Just a small correction: cold reading is not paranormal, it is the actual technique fraudsters use to fake paranormal abilities.

I came here only for the penis jokes, but none so far!

Indeed, I think you are correct. But then, as an individual that work with technology I don't have any choice (that I'm aware of... do you know any alternative?). But for a company that makes *billions of dollars* in fucking PROFITS, things are much different.

Delusional people may believe that free market and "voting with my money" can change things, but with companies with hundreds of billions of dollars in fat to burn and all of them with the same policies, nothing can ever change.

Yep, something along the lines "I'm paying the rapist, but because the murderer is worse". No, you should not be dealing with criminals in the first place.

[Message for the deeper-interpretation-impaired: this is just an exaggerated analogy to make the point clearer, I'm not saying anybody is a criminal.]

By religious archaeologists? :p
But seriously, watch Zeitgeist or Religulous, and see some archaeological evidence that the foundation for the new testament was a copy and paste with some edits from Egyptians&co. some 3k years before.

At least if the people who call themselves Christians really followed what Jesus supposedly said, it would be really nice. But then you see super-fuckingly-rich Mitt Romney (I bet the camel will pass through the eye of the needle) and his company lobbying for laws to pay even less taxes, or Newt Gingrich condemning homosexuals for trying "to break the sanctity of marriage" (if there was a God of Irony, Newt killed it of laughing) or saying "[...] the enemies of America, kill them!", followed by a standing ovation of his Christian audience. Hypocrisy FTW!

You must read the holy book believing, and you will feel it is the word of god! The rapes? The commands to murder? Nah, that are only metaphors, when you read it you will fell the true message of love, and therefore it can only be "His" writings.

Done, now give me my gazillion dollars please.

I did something, I signed this petition. I hope it helps.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?fp

But how can you explain the awful advertisement? Stupidity? Yeah perhaps, but not likely, as it was completely unprecedented. For me the advertisement felt just like 'The Ring'.
Or GM's refusal to sell the EV-1, even when people insisted on buying it? Or the counter advertisement to the 40000 interested in buying it?
Or GM buying the rights of a better battery technology just to later sell it to fucking Texaco???? (this one doesn't make sense at all, if you are trying to see from the engineering PoV).

Or the change of focus from a proven technology (the EV-1 worked, and the people who leased them were pretty satisfied) to the hydrogen fuel cell that isn't even realistic probably for more ten to fifteen years?

If you (or anyone reading) have the patience to explain to me, I would really appreciate.

Watch the fucking documentary before saying shit please. Then you can contest the specific arguments. 'THEY', as you wrote, are explicitly exposed, with the reasoning for 'THEIR' actions.

I was about to write some of the arguments presented in the documentary, but what for? In your mind I'm a conspiracy theorist, and no evidence would prove otherwise.