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WHERE'S IRAQ? LMFAO!
Nostromoo:
--- Quote from: Don Jacob Corleone on November 27, 2002, 07:56:19 PM ---i'm assuming your using an apple or windows program to run your computer am i right?=c/o cilacon valley, ca, USA
you love rap don't you
rap =ny, ny , USA
you have electricity don't you= USA
you use newspapers don't you (modern version)=usa
you have street lights do't you=usa
you own a car right? guess how much of those gadgets and parts were invented in uncle sam land and chances are your either driving a GM FMC or Chrysler/dodge conrolled company car=usa
you use a freeway system right?=usa
you eat fast food right=usa
you enjor cola right=usa
clothing-chances are it's trying to copy or it's from a US company
enojoy TV-usa
enjoy the phone-usa
i know you enjoy the internet-usa
computer-usa
you know i can go on forever right? lol i can even bring in petty stuff like peanut butter lol
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I'm sorry but I don't understand what point you are trying to make? Are you saying that all of these things are American inventions?
1752 - Benjamin Franklin DISCOVERED electricy (you can't invent something that occurs natually).
But, in 1800 an Italian (Alessandro Volta) invented the battery.
Julius Ceaser invented the first "newspaper" called the Acta Diurna in about 60 BCE. The news was collected by actuarii who reported on wars, speeches, legal decisions, political events, marriages, divorces, accidents and deaths and this news was posted on a white board so people could read it. However, the first publically distributed printed newspaper appeared in Germany in the late 15th Century. The first mass distibuted newspapers to appear in America did so at the end of the 17th Century but it wasn't called the USA then - it was still a British colony.
Although Edison is attributed with the invention of electric street lights he did not install his until 1882 after they had actually first been used from 1878 in Westgate-on-Sea in the UK. Also, Edison didn't even invent the light bulb first. This was invented by Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (an Englishman) several years before Edison had his. Also, Edison took some of Swan's ideas and produced the first commercially viable light bulbs at the "Edison Swan Electric Co".
The first Highway in America (Highway 110) was built in 1940. After the first Autobahn in Germany in 1929 and the first Italian autostrada in 1924.
I'll give you fast food and cola.
I'm not currently wearing any American designed clothers. Chances are I do own some but so what? America is one of the largest industrial powers so if it didn't have a major impact on clothing I'd be surprised. But American clothes are no better than any other countries clothes (they're probably all manufactured in the same sweat shop in Asia anyway) so it's kind of irrelevant.
TVs an interesting on. I don't know about that. John Logie Baird (UK) had the first TV but it was mechanical. The first electronic TV was developed by Vladimir Zworykin who was working at the time for RCA so maybe.
Although the Internet was a development of arpanet (a US military invention) it was an English man (Tim Berners-Lee) who came up with the http standards. So infact, although you can thank the American's for telnet, email, ftp etc, web browsing (what we're doing now) was invented by him.
Oh, and yes the Americans did claim the first real programmable computer - the ENIAC. But a programmable computer called the Colossus was invented several years prior to ENIAC at Manchester University in the UK. But it was kept secret at the time, and for years afterwards, as it was used during the war on project Ultra.
Jay ay Beee:
Hey guess what Big Jake?
You just got ripped apart.
Don Jacob:
--- Quote from: Nostromoo on December 01, 2002, 12:17:54 PM ---
I'm sorry but I don't understand what point you are trying to make? Are you saying that all of these things are American inventions?
1752 - Benjamin Franklin DISCOVERED electricy (you can't invent something that occurs natually).
But, in 1800 an Italian (Alessandro Volta) invented the battery.
Julius Ceaser invented the first "newspaper" called the Acta Diurna in about 60 BCE. The news was collected by actuarii who reported on wars, speeches, legal decisions, political events, marriages, divorces, accidents and deaths and this news was posted on a white board so people could read it. However, the first publically distributed printed newspaper appeared in Germany in the late 15th Century. The first mass distibuted newspapers to appear in America did so at the end of the 17th Century but it wasn't called the USA then - it was still a British colony.
Although Edison is attributed with the invention of electric street lights he did not install his until 1882 after they had actually first been used from 1878 in Westgate-on-Sea in the UK. Also, Edison didn't even invent the light bulb first. This was invented by Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (an Englishman) several years before Edison had his. Also, Edison took some of Swan's ideas and produced the first commercially viable light bulbs at the "Edison Swan Electric Co".
The first Highway in America (Highway 110) was built in 1940. After the first Autobahn in Germany in 1929 and the first Italian autostrada in 1924.
I'll give you fast food and cola.
I'm not currently wearing any American designed clothers. Chances are I do own some but so what? America is one of the largest industrial powers so if it didn't have a major impact on clothing I'd be surprised. But American clothes are no better than any other countries clothes (they're probably all manufactured in the same sweat shop in Asia anyway) so it's kind of irrelevant.
TVs an interesting on. I don't know about that. John Logie Baird (UK) had the first TV but it was mechanical. The first electronic TV was developed by Vladimir Zworykin who was working at the time for RCA so maybe.
Although the Internet was a development of arpanet (a US military invention) it was an English man (Tim Berners-Lee) who came up with the http standards. So infact, although you can thank the American's for telnet, email, ftp etc, web browsing (what we're doing now) was invented by him.
Oh, and yes the Americans did claim the first real programmable computer - the ENIAC. But a programmable computer called the Colossus was invented several years prior to ENIAC at Manchester University in the UK. But it was kept secret at the time, and for years afterwards, as it was used during the war on project Ultra.
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electricity as in controlled electricity the kind you pay for not the duracel kind
i'm well aware where the original newspaper appeared, actaully ceasar jocked that idea from an egyptian ....and i'm sorry the the first modern newspaper...was found in the 'colonies' ....just one question if puerto rico invented something spectacular does the United states get the credit
i'm not talking about the street lights you use when it gets dark, i'm talking about the traffic lights for cars and pedestrians.....common black history month knowledge
clothes-fact is....we're the most carbon copied fashion idustry in the world, along with paris and milan italy that's a fact any designer will tell you , shit versace just said it on E!....my whole point is most of the world is wrapped up in our fashion culture
internet-your totally leaving out the role UCLA had with the internet
computer-there's a very good movie about bill gates wich explains this ......almost every single pc in the world is designed after the american model
jay i was not told
E. J. Rizo:
--- Quote from: Engel-Rock on November 27, 2002, 02:14:25 AM ---Well,
I know where Iraq is, and so does this guy:
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lol...ahhahahhahahha
Now_Im_Not_Banned:
Tech, just so u know, all Americans laugh at Canada...
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