I don't know enough about Tesla to say anything about him, but Edison killed an elephant (and several smaller animals) to convince people that using alternate current electricity was more dangerous than using direct current - the man was a bad egg.
Tesla was admittedly not-all-there upstairs. The man was prone to hallucinations and probably had two or three mental disorders of more or less extreme natures. He was very much a harmless eccentric though, from what I've read of him. Perhaps a little too harmless, given his history as living basically destitute from one job to another.
Raksin frakksin!
Smoke machines and multi-story office buildings should not mix when the bldg is occupied! Especially when you're blaring music so loud that people can't hear the alarms or announcements.
The creative floor decided to have a Halloween party and guess what happened....
I only heard about Edison killing animals through assassins creed - not a viable source exactly, but I wouldn't but it beyond him. Edison and tesla were both brilliant men with very different goals - Edison wanted to make money, tesla wanted to make funky stuff.
The war against AC led him to become involved in the development and promotion of the electric chair (using AC) as an attempt to portray AC to have greater lethal potential than DC. Edison went on to carry out a brief but intense campaign to ban the use of AC or to limit the allowable voltage for safety purposes. As part of this campaign, Edison's employees publicly electrocuted animals to demonstrate the dangers of AC;[44][45] alternating electric currents are slightly more dangerous in that frequencies near 60 Hz have a markedly greater potential for inducing fatal "cardiac fibrillation" than do direct currents.[46] On one of the more notable occasions, in 1903, Edison's workers electrocuted Topsy the elephant at Luna Park, near Coney Island, after she had killed several men and her owners wanted her put to death.[47] His company filmed the electrocution.
Chiming in on the Tesla was awesome/Edison less so. Here's a somewhat more reputable source if that's what's getting you down. I didn't look through the whole thing, but it does bring up Edison's refusal to pay what he promised and mention the bit about electrocution. I think Marconi gets brought up as well a few pages in.
It comes down to the fact that at the time Tesla and Edison lived and worked, money talked. Some things don't change.
Tesla was R&D - he could make the stuff but not the money. Edison was marketing - he could make the money. Marketing made the money and got the credit. R&D got shafted.
Tesla wasn't...sane by most standards, but he was still a prolific inventor and responsible for many of the technological advances we still use today in some form. He was robbed by a colleague (as were many others - Rosalind Franklin is another offhand, but I digress). IP theft: it is in humanity's past, present, and future.
In other news, I question my own brain.
-I hate high heels.
-Even in high heels, I am shorter than 75% of the students.
So why do I even own them?
Oh right, Wis dump.
[advertising voice] Do you think you have a broken foot? Why not have it checked out in one of our walk-in clinics. [/advertising voice]
I'd blame the Romans if I were you, they had sandals with high heels made from cork.
Romani, vos calceos stultos maledico.
We're still working on the phone appearance.
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I could do with a dollar per character, or hell, even a penny.
I could do with a dollar per character, or hell, even a penny.We're still working on the phone appearance.
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I could do with a grosz per character.
Of course it had to start raining a bit when I was going to the pub. It also had top start raining when I was returning. I am glad that I was very close to home at that time and managed to get back before the rain got more intensive.
*cough*
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Aren't we all characters?
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Some of us are several characters.
YAY!!! YouTube works on my Firefox now!
On the downside, it seems the Ignore Script no longer functions.
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Some of us are several characters.
At least.
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This alias is several characters.
Well, if copious amounts of chocolate don't cause some desire to squee, I've been doing it wrong.
Well, if copious amounts of chocolate don't cause some desire to squee, I've been doing it wrong.
There's chocolate at my place.
Good morning everyone. It is snowing.
*yawn*
Morgen.
*yawn*
It's raining. Raining in the greyish, unpleasant, wet, life-sapping, morale-eroding way.
*yawn*
Maybe I go back to bed.
Ok, Thomas the Train is kind of creepy.
The faces freaked out one of my younger kinfolk.
Good morning everyone. It is snowing.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, I'm a little nervous today. One of my many, many sisters(father's kid, much older than me, never lived with them growing up) is visiting today. She's visiting with her husband and my nephew and niece, the latter of whom is on the Trojans(the college, not the condom brand) track team, and is front and center on the athletics calendar/poster. Wife is out at Obama for America event, so it's just me. Soooooooo nervous...
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So, I'm a little nervous today. One of my many, many sisters(father's kid, much older than me, never lived with them growing up) is visiting today. She's visiting with her husband and my nephew and niece, the latter of whom is on the Trojans(the college, not the condom brand) track team, and is front and center on the athletics calendar/poster. Wife is out at Obama for America event, so it's just me. Soooooooo nervous...
Meh... Just enjoy yourself!
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Holy cow, my financial restraint is shot. I have this insane desire to go out and spend money. I don't need to spend money. I don't need anything right now. I need to save money for a new car down payment.
It's only of a little use to decide not the leave the house, thanks to instant gratification online ordering. :/
When I have that mood, I think of the cheapest, most insignificant thing I could buy, like a paperback novel or an album on iTunes. Then you have something fancy and new that only cost $7.
I check out my amazon.com wish list and update my paperback collection. I'm almost done with Sword and Sorceress, I need to finish off Shadowrun next. In between, I collect manga that everyone seems to have forgotten about but me- currently Cannon God Exaxxion. I am truly incensed that Dark Horse has left the last two volumes in Japan.
Don't think we haven't noticed that you started posting here! Welcome, Mikaze. I find your posts to be generally hilarious.I just spent almost half a minute in the office staring at a glass bowl full of M&Ms trying to figure out why all this candy had the letter "E" on it.
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+1. And forgive me for not welcoming you sooner, as I know you to be one righteous dude. Perhaps a bad enough dude to save the president.
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Quick! Separate the E's, from the W's, from the 3's from the M's!!!!!I just spent almost half a minute in the office staring at a glass bowl full of M&Ms trying to figure out why all this candy had the letter "E" on it.
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Great. Now this is the only thing I'll be able to see when I go for some EW3&Ms.
AZ, have you eaten those?
I don't get it. Did he dislocate his knee or something?
I don't get it. Did he dislocate his knee or something?
Yep. Ugly. I think it was said he probably tore all the ligaments holding it in place. He is a true sophomore at Souh Carolina and, despite already missing time with a torn ACL (put in remarkable work to recover), had NFL star written all over him.
Having rained off and on since last night, it is already wet outside.
It is raining outside right now and kind of windy.
With Sandy moving in the rain and heavy winds are going to continue picking up...
Why in blazes is there a guy outside my apartment, in the rain and wind, with a hurricane coming,...running a leaf blower?
Note: Lattimore is a junior rather than a sophomore
Why in blazes is there a guy outside my apartment, in the rain and wind, with a hurricane coming,...running a leaf blower?
Meet Johnny Hurricane.