This Is An Interesting Question

[Whateverist]

Tired of america bashing, moving on.

Sure you don't want to take a swing too? But seriously I think whether it involves ones nationality, sex or some other demographic, self loathing is as pointless as self congratulation. No more, no less.

[Minimalist]

Which goes to show that the word is meaningless... but the common folk run with it! and vote and pay and that's what counts.

You're getting to the heart of the issue, Poke.





Flag-waving is for the dolts.  And now they use these stupid fucking hats.

[Fireball]

Yeah, we're having issues with the definition of "great" again ... which is precisely Rushdie's point.

"god" is "great".

Nobody touched this, so it made need clarification on my part. Both words mean whatever a given person wants them to mean, was my pointless point.

[Amarok]

Strongest super-power ever?

By what metric ? . Land , Economics ,Advancement over x period of time, Global influence,

Huge innovator, changing the face of the world with internet, home computers

All of which was built on pervious civilizations . Like the scientific knowledge of the European powers . Oh and the internet was a British invention . And the first model personnel computer was developed in Germany.

One of the first countries to rebel against European imperial powers?

To bad a third world country like Cuba beat you to it. And rebellion is not the sign of a great nation. the power to solve problem without killing thousands of people is preferable. And considering the rebellion was not even a popular one....

Even slavery was a sign of greatness.  One culture was so far advanced in technology that it was essentially able to rape all the others, world wide, at will.  Great.

No the ability to enslave other is not a sign of greatness .It's sign of savagery .

[Thumpalumpacus]

Oh and the internet was a British invention .

Someone hasn't heard of Arpanet.

[Amarok]

Oh and the internet was a British invention .

Someone hasn't heard of Arpanet.

Yes I have

And I counter with

Tim Berners-Lee

[Thumpalumpacus]

Someone hasn't heard of Arpanet.

Yes I have

And I counter with

Tim Berners-Lee

The Internet is much more than the worldwide web.

Try again.

[Amarok]

Yes I have

And I counter with

Tim Berners-Lee

The Internet is much more than the worldwide web.

Try again.

But you would not have a modern internet without it

Benny's argument was this site and our communication would not exist if America had not invented the internet .

I'm pretty a world wide net would be needed for both. At least in it's current form

Could we at least agree on that ?

I also point out that we go over Arpanet's components and their components and trace them back to none American Origins . But that would render all inventions on nationalistic lines absurd . Maybe we should all just agree that everything is Primate.

[Minimalist]

If a nation's "greatness" is determined by its creation of a mechanism for more efficiently delivering pornography I would say that the word "Greatness" needs to be re-defined.

[Amarok]

Suck it human !!!