The Big Misconception About Electricity

Cindyment, thanks for the Vice article.  It explains a lot.  Smart people looking for answers to complex questions and not being able to truly comprehend how complex the questions really are.  Seemingly they equate watching a hundred hours of YouTube videos with obtaining advanced degrees in physics.  There's an element of laziness on their part.

There's an Einstein quote about how incomprehensible it is that the universe is actually somewhat comprehensible.  It is pretty amazing!

Vice was founded in 1994 when Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, and Smith used money from a government welfare program to start a magazine in Montreal that was funny, hip, and off-color in a way that hasn’t always aged well — “The Vice Guide to Shagging Muslims” — but offered an outlet for young people who found mainstream culture lame. While Alvi kept a steady hand on the wheel, McInnes gave the magazine its editorial voice. Smith handled sales, and told everyone they were going to get rich. McInnes called him Bullshitter Shane, and the sales strategy included sending a few copies of the magazine to a record store in Miami and a skate shop in Los Angeles and telling advertisers they were distributed across North America. “Shane would talk all the time about how stupid people were for giving them money,” says Jessica Low, who dated Smith and helped with the magazine at the time. In 1998, Smith told a reporter that a wealthy media mogul in Montreal named Richard Szalwinski had invested in Vice. Szalwinski hadn’t, but he was impressed enough by the gambit to take a meeting with Vice, invest, and encourage a move to New York. “The reason those lies were so successful was because even we believed them after a while,” Alvi said later.

 

Showing clients a good time wasn’t a novel tactic for Vice — “It also helps to eat them out and mail them drugs,” Smith said in 2003 of his ad-sales strategy — or anyone else in the history of sales, but a night out with Smith and other Vice executives became a coveted thrill for many chief marketing officers. “The party for Intel might have been set up, but what they were tapping into wasn’t fake,” says one senior employee from that period. A former employee on the account-management team recalled being paid to take Anheuser-Busch executives out for a night at a preselected series of bars, ending at a club where several Vice executives “happened” to be hanging out. “They were the cool kids,” says Paul Marcum, a former marketing executive at General Electric who worked with Vice. “You had Jonah [Peretti] at BuzzFeed, who oozed nerd charm, and then the Vice guys, who had a more swashbuckler persona.”

The losers kept paying. One day in the fall of 2012, Vice employees were told there would be free pizza and beer at 5 p.m. to eat at their desks. “And then fucking Rupert Murdoch rolls through with Shane,” one editorial employee remembers. Smith turned to his old pitch — “I said to Rupert. ‘I have Gen Y, I have social, I have online video. You have none of that. I have the future, you have the past,’ ” he later explained — and Murdoch pulled out his checkbook, investing $70 million in Vice at a valuation just north of a billion dollars. When an HBO executive congratulated Eddy Moretti, the company’s chief creative officer, on the investment, he told Moretti that it was nice to see the good guys win. Moretti smiled and replied, “I’m not so sure that we’re the good guys.”

 

The Times story was an investigation by reporter Emily Steel into sexual misconduct at Vice. The founders had publicly boasted about orgies and lascivious behavior in the past, and it wasn’t hard to imagine that much worse could be revealed. Several female Vice employees told me they’d joined the company armed with warnings to avoid particular men, and while the culture had buttoned up over the years, vestiges of it remained, and women reported a range of difficult and uncomfortable situations.

Vice management was nervous about the story and who might be talking to the reporter — a paranoia that wasn’t unfounded. Dozens of employees I spoke to describe Vice as a creative environment that gives them enviable opportunities, but many who have left say they feel some level of resentment, whether from low pay, managerial chaos, or overwork, and a number harbor a deep antipathy toward Vice. While the Times story was being reported, one disgruntled former employee had taken several female colleagues out for seemingly casual drinks during which he’d probe whether they had experienced any inappropriate interactions with Vice executives. One asked if he was recording her. He said, “Yeah, but you aren’t giving me anything good.”

Our resident professor thinks this company that has been accused of plagiarism, embezzlement, sexual harassment, fraud, fake reporting, rampant drug use, and lots and lots of other felonious crimes... is the arbiter of truth.

I can post article after article from ex employees of Vice where they go into detail about how the company is just a total joke.

Birds of a feather stick together, anyone that thinks Vice.com and Edison fan sites are credible sources of any information are lost causes, and should be ignored.

And the information about Plasma Cosmology is publicly available on YouTube sites, because they can do it for free in a condensed easily viewable format.

Most college lectures are also going online for the very same reason.

Getting information out, when it is against the dominant narrative is almost impossible. It’s not like they can write textbooks and force College students to read them like accepted Gospel.

Here is the Electric explanation on Supernovas, I am not going to take time to explain this any further, the people that are interested can watch for themselves, others can F off.

The Vice article was just referencing other data ..... if you read it, or understood it, or even attempted to, you would know this.

The Edison "fan" site, posted 100% accurate, verifiable data. If you took the few minutes to read it, understood it, or even attempted to, you again would know this.

How are you hand wavers at the Electrical Universe Flat Earth society doing today?
 

What is really funny, is you make fun of sites that link to other better researched data and/or post readily verifiable data .... and then tell me to go to Youtube ... the harbinger of truth :-) ...  George Carlin School?

History teach us that MOST inventions were simultaneously produced in the same time frame by not one, but often by 2 or few different people in different country...

In a court of law patent must be credited to the first discoverer in time....

I will not enter in debates about who is the first, Tesla or another scientist few amount of time before...But if i want to know i will not consult Edison society either... 😁

When someone own 278 patents and probably others invention non patented, If we exclude plagiarisn, We have in front of us a real scientist and genius...Not a tinkerer...Edison was a tinkerer of genius without formal education... Tesla has a university formation in physics...

Then I will not entrer either in the reason why Tesla status is a "myth" but this does not make of him a con artist...

The reason, or one of the reason why this great scientist, became a myth, with all corrections from reality any myth entail, is his way of life and solitary character who present him alone against the power of corruption by corporate greed...And this is not false even if it is not all the truth...And he was a symbol of the bankers tyranny  for many after his death...After all he invented  with  no financial motivation or for personal gain at all... 

Demoslishing Tesla is impossible, his inventions, even if he cannot be the first for every one of them, are a testimony of his creativity with an enormous output, rectifying any myth is necessary for sure ...BUT and there is a but....

But if someone say it is a "tinkerer" not a great scientist, we have the right to question his motivation...We debunk the debunker agenda who go to far against truth..

Mocking people can be a pleasure for some, but using some truth ( date of invention) to present a genius like a tinkerer is not appealing for me...

I dont doubt the Vice article accuracy about date and the fact that someone else invented the same thing a year before in another country...I doubt the person who qualify Tesla to be a tinkerer...He was a physicist by formation....Contrary to Edison...He spoke many languages .... And he was erudite....