[Publius6961]

The ignorant, even those who can string words together, or the utter imbeciles like OWS, will always make fools of themselves.

My favorite story, about the worth of a product, and related technical services :

Charles Steinmetz was once called out of retirement by General Electric to help it locate a problem in an intricate system of complex machines. Having spent some time tinkering with and testing various parts of the system, he finally placed a chalk-marked ‘X’ on a small component in one machine.
GE’s engineers promptly examined the component, and were amazed to find the defect in the precise location of Steinmetz’s mark.

Some time later, GE received an invoice from the wily engineer – for $10,000. Incredulous, they protested the bill and challenged him to itemize it. Steinmetz did so: “Making one chalk mark: $1,” he wrote. “Knowing where to place it: $9,999.”

GE paid the bill! Charles Steinmetz was a German-US Electrical Engineer who invented Alternate Current (AC) to initiate electrical era in the United States.

[Talisker]

LOL, you posted your version first!

[Swordmaker]

GE paid the bill! Charles Steinmetz was a German-US Electrical Engineer who invented Alternate Current (AC) to initiate electrical era in the United States.

BZZZZT! Sorry, no. While Steinmetz did do a great deal of work on AC development, notably in AC transformers, the invention and establishment of the AC system as the preferred way to distribute electricity goes to Nicola Tesla.