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Originally Posted by Fubster
1) pbs isn't government run
2) we did listen to edison
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1) not meaning to derail thread... but when PBS doesn't have to pay taxes, gets a lot their funding from the government... and it's called the Public Broadcasting Service... than it's more or less safe to say that it's a "US Government public television station". Here in Canada, we have the CBC, and i feel that PBS is probably pretty similar (except CBC runs commercials instead of doing pledge drives).... but they are both basically the government's TV stations. every other station is private to my knowledge (with the exception of maybe some local public ones).
2) Edison invented direct current. the problem was that you needed these big stations every half mile to transfer the electricity... so it was very expensive. But Tesla invented Alternating Current, which is what we still use today, and it's a lot better than DC because it can be transmitted over long distances through wires, without very much electricity being lost in the process. So we would have been fine without Edison... we would be ****ed without Tesla. And the sad thing is... we really haven't progressed much since Tesla when it comes to electricity.... in fact... Tesla could do things with electricity that we're still not doing to this day