There is a lot of misinformation regarding the great inventor Nikola Tesla-- especially on the web. Much of this misinformation comes from out-dated American school text books that continue to re-enforce American superiority in the technology race with... well, the rest of the world.
Now, let's give them the benefit of a doubt (which they don't deserve. After all-- Text books are supposed to be the bastions of knowledge, compiled in just the right amount of detail, for a student at various stages in a his or her mental development to graduate with the ablility to go out into the world-- and do... and use... and progress... and improve).
Well, hmmm... it seems that they have either watered down the content in these text-books and websites, continued to tow the party line and take the past stories at face value, or have just plain lied about many facts regarding great American inventors and their legacies. Oh, they were there-- that is without dispute. But, if one were looking at civilization from afar, one would swear to God that everything of any worth was created by an American (the Scottish, of course, would beg to differ). Oh, by the way, Nikola Tesla was Serbian. He eventually acquired American citizenship while in the US, and we all know how that turned out. Or maybe you don't know. He died penniless, alone and a broken man. A hundred years after his death, people are still trying to take advantage of his genius and good name.
And now that I've insulted a couple of countries -- and yes, Scotland is a country. Ask.com describes Scotland as:
Is Scotland a Country?
Yes. However, Scotland is not an independent country. (Eh?) Scotland is one of four countries which form the unitary state of the United Kingdom, along with England, Northern Ireland, and Wales. Some geographers erroneously believe that independence is required to be a country, but this is not Read more:
...as I've said, now that I've insulted a couple of countries, and will likely insult many more -- including the boneheads and shysters that have created the drivel littering the net, we can begin.
It's not illegal to sell snake-oil-- it is however illegal to sell snake-oil that will not perform and WILL NEVER perform as advertised-- it's called fraud. It's happening in the massive (fake/knock-off) drug industry that the internet has spawned, for one.
And through the naivete and sheer ignorance and gullibility of a certain populous, a murder of websites (yes, I've used the collective noun for crows to identify these sites)-- continue to exist. I don't expect that I can stop morons from buying garbage from these sites. I'm just plain pissed that the internet is getting more and more littered with these sites (a scourge worse than porn sites. Look at it this way -- the porn sites at the very least, serve a purpose-- and if they deliver and don't rip you off-- you walk away satisfied).
The only purpose these "murder of sites" serve is to eat up precious IP addresses that are becoming more and more scarce. For God's sake-- we now have to create IP6 because we're running out of IP addresses (IP addresses are those addresses where all sites live, and where these sites squat)!
Now... on with the flaming...
