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"Aidan Karley" wrote in message
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In article , Huge wrote:
You have to admire these people for separating the punters from the
readies
with such efficiency. And anyone stupid enough to believe this nonsense
deserves to be fleeced.

The weird thing is, some people who are actually in posession of a
functioning brain do fall for this sort of idiocy.
One of my colleagues was asking me and the drilling rig's
electrician
for comments about this very site, because he was concerned about mains
hum
in his hi-fi system. Even with the electrician telling him that the whole
concept is ********, and me offering to lash him up a motor-generator set,
or
even a kettle/ steam engine/ generator set ... he still wasn't convinced
that
there were more effective ways to get rid of his mains hum problem. He
didn't
*want* to be convinced ; he wanted to spend his money (and his wife's and
baby's food money) on this sort of delusion. Mad. But still a perfectly
good
geologist.


There are many that are so clueless that they spend a fortune on a D/A
converter in their amp and then waste money on a £1000 CD player when it
will sound exactly the same as a £25 Asda DVD player.
You will never convince them that they are wrong though as that would be
admitting they are idiots.