RE: The Golden Rule ? Sense or Bullshit?
July 25, 2013 at 5:49 pm
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2013 at 5:55 pm by Creed of Heresy.)
(July 25, 2013 at 12:23 pm)Attie Wrote: I'm talking people arsehole not the size of your desert.
Yeah, 1.5 billion people without a voice in the way they're governed/ruled. Have fun with that.
(July 25, 2013 at 12:23 pm)Attie Wrote: Oh, and we enjoy electronic gadgets we build them here by the tons to be exported to the US.
I wouldn't say you guys "build" them as much as you put them together with spit, tape, and sand.
(July 25, 2013 at 12:23 pm)Attie Wrote: Hey! Your land sizes are wrong buddy! China is the third biggest landmass in the world.
If you include land-locked bodies of water [lakes] as being part of land-area, then no, the US is the third biggest, but seriously this is starting to get into a nationalist dick-measuring contest. The original point has long been made, now you're just trying to use a red herring to distract from that. Fact of the matter is your country once was a source of innovation, then they fucked it all up, became a shithole nationwide ghetto, and have only come to any modicum of power because Nixon got your dumb isolationist asses to open up to trade, thus ruining your communist stances and forcing your society to become a capitalistic one. One, in fact, based on the US's economic model. Get the fuck over yourself and your country; you guys can't even manage to make a fucking pair of headphones that last longer than three months. You have fuck-all to be proud of other than that you're the global center for mass-produced cheap shit and that you're a few thousand kilometers bigger. Well, wave hello to Russia for us in that last regard, by the way...and ask them how the Cold War turned out, too, while you're at it...
(July 25, 2013 at 1:51 pm)Red Celt Wrote:(July 25, 2013 at 12:19 pm)Rahul Wrote: How are you enjoying Electricity, the Combustion Engine, Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Airplanes, Television, Phones, and that Computer you're on?
I like how you merged British inventions and American inventions in the same list. Is that an example of that "special relationship" I keep hearing about?
Notably (for Scots) John Logie Baird and Alexander Graham Bell provide credit to Scotland for the invention of the television and telephone.
Airplanes is an interesting one, too. The Wright Brothers didn't exactly invent flying. There were a lot of eccentrics, crackpots and pioneers around the world who were perfecting various types of flying machine. The Wright Brothers managed the longest recorded flight, winning them credit for the biggest success. It doesn't make it an invention, though.
I was curious about the claim for the combustion engine, too, and a look at Wikipedia confirms my suspicions. Which American in this list were you referring to?
And computers. I've always known Babbage as the "father of computing".
Honestly I myself tend to lump in the innovations of England, Germany, and the US together quite frequently, myself. It's not meant to dismiss the innovations of English or German innovators, quite the opposite; the US is a cosmopolitan nation [the fucking unmitigated bullshit by our government nothwithstanding], very much built by many hands. Personally I think the terminology should just be "western," since there's a lot of different nations in the western hemisphere that cooperate and build and innovate on a grand scale.
