Rainfoot -In the meantime, enjoy your lightbulb, and your movies, etc etc that you’re still enjoying 100 years after their invention….let’s see you come up with anything that lasts that long that society will still be using…
This would never happen. As a child, he’d have been diagnosed with ADHD, dosed with ritalin and turned into a mindless corporate drone.
@PianoGuy24 – That doesn’t excuse Edison’s exploitative methods. There are enough creative people in the world that light bulbs, movies and all that other stuff would have come around anyway. For that matter, what have you done that’s had lasting value?
If Michelangelo were alive today, he’d be called a sex offender for drawing nude scenes and sculptures. Then the fundamentelists would try to have him banned because he made nude scenes of Adam and Eve and sculpted David naked.
The Nihilist over 12 years ago
Oh yes, there’s the truth about liability for you
Agent54 over 12 years ago
If Thomas Edison where alive today he would shake his head, walk away and try to find somewhere to live to invent things in peace.
Rainfoot over 12 years ago
Edison was more like steve jobs. Profiting from others hard work, claiming it as his own, and being a smug manipulitive prick about it.
PICTO over 12 years ago
“No, I can’t paint your picture, Mona. I’m to busy commenting on GOCOMICS.” Leo.D.
rmacprivate over 12 years ago
Sigh, even one of the greatest minds alive, and he had to live in mortal fear of lawyers.
Don Winchester Premium Member over 12 years ago
Rainfoot -In the meantime, enjoy your lightbulb, and your movies, etc etc that you’re still enjoying 100 years after their invention….let’s see you come up with anything that lasts that long that society will still be using…
runar over 12 years ago
This would never happen. As a child, he’d have been diagnosed with ADHD, dosed with ritalin and turned into a mindless corporate drone.
@PianoGuy24 – That doesn’t excuse Edison’s exploitative methods. There are enough creative people in the world that light bulbs, movies and all that other stuff would have come around anyway. For that matter, what have you done that’s had lasting value?
iced tea over 12 years ago
If Michelangelo were alive today, he’d be called a sex offender for drawing nude scenes and sculptures. Then the fundamentelists would try to have him banned because he made nude scenes of Adam and Eve and sculpted David naked.