Its a sad day for me

[laklak]

Even that story about Romulo saying "I want that dot" is not in any of the UN transcripts.

Could you enlighten me on this, it seems that i havent heard this before.

[Alpha_One]

Could you enlighten me on this, it seems that i havent heard this before.

If you look at the UN flag, there's a dot on the map of the globe where the Philippines would be. Legend has it that the Romulo asked where the bloody hell the Philippines was. The flag designer(s) answered that they didn't put it in because it was as small as a dot (wala namang hi-res printing or HDTV nun ). Romulo, it is said, insisted that he "it's an important dot and he wants it" or something.

[A121]

Sa pagkakaalam ko, si Dado Banatao ang may-ari ng narra venture capital. siya rin yung may ari dati ng S3 graphics. Nag talk yung isang rep nila sa amin sa school about venture capitalism.

Daming errors dun sa napost na site.

[Alpha_One]

Sites like that underscore my point with all these invented inventors. Mainstream media feeds us with so much half-truths, it's hard to distinguish them from whole lies. It's hardly "Pinoy Pride" when Dingel gets glorified by the media, then all of a sudden the "water powered car" comes around and you smell petrol exhaust. Any criticisms or skepticisms of these pop culture anecdotes will bring up all sorts of excuses such as "lack of government support", "unwilling to sell out to greedy capitalists" and "colonial mentality".

I mean, if you were a financially challenged inventor, would you a) keep the invention to yourself because you're "not a sellout", b) wait for nonexistent support on a radical new discovery or c) hand over your ideas to someone who can mass-produce and mass-market it or d) take a lot of personal risk by attempting to sell the idea to everyone.

Many inventors try c) first. When nobody takes them seriously, they do d). Inventors want their ideas to be in widespread application. Quacks like Dingel come up with excuses like "it's for the people". Sitting on a theory because you don't have the resources to put it in practice is counter-productive and anti-innovative, and are unlikely to be done by actual innovators.

Think about it. If the Dingel water car really worked, every car would be water powered by now, and as a result "the people" will have benefited directly and immensely. If the Khaos was a really good idea, every car would have it attached, and whatshisname would be rich by now. But I digress.

[niky]

Think about it. If the Dingel water car really worked, every car would be water powered by now, and as a result "the people" will have benefited directly and immensely. If the Khaos was a really good idea, every car would have it attached, and whatshisname would be rich by now. But I digress.

Or, at the very least... the Khaos outlets would still be open and the unsold stock wouldn't be sitting on the shelves of "Blade" gathering dust... :hysterical:

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I guess it's just desperation that people cling to whatever, whoever as a source of pride and accomplishment.

Personally.. who gives a flying ****? What matters is what you do in your own life. Because even if a Filipino had invented the light bulb, you personally didn't do it.

Thus, it's a point of pride for us pinoys to stop passing around these stupid stories and to actually make new stories of our own. Errh... not to make them up... but to accomplish something, anything, that you can be proud of.

Like Salen-Ga.

[badsekktor]

It makes me laugh everytime i hear that armando malite name! i really though it was just an ROTC joke!

anyway, i have watched an episode of futurecars and there is a guy who have invented an engine running on compressed air. i just dont know if it is true, pero hindi pilipino yun guy.

[uls]

i understand the Pinoy Pride thing and all...

Everest climbers, pinoy chef in the White House, Manny Pacquiao, Efren Bata&Co., international dance contest winners, debate winners, movie/acting awards, etc etc...

Achievements of individual pinoys do make us proud, but overall, it has very little effect on the population at large. Pop culture phenomena lang yan...

It has to take a large number of pinoys achieving something collectively to have any effect. Like the combined economic output of 8 million OFWs.