Nicholas Tesla died in poverty.

True, but 'brick and mortar' electronic components have suffered the same way as other retail. DigiKey has almost anything you could imagine wanting and they ship fast.

One Plutocrat says to another: 'One of your plebes is annoying me.'

After the Tesla bankruptcy, maybe Kim Kardashian will licence 'Elon Musk' to be used as the brand name for a line of perfume.

He probably hired Pinkerton to find out who the 'troublemaker' is. Plutocrats stick together so his next move was to sidle up to the fink's boss.

To my way of seeing it, Musk's move is really creepy. It's one plutocrat talking to another plutocrat about the uppity 'help' needing a yank on the leash.

I think I know why the Mac is foundering. All the most slavish and loopy people who used to worship the Mac have switched over to Tesla.

The cultishness is amazing. With Apple you were a 'hater' who likes 'IBM' computers. With Tesla, you're a 'shorter.' An Emmanuel Goldstein projected up on the screen for the 2 minute hate.

For awhile I worked for a company that had one division that was a tier 1 supplier to General Motors. A new CEO of the overall company was put into place, and he discovered the whole kickback scheme that the head of Automotive was engaging in with GM. Head of Automotive got canned. The rest of Automotive 'flipped out' because that was apparently how you do business with GM.

I'm so glad I don't work there anymore. My job was in a test lab evaluating parts for, yes, GM, and it really didn't seem like honest work. Totally irrelevant tests to be 'by the book' and hiding glaring flaws. At least none were safety issues, thank goodness.

How humiliating it would be to be of the millineal generation and have people like you as peers.

The mini-consoles have full games. The fact that both are now available for regular retail prices is sort of a laugh at the people who paid huge markups for them from scalpers.

They doubtless aren't worth modern prices.

That's why, right now, you can buy a 3DS cartridge with a bunch of the NES classic games on it, for one single price of $36.

Tolkein-tier.

What does that even mean? There isn't anything new from Tolkein because he wrote the Hobbit, the Rings Trilogy, and a few other things. It's all out there, there isn't a lot, and it lives in our imaginations when we read it.

There are some films, I understand, but that's really not so relevant.

What are you not allowed to do with Tolkein's work that you want to do? Crappy fanfic? Thank goodness you're prohibited. We have Christopher to do that, and it's easy to just ignore the one dude than a whole fanhood.

It's even been ported to the Nintendo Switch, which didn't exist when Microsoft bought Mojang.

Most of the new ports aren't written in Java, BTW, the Java version is considered 'classic' at this point.

They are some of the worst crooks on the planet, in terms of them being pretty bad at it. The slick crooks don't go to Washington much. Just enough to make certain it's a district run by bumbling idiots.

When Bill and Hill left the White House they were loud about the fact that they were 'dirt poor.'

And since then they're now three figure millionaires?

That doesn't pass any sort of smell test.