Re: TURMEL: #10 Robin Hood Raid on Casino Turmel Trial Transcript

A few points in closing:

Of the five hypothetical examples, three from Turmel, 
one from myself -

The right side up bowl, the upside down bowl and the 
ball rolling along the plane, and the terminal 
velocity example -

Arguably, not one of them demonstrates any type of 
feedback properly defined.

The two real world examples that I supplied 
definitely do:  the clock escapement and the triode 
amplifier that demonstrate the beneficial effects of 
*positive* feedback that revolutionized the world we 
live in.  The first for the first time enabled 
navigation across open oceans.  The second enabled 
modern communications.  Turmel's assertion that 
"positive feedback is always unacceptably unstable" 
is demonstrated to be complete nonsense beyond the 
shadow of doubt.

He furthermore claims that *interest* is positive 
feedback in the physical sense, which it definitely 
isn't.  It is feedback only in the social sense that 
it is information that flows to entrepreneurs and 
their financiers.  It is defined by consumer choice 
in free markets.  It is measured through the rules of 
accounting.  No analogy from the physical world 
therefore is relevant.

Now on to the question of Turmel's honesty:

He has repeatedly claimed to be an engineer, and 
continues to do so.  In answer to an earlier 
challenge from me, he replied that he has a four-year 
B.S. in electronics engineering diploma from 
Carleton, I believe.  In further query he admitted 
that he has never been employed even for a single day 
as an engineer, that he has always been self-employed 
as a professional gambler.  He admitted that he has 
never been recognized as an engineer through the 
registration process in Alberta or anywhere else.

But--

This is how he styles himself that you can see at the 
"bowl" link:
http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/bankmath.htm

"John C. Turmel, B. Eng."

It is what in business and law we would call a 
"deceptive trade practice."  Registered professional 
engineers style themselves "R. Eng."  Presumably, 
Turmel hangs on the technicality that the "B" derives 
from the B.S. in engineering that he claims he 
possesses.  But there is no accreditation anywhere in 
the world that styles itself, "B. Eng."  Possibly in 
the history of the world no one has every styled 
himself "B. Eng." except for John Turmel.  Purely and 
simply it is concocted to deceive, to fool those who 
don't look closely into believing he is really an 
engineer.