I believe there is an SEC regulation that allows wealthy investors to buy unregistered stock, on the grounds that they presumably understand their risk. If Randy Mills tried selling stock to the general public, indeed he would end up playing golf with Bernie Madoff.   --  Gene From: Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> To: math-fun@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 12:15 PM Subject: [math-fun] EM Propulsion The "Blacklight power" place was located down the road from where I used to work, and they got millions of dollars in grants from gullible power companies to develop their 110% bullshit, quack, awesome power source, which any competent sophomore could have told you was a complete fabrication. They still are on the internet even 20+ years later   http://www.blacklightpower.com/ apparently still claiming to be a wonderfully successful innovative corporation. And why are they not in jail?  My guess is that making utterly false claims of scientific breakthroughs, and asking for huge money for "future rights" to it, and getting it, all is not a crime? -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org <-- add your endorsement (by clicking "endorse" as 1st step) _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun