Have you ever had some absolutely awesome idea, blurted it out, told a friend, wrote it in a blog, only to find that weeks, months, maybe a year later, some large scale corporation is using it?

Tell us your experience, and maybe we can find a connection that brings paranoia into the realm of truth!

Feel free to express any other thoughts of paranoia here too. Who knows? Maybe Google is launching some mass mind control program. Subliminal messaging certainly wouldn’t be out of their reach. It would be even more possible for Microsoft to stuff some of it into their Windows OS’s.

LOL

Are you REALLY this paranoid or are you just being curious?

Well...let me deliberate I guess. Since I AM pretty bored. I have ideas...alot. I'm no inventor, and I have no clue how to go about it - and to spare the heartache and bitterness of having my ideas stolen, they'll always remain in my little book. Funny enough, I've had ideas for MANY things in the past, and they have come to....reality. So, I think that if someone does blurt out an idea and a corporation releases a similar product months or years later, that's it's a pure and simple coincidence. How or Why? Because it's a kind of evolution. I think that for every idea you or I may have, someone else has either had the idea before or someone has the idea and has gone to do something about it.
Lets take for example an idea I've had since I got a PC - A DVR.
I've always wondered (back in 93/94/95) why they never made VCRs with hard drives instead of using cassette tapes. I thought to myself, if Phantasmagoria can fit on 7cds, then a hard drive could store alot of video. I never thought of the details to it, I just thought "Why haven't they done it yet?" Even today, in 2003/2004 I often wondered why they didn't make a phone that played music. And even today, I wondered why they couldn't allow phones to have sdcards like pdas (cuz lord knows 5-7 megs of memory on a $200 phone feels like rape).
And for every year or so I have an idea, in a year or 2 or 3 I see the product. One day, maybe when I have an idea I'll have the balls to go somewhere and do something about it. Who knows?

As for paranoia and conspiracy theories. Gosh....plenty exist. I'm not that much of a 'scared paranoid' though - because I'm not doing anything wrong. Usual, only people who are doing something shady or wrong are super paranoid of stuff. I've also been somewhat of a prophet. Many things that I said would happen in the past have come true. But I'm not gonna go there cuz' it's political and that's the last thing I want to incite here. Lets see, what else?

Here's one prediction for ya' - let it be known: You know this whole thing with revelation and the bible and that stupid powerpoint on the web? I honestly believe that in a few years, maybe not 3 or 4 or 5....but within OUR lifetimes, human beings will be required to have an implant. I believe the implant will be required like a drivers license, and that all of the hosts' information will be stored in it. I also believe that it will serve multiple purposes - not only will it store info on you, but it will also be able to track you and alert the proper authorities if tampered with, it will monitor your 'health' and possibly even store your 'liquid cash', hell maybe even credit. If you think about it carefully, we're easily moving in that direction. Technology advances and the way we live, and store our means to live change. This is the ultimate answer. It's gonna be debated for years, many, many groups will be against it - the churches, privacy groups, various organizations etc. but slowly and surely it will be approved. We'll move from cash and maybe credit cards to this little chip inside of us. Some, many people will refuse it - they will be outcasts. The newer generation will embrace it - athiests and those who don't believe in the bible and God for sure. And those who don't as I said will gradually move into a society where cash is used. Ofcourse, this society will be the equivalent of a 3rd World nation....they won't have or embrace technology as much as the rest of the world.

And there we have it. Now hopefully Flexbeta will be around long enough for my prediction to be read later on. LOL

Could it be that your prophecies come true because someone with the power to make them happen is listening in on you when you tell them?

And away from that topic, I wonder if this anti-windows, pro-linux trend is something Google has cooked up through subliminal messaging...Keep in mind that we're in the midst of the battle of the Titans.

EDIT, Adding more stuff:

Does anyone remember the whole Nostradamus and 9-11 thing? They took one of his quatrains to sy he predicted it:
The year 1999 seven month,
From the sky will come a great King of terror:
To bring back to life the great King of Angolmois,
Before after Mars to reign by good luck
(Century X, Quatrain 72)
Of course this was immediately dismissed because 9-11 was the ninth month, not the seventh, but the thing is that September is actually the seventh month. June and July were added by the Romans, and it is possible that by the "seventh month," Nostradamus did in fact mean September, regarding its root 'sept,' meaning seven.

I had an experience once when I thought I was being abducted by aliens, but it wasn't aliens. When I woke, immobilized but conscious, I saw Bill Gates and Steve Balmer standing at the foot of my bed. I then blacked out from the shock. When I came too, I was on the Microsoft space ship. Bill Gates and Steve Balmer were standing there, probing me, laughing, and screaming "Google Sucks!, Google Sucks".

