Funny how people react to horrible large corporation buisiness ethics as if they're something shockingly unprecedented....truth is big buisiness has always played dirty, we just know more about it now because the media is less complicit.
I'm also put in mind of the Edison Vs. Tesla thing....when Nikola Tesla began building the first A/C power plants, Edison defended his D/C power networks by demonstrating how "deadly" A/C power supposedly was by electrocuting animals in font of audiences and telling them that their children would be electrocuted in droves if they switched over to Tesla's new system.....even though edison was fully aware that D/C was not only more dangerouse than A/C it was also far costlier and far less efficient (D/C voltage degrades rapidly over conduit distance, so you had to live within a very small radius of the power plant- I think it was something like 3 miles max)
same old dirty pool, they're just having to work harder to hide what they do.
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Date: 2010-08-04 08:52 pm (UTC)I'm also put in mind of the Edison Vs. Tesla thing....when Nikola Tesla began building the first A/C power plants, Edison defended his D/C power networks by demonstrating how "deadly" A/C power supposedly was by electrocuting animals in font of audiences and telling them that their children would be electrocuted in droves if they switched over to Tesla's new system.....even though edison was fully aware that D/C was not only more dangerouse than A/C it was also far costlier and far less efficient (D/C voltage degrades rapidly over conduit distance, so you had to live within a very small radius of the power plant- I think it was something like 3 miles max)
same old dirty pool, they're just having to work harder to hide what they do.