From Asta on August 8, 2008 at 10:21 pm.  

or.. come on.. Tesla anyone? dude invented the first hydropower system, frickin' radio, AND alternating current.

when he came back to the same guys he'd taught AC to with his radically different pulsed electric field tech, who was listening?

aaannd.. i think his system of wireless transmission would have worked quite well. still would today. definitely will 'tomorrow'.

today's model of 'pirated' tv and movie and etc. etc. vs. the itunes rental models and such shows that A LOT OF PEOPLE PAY FOR THE SERVICE, EVEN IF THEY COULD, WITH SOME EFFORT, GET IT FOR 'FREE'. certainly enough to be consistently profitable.. westinghouse, like the RIAA, was too old school to see what he wasn't getting into. he could have owned ALL the power distribution if he'd let Tesla finish his transmission tower, now where is he? old frickin' news, is what.