Damn Microsoft

Dude, Balmer is an alien...I thought you knew that.

Oh Kelp....OK I confess!!!!! It was BSOD and Sphere that were probing you.....I'm so sorry. And that wasn't a space ship it was the back of a minivan they rented from Hertz. I wanted to tell you sooner but BSOD said he'd ban me from Flexbeta, so I just HAD to shut up. But I feel so guilty now. I was there the whole time, they MADE me watch. And Sphere wasn't saying Google sucks, he was saying Gooo Linux! Gooo Linux!

In any case:

I woke up once and couldn't move either. I was like 16 and in my uncles house where I'd usually go to chill after school. But I was all tired so I took a nap, when I woke up I couldn't move. It was like my consciousness wasn't connected to my body cuz ... ok, seriously...don't laugh, but I could see myself for a couple seconds before my eyes opened. Saw myself in the bed with my eyes closed. Next second I open up my eyes, couldn't move anything, all I could do was breathe so I took a deep breath and with every ounce of power I flew up. By flying up a mean I kind up jumped out of the position I was in.
That was one of the scariest times in my life. Could have been a dream but I don't think so....saw a stain on my shirt right by my left side which honestly, I hadn't seen before I went to sleep. Saw it during the whole wierd thing and when I flew up and looked at the spot, there was the stain.
Very creepy. Hasn't happened to me again.

Hey! that was supposed to stay a secret!!!!!! Now my whole cover of being a human is blown!

D**n you earthlings... I'm here to spy on you, but you don't know it, whahahaha

Well... I DID think of dual compound tires for motorbikes myself but it turned out they already existed.



That would mean that Oliver Kahn is an alien too, you're like clones

Now you figure out why he was such a good keeper?

evil dutch aliens!

i do believe most dutch people are aliens, not just sphere... too many experiences tell me they cant be, lol....

He was using telekinetics to draw the ball to his hands... it all makes sense now!



Oliver Kahn was german...

Neo thats it your banned...i told u to keep it on the DL! lol


ok well as stated on the OT Thread... i , at a very young age of 6, concieved in my mind... what we know as the Super Nintendo. At this time only the nintendo was out. I had drawn pictures back then and it had looked like what it did today , gray box , purple buttons ... the really scary part was that the launch game i had for mind was "Super Mario World" ...so what am i to think now. The Government or Shgiro Miamoto had tapped into my psychi at a young age, stole my idea and capitolized on it ...soooo what am i asking.. i want my royalties cause i should be a rich with billions of dollars.

Will you share your fortune with me when you're a billionnaire? please?

I'm only afraid for my friends, when my family comes back to pick me up and see what the ppl here on earth made of me... it'll be like independence day...

Do they have hot chicks on your planet? in that case I wanna come!!

If you still have the pictures, you might have a case. You wouldnt likely get billions, but you might get them to settle for...millions? *pinky to the corner of mouth* Muahaha Muahaha Muahahaha....

Yes there are, no you can't, they're all mine! muhahahaha

selfish bastard! lol..

But what about that chick you told me about the other day @de Boemel...?

If I said she's yours, she's not from my planet... dahaa!

damn i knew i should have kept those pictures ...stupid coloring time ..they all went to waste in 4th grade lol

Don't listen to Sphere!!!!!! They have......penuses! I mean, they're beautiful yes; but I just....I don't think you want tha' penus. Big giant horrifying demaleifying peni, I mean, penuses....
It's really scary, cuz they're nice and sweet and are like, THE perfect women too. I *nearly* learned the 'hard' way.

Sphere isn't only an alien, he's an ebil alien. Beware....

As for the Snes thing...wow. That woulda kinda burned me. Especially the super mario world thing. LOL....funny thought eh? That they save all those drawings kids make in elementatary and sell em to the game manufacturers? *Ahhhhhh* - THAT would explain your Snes idea. There was a Neo Geo game I think called Bonk? I don't remember - a caveman with a bald head. I KNOW I drew him before I saw that game on more than one occasion....so who knows man.

ya dont think?! then we truely are being denied our riches..thats it ..im takin this to the Supreme Court

I like this a lot! Made me laugh..

That would certainly be a bummer... Wouldn't want any penuses (or any other foreign objects) inserted into any of my body openings...

Hey, I know what's right, and it's my planet, not yours, you're lying! liar!

It's a conspiracy against my homeplanet! It's a conspiracy I tell you, a conspiracy!

You're paranoid, sphere...

that's what this topic is about, right?

