"Bad news" media spin & communism in the media

FreedomsWarrior

[FreedomsWarrior]

The constant bad news from the liberal media corporations is very dangerous! I've been finding communist/Stalinist propaganda like this all over the net:

Frankly the people ranting against "community" don't realize how they've benefited from it - it was non-profit inventions like the internet, computers, modern electricity, phones, x-rays, penicillin, radio waves, and lightbulbs (Göbel), that make life better today.

(*Also* state funding of science, medicine, & university research!)

"Conservatives" like to rant about how everything good came from greed, but it's just a huge lie:

1. The computer - “This came from pure scientific thought, and not at all from an economic need for computing. Business and profit-making played no part in it.” — http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/scrapbook/machine.html

2. AC power & modern electricity. (Tesla) “Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.” — http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

“Yet Tesla died destitute.” —http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/Nikola_Tesla.htm

3. Penicillin. “Florey believed it would be inappropriate to patent penicillin, but learned his lesson when some of his American collaborators did just that… Florey took no profit for himself.” — http://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,33700,00.html

4. Phone. “Meucci was recognized as the first inventor of the telephone by the US House.” “[He] was unable to raise sufficient funds to pay for the patent application… In 1861 his cottage was auctioned.” —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci

5. The internet. (The government & Tim Berners-Lee.)

6. Lightbulb. “Göbel [invented] the first practical bulb… in 1854, a quarter of a century before Edison’s patent.” —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_G%C3%B6bel

Yes he died pennyless too.

7. Radio. “Tesla is now credited with inventing modern radio as well; since the Supreme Court overturned Marconi’s patent in 1943 in favor of Tesla’s earlier patents.” —http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/Nikola_Tesla.htm

(From http://newsrogue.com/list-the-worlds-best-inventions-werent-made-for-profit/ )

Its openly collectivist propaganda.

[Rick.Donaldson]

Not sure precisely what you’re getting at, but Tesla DID invent, or at least had working, radio theory long before Marconi made it famous.

That’s not propaganda, it’s a fact.

[Rick.Donaldson]

I should add... Tesla didn’t die penniless because he made this stuff NOT for profit, he died penniless because he couldn’t seem to get a break, and did try to get contracts on various things from AC motors and generators to radio systems. He demonstrated the first radio-controlled boat (I think it was actually a submarine) in the 1890s.

Technically.... Tesla didn’t “invent” radio either, it was actually a man named Hertz who first was able to produce radio waves.

Tesla took it a step or two further, and Marconi made it ‘practical’ (in his demonstration of transatlantic transmission).

[MarineBrat]

Socialism does not inspire one to innovate. Hard to admit this but sometimes I miss the USSR, with whom at least we had a shining example of how retarded a communist society looks in the real world.

[Beckwith]

The computer - “This came from pure scientific thought

Nonsense -- the computer came from a need to calculate the projection of artillery shells.

[Theo]

Capitalism brought us Apple Computers and the Windows UI. Enough said.