Great country - Page 4

Chris 62 · September 14, 2002, 10:50

Maybe the fact that it was so many more inventions then the others combined might be the reason?

Bas · September 14, 2002, 10:53

Maybe that's bullshit?

Chris 62 · September 14, 2002, 10:58

You wish.

You know it's true, so the mindless attacks continue.

Sandman · September 14, 2002, 10:58

Chris 62: I concede that it was Ford's idea, Hitler got the idea from him whilst in prison, reading Fords biography. More Beetles have been produced than model Ts, but a substanial part of that production was in Mexico.

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working in as gps and cell phone,

Sputnik transmitted beeps to earth. Is that not enough?

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wrong about the computer too the first computer was built at the University of Pennsylvania

This is a picture of one of the Colossi. It was built to crack German codes. I suspect you're thinking about the first computer to use transistors as opposed to valves.

Chris 62 · September 14, 2002, 11:10

Sandman, you said Hitler came up with it first, just pointing out that wasn't the case, Ford built 15,000,000 model Ts from 1908-1927.
Volkswagen would produce 20,000,000 of the versitle beetles, but Ford did it first.

flash9286 · September 14, 2002, 11:37

well its all about how you think what is a computer

Hueij · September 14, 2002, 12:05

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Hueij, be quiet or we will pull the chewing gum out of the sea wall and watch that swamp you call a country sink

Ah, but I know you Americans will come to the rescue then

Btw, my country is not a swamp, it's part river delta, part land claimed from the sea. Now I would like to see Americans can do that

Chris 62 · September 14, 2002, 12:25

We don't bother with waste land, no profit in it.

And stop picking on the new guy, or I'll have ta get rough!

red_jon · September 14, 2002, 12:31

I'm pretty sure DNA and the web were British discoveries.

Chris - your assertion that America has invented more things than Europe, Russia and Japan combined is one of the most poorly thought-out statements I have ever seen on poly. We were inventing things before you even started chucking tea away.

Chris 62 · September 14, 2002, 12:33

Nice try kid, but he said last 100 years, so you lose.

Nice try at an intelligent troll though.

SlowwHand · September 14, 2002, 12:37

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Originally posted by Bas

You sound like ottok at the moment.

Uh, I don't think so.

Must know ottok by reputation only.

Yo, Red Jon. You need to do some investigative research before you post things that make you look silly.

Chris 62 · September 14, 2002, 12:41

He didn't need any research to post something silly.

red_jon · September 14, 2002, 12:46

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Originally posted by Chris 62
Nice try kid, but he said last 100 years, so you lose.

Nice try at an intelligent troll though.

Pot ... kettle ...

In the last 100 years I'd say a significant amount of inventions were American, but not the most.

Chris 62 · September 14, 2002, 12:48

Your double talk is getting better.

Won't kill you to admit it, we didn't become a super-power without creating things.

Britain was the world power in the 19th century, the USA is for the 20th, we will see about the 21st.

Bas · September 14, 2002, 12:52

Before the edit the post was just as unintelligible as a typical ottok post, Sloww...

And I'm not even saying that Europe, Japan and the USSR invented more the last century (although that can certainly be the case, and it certainly isn't far less like you claim), but that the statement that the US is indispensable for technological progress in the last century is ridiculous. Sure, we probably wouldn't be as far as we are now, but the same goes for the European, Japanese or Russian contributions. But I if you like to live under the delusion that technological innovation stops outside of the USA, I won't stop you.

red_jon · September 14, 2002, 12:52

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Originally posted by Chris 62
Your double talk is getting better.

Won't kill you to admit it, we didn't become a super-power without creating things.

Britain was the world power in the 19th century, the USA is for the 20th, we will see about the 21st.

I know there have been great American inventions and great American inventors (like Thomas Edison).

And the 21st century belongs to Switzerland! Never get complacent around the Swiss.

Chris 62 · September 14, 2002, 12:55

They make such lovely knives and watches after all.

flash9286 · September 14, 2002, 13:24

the internet was created by the usa military, i dont have to time to see who researched dna first but i know americans were the first to map the human genonme

Dauphin · September 14, 2002, 14:18

Crick and Watson discovered DNA at Cambridge, England, IIRC.

One of them was American I think.

Dauphin · September 14, 2002, 14:20

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Originally posted by charmon1
Twenty days before we liberated his Lithuanian homeland, his father died of starvation. Si was 14 when the U.S. Army liberated him from the labor camp.

Lithuania was liberated by the Americans?

My history books must be all wrong.

Hueij · September 14, 2002, 17:03

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And stop picking on the new guy, or I'll have ta get rough!

Oh? I always thought it was our duty to pick on newbies? And an American at that?

Please don't tell me I was wrong all this time...

flash9286 · September 14, 2002, 17:08

not me im kewl

Hueij · September 14, 2002, 17:12

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Originally posted by charmon1
not me im kewl

You could've fooled me...

Chris 62 · September 14, 2002, 17:45

As long as you use that Lauren BeCall avatar. it's OK, BUT just a little....

Hueij · September 14, 2002, 17:53

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Originally posted by Chris 62
As long as you use that Lauren BeCall avatar. it's OK, BUT just a little....

Hey, if you want me to I can always change it to the Vargas one. It was very popular with WW2 bomber crews, and since you are old airforce...

Chris 62 · September 14, 2002, 18:23

That's AIRBORNE, as in paratroops.

No, I like her just fine, she was just so freakin good lookin way back when, easy to see why bogie went for her.

Adalbertus · September 14, 2002, 18:32

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Lithuania was liberated by the Americans?

To all of my knowledge, Lithuania was liberated by the Russians from the Lithuanians, then by the Germans from the Russians, then by the Russians from the Germans, and then by the Lithuanians form the Russians, with gentle permission of Mr. Gorbachew.

Dauphin · September 14, 2002, 18:34

Yeah, I know, it was a sarcastic question in reference to someones post.

I keep forgetting to put

smilies, I thought that it spoke for itself as sarcasm.

Edit- Actually read what you posted.

Hueij · September 14, 2002, 18:35

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Originally posted by Chris 62
That's AIRBORNE, as in paratroops.

No, I like her just fine, she was just so freakin good lookin way back when, easy to see why bogie went for her.

Ah, my mistake, all the more painfull since it's almost Sept 17, the day Market Garden started. Living in Arnhem I should have realised that, I know you were a paratrooper. I actually saw your old avatar on a site about Market Garden.

About Lauren Bacall, I saw her sometime ago on television and she still looks beautiful, for a 70+ woman who refuses to have bodyparts lifted. And she still has "The look". Bogey had one hell of a lot of taste

Pandemoniak · September 14, 2002, 20:41

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Originally posted by charmon1
the internet was created by the usa military, i dont have to time to see who researched dna first but i know americans were the first to map the human genonme

Well, actuallt the first intra-network was created in France, but American were the first to put it into militar use.
Just my 2 cents on your two sucres.

(Explanation : the "sucre" is the money of equator : 1 sucre = 0,0000001 euro, = 0,00000013 dollars)