I messed up and posted a blurb about my quantum mechanics based processor...I'm deffinitely writing that one down and mailing it to myself so that when Google is making processors 127.5 years from now, I'll make them pay for using my design!

Well I have 2 ideas for perpetual motion that I think in reality should work altho I don't posses all the quantum and chaos mathematics needed to execute it. One idea works with water whilte the other works with magnets.

I'll never tell a soul less someone take my idea and give it to someone who can actually do something with it leaving me pennyless... kinda like I am now...

Perpetual motion has already been invented a long time ago...
It's a housewife with 6 children.

You won't have to. If it's at all possible, someone will think it up, patent it or take it to a company and voila! Your invention will be realized.....by someone else.

OMG...

that's so true........

but nevertheless, i also have an idea but... yeah...

...but you're afraid someone might steal it... yeah yeah... *deja vu*

Nah I'm just waiting untill I can graps the conecept of what I've thaught of and when I do I'll patent it myself and hire someone to do the algorhythms for me.

Make me some some sweet a$$ cash

Am I glad I never have such brilliant money-making ideas... keeps me from getting paranoid...

hmm.... paranoid... whee!!

I'm gonna think of a concept that'll make more money than even B.G. can imagine

Sorry everyone, but logic has proven that we do not exist. Our reality contains a paradox which simply means that it cannot be reality. I'll present to you the logic:

You have two points on a line,
A-------------------------------------B

A requirement of getting from point A to point B is traveling half the distance at some point.
A----------------1/2-----------------B (Dont bother counting, to see if its actually 1/2)

But to get to the half way mark, you must travel half that distance first,
A------1/2------1/2-----------------B

But to get to that half way mark, you must travel half of it as well...and this continues to the point in which movement is completely impossible. The problem is that we still manage to get from A to B all of the time which is why our reality cannot be real, and thus, we do not exist or are not truly conscious of our existance.

Pfft.....well everyone KNOWS we don't exist. It's just a manipulation of the void.
See....we're part of a void. However, a void is still something. Even when there is nothing, there is something. We think of a void and we think of an empty space, a space of nothingness, a space is still
something----nothingness is still something, therefore we are free to conclude that if there's something, there can't be nothing, and if there's nothing, that IS something - and voila! Here we are. We are here as a part of a complete Paradox. Technically we don't exist because of existence, we exist because we cannot 'not' exist. So we're saying ok - we exist, but we do that because we're actually 'not' existing - we really 'don't' exist in essence. Read the 'don't exist' as exist because we can't NOT exist.

Comprende?

Like achilles vs. the turtle... achilles starts about 100ft back from where the turtle starts. when they start racing, achilles will reach the starting point of the turtle at a certain time, bu then the turtle has moved on to point B. And when Achilles reaches point B, the turtle will reach point C, so Achilles can't catch up with the turtle.

Indeed, good ole Zeno was the source for that logic.

I got a concept, but I'm not gonna tell you, I'm keeping it in my head for a week, and see what google does, if google starts working on it... I start being paranoid and I start to freak out.... be aware for new google actions!

Ok, so i tried explaining Zeno's arrow paradox to a friend of mine...not only could she not understand it, she went raving mad and called me insane. How sad is that? Being called insane for discribing someone else's idea WHICH by the way she asked me to do for her.

Women... can't live with them, can't kill'em.

That's called an OBE (Out of Body Experience). My friend experiences one last year and it freaked her out. It's realy interesting to hear about these things. Google it for more information, they even help you figure out to do it manualy.

Do it manually?!!! You craaazy yo. I don't wanna do it AT ALL ever again much less manually. Knowing MY luck I'll do it and something else will jump into me while I'm away.....then my poor body will be throwing up and uttering phrases using both vocal chords and contorting itself and convulsing - uh uh - not me thanks. LOL.

I've heard of ppl flying arround the city while they where out of their bodies, sounds like fun

Sleep is over-rated. I havent slept since Thursday night, and I feel fine. The stupid walls wont stop moving though. Why do they have to do that? I mean seriously, I always thought walls were solid. Since when did they get these liquidous properties?

Rend, oh I know what you mean. Like, you know that song "If walls could talk" ? I always wondered, wtf? Cuz they do. I mean, pfft...everyone knows that. They might as well have a song that went "If phones could ring" it's just so wierd. Oh well. I need white chocolate macadamia nut cookies...so, off to find em!

I once dreamed of a sidebar in Longhorn... ok maybe i didnt but i do have preminisions ..and have had them since i was 14

Dreaming of a side-bar? dude, do you even live in the real world?