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>> She has an impressive resume. >> Why would she do something like $badthing? Am I the only one wondering why anyone would think a person's resume should be
by logifail 8y ago
>> She has an impressive resume.
>> Why would she do something like $badthing?
Am I the only one wondering why anyone would think a person's resume should be any kind of predictor of good or bad behaviour?
- geezerjay 8y agoYou're not the only one wondering that. In fact, one way to get an impressive resume is to railroad others and use people as stepping stones to your way to the top.
- markdown 8y agoThomas Edison had a great resume.
- Retric 8y agoHe also ‘railroad others and use people as stepping stones to your way to the top‘ so that’s not a counter argument.
- Beskz 8y agoI think the argument was that he did precisely that. Yet history paints him as a great inventor (he was, and filed a lot of patents), and most people likely think of him as a "good/nice guy" which he may or may not have been.
- Retric 8y agoYea, I realized that might be the case after posting. But, it’s an ambiguous statement in context.
- Ensorceled 8y agoThomas Edison is notorious for doing this, so it isn’t that ambiguous.
- novia 8y agoHi, hello, I'm a person who didn't know, so the clarification was valuable to me.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoFor others, just about every bio of Nikola Tesla describes how poorly he was treated by Edison. Interesting reading.
- DonHopkins 8y agoElectrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant, says a lot more about you as a human being than the person you're trying to discredit by electrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant. https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/10/19/edison-publicly-tortured-animals-to-discredit-ac-power/ https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/10/19/edison-publicly-torture... https://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/ https://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant NSFL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlPYikt_qvo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlPYikt_qvo
- Retric 8y agoI don't disagree with the larger point but: "The war of the currents (sometimes called battle of the currents) was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents Electrocuting an Elephant seems to have occurred a decade after the war of currents January 17, 1903.
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- MetalGuru 8y agoHe’s not making a counter argument. He’s agreeing with you...
- brazzledazzle 8y agoI assume that statement has less to do with good behavior and more to do with doing something that can bite you in the ass when you have so much to lose.