31092 > Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:21:07 -0600 > From: "Finance Department" <> > Subject: Rudi Announces $200K Alcor Fee for Intermed. Temp Storage > > ------=_Part_43701_20315397.1222924867901 > Content-Disposition: inline > > I heard it, did you? Listen to the mp3. Rudi is truly a glib speaker, This is probably a good thing. The cryonics movement is not exactly well endowed with inspiring speakers. I haven't listened to it, mainly because I don't know how. Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is a 'podcast' and how do I listen to it on my computer? > despite his tenor voice. At the end he gave an evangelical appeal for > everyone to join up, sounded just like a tent meeting. This corresponds > to > his background which he no longer publishes on his website, but still... > He's got the juice, and no doubt the desire to augment the cash flow from > cryonics beyond simple insurance policy commissions via books and speaking > engagements, so that he can add more millions to his reanimation trust > fund > in what country was that? Liechtenstein? Would you prefer that Rudi were selling snake oil? There are plenty of people out there already doing that. What do *you* do for a living? And whatever it is, do you pass up opportunities to make more money from it? > It was an "excellent" interview. How I know this is that every question > the > moderator asked was an "excellent" one according to Rudi, and at the end > the > moderator said the whole thing was "excellent". How can anyone excel > that. > > It was amusing to hear Rudi try to explain technical concepts such as > vitrification and intermediate temperature storage. He might consider > providing a discount of his commissions to some of his more > technically-endowed clients, to drill him in the accurate presentation of > the details of these neo-arcane concepts. > > Rudi should take heart that he can only sustain existence in a mileau > which That's 'milieu'. > touts and sells vitrification as the cutting edge of cryopreservation, yet > provides neither true whole body vitrification, nor intermediate > temperature > storage without which vitrification is largely meaningless. He fits in > well > with the generally low level of cryonics service provision which has been > stalled in place now for way too many years. > > What else is new, > > FD Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=